Art Bra calendar showcases success stories
These glorious goddesses have fought a battle and won.
Each pose lets them reclaim the beauty breast cancer tried to take.
"I've made it," breast cancer survivor LaMetrica Johnson said. "I'm one of the ones who survived."
The camera captures their survival for a calendar that will be out later this year called Art Bra.
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"We have 20 women and they're all survivors," Runi Limary of the Breast Cancer Resource Center said.
The calendar raises money for the young survivors' group called the Pink Ribbon Cowgirls and the Breast Cancer Resource Center.
"Once you're newly diagnosed, everything's so confusing and everything's a whirlwind," Limary said.
Johnson said she had to keep going back to the doctor for tests and other appointments.
"So we're there to go to doctor's appointments with them, we have a library full of books and literature, and we're just there to guide them because we're all survivors and we've been there before," Limary said.
Designers, artists and regular people made and donated all the bras.
They'll be modeled and auctioned off on April 26 at the second annual fashion show called Graphic II.
"We have 109 bras," Limary said. "We are going to be as elaborate as possible and with props and so forth so it should a great time."
"It's a fun event and it was so successful last year," Johnson said. "I'm just really excited and grateful that I was one of the ones they asked to do it this year."
Graphic II is Saturday, April 26 at the Design Center at Penn Field on South Congress Avenue. Tickets are available at the Breast Cancer Resource Center Web site.