Being single doesn’t stop you being able to adopt

IN 2020, after losing her grandfather to Covid and surviving stage four cancer, Jenna began to “revaluate” her life and decided that she didn’t need to wait for a partner to do something she always wanted to. Become a mum.

- TAITE JOHNSON

Jenna adopted her daughter as a single parent after having stage four cancer and her grandfather dying after contracting Covid

Sat at home in lockdown, like so many people Jenna, from South Wales, began to questioning what she wanted to do with her life. One thing she had always wanted to do was become a mum and have her own family.

And so at the age of 34 she started the process of adopting as a single parent, and after a three-year journey she adopted her now three-yearold daughter in the summer of 2023.

At the age of 27 Jenna was diagnosed with skin cancer for the first time and saw a consultant for five years before she was told “everything was fine” and was discharged.

A month after being discharged, Jenna found a tumour on her back and returned to the doctor.

The doctor diagnosed Jenna with stage four melanoma and she underwent an operation to remove the tumour and was given the all-clear.

Battling cancer allowed Jenna to take a step back and evaluate her life and strive for what she had always truly wanted.

She said: “I suppose for myself going through that, I reevaluated everything and thought of my priorities - and for me it was always to have my own family.