Jael Strauss who competed in the eighth cycle of the popular reality series “America’s Next Top Model”, has lost her battle to breast cancer at the age of 34 on Tuesday morning.
The contestant who competed in 2017, had announced her diagnosis to her fans just two months earlier with a heartbreaking Facebook post where she mentioned about being diagnosed with “incurable” stage 4 breast cancer.
“Today we lost our earth angel and she is back in the spirit world from which she came and we know she will be watching over all of us’, a post from Jael’s official GoFundMe page ( was set up to help her medical costs read. “She will dance at how we celebrate her life by spreading the love that she lived by daily with a reckless abandon.”
Back in October this year, while giving the news of her being diagnosed with incurable stage four breast cancer, he wrote a message for her fans.
“It has aggressively spread throughout my body and is incurable. With treatment it may prolong my life longer than the ‘few months’ doctors said I could make it.” “I don’t want to die, “I need another one of those miracles that I got back in 2013.”
Strauss revealed weeks later that she decided to stop chemotherapy, and went into hospice on Thanksgiving.
“So many things I never knew about life,” she posted on Facebook at the time. “Or death. So many things.”
Strauss also fell on hard times after appearing on the reality TV show, which has launched successful models like Yaya DaCosta and Winnie Harlow. On a 2012 episode of “Dr. Phil,” Strauss revealed she was battling an addiction to methamphetamine.
“The one blessing was that we were able to show her how loved she was before she passed,” the family said in a statement to the funding website. “She brought so much light to people.”
> Shatabdi Sarker Poushi
‘America’s Next Top Model’ Alum Jael Strauss Dies From Breast Cancer at 34
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