After seeing her mother Debbie struggle to find a bra post-mastectomy–a task that included having to drive well over an hour just to find a store that sells the appropriate styles–Allana Maiden, 27, started a petition with Change.org asking Victoria’s Secret to launch a line of mastectomy bras.
And it just may have worked.
Back in April, we told you about 14-year-old Julia Bluhm, who started a petition on Change.org urging teen glossy Seventeen to post one unaltered “real” photo spread per month, with the hopes it would help girls feel better about their bodies. At the time, the petition had collected a respectable 7,000 signatures; now it’s close to 85,000 and Bluhm, along with an organization called SPARK, staged a demonstration outside Seventeen‘s New York offices, launched a Twitter campaign, and met with Seventeen EIC Anne Shoket, who, as we’ve learned from Ad Week, has finally responded to Bluhm’s request.
The August issue of Seventeen features a page dedicated to the new “Body Peace Treaty.” Here are the most relevant “vows:”
