'Real Housewife' Gets Naked for Cancer, Offends Everyone. Can We Stop Raising Awareness Nude Now?

Photo by: Ben Riggott/Cosmopolitan

When UK Cosmo launched another campaign in September, this time for breast cancer awareness, Mel B. and her husband jumped at the chance to help. Here's how: She took off her shirt and wore a bra made out of man-hands. Brave, right? Not so much, according to Angela Epstein, a woman who watched her mother and her sisters struggle with the illness. "There could hardly be a less appropriate way to publicize this ... more 

Photo by: Ben Riggott/Cosmopolitan

When UK Cosmo launched another campaign in September, this time for breast cancer awareness, Mel B. and her husband jumped at the chance to help. Here's how: She took off her shirt and wore a bra made out of man-hands. Brave, right? Not so much, according to Angela Epstein, a woman who watched her mother and her sisters struggle with the illness. "There could hardly be a less appropriate way to publicize this issue," Epstein wrote in an essay published in the Daily Mail. "Do Mel B and her advisers have any idea how it might feel for a woman who has lost her breasts to look at the singer's surgically boosted cleavage being manhandled in the name of breast cancer self-awareness?" Crickets.
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