Kim Kardashian’s announcement this week that her shapewear and clothing brand SKIMS was launching a bra with fake nipples was met by many with either confusion or an eye-roll.
“The earth’s temperature is getting hotter and hotter. Sea levels are rising. The ice sheets are shrinking. I’m no scientist, but I believe everyone can use their skillset to do their part,” the reality star turned entrepreneur declared in the
But for one group of people – breast cancer patients and survivors, including those who have undergone a mastectomy – the mother-of-four’s latest offering has been lauded as a potentially life-changing option.“I have stage 4 breast cancer, mastectomy last May. Reconstruction in January,” American woman Philecia La’Bounty commented on a post from SKIMS announcing the bra’s launch.
In Australia, more than 20,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer each year alone. Approximately 30 to 40 per cent have a mastectomy – including those who undergo the surgery as a preventive measure. Of those, about 15 per cent then undergo breast reconstruction – but not always that of the nipple.
Ms Barter underwent a preventive mastectomy when she was 25, after discovering she had the cancer-linked BRCA1 gene.“ has the potential to be useful or powerful for some women who have found it to be a really difficult process to go through, which it is.”, Shenae Curry Craig, a 32-year-old with stage 2 breast cancer, said she teared up when she first saw the advertisement.
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