Slick Woods, the 23-year-old model famous for her gap-tooth smile and slick, bald head, is getting candid with her fans about the realities of going through cancer treatment. Bottom line, she “hates [that] bullshit.”
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Legs numb left hand still numb I hate this bullshit and the London gave me a wheelchair
The model’s many famous friends were quick to comment on the post to show Woods some love.
“We LOVE YOU !!!!!!! And I got your Ugg’s. My mom FaceTime me the package … I’m wearing them when I get to NY!,” rapper Cardi B commented.
“Praying for you,” wrote fellow model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez.
Woods confirmed that she was going through chemotherapy in a Nov. 19 Instagram post, with a photo of herself sticking out her tongue with the caption, “How I feel about chemotherapy, shout out to everyone that gotta go through it #atleastimalreadybald.”
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How I feel about chemotherapy, shout out to everyone that gotta go through it #atleastimalreadybald
Woods, who has more than 900,000 followers on Instagram, received nearly 4,000 comments with prayers and support.
Throughout her cancer journey, Woods has remained mum about the specifics of her disease and her treatment. We do know that she is undergoing chemotherapy and that she’s experiencing some of the unfortunate side effects of the treatment. Woods, however, does not want anybody to use her situation as a reason to treat her like a victim.
Shortly after her initial post confirming she was in treatment, Woods posted a photo of her 1-year-old son, Saphir, giving an adorable side-eye stare, with the caption, “Stop treating me like a victim.”
The next day, she took to Instagram again to share a gorgeous model shot of herself, again including, “I thought I told y’all I’m not no victim,” in the caption.
The Cancer Victim Stigma
This sentiment — not wanting to be victimized or have people feel bad for you — is one that many cancer survivors struggle with. In a previous interview with SurvivorNet, breast cancer survivor Tiffany Dyba explained that dealing with the stigma people have about cancer was a really difficult part of her personal journey.
For Dyba, one way to cope with this challenge was to share with her social media followers that even though she was technically sick, she didn’t feel bad, as everyone assumed. That’s why she began doing what she calls, “Hip-Hop Chemo.”
“It’s important for people to see that I’m OK,” Dyba told SurvivorNet. “Number one, because I am OK, and I think that there’s such a stigma around cancer, to where many people just think that I’m bald and sick and cowering in a corner and throwing up. I sort of want to bust through those stereotypes and that stigma and say, ‘I’m out here dancing because I feel good.'”
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