(单词翻译:单击)
"I told myself going into the locker room, 'Melanie, when you had breasts you would not have been modest.
“进更衣室的时候我就在心里对自己说，‘梅兰妮，有胸你就不会这么谦虚了。
You would not be covering yourself up to any greater degree.
有胸你也不会把自己包裹得更严实。
So this is what you will do. Now.'"
这就是你要做的事，现在就做。’”
"When the doctor told me, 'I'm sorry to say you have breast cancer,' I just went blank."
“医生告诉我，‘很抱歉，你得了乳腺癌’的时候，当时我直接就懵了。”
"I was diagnosed needing a single mastectomy of my right breast.
“诊断结果是，我的右胸需要做乳房切除手术。
I knew from the start that I wasn't interested in reconstruction.
从一开始我就知道，我对修复不感兴趣。
Symmetry is important to me.
对称对我来说是很重要的。
As an individual, It's my breasts or nothing.
作为一个个体，我要么就两个胸，要么就一个都不要。
Shopping for that bathing suit.
去买那件泳衣的时候，
That was hard.
心里真的挺不好受的。
You know, I have 17 inches of scar on my chest.
你知道的，我胸口留下了17英寸（约43厘米）的疤。
My skin doesn't move the way it used to.
我的皮肤已经不会像从前那样舒张和收缩了。
And it needs stretching.
但我需要它维持舒张。
Doing it in the water just feels better than anything else anywhere else."
在水下舒张比在其他任何地方都要舒服。”
"When I made this decision, I told myself, 'Just embrace this. Be it. Be all of it.'
“做这个决定的时候，我就告诉自己，‘来就来吧。认了。全都认了。’
I've posed for a few different projects.
我接过好几个活动的模特工作了。
The Grace Project.
格蕾丝计划。
I've posed for Play Out Underwear.
Play Out内衣广告什么的。
These projects, they're great for me.
我觉得这些活动都很棒。
There's an aspect of being able to see myself.
因为我能从中看到真实的我。
I'm not defined by my breasts, or my lack of breasts.
定义我的不是我的胸部，也不是我没有胸。
Visual representation for this body type is very important so that no women feel like they need to hide."
代表无胸体型的视觉呈现很重要，这样，女性才会觉得，没有胸也没什么好遮遮掩掩的。”
