Model Profiles

Eve Bender’s story begins with a moment she can still picture clearly. After postponing a routine screening while caring for her father, she finally went in for her mammogram and sonogram in 2015—something she had always done together. A few days later, on a Friday night as she was pulling into the train station to head upstate to see her fiancé, her phone rang.
“Getting a cancer diagnosis actually made me realize I was giving my life to the wrong things,” she shared. Before her diagnosis, Karen had spent years building a career she loved. But in the stillness that followed, she gained a clarity she hadn’t had before.

When Karen was diagnosed with breast cancer on July 7, 2022, her life didn’t just change medically—it shifted entirely in how she saw the world around her.

“Getting a cancer diagnosis actually made me realize I was giving my life to the wrong things,” she shared. Before her diagnosis, Karen had spent years building a career she loved. But in the stillness that followed, she gained a clarity she hadn’t had before.

When Caileigh was waiting for her biopsy results, she already sensed what was coming. “The radiologist who performed the biopsy was gentle yet clear with me that it was giving malignancy,” she shared. “In the days waiting for results, I remember telling myself if this was happening, I needed to buckle up, lock in, and get on board.”