Married to Medicine’s Jackie Walters Is Partnering with Brand Myya to Help Breast Cancer Survivors Feel Beautiful (Exclusive)

It is Breast Most cancers Consciousness Month, and lots of survivors are preventing to make sure that these affected by the illness have entry to fundamental requirements throughout and after therapy.

Two-time breast most cancers survivor and Bravo TV persona Dr. Jackie Walters is a kind of survivors. The Married to Drugsstar has partnered with model Myya to assist ladies who’ve had breast most cancers entry all that they want post-mastectomy, from getting a correct surgical bra to breast prostheses. 

“All the pieces that’s within the firm Myya is what I wanted after I was going by way of the journey not as soon as however twice, and all the things that I wished to verify everybody else had as they have been going by way of it,” Walters tells PEOPLE completely. “It additionally lends itself to ladies of shade who’re in search of merchandise we will’t discover. There are prostheses that look identical to us.” The model makes a speciality of making custom-fit breast prostheses utilizing 3D printing. Merchandise are available in 36 completely different pores and skin tones and will be personalized to incorporate something — even freckles and veins – no matter ladies must really feel extra like themselves. It’s usually lined by insurance coverage and delivered on to your door. 

Dr. Jackie’s relationship with the model began when she added a few of Myya’s merchandise to her personal “baskets of affection” by way of the inspiration 50 Shades of Pink. Her purpose was to make ladies feel and look good whereas present process therapy. Baskets embody all the things from make-up and wonder merchandise to surgical drain belts and extra. 

“I went to chemo and I knew that it was actually about mindset. To stroll into that chemo heart, each three weeks for me, it takes a robust mindset to need to return,” she says. “You don’t really feel nicely. You don’t look as nice, so I all the time dressed up. I’d do make-up, lipstick – no matter I wanted to look good as a result of when ladies look good we really feel good.” 

For Myya founder and CEO Jasmine Jones, beginning the road was one thing that hit near house. Jones remembers being 9 years previous when her grandmother, who had not too long ago had a mastectomy, had an disagreeable buying expertise at a medical provide retailer for a publish surgical bra. She remembers her grandmother being match for a bra in a cramped area and never being supplied many choices. 

“I simply keep in mind my stunning grandmother who had a lot spirit and was so stuffed with vitality and life — I keep in mind her expression altering,” Jones says. “It felt like she was a distinct individual in that retailer. I simply keep in mind considering that somebody ought to make an expertise higher than that for breast most cancers survivors. It ought to really feel like a dignified buying expertise.” 

Dr. Jackie remembers her personal expertise searching for bras after her double mastectomy, with one retailer worker audibly gasping when she noticed her scars.

“I feel I cried and cried,” she says. “After I give it some thought now, I get a little bit tearful fascinated with having to clarify to her why my breasts regarded like that.” 

For Dr. Jackie and Jones, making certain that different ladies would not have these experiences is most essential, along with elevating consciousness round underrepresented communities on the subject of breast most cancers, notably Black ladies who’re 40% extra prone to die from the illness. 

“Creating consciousness earlier than it’s wanted is the purpose. Bridging the hole is to make us really feel included and [Myya] has finished that,” she says. 

For Jones, it’s all about serving to sufferers and survivors thrive and giving them entry to merchandise that make them really feel stunning and empowered. 

“It’s been a labor of affection nevertheless it’s grown thus far past my wildest goals and to have the ability to accomplice with Dr. Jackie and to have the ability to attain so many further ladies who love her and comply with her and help her is only a dream come true,” Jones says.