Cancer changed my body in so many ways too. I lost all of my hair from chemo, including eyebrows and lashes. Which completely alters the way you look. For a long time I struggled to look at myself in the mirror and recognise the person looking back. 

As well as all the treatments affecting me, I also had surgery to remove my breast, with no reconstruction, and named myself a one tit wonder, to add some humour into life changing surgery. As I had a rare aggressive type, inflammatory breast cancer, I had to use a special material during radiotherapy, a bolus, which causes more scarring and I’m left with a red bolus shaped scar. 

Before doing the doing the shoot I felt a bit nervous, because I don’t like my picture being taking, and was questioning why I’d entered myself in the competition, what if I hate the pictures at the end. 

From the second I walked met Danielle, everything changed, so put me at ease and we got stuck straight in. I was genuinely so surprised at how the pictures turned out, I love them and I was so incredibly proud of myself for doing it! 

I now don’t know who that person is with so much confidence and sparkle oozing out of her. 

If you’re sitting on the fence about doing a shoot, just do it. You will find your sparkle and confidence, and have so much fun too. It’s good to step out of our comfort zones.