GAZELLE MAGAZINE October Health Issue. | Page 94

HEALTH & WELLNESS Paying It Forward After Cancer   P ink Perfect founder, Michelle Kolath-Arbel, is a breast cancer survivor who had a one-sided mastectomy followed by reconstructive surgery.  Though she had a new breast, her original nipple had been removed, and she said she felt incomplete. “After three operations, I looked at myself in the mirror, and I was not satisfied,” Kolath-Arbel said. “My breast had been replaced, but something was missing: the topping on the cake.”  Determined to pay it forward so that other breast cancer survivors would never feel the way she did, Kolath-Arbel started Pink Perfect, a company that produces  realistic, custom-made and ready-made adhesive silicone nipples for women who have undergone unilateral or bilateral mastectomies. Visit pink-perfect.com for more information, and to learn more about Kolath-Arbel’s personal experience. 92 GAZELLE STL