Mrs Adams discovered she had breast cancer at the age of 36 and when her 6th child was 11-months-old, but her courage through the illness moved childhood friend Leoni Milano.

Now Ms Milano and partner Gavin Romanis have launched a global charity campaign called tweetmyride from their Canadian base.

Mrs Adams was thrilled when Ms Milano said the National Breast Cancer Foundation would be one of the 10 charities their effort would support, and it was in her honour.

Mrs Adams was still breastfeeding daughter Bailee when she found a lump and was diagnosed with breast cancer.

“I was shattered, devastated, every feeling imaginable I felt it,” she said.

Mrs Adams and husband Danny had six children, the oldest of whom was 14.

“It was a very hard time and very confusing for the kids because they didn’t understand,” Mrs Adams said.

Mrs Adams underwent two operations at Sydney’s RPA, during which time she missed Bailee’s first birthday, and after which she could not pick up her baby or do anything that used her right arm.

Six hellish doses of chemotherapy made the young mother incredibly sick, and she credits breast cancer nurse Margie Collins and her sister for providing her with the strength to endure it.

Ms Milano visited her friend when Mrs Adams was in hospital suffering the chemotherapy’s side effects - dehydration and mouth ulcers.

“Leoni flew down from Sydney, I was in hospital violently ill, I had no hair, eyelashes or eyebrows,” she said.

“What did my dear friend bring me - mascara.”

Fast forward to the present and two weeks ago, Mrs Adams was with her children at a pony club event when she received a phone call.

It was Ms Milano who rang to ask her friend if she would be an ambassador for her fundraising effort.

“I was so stoked, I nearly dropped the phone, I was so happy and excited,” Mrs Adams said.