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The next year the Eagles raised $125,000. In attempts to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer treatment, Hill and other members of the Eagles put on a fashion show in 1971, raising $10,000 for the Leukemia Society of America. By Kim’s second year of treatment, Hill came to feel the strain of having a child with leukemia. She spent three and a half years undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments in an attempt to defeat the cancer.

Kim was only given six months to live, yet she fought through an abnormal childhood. Fred Hill was a tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1969, when doctors informed him and his wife Fran that their three year old daughter Kim had been diagnosed with acute lymphatic leukemia.