I didn't actually know she hasn't seen her mom in 12 years. I thought it was way less, I don't know why. She really was just spit out into the world and abandoned.
"why people want to see their mother even if she's bad" pretty up sums psychanalysis imho, some people ask themselves that for 25 years and then find a woman and treat her like a substitute mother and go on for 25 more years of therapy

but to do psychanalysis the patient must be able to slightly be aware of things and she seems to have the awareness of frozen bacon.
what's worse is that it's even possible Miss Bovine here is not doing it on purpose (i.e. thinking directly I'll pretend I have cancer and make $ out of it) but maybe the doctor said something vaguely related to cancer, she understood "I have cancer I'm dying" and posted it thinking woe to me, I have cancer, everything now is excused and I can do anything because cancer gives a free pass, her admirers by definition are not a clever bunch and are just repeating "cancer cancer go gurl survivor"
This is more than 30 years old but seems very appropriate:
"Let the cow be reborn, and emerge from the firey midsts of dawn. Let bellows
rush across the horizon"
( Cult of the Dead Cow 1987:
http://textfiles.com/groups/CDC/cDc-0008.txt )
The cow latched on to cancer, the cow is reborn and will now post about it all the time: she eats a lot because she worries about cancer. She doesn't exercise because cancer. Don't criticise her because cancer. How can anyone this to her because cancer. For she is cow, worship her bovinity. "Be one with the bovine," said the text file. If only they knew it would actually happen.
And this in the face of people who really have bad cancers and hardly ever complain about it, don't ask for a cent and make no money out of it.