Pregnancy is often difficult, but pregnancy combined with cancer treatment is devastating. Then-24-year-old Latvian-born Canadian model Elizaveta Bulokhova was faced with this situation in 2014. While vacationing in Amsterdam with her husband, Roman Troubetskoi, what Bulokhova thought was a toothache turned out to be bone cancer. The doctors told her the photo model would need to have an abortion before chemotherapy.
“He was very active and I would talk to him often while he was in my womb,” Bulokhova told Vice of her then-unborn son. “I had to tell my baby boy to stop moving because I couldn’t keep him and then all of a sudden he did. He listened; he stopped moving.” In another interview with Daily Mail, she added, “I just told myself whatever the universe has in store for me I will accept it. If my baby is meant to be born, he will be born.”
Luckily, various delays presented the cancer patient with an unexpected third option: the possibility of a Caesarian section. After consulting with doctors, baby Valentin was safely delivered 10 weeks early. Bulokhova had 95% of her jaw removed, underwent chemotherapy, and is now recovering. The brave cancer survivor recently modeled for a Vice article that told her story. You can support cancer research and prevention through the Canadian Cancer Society.
More info: Canadian Cancer Society | nvi.lt | manolostudios.com | Instagram (h/t: aplus , vice )
Model Elizaveta Bulokhova was suddenly diagnosed with jaw cancer when she was 24
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The doctors told her that she would need surgery to remove the infected bone
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She would also have to undergo chemotherapy
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Bulokhova had gotten pregnant with husband Roman Troubetskoi, and the doctors recommended an abortion
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“He was very active and I would talk to him often while he was in my womb”
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“I had to tell him to stop moving because I couldn’t keep him and then all of a sudden he did. He listened; he stopped moving”
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At the last minute, through a miracle, Bulokhova was given the option of having a c-section
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Her son Valentin was safely born 10 weeks early
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“I just told myself whatever the universe has in store for me I will accept it”
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“If my baby is meant to be born, he will be born”
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This photo-shoot is from her most recent modelling session
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