Fashion Model Gone Flat: Christine Handy copertina

Fashion Model Gone Flat: Christine Handy

Fashion Model Gone Flat: Christine Handy

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 My friend Christine joins me on this week's podcast to tell her story of explant and continued success as a model after her second "mastectomy," going flat and embracing her concave chest publicly on the runway. Her new biopic is coming out on April first in LA and she's invited us breast cancer survivors to come. Shoot me an email to find out how. kathleenmoss@protonmail.com Listen Here ...and Subscribe on: APPLE PODCASTS - SPOTIFY - AMAZON Join my Newsletter List here: https://abreastcancerdiary.substack.com Resources: We spoke about Christine's new film premiering on April first. Here's the Preview! You can buy tickets to join us here, but be sure you can come first because we really want to fill these seats! The organization that Christine and I know each other through is Stand Tall AFC Transcript: My guest today is my friend, Christine Handy. She is a breast cancer disruptor and a fashion model living in Miami, Florida, and now she's a film producer—just recently. Her breast cancer diagnosis was hormone positive lobular breast cancer. And she started out with implants, and that's really what I want to ask her about first today is the journey of the implants and what that story looked like for you as a model, as a fashion model. How did that disrupt your life? C: Well, I think originally breast cancer disrupted my job. That was in fact, I really wasn't planning on going back to modeling until I had implants for seven years and I really did love them, but they did not love me. And so seven years into it, I would say to my oncologist after my treatment, "Why am I still so foggy? Why do I still have joint pain? Why do I still feel this? Why do I have all these questions?" Because they were pinpointing the longitude of these symptoms on the amount of chemo I had, instead of looking at the fact that I had implants. And so I never thought that it was the implants until ultimately I had a MRSA infection in the implant and they were excavated. In an emergency situation, because I almost died the night that they were excavated, I had 104 fever and, um, it was, it had not gone into my organs, thank God, but MRSA is very dangerous. And so when I was, after I lost my implants and I woke up, it was during COVID and there was nobody allowed in the hospital. So I woke up from surgery not knowing what I was going into like they didn't say "you're gonna wake up with a concave chest." They just were "sign this form that says you're having number three and number four mastectomy," which was its own trauma and I was like, "I can't be having mastectomies already had mastectomies in 2012 when I had breast cancer" and they were like, "just sign it it's for insurance reasons." And I woke up in the hospital alone in the recovery room and there was so much grotesque pain and I reached to the middle of my sternum where there was grotesque swelling and I could tell that the swelling was in the middle of my chest and I kind of moved my hands to the left and to the right and there was empty space. And I thought, "I have no idea how to respond to this. I have no idea what the future of my chest is going to look like." And that was frightening. And about three weeks after I was in the doctor's office, and he said, "you know, there's no chance of reconstruction. Because you've had so many surgeries on your chest, you have very little skin." We had to take skin because the infection, you know, got into your skin. And that was, that was it. The game over. It wasn't like I knew that aesthetic flat closure existed because I didn't, nobody ever told me that existed. It wasn't a choice. Whether I would have made a different choice or not, I don't know, I can tell you that from a health perspective if I had known the risks of implants if I had known That multiple surgeries and reconstructions took so much time away from my life and my family Then of course, I would have chosen a healthier path And so it was then that I said to myself if I feel this I have this amount of emotional pain and I have a solid self esteem, I have a solid foundation and faith. How do these women that don't have a massive team like I do of women championing for them, have a solid self esteem, which many of us don't, and I can talk about it freely because I used to not. And maybe not have a foundation that I feel is unflappable, which is my faith. What do people, how do they get through this? And that was when I thought to myself, I have to go back to modeling. I have to get into New York fashion week and model on a bigger stage. I need to go to Miami swim week and model in a bathing suit. I need to go to package this up to major brands. And ultimately I did it. It was not without a lot of closed doors. But we opened a lot of the—my manager—and the reason was so that I could say to women my beauty was not dissected because my chest was excavated. My beauty is whole because I know who I am and my foundation is my self esteem ...
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