New photographs of Kylie Minogue have been published on the Kylie Minogue website, showing a radiantly beautiful breast cancer survivor on her road to recovery. On a weekend break in Portofino, Italy, as a guest of fashion designers Dolce and Gabbana, her boyfriend Olivier Martinez took the first photographs -- following her chemotherapy hair loss -- that have been publicly released showing Minogue without a head scarf. As is normally the case, cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy suffer an almost complete hair loss.

According to the statement published on her website, these new photos are a way to show her fans how well she is doing. A message posted for her fans reads, "She wanted to send a big hello and all her best to the many Kylie.com regulars." I remember those days, when the energy begins to return, and the hair begins to grow back in, when you have come through the darkest time of life -- so close to death -- to reemerge renewed into the technicolor of life. Minogue looks simply stunning. Every breast cancer survivor I know has this same inner glow that radiates into the world around them.

During the last year of breast cancer treatment and recovery, Minogue had stated one of her goals was to write a children's book. She has met that goal with Showgirl Princess, set for release in September.