Jade Goody was just 27 when she tragically passed away, leaving her two sons behind.
Bobby and Freddie - who are now 19 and 18 - were her absolute world and in her short years, the Big Brother star achieved so much, transforming her fortunes and making millions through her fame but her boys were by far her greatest achievement.
When Jade was told she had cancer, her first thoughts turned to the boys. Jade fought valiantly, undergoing painful procedure after painful procedure in a bid to watch Bobby and Freddie grow up, writes The Mirror.
But on Valentine's Day 2009, doctors told Jade that the cancer had spread to her liver, bowel and groin and was now terminal.
She was then given just months to live, she was admitted to a hospice after the drugs made her hallucinate but was allowed to return to her house in Essex, where her dining room was fitted with a hospital bed.
On February 22, Jade and her 19-year-old boyfriend Jack Tweed got married at Down Hall Country House Hotel in Essex, in front of 200 guests including Richard Madeley, Paul O'Grady and Judy Finnigan.
When her health began to decline rapidly, she astounded everyone by not only finding the strength to walk down the aisle but also to dance on the tables.
Her grandfather John Craddock told the Daily Mirror: "You should have seen her dancing with all those dolly birds.
"She was jumping up and down dancing like a jive bunny. It was brilliant. She had a wild time."
The following day Jade was left drained and exhausted, but it helped her find peace with the tragedy that was to come.
At the time, she told OK! magazine: "I've had the happiest day of my life. Now I'm ready to go to heaven."
She then had to have another operation to remove a bowel blockage, and after that she went home and began slipping in and out of consciousness.
Her husband Jack slept next to her hospital bed on the floor and recalled how Jade would wake up singing or thinking "she was nursing a baby in her arms."
He told OK!: "She'd tell me to be quiet so I didn't wake the baby. I used to go along with it and pretend to take the baby and call Jackiey (Budden, Goody's mother) in and pretend to give the baby to her.
"I'd then ask Jade whether she was OK and she'd say: 'Yes that's fine, now I can sleep.'"
Worried that she'd no longer recognise him and her sons, Jack would show her pictures and get her to say who each person was.
She was still her cheeky self however, "She said, 'You, Bobby, Freddie, me ... I’m not a f***ing idiot Jack!'
"So she was still having a go at me right until the end, but that made me happy, because that was Jade being Jade."
As her battle continued, she lost her sight in one eye and became unable to eat and eventually speak.
Her last words were about pineapples, which was the only food she was still able to stomach.
But with just 48 hours to live, she astounded doctors by doing something they thought was impossible.
Jade was drifting in and out of consciousness, when she heard her son Bobby, then five, crying in his sleep, she defied the doctors by using the last of her last strength to get out of bed, climb the stairs and put Bobby on her back.
Her close friend Kevin Adams told The Sun: "She wasn't eating and the doctor said her health was deteriorating rapidly. But that night Jade got up, walked upstairs and pulled [Bobby] up onto her back and brought him to her hospital bed.
"The next day I told the doctor what had happened and she said, 'no Jade doesn't have the strength to do that because everything in her body is failing'.
"I told her that I saw it with my own eyes. She was able to do it because those kids meant everything to her. That memory will live with me forever, it is so special to me."
And on the night doctors warned would be her last, Jack stayed in the front room, unable to watch his wife slip away.
He said: "It's horrible to watch someone you love struggling when there's nothing you can do to help.
"I kept going in to kiss her and check that she was breathing. But I knew it was going to happen that night. I just couldn't stay in the room.
"I wasn't asleep. I was just lying there waiting. I heard [her mum] Jackiey crying and I knew. I walked into the room, stroked her face, kissed her and broke down."
On March 22, 2009 - Mother's Day - 14 years ago - Jade passed away at 27.
But before she went, she made sure her sons would know where to find her if they needed her. She told OK! magazine: "I'm not sure they know what dying means, and in a way I don't want them to know the full ins and outs, I will be the brightest star in the sky for them, always looking over them and protecting them."
It was 14 years ago today that Jade passed away aged 27 on March 22, 2009 - and even more heartbreakingly, it was Mother's Day.
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