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Breast Cancer Patient Does Beautiful Photoshoot To Empower Other Cancer Patients

Jill Brzezinski-Conley, suffering from an incurable form of cancer, put together the project so other women going through treatment would be inspired to share the realities of breast cancer.

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1. Jill Brzezinski-Conley was diagnosed with breast cancer the day before her 32nd birthday.

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2. Three years later, she’s suffering from stage-4 breast cancer, which has metastasized to her bones.

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3. She asked her childhood friend, and wedding photographer, Nikki Closer, to take pictures of her breasts.

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4. Brzezinski-Conley wanted to send them to magazines because few outlets show the reality of breast cancer.

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5. Closer emailed the photos to Australian portrait photographer of the year, Sue Bryce.

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6. Inspried by her story, Bryce surprised Brzezinski-Conley with a five-day photoshoot in Paris.

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7. Brzezinski-Conley doesn’t want the focus of this project to be about beauty, but about feeling beautiful, regardless of cancer.

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