- Louise Butcher, 50, from Devon is doing the London マラソン TOPLESS
- READ MORE: Breast 癌 生存者 who had a 二塁打 mastectomy now runs topless to show she's 'proud' of her new 団体／死体 - and even took on a マラソン 6 weeks after life-saving 操作／手術
A mother who had a mastectomy is 始める，決める to become the first woman to run the London マラソン topless.
Louise Butcher, 50, often jogs around Braunton, Devon, with her 最高の，を越す half 暴露するd to raise 認識／意識性 of breast 癌 and 治療 for the illness after she had flat 終結 外科 in 2022.?
The charity 労働者 even 完全にするd a 事実上の London マラソン last year but now?she's 始める，決める to run the real thing today.
Running without a 最高の，を越す on has become 'the norm' for Louise and she 計画（する）s to run the entire 26.2 mile 大勝する around the UK 資本／首都 without a t-shirt, come rain or 向こうずね, in a 企て，努力，提案 to de-stigmatise her 団体／死体.
Having 以前 worked in the music 産業, Louise 設立する her self-価値（がある） was 扶養家族 on her 外見, but since?her mastectomy, she 努力する／競うs to challenge this beauty 基準.
Louise Butcher, 50, often runs around topless in her Devon village to 減ずる the stigma around breast 癌 生存者s' 団体／死体s. This week she's gearing up to do the London マラソン
The mother-of-two had a mastectomy in 2022 after 存在 診断するd with lobular breast 癌 in April 2022
She said: 'I'm so excited - I can't imagine it.?I keep looking at ビデオs of the day from previous years online.
'I'm just thinking about the atmosphere - I never thought I'd get there.
'The topless thing for me now is normal; it's not even crossed my mind, not in the slightest.
'I've ran every run topless for a year. I'm not going to be thinking about that whilst I'm running - it's my norm.
'I feel much stronger and better for this マラソン than the others.
'I did my 20.5 mile run on Monday and it was amazing and I felt like I could have carried on.
'I'm still getting messages from women that it makes them feel better. I know it's the 権利 thing to do'.
Louise was 診断するd with lobular breast 癌 in April 2022.
Louise 設立する a lump in her breast by checking for them herself and the diagnosis was later 確認するd by an ultrasound
Louise 以前 完全にするd a 事実上の London マラソン
She 設立する a lump in her breast by checking herself and the diagnosis was 確認するd by an ultrasound.
Louise 辞退するd to let the diagnosis or 放射線療法 治療 stop her from running and hopes to 完全にする her 最新の challenge in under five hours.
She said: 'I'm 目的（とする）ing for four hours 46 minutes but with my training, I think I'll be able to do it 4 hour 30 - but you never know what will happen.
'It's amazing - there's so much 認識／意識性 around flat 終結 外科 and the whole 面 of women not having to have stuff put 支援する.
'I don't think there's a better way to do it than running topless.?With the Breast 癌 Now team, there's 250 of us running.
'I've done so much training in the 冷淡な and wet so if it's raining I'm used to it without the 最高の，を越す.'
The London マラソン starts in Blackheath and passes through many of London's famous 目印s.
On her 推論する／理由ing for wanting to run topless, Louise said: 'It was so dark in 2022 with the 癌, running topless didn't feel 勇敢に立ち向かう, I felt like I needed to do it.
The parent has been putting in the hard work to train for the 悪名高くも strenuous マラソン
'When I first did it, it wasn't 堅い, it just felt a bit weird but now I don't blink an 注目する，もくろむ - it's who I am now.
'I was running once or twice a week before the diagnosis, but six months before I was 診断するd I started training for the 事実上の マラソン and since then I 港／避難所't stopped.
'It's just things about 奮起させるing women to have 団体／死体 positivity - even women who 港／避難所't had breast 癌. We don't have to feel shame.
'A lot of women who have 再建 do so as they feel like they want to fit into society and some of them 悔いる it and 結局最後にはーなる going flat anyway.
'It's opened up the argument and the perception of what society looks at breasts as'.
You can support Louise's fundraiser here.
