Fatima Ali, the fan favorite of the previous season of “Top Chef,” died on Friday after a year long battle with cancer.
29-year-old Ali came in seventh on season 15 but won the Fan Favorite
title when the season ended early last year. She was known for her “fun
personality and excellent cooking” of food from her native Pakistan.
Ali publicly documented her battle with cancer since being diagnosed
at the end of 2017 with Ewing’s sarcoma, a type of bone and soft tissue
cancer. She had chemotherapy and surgery to remove a tumor and
surrounding cells in her left shoulder in January 2018.
Doctors declared her cancer-free about a month later, but last
October, Ali revealed in an online essay that her cancer was “back with a
vengeance” and she had a year to live.
