Model Profiles
Meet 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: Amy Finegold
How to even start… I was diagnosed shortly after completing my certification as a Health + Life coach, and the year I turned 50. It was a time of re-invention for me after closing my women’s boutique and then I was hit with the diagnosis. I continued to work with clients over zoom and doing personal styling on my days farthest from chemo.
Read MoreMeet the Models: Katie Dexter
Breast cancer has marked my life in profound and deeply personal ways. Watching my mother face her diagnosis shaped my understanding of strength and vulnerability , and I knew I’d face the same battle myself someday, the question was always when. When I was diagnosed on July 29th, 2021, my father’s birthday and went through my mastectomy, it wasn’t just a physical transformation—it was an emotional reckoning. I
Read MoreMeet the Models: Cheryl Durand
Breast cancer has impacted my life in both positive and negative ways. I now try to live life to the fullest, I don’t take anything for granted. I focus on the important things. However, I also live my life in the face of uncertainty everyday with an underlying lingering fear and ache in my heart. I have to overcome this fear everyday.
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Honoring Lindsay McGloughlin: Leading with Strength, Serving with Heart We are honored to announce that Lindsay McGloughlin will receive the Ilene Beal Legacy of Leadership Award at this year’s 19th…
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 MoreMeet the Models, NYC: Arlene Garcia
“I learned to value myself more than anything. You put your family first always, but I have learned you have to take care of yourself first in order to take care of them.”
Read MoreMeet the Models, NYC: Paula Froehle
“there still seems to be this sense of quiet about breast cancer. I understand it is very personal, but I have been shocked that no matter who I speak to, they are 1 degree separated from breast cancer. There is a fear you live with about anything else that happens that it is the cancer returning.”
Read MoreMeet the Models, NYC: Miriam Greene
“I am not afraid to tell my patients I have had breast cancer and encourage them to get their mammogram. No matter what the results, you need to keep living. You cannot let it stop you.”
Read MoreMeet the Models, NYC: Renee Hollander
As a teacher, Renee’s life has “always been about the children,” so it seems an easy progression to join the Runway community and celebrate her own journey of strength, while benefitting children and families who need help the most.
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