Breast Cancer in my 30’s
Meet the Models: Angelina Hawley-Dolan
Angelina is a mother, a wife, a teacher, a daughter, a friend—and now, a survivor. Her story begins not with a diagnosis, but in the quiet rhythm of everyday life: nursing her youngest child, juggling motherhood and her role as director of a Montessori school, and living fully at just 32 years old. Cancer wasn’t on her radar.
Read MoreMeet the Models: Melanie Randall
Melanie wasn’t shocked when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her body had been signaling that something was wrong for quite some time.
“I was actually a bit relieved to finally have an answer. I could feel something was off—and now I knew what it was. Now I could do something about it.”
Read MoreMeet the Models: Rebecca Whitehead
I am a breast cancer survivor. I was diagnosed while living in Hawaii at age 30. My partner and I made the decision to move back to the east coast for my treatment to be closer to family and to have access to higher quality medical care and clinical trials. What makes this year special? In February I celebrated 5 years of remission!
Read MoreMeet the Models: Caroline Saba
I have no history of BC in my family. I had just finished my 15-month breastfeeding journey with my only son and was planning to have a second when I found the lump. It was a very aggressive HER2+ mainly driven cancer. I will never forget reading my diagnostics imaging – BIRADS 5. And all of a sudden, I wasn’t the typical young mom anymore. I was a cancer patient. I lost my hair, my boobs but I am still here.
Read MoreMeet the Models: Sarah Hickey
Cancer didn’t just change my life—it reshaped it entirely. I was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive breast cancer (primary angiosarcoma of the breast) in 2020, and today, I’m living with stage 4 metastatic disease. I had a unilateral mastectomy and chose to remain flat on one side without a prosthetic. That decision wasn’t about loss—it was about truth. This is my body now, and I’ve learned to love it not in spite of the changes, but because of them.
Read MoreAngelina Hawley-Dolan, Love for Runway, Concord, MA
Good evening, everyone!! It is with a heart full of gratitude and a profound sense of humility that I am here with you all tonight. To be at this…
Read MoreMeet the Models, NYC: KC Hines
“I was hesitant to share my story because health felt deeply personal and I didn’t want to be defined by my illness or recovery.”
Read MoreMeet the Models, NYC: Michele Schwartz
“I need to do something and I want to work with organizations who support people currently living in cancer.”
Read MoreMeet the Models, SoCal: Alanna de Vlugt
“I still feel kind of damaged. Obviously physically, but also emotionally.”
Read MoreMeet the Models, SoCal: Ashley Zdunich
“I knew by the way they were interacting with each other that it was cancer.”
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