Barbies Losing It (Gallery)

Ms. Be Yourself (She doesn’t cover up how she’s doing, feeling or coping with her new cancer reality.)

Ms. Empathy Fatigue (The tough girl, and a sweetie, who needs to remember to take care of herself as well as she takes care of others.)

Ms. Body Image (She wonders if she’s being shallow–she’s not!–for caring how cancer has changed her appearance.)

Ms. No Hair Don’t Care (Truth is, sometimes she cares–a lot. But the way she carries yourself, you’d never know it.)

Ms. Pretty Scared (She’s always looking over our shoulder for more of it: C-c-c-cancer.)

The Club (Cancer is a club no one wants to belong to, but we’re in this together, and stronger for it!)

Ms. Super Woman (Some days she doesn’t feel so brave, but her superpower is surviving.)

Ms. That’s My Hair There (She knew what was coming. But it’s still a shocker.)

Ms. Mortality Innocence (One day she’s skating along in life, not thinking about mortality. Next day she’s being told her survival rate. Day after that she’s changed forever, but moving on again.)

 

By Annie Dennison

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