Teen Does Photo Shoot To Prove Cancer Can't Ruffle Her Glam Game
Meet the face that launched (more than) a thousand re-tweets.
A post by Andrea Sierra Salazar, who has cancer, has gone viral — receiving over 98,000 re-tweets and over 200,000 likes. The tweet features the 17-year-old Texan at a photo shoot rocking a gorgeous gown, fierce self-esteem and the caption: “Cancer doesn’t stop me from being a princess.”
Cancer doesn't stop me me from being a princess. pic.twitter.com/39RaDuVwkH— Andrea Sierra (@sierraandrea99) August 10, 2016
In February Salazar, who works part time as a model, found a lump on her neck, Buzzfeed News reported. Soon after she was diagnosed with stage 2 lymphoma. She lost her hair as a result of chemotherapy, and although she got to model in a bunch of fab wigs, she said her self-esteem was suffering.
A photo posted by Andrea Sierra (@andrea_sierra12) on Jun 5, 2016 at 8:13pm PDT
“I would have never imagined being able to go out in public without a wig,” Salazar wrote on Instagram. “I had lost most confidence in myself.”
A photo posted by Andrea Sierra (@andrea_sierra12) on Aug 14, 2016 at 7:49pm PDT
Salazar then connected with photographer Gerardo Garmendia, who decided to do a photo shoot with the young model using a theme she had thought of herself: “a princess without a wig.”
I’ve learned that the hair on someone’s head doesn’t define who they are as a person, but their actions and the way they treat others d...
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