Mama Cax, a Haitian-American model and champion for individuals with disabilities, is the subject of today's Doodle.
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Mama Cax, who died in 2019 at the age of 30, questioned the fashion industry's beauty standard.
Google's doodle today honors the loss of Mama Cax, a model from the United States of Haitian descent and advocate for persons with disabilities.
Mama Cax, who died in 2019 at the age of 30, broke the fashion industry's beauty standard by openly showing off her prosthetic limb on the runway.
Mama Cax, actual name Cacsmy Brutus, was diagnosed with bone and lung cancer when she was 14 years old.
Two years later, her hip replacement surgery failed, resulting in the amputation of her right leg. She later remarked that regaining her confidence took her several years.
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Mama Cax was invited to the White House on September 15, 2016, to take part in a fashion exhibition organized by Barack and Michelle Obama. She was finishing her education while working in the mayor's office in New York.
Mama Cax debuted in her first ad in 2017 and quickly earned a deal with a modeling agency in New York.
Mama Cax died on December 16, 2019, at the age of 30, in a London hospital from cancer complications.