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This woman 'quit her life' to go travelling, and now her story is inspiring the internet
MEET CLAIRA HERMET.
In January 2015, Hermet made headlines when she spoke out about getting a preventative double mastectomy.
Hermet elected for the surgery having lost both her mother and older sister to breast cancer, and discovering that she was a carrier of the BRCA1 gene mutation.
Ahead of her surgery, the television presenter held a Goodbye Boobs party and bid farewell to her breasts.
One year later and Hermet is now travelling around the world solo having sold her belongings and moved out of her flat.
Hermet wrote on her blog that the surgery and the deaths of her mother and sister sparked a “a need, a want and a desire” to go travelling. That’s when My Life Your Hands was born.
You see, Hermet is not just travelling the world — she’s actually letting people on the internet decide what she does and where she goes.
And so far it’s working out pretty well.
She’s been to Rio.
She’s attended a carnival in Trinidad.
Hiked volcanoes in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
And, of course, freed the nipple on top of a Brazilian mountain.
You could say she’s living the dream.
She’s described the whole thing as a “rollercoaster of laughter, tears, excitement, fear, friendship and love,” and she’s still got six months left to go.
Up next for her is Argentina.
We aren’t jealous at all.
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