While numerous women tried hard to increase breast size, a woman from Brazil suffered to go through double mastectomy due to a fatal ductal carcinoma. This brave woman beat the looming death after all. And she even shows her topless body in churches while sharing her story.
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While numerous women tried hard to increase breast size, a woman from Brazil suffered to go through double mastectomy due to a fatal ductal carcinoma. This brave woman beat the looming death after all. And she even shows her topless body in churches while sharing her story.
Mariana Milward, 33, has exposed her scars where there should be breast in more than two hundred churches in Rio de Janeiro in over three years. "But I can't hide something I'm proud of. My scars show I've been through a war and I've survived". she said.
She gave birth to her son after the breast surgery.
The former sergeant nurse was diagnosed with rare aggressive, stage three, infiltrating ductal carcinoma in 2009 when she was 24 years old. Doctors warned her chances of survival were so low they even prepared her death certificate in advance.
However, Mariana did fight back the god of death and survived. She said: "I promised God that if I survived I would never be ashamed of my scars or embarrassed to show them."
Her extraordinary campaign has shocked many people but she claims to have inspired a lot of women battling breast cancer.
Mariana Milward, 33, has exposed her scars where there should be breast in more than two hundred churches in Rio de Janeiro in over three years. "But I can't hide something I'm proud of. My scars show I've been through a war and I've survived". she said.
She gave birth to her son after the breast surgery.
The former sergeant nurse was diagnosed with rare aggressive, stage three, infiltrating ductal carcinoma in 2009 when she was 24 years old. Doctors warned her chances of survival were so low they even prepared her death certificate in advance.
However, Mariana did fight back the god of death and survived. She said: "I promised God that if I survived I would never be ashamed of my scars or embarrassed to show them."
"In the beginning, a lot of people were shocked. Even today, some are still outraged at what I do.When I tell my story and remove my top, there are a few who turn their faces away saying they don't want to see it."
"But there are many who get very emotional and hug me. They share their stories of suffering and say they're inspired by how I've pulled through."
Her extraordinary campaign has shocked many people but she claims to have inspired a lot of women battling breast cancer.
Mariana said: 'I prefer to stay the way I am. I'm happy and I'm cured. Although I have no breasts I'm an example to other women that miracles can happen and there is always hope."
Her husband and son.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris used a profanity on Monday while offering advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders about how to break through barriers.
Harris was participating in a conversation moderated by actor and comedian Jimmy O. Yang when he asked her what it means to be the first vice president of Asian descent and how that heritage has informed her views and roles as a leader. Harris' mother was from India and her father was from Jamaica, and she's the first woman elected vice president.
Harris gave a lengthy response in which she told the young people to keep their chins up when they go into spaces where no one else looks like them.
She added: “We have to know that sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open. Sometimes they won’t. And then you need to kick that f——— door down."
The audience clapped and hollered. Laughing herself, Harris said, “Excuse my language.”
Profanity in politics is not altogether unusual. This past weekend, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump led a crowd at a rally chanting “bulls—-" in reference to his criminal trial in New York City. When Joe Biden was vice president, he was overheard telling President Barack Obama that newly passed health care legislation was a “big f——— deal.” Harris generally avoids such language in her public appearances.
The vice president made her comments in a conversation at the annual Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Legislative Leadership Summit. The conversation was live-streamed on the White House website.
Harris spoke later Monday, along with President Biden and actor Lucy Liu, at a White House Rose Garden reception celebrating May as Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Liu said Harris' election as the first female Black and Asian vice president was a "testament to the limitless possibilities of the American dream.”
Biden said Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders make up the fastest-growing demographic in the U.S. He said they represent immigrants, dreamers and a nation of freedom.
The president opened his remarks with: "My name's Joe Biden. I work for Kamala Harris.”
President Joe Biden speaks as actor Lucy Liu listens in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2024, during a reception celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2024, as Vice President Kamala Harris listens during a reception celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Vice President Kamala Harris greets guests in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2024, during a reception celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Guests listen as President Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2024, during a reception celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2024, during a reception celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Joe Biden listens as actor Lucy Liu speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2024, during a reception celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks as President Joe Biden listens in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2024, during a reception celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
