What Cancer Does Elin Hilderbrand Have? American Author Dating After Split With Husband Chip

Publish date: 2024-05-06

Best-selling author Elin Hilderbrand's latest work, The Hotel Nantucket, opened with positive reviews. 

She is an American writer who mostly writes romance novels.

Elin is a 1991 graduate of Johns Hopkins University. Some of her books are The Sixth Wedding: A 28 Summers Story (2021), Golden Girl (2021), The Surfing Lesson: An Original Short Story (2013), Troubles in Paradise (2020), and The Beach Club (2000).

Her latest work, The Hotel Nantucket, dropped on 14 June 2022. It currently has 4.3 out of 5 on Goodreads and the same on Barnes & Noble.

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What Cancer Does Elin Hilderbrand Have?

Though Elin Hilderbrand had breast cancer, she is now cancer-free.

In June 2014, doctors diagnosed her with it. After that, she received a double mastectomy surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Her "normalcy of life, making pancakes for her family, taking her children to school, and writing novels, kept her going.

Elin wasn't silent about her treatment. She announced her diagnosis via the Huffington Post. After waking up from the surgery, she felt enormous pain and had reconstruction.

But in October, she had a life-threatening infection on her left breast implant. Due to it, she had to go to Boston from Nantucket via an emergency helicopter. 

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Elin said she was probably the only person to lose three breasts in a year. For three months, she was "flat to the bone, on the left side.

Now, after being cancer-free, the novelist has become a cancer activist. Not only does she speak about the disease, but she also runs an initiative, #MamaStrong, which invites women to share their experiences. 

Is Elin Hilderbrand Dating After Her Divorce With Husband Chip?

Elin Hilderbrand's relationship status at the moment remains unknown.

Nonetheless, NewsOfStJohn's blog on 31 March 2021 mentioned a person named Tim as her boyfriend. It was about an afternoon with the couple.

The couple celebrated their ninth anniversary on 18 March. Moreover, they chatted about their love city of past & present and some other parallels between Elin's home and St. John.

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The author was previously married to Chip Cunningham. Their wedding was at the Chanticleer, Siasconset, Massachusetts, in 1995. 

And after two decades and three children, they divorced. Her son Maxx graduated from the University of South Carolina in May 2022.

According to a 2020 report, her other kids - Dawson was a junior at Brewster Academy, while Shelby was an eighth-grader at a public school in Nantucket.

What Is Elin Hilderbrand's Net Worth? 

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Elin's estimated net worth is $2 million.

Her book sales are the primary source of her income. The best-selling author, she has written 28 so far.

Moreover, Indeed reports the yearly average salary of a novelist at $49,046. The minimum figure is $15,080, while the maximum is $127,816.

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