Inspired: 2-time breast cancer survivor poses naked for magazine cover (PHOTOS)

 

Hannah Foxley, who recently had one of her breasts removed has posed naked for the cover of Cosmopolitan Magazine with the aim of inspiring women to be strong.
The two-time breast cancer survivor said she needed to show other women that they can still be beautiful even if they have had their body parts removed.
While speaking about the cancer which forced her to have a mastectomy, Foxley, 35, said, “I was grieving for my father, Bill, who’d died five months earlier, when I found a lump in my breast and was diagnosed with cancer.
“It was like being hit by a train. It didn’t feel real. Like most young women, I thought I was invincible,” she told the fashion magazine.
Hannah Foxley, who recently had a mastectomy, has posed naked on the cover of Cosmopolitan to inspire other women
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She had a lumpectomy and eight cycles of gruelling chemotherapy. Then, a week before her treatment was due to end, she found a second cancerous lump.
She had a mastectomy, followed by five weeks of radiotherapy.
Speaking to MailOnline, she said: ‘It was difficult. Losing something that is so key to your femininity takes a lot of coming to terms with.’

Hannah has been photographed immediately post mastectomy, left, and coming to terms with it, right

These images aim to capture the loneliness of cancer treatment, left, and being told the cancer had come back, right

Hannah can be seen being comforted by her mother as she comes to term with, what she describes as, ‘losing a key part of her femininity’

This image, titled ‘looking grey and very ill and fed up of being pumped full of drugs’, captures Hannah during her chemo

Hannah, who found the first lump nearly two years ago, says this picture captures the stress and headache of the whole process

‘Beauty beyond scars’ shows the scars of the first lot of operations. This image was used on a PhD thesis on breast cancer, left, and, right, shows the scars of losing her breast