Model Elizabeth Loaiza Diagnosed With Cancer

Story By: Lisa-Maria Goertz, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Newsflash

Stunning Colombian model Elizabeth Loaiza Junca has shared with the world her battle with cancer at the age of 31.

Loaiza is a former beauty pageant winner, helicopter pilot and one of Colombia’s most well-known models with 1.9 million followers on Instagram.

The stunning beauty, who began modelling at just four years old, recently posted to her fans on social media telling them she has cancer and that she will soon start chemotherapy.

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She said: “One day you’re fine, and the next you have cancer. One could never imagine that after leading a healthy life, exercising, eating well and being a good person, something like this would happen to you. You talk to your family on the phone and nobody believes you, or at least they say: ‘Nooo, it is not possible, you are a healthy woman’. Obviously, for them it is also difficult to hear this.”

According to national newspaper HSB, Loaiza had recently been pregnant with her current partner but the foetus did not form properly and it was necessary to perform a curettage.

Loaiza shared a video on her Instagram account explaining how she went to the doctor 15 days later and when examining her they found a lot of extra tissue growing in her uterus and it turned out to be cancer.

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Now the model faces a new challenge and after her visit with the oncologist, she shared what her treatment for the disease will be like.

It has been a tough year for the model who also suffered from health problems after having an adverse reaction to a biopolymer injection into her bum and she had to have surgery to remove the substance from her body.

However, the model told her followers she is feeling calm and surrounded by love.

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