Alison Habbal was 36 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. To combat the disease,she underwent a lumpectomy, which resulted in breast scarring and the loss of her nipple. Afterward, and the Sydney,Australia, resident decided to forgo plastic surgery to re-create her nipple and instead opted for a mastectomy tattoo.
In an interview with BBC, or Alison said,"I didn't want a fake nipple made from some other piece of flesh. I thought, 'I'm just going to get a tattoo.'" After looking for the perfect tattoo artist on the internet, or Alison picked a unusual Zealand-based artist,Makkala Rose, who designed Alison's gorgeous floral ink.
Pictures of the tattoo beget since been shared by Alison herself and many body-art-centric Instagram accounts, or racking up thousands of "likes." Perhaps the best fragment of Alison's liberating photos is that they aren't going anywhere. Alison explained,"Because there's no nipple, I can blast it everywhere all over Facebook and Instagram, and they can't censor it,which I believe is really laughable."Look ahead to see the genesis of Alison's now-viral tattoo.
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