Footy star Jeremy Finlayson gets a very touching tattoo just days after his cancer-stricken wife Kellie shared some heartbreaking news

Footy star Jeremy Finlayson has had a touching tattoo of his daughter just days after his cancer-stricken wife Kellie shared some heartbreaking news about her battle with the killer disease.

The Port Adelaide key forward, 28, shared a series of images via an Instagram story in a touching tribute to his daughter Sophia Jai.

Her name now features permanently on his right knee – as well as her date of birth – August 19, 2021.

The eye-catching design features a silhouette of Finlayson throwing his daughter up in the air, with the larger part of the tattoo showing her holding onto his little finger with her hand.

It comes on the heels of Kellie sharing a heartbreaking update earlier this week on social media as she continues to battle stage 4 bowel and lung cancer.

The 28-year-old shared how she is coping with her journey in a tearful Instagram post on Tuesday.

‘For those wondering if I ever cry… yes I do. Not often and usually due to the collateral that comes with a terminal diagnosis,’ she posted.

‘But yes, I am human, some days do get the best of me and I’m a prisoner to my own thoughts.’

Finlayson’s terminally ill wife Kellie (pictured together) shared a update earlier this week on social media as she continues to battle stage 4 bowel and lung cancer

Kellie (pictured) admitted she is often a ‘prisoner in her own thoughts’ and ‘feels alone’ as she fights the killer disease

She continued: ‘I take ten steps forward one day and 12 steps back the next.

‘I am positive and grateful to be alive, but some days remind me that this is so far from the life I’d created in my mind as a teenager.

‘S**t sucks sometimes. And it feels isolating, I too feel alone, but I know I’m not.’

The couple recently made the sad decision to sell their house in Adelaide.

The Port Adelaide star and his influencer wife revealed they were selling their home so they could get a place better suited to providing Kellie with in-home care.

‘This was to be our forever home, but I guess life had other plans,’ Kellie told Adelaide Now.

‘It was a really nice space to be in but we discovered with the amount of people we needed around me, and with the room we would need for equipment and machinery, we needed more space.

‘I’m fighting for my life every day. I’ve got every excuse to lay down and moan, but there’s not really much point in doing so.’

Jeremy and Kellie Finlayson recently made the sad decision to sell their house in Adelaide -they are pictured together with their daughter Sophia

‘I am positive and grateful to be alive, but some days remind me that this is so far from the life I’d created in my mind as a teenager,’ Kellie wrote this week

In January, Kellie started another six-month round of chemotherapy, but had since stopped her chemotherapy and radiation treatments to put her trust in natural therapies and alternative medicine.

However she confirmed in June she would likely have to resume chemotherapy to quickly get on top of any further growth in the cancer.

‘Unfortunately with cancer, especially relapsed cancer, it grows really fast so once we see not even quite a millimetre of growth in a scan over a couple of months, we know that means it’s growing and that means we have to act on it,’ she said in a TikTok video.

‘So normally I walk out of a meeting with my oncologist and he tells me we’re happy to watch and wait. Not the case today.

‘I am off to see a surgeon next week and a radiotherapist. Just to get all of my options before potentially starting chemotherapy again.’

Kellie said her treatments had worked to slow the spread of her cancer but ‘100 per cent’ robbed her of her first year of motherhood with Sophia, and now she faces the prospect of never having more children.

Meanwhile, Finlayson said the turmoil of the last few years has taken its toll and impacted his footy career.

He was ruled out for the season in July after scans confirmed a laceration to his spleen.