A powerful fashion statement
Published in The Australian Jewish News
March 24, 2020
Photo: Georges Antoni.
Camilla Freeman-Topper vividly remembers sitting down together with her family for a meal before sunset on Erev Yom Kippur.
“Our family unit was always celebrated,” she tells The AJN.
“[My mother] cherished her faith and was an observant Jewish woman, so much so, she kept a kosher home.”
It is a treasured memory. Camilla was just 11 and her brother Marc was 13 when they lost their mother Pam to ovarian cancer. Now, 26 years later, they are doing all that they can to ensure that no one else experiences the “pain like no other”.
Earlier this month ahead of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival, the duo launched the groundbreaking “Ovaries. Talk about them” campaign, with the aim of raising much needed awareness and funds towards ovarian cancer prevention.