Former Victoria’s Secret Model Praises God During Cancer Treatment
By Movieguide® Contributor
Nicole Weider can see the light at the end of the tunnel for her battle with breast cancer. Although the cancer is gone, she is finishing up the last bit of her treatment. She shared the news in a post to her Instagram.
“As of today I only have 6 radiation sessions to go PRAISE GOD!” she began. “Going through it has been one of the hardest things I have ever gone through. I had to do 33 total. We are going to Puerto Rico next month and it’s a much-needed vacation for me and our family! I cannot wait.”
Weider was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer back in November 2023. First thought to be fast progressing triple-negative breast cancer, the former model learned she had been misdiagnosed and had a type with a better prognosis. Through her battle, she had relied on God and His strength.
She continued, “Fighting breast cancer has made me a much stronger woman and while I will never understand the full reasons why it happened to me, I can already see how God has been using my struggles to refine and mold me and help some others. I know I haven’t posted as much as I used to in the past but it’s because I’ve been in the thick of the trial, but I’m coming back baby!! No weapon formed against me will prosper because I have Jesus’ Holy blood as a sacrifice in me and I love him with all my heart, mind and soul. ??”
She concluded her post by thanking her followers for their hope and encouragement.
“Thank you for your kind words and prayers it means so much to me! ❤️Ephesians 3:20,” she said.
Ephesians 3:20 reads, “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
Weider rose to fame as a Victoria’s Secret and Maxim model.
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At an early age, Weider started modeling swimsuits and lingerie for brands such as Victoria’s Secret. However, as her career took off, Weider felt like her dignity was being stolen.
“My agent, she was booking me for lingerie work and swimsuit catalogs, and on set, I thought it would be some glamorous experience where I was having fun and I was so excited to book these jobs, but then when I was on set wearing just a bra and underwear, I felt completely humiliated and degraded,” Weider said. “Here I was on set with all of these guys and all of these people fixing my bra and my underwear, and it made me feel really ashamed of myself.”
During a shoot for Maxim magazine, Weider knew that she had to leave the industry. But upon leaving, Weider said that she had nowhere to turn.
“I didn’t grow up in a Christian home. I didn’t really have a concept of who God was, I didn’t have God in my life at all,” she continued. “So I was making my choices based on what I wanted in the world and what I thought was important for myself and I placed my identity in being a model. When I decided I didn’t want that anymore I was kind of left thinking, ‘What am I supposed to do now’”
However, a 23-year-old Weider gave her life to Christ, and the trajectory of her career and purpose changed forever.
“I gave my life to Christ when I was 23, and it was the best decision I ever made,” Weider said. “After I gave my life to God I felt a renewed sense of hope, and I felt like my dignity was back in my heart. I started journaling about my love for God and my experiences in the modeling industry, and pretty soon after I gave my life to God, He put in my heart a desire to create a website for teenage girls to share pieces of my testimony on there and to be a light to girls and to warn them about the dangers of the Hollywood industry and about the modeling industry.”
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