Everyday model
Vicky Phelan
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Faces of women from beyond the headlines include (left) this “everyday model” of lingerie. She is part of industry changes to conform fashion to the needs of the people who wear it. The CBC report seems to get lost in bad-mouthing Victoria’s Secret but otherwise is quite informative. At centre is Limerick’s Vicky Phelan, a woman badly betrayed when a 2011 cervical test was reported to be negative for cancer. It wasn’t. Now she is facing a premature death. Really appalling. And at the right is Lyudmila Alexeyeva. The resilient defender of human rights has died at 91 after spending decades fighting the excesses of both Marxist tyranny and Russian autocracy.
