To raise awareness about breast cancer risk is not that easy to do. The task is difficult as the battle is fought against financial problems, lack of information, poor medical resources, and so on. Despite all the problems international and national campaigns are organized every year by people who are not afraid to start the battle. Some of the projects are more than efficient and lives of thousands and even millions are touched.

The Beautiful Women Project was initiated by Nancy Bruno. The project is nothing more and nothing less than a collection of biographies and photographs of women from all around the world. The photo exhibition gathers 35 pieces of women’s life. The big picture wants to underline what really makes a woman beautiful. Beauty comes from small or big gestures; the exhibition brings them all together.


It is not a coincidence that the project was launched on the same month that breast cancer awareness is celebrated around the world, October. The event took place in Saratoga Springs, New York in 2006. Nancy Bruno decided to make a link between these two dates as a way of reaching thousands of people and making a difference.

According to her every October women are reminded how dangerous this cancer is but in the same time as easy it can be detected. It’s not that big a deal: a simple, minor self examination of the breasts. This preventive measure is the best way to gain some time in this fight. In general women are scared of all the aging sign on their body: the breast that start to sack, arm skin that just hangs, sun spots on the décolletage, childbirth consequences, and the list goes on. The exhibition seeks to underline that beauty stands in every woman no matter age, profile, etc. Life experience gives a certain glow that makes a woman beautiful.

Every woman is beautiful and every beautiful woman risks breast cancer. That is why self breast examination is by far on the must do list. A good start is to look at your body and, instead of feeling disappointed, unpleased make a list of what you do like. This is one of the reasons many women prefer not to go through with an examination: the fear of looking at their naked body in the mirror. As odd it may sound it is not fiction, it is a true fact about thousands of women. It is important to feel comfortable with your body. A good, positive attitude and a bit of information lead to a healthy life.


All these projects are genuinely sincere. There is no hidden agenda, no hidden intentions than the ones declared. The Beautiful Women Project’s intention is to demonstrate that every woman is beautiful while in October organizations try to increase (at least!) the number of breast self examination as early diagnosis saves lives.  These two combined give: every beautiful woman risks breast cancer in consequence don’t neglect a simple examination!