A stunning paralegal will be hiding a powerful secret when she takes to the stage at the finals of Miss Universe GB in July. Her long shining locks will be a wig hiding a bald head caused by chemotherapy treatment for blood cancer.
Hoping to represent Great Britain at Miss Universe in December, Anglee Kumar, 27, entered to show other people enduring illness and hardship that anything is possible, after being diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in September 2021. She was diagnosed, after complaining for months of chest tightness and heart palpitations.
After six gruelling rounds of chemotherapy, Anglee lost all her beautiful waist-length brown hair. She said: "I want people to know they can get through anything.