Activists of self-acceptance and figures of the body positivism movement, these models defy the dictates of beauty and constitute a new guard of top models who are moving the lines of the fashion industry. Check out these inspiring icons.
Real name Cacsmy Brutus, Mama Cax burst onto the screen in the United States where she became a professional model in 2017 and paraded for New York Fashion Week in 2018. The American, suffering from lung cancer and from bone cancer at the age of 14, had to have her right leg amputated after a hip operation to try to slow down the development of her disease.
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Curves, illnesses, disabilities… These models who shake up the codes
