She left Casualty in 2006 to start a family, but was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. She wrote candidly about her experiences of cancer for the Daily Mirror.[1] She was hospitalised after a seizure while on holiday in Devon in 2013, due to complications from the cancer. Gibbs died at a hospice in Pembury, Kent, on 11 November 2014 aged 41. [1][2]
She was married to Ashley Pitman; they had a daughter.[3]