Molly Kochan

Molly Kochan (July 19, 1973 – March 8, 2019) was an American podcaster from Los Angeles. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2015, she separated from her husband and launched a blog, "Everything Leads to This". She spent her final years having large amounts of sex with dates and her final months co-presenting the podcast Dying for Sex and writing her memoir, Screw Cancer: Becoming Whole. The podcast and memoir were both released in 2020; the former became a TV series in 2025.

Biography Kochan was born on July 19, 1973, in New York. Her parents met at a concert and married after she was conceived, divorcing shortly afterwards. later managed REO Speedwagon and Survivor, while her mother struggled with cocaine addiction and anxiety. Aged seven, Molly was molested by her mother's boyfriend, who also drugged her mother. or 2000,

In 2005, after encountering pain during sex and finding a lump in her breast, she made an appointment with her gynecologist, who wrongly told her she was too young to have breast cancer. She asked again in 2011 after it got bigger, by which time it had spread to her lymph nodes, She later underwent breast reconstruction, and based her new breasts on Boyer's. and began having cybersex with strangers. She bought stilettos for the first of these. which would deal with her cancer and trauma and Boyer's IVF. Kochan later started an Instagram account with that name.

The pair pitched Dying for Sex to television executives, who understood neither the concept nor how to promote it. Production was impacted several times by Kochan's failing health; she recorded part of episode four in a hospital as she was receiving treatment for thrombi and recorded later episodes with a progressively weak and raspy voice. After she was intubated, and Kochan and Boyer opted to continue recording on her phone. and March 2020, while Screw Cancer was released in August 2020 the show was released on April 4, 2025 and was loosely based on Kochan's experiences.