Me and David Jay

This past Saturday, Oct 1st, after modeling for a breast cancer awareness brunch and style show, I headed south for a 207 mile road trip to Cincinnati for The SCAR Project photographic exhibit of young breast cancer survivors raw"baring it all." I started following The SCAR Project awareness campaign about 6 months ago after coming across it's post on FaceBook and followed their survivor's stories. Being proud of these ladies, I was excited to read that the exhibit was showing somewhat close to home. This is a life-size portraits exhibit of beauty, courage and self-acceptance of young breast cancer survivors who had lost their breast(s) to mastectomy surgery. Being a breast cancer survivor myself, I found it a little hard to look at these portraits knowing what they had gone through to survive this disease. I can only imagine their emotional pain they went through, for I had only opted for a lumpectomy. To these brave young ladies, it was empowering for them to show the public they had breast cancer, they survived it, this is what cancer did to them, it changed their look but, they're still the same beautiful person baring it all with pride.
I had the pleasure of personally meeting fashion photographer, David Jay of The SCAR Project and two of his breast cancer survivor models, Vanessa and Marcy. David Jay showed so much compassion towards his survivor models as he shared their journey stories. I enjoyed chatting with Marcy and Vanessa, two amazing young women that is inspiring the world with their traveling exhibit. Vanessa signed my program book, "Live Sincerely" - Vanessa, definitely her words to live by!