Sydneysider Paulina Morgan was pregnant with her second child when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32.
"It was scary," said Morgan, who is now 41. "It just wasn't about me, it was about trying to survive as a mother for my children."
Morgan went to her close friend David Jay, an experienced fashion and beauty photographer based in New York who once dated her identical twin many years ago, and told him the terrible news.