How cancer made this woman’s breast Instagram famous

By Shaun Davies Australia editor, BBC News Online, Sydney

 

During her year of breast cancer, Alison Habbal occupied hours of nausea and exhaustion by planning for her post-sickness rebirth.

Just 36 years old when the cancer struck, Alison, from Sydney, knew that, along with a good portion of her hair, she would lose her nipple and suffer extensive breast scarring in a lumpectomy.
But the idea of recreating a nipple through plastic surgery didn't appeal to her.
"I didn't want a fake nipple made from some other piece of flesh. I thought I'm just going to get a tattoo," she says.
"During the year I was sick I had the idea of me with the blonde crop and the tattoo. The whole time I
was sick I would trawl tattoo artists over the internet," she says.
After extensive deliberation, she settled on a New Zealand-based artist named Makkala Rose, a 24-year-old with a bold and colourful illustrative style.

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