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17-year-old Andrea Sierra Salazar is a teen battling cancer.
Since she was 13 years old, she wanted to become a model.
Her latest fairytale-inspired photo shoot shows her at her most radiant — and without a wig.
After losing her hair from chemotherapy, Andrea also started to lose her confidence.
“Before chemotherapy I had always been a confident person, so when my hair started to fall out I would look in the mirror and I wouldn’t feel confident about myself,” Andrea said.
She experimented with wigs to try to feel better, but none of them were good enough.
Recently, she did a photo shoot with Texas photographer Gerardo Garmendia bravely decided to pose without a wig.
Andrea was scared at first to show her bare-skinned head, but then realized that she had no reason to feel ashamed.
She posted the photos to her Twitter account with a fitting caption, “Cancer doesn’t stop me from being a princess.”
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— Andrea Sierra (@sierraandrea99) August 10, 2016
She encourages her fellow fighters not to worry about losing their hair, that what truly matters is inner beauty and that, if you’re a kind person, it will show through.
