America’s Next Top Model star Jael Strauss has been diagnosed with incurable breast cancer. The 34-year-old, who competed on the modelling competition in 2007, told fans and friends that she is fighting stage IV breast cancer, which has ‘aggressively’ spread throughout her body. Jael wrote on Facebook: ‘I was gonna write some long thing but some of you guys deserve to know. On October 2nd I was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer. It has aggressively spread throughout my body and is incurable. ‘With treatment it may prolong my life longer than the “few months” doctors said I could make it. ‘I don’t want to die. I need another one of those miracles that I got back in 2013.’
She later shared: ‘I just received the complete proper name of my disease: rapidly progressive metastatic breast cancer.’ Friends, family and fans posted their well wishes and prayers in the comments section. A GoFundMe page has been set up by Jael’s friends, which has already raised over $7,000 in four days.
They wrote: ‘At the end of September, Jael became very sick and was diagnosed with aggressive Stage IV Rapidly Progressive Metastatic Inflammatory Breast Cancer. It has metastasized and spread beyond the breast tissue. She has just begun chemo, but we do not know how things will play out. What we do know is that Jael is putting all of her energy and drive into fighting this insidious disease and can use as much support and love as possible.