We’re proud of our mastectomy scars – 8 brave readers dare to bare their post-cancer bods

THESE women wear the scars across their chests with pride.

It shows the world they are fighters taking on breast cancer.

To mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month, they agreed to be appear topless. Our inspiring eight are also baring their chests in support of Twitter’s Show Your Scar campaign for breast cancer.

It began in response to M&S’s #showyourstrap campaign, which critics branded insensitive to women who’d had mastectomies and could not wear bras. The campaign encouraged them to post snaps of their scars instead.

Read Kris Hallenga’s column here

Now BBC journalist Victoria Derbyshire has released an online video diary filmed at her hospital bed hours after her operation.

“Having a mastectomy is totally do-able,” she says. “I didn’t know that until I got cancer and that’s what I want to tell people.”