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03-06-2019 12:54 AM |
Body positive model Elly Mayday dies at 30 from ovarian cancer
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After six years of encouraging women to embrace and love their bodies, model Ashley Luther, better known as “Elly Mayday,” passed away Friday, Mar. 1, following a battle with ovarian cancer. She was 30.
Luther was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer in 2013. Around the same time, she was offered two modeling contracts and instead of shying away from the spotlight, she welcomed it. “I figured that maybe I could help someone going through something similar while continuing on with my own dreams,” the Saskatchewan, Canada, native told the Regina Leader-Post. “I mean, I was going through it either way, why not make it as positive as possible?”
After her diagnosis, the model quit her job as a flight attendant and began to pose proudly for photos, baring the cancer battle scars on her abdomen for magazines and her personal social media pages. Sharing both her triumphant and difficult moments, she gained a huge following for her raw and honest portrayal of her battle with the illness, publicly documenting what cancer looks and feels like. When Mayday started posting about her ovarian cancer in 2013, she had 30,000 followers on Facebook. Her official fanpage page now has nearly 500,000.
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