Sexy Sylvie van der Vaart: Lingerie Model, WAG, Breast Cancer Survivor

During the month of October, for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we featured stories of celebrities who have fought breast cancer and won.  It’s November now, but there’s one more celeb we’d like to note: Sylvie van der Vaart.

Have you heard of Sylvie van der Vaart?  She’s better known in Europe than on this side of the Atlantic, but she’s worth learning about.   She’s a model and TV presenter, and is married to star footballer Rafael van der Vaart of Hamburger SV.  They’re often called the Netherlands’ most famous football couple; she’s often called Queen of the WAGs.

In 2009, Sylvie found a lump in her breast, and was diagnosed with breast cancer.  At the time, she said learning the news was devastating.

”For me, it was as if a bomb had gone off under our lives. Whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, young or old, cancer knows no boundaries.’All the luxuries in the world are no protection against that moment when you are told the diagnosis. Then you are just a woman.”

Her treatment included surgery and six months of preventive chemotherapy.  When she began losing her hair to the chemo, she had her head shaved and ordered a wig.  She wore her wig as a judge on Germany’s Got Talent.  But by the time she appeared on Let’s Dance, Germany’s version Dancing With The Stars, she had “a couple of inches of hair.” Encouraged by Rafael, she bravely decided to shed her wig, live, in the middle of a dance number.   She said:

“It was a new beginning. Every centimetre of hair was life for me.”

Sylvie’s cancer in remission, she returned to the catwalk earlier this year, modeling for Hunkemöller, an Amsterdam-based lingerie company.   She also does print work for them; take a look:

Lots more sexy photos like this after the jump!

Photos:  Patrick Hoffmann/WENN.com, Hunkemöller

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