Breast Cancer Awareness Month Breakfast

In support of National Breast Cancer Awareness month this October, Bec (@rawbeccabites_) hosted a pink breakfast with her nearest and dearest.

Together, they celebrated healthy breasts, raised awareness, and joined the mission of achieving zero deaths from Breast Cancer by 2030.

As Bec raises awareness for breast cancer, she also shared her inspiring story with us on how she developed a whole new found appreciation for healthy breasts. This is what she had to say:

I remember so vividly girls giggling behind me in my first year of high school. They were making comments that I wasn’t wearing a proper bra and mustn’t have boobs. There I sat, in my little Bonds bandeau having experienced my first encounter of body shaming. Later that afternoon my mum held my hand and took me to buy a bra, mind you it was the exact same Bonds top with a more traditional bra clasp at the back. Who were they to know?

I had never once questioned my body before this moment.

For the years to follow I realized the ideology of the perfect boobs that girls in the hallway spoke about or were showcased in media weren’t going to be genetically gifted to me. Acceptance came and went and the inflow of insecurities developed as people remarked ‘little boy’ to me, unbeknown to them that their words left a lasting impact on my self-confidence. I must have to change my body.

Fast forward to the light blue walls of a surgeon’s office being told that if I hadn’t come in sooner, my results could have been vastly different and scarily life altering. In that moment I developed a whole new found appreciation for what I had. Healthy breasts.

There will always be perceived perceptions of beauty, regardless of what society does to try and break down stigmas. People are cruel, people in high school are very cruel. But it doesn’t stop there. So comes motherhood, and having not yet been there myself, I can only comment on the remarks I have heard my friends say as they refer to their milk drained, pancaked, saggy boobs, or the onslaught of defeat if breast feeding isn’t the fit for them.

The appeal, appearance and pressure around breasts never ceases to stop. However, we have the power to shift conversation, to celebrate and be breast aware.

What a gift it is to have healthy breasts and something that we shouldn’t take lightly.

1 in 7 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Around 57 Australians are diagnosed every day. In 2023, over 3,200 Australian will pass away from breast cancer (including 30-40 males). While comments about appearance and body image are far from being resolved, the comments and conversations we can have within our communities about awareness on this topic is something we can control.

Your body, the way it is, is beautiful. You are healthy, that is a gift.

Go pink this October and host a Pink Breakfast

Gather your friends and give back to yourselves, celebrate this moment, because for so many women as evident by the statistics, it can be fleeting. And most importantly, be breast aware. Breast awareness is being familiar with the normal look and feel of your breasts, so that you can identify any unusual changes. For full resources head to https://nbcf.org.au

To mark Breast Cancer Awareness month, Rockwear is suppoprting the National Breast Cancer Fountation by donating $5 from all new season pink product sold this October.

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