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Finally tracked down a full-length shot of the double-masectomy doll. Apparently an artist named Marina B. makes it, it’s called Surviving, and it’s an even more powerful statement as a full doll, rather than just an inset detail shot of the chest alone.

From Marina’s description of this doll:

A porcelain tribute to breast cancer fighters and the choices they face.

In the growing awareness of Breast Cancer, a disease which appears to be the inevitable side-effect of womanhood, this doll was my attempt at working through my own personal fear of it, and facing up to the possibility that one day I could be amongst hundreds of thousands of women who develop it. I can only hope to be brave, like so many other women.

Extensive tattooing on the head and a little bit on the tips of the fingers. Halo is 10k yellow gold.

This doll is not for sale, as I’m not sure what to do with her yet.

Ethereal as so many of her dolls are, frail, fragile, yet so powerful in her own way.

All Rights Reserved, ©2011-2012 ~Marina-B.