A trailblazing Saskatchewan-born model and body positivity advocate, who documented a long struggle with ovarian cancer on social media, has died from the disease at just 30 years old.
Published Sunday, March 3, 2019 9:53PM EST
Born Ashley Luther, she took on the name Elly Mayday, and moved to British Columbia where she often appeared in modelling campaigns for the local Forever Yours Lingerie shop.Before her cancer diagnosis five years ago, she began appearing in a documentary about the challenges she faced while launching a modelling career as a plus-size model.
Mayday was committed to showing all sides of cancer and agreed to continue filming the documentary even after her diagnosis. Mayday did not shy away from the illness on social media either. She frequently shared photos of herself posing in lingerie with surgery scars and a bald head with her more than 90,000Mayday, who underwent chemotherapy and also had a hysterectomy in an attempt to treat her ovarian cancer, was initially misdiagnosed.
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