While Milla Blake is not a real person, her story appears to be heavily inspired by that of Dolly magazine editor Jessica Ainscough. Like Blake, Ainscough was a magazine editor and social media influencer who was diagnosed with epithelioid sarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer, when she was just 23, per The Guardian.
Ainscough's doctors recommended that she have her arm amputated at the shoulder as part of her treatment, but she refused and was outspoken about treating her cancer with holistic methods, earning her the nickname, "The Wellness Warrior."
Ainscough eventually wrote a book called "Make Peace with Your Plate: Change Your Life One Meal at a Time" and had a large social media following. She died in February 2015 at age 30 of cancer.
She wrote on her blog before her death that she had been "really unwell" after the death of her mother, per The Guardian. "For the past few months, I've been pretty much bedridden," she wrote. Ainscough died a few months later.
