Geralyn lucas biography of william

NEW YORK — Geralyn Lucas thought she would be dead by 30.

Instead, 16 years after her diagnosis of breast cancer, the author and activist is a huge fan of hair dye and Botox.

How ironic, she acknowledges: All she ever wanted was to grow old.

Her daughter, Skye, was her “miracle child” after chemotherapy threatened Lucas’ fertility.

Now the 12-year-old rolls her shadowed eyes and mocks her svelte mother for having “back fat.”

“I want to call my next book ‘I Survived Cancer. But Can I Survive My Kids and My Grumpy Husband?’??” quipped Lucas, 44, who recently was drinking chilled wine in the back of a New York cab with a group of girlfriends, headed to a Brooklyn parlor for celebratory tattoos.

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Before celebrities such as Christina Applegate and Sheryl Crow helped take the edge off the C-word, Lucas was speaking out irreverently about the disease.

Her 2004 memoir, Why I Wore Lipstick to My M