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June Kenton: Lingerie tycoon’s breast cancer fight
When it comes to breasts, June Kenton is something of an expert. She should be – she has spent the last four decades fitting bras for thousands of women. Kenton, 72, set up Rigby & Peller, in 1970 and since then it has become corsetieres to the Queen, and the go-to brand for women of all ages in search of a brassiere. And because of her business, Kenton has always been keen to promote breast cancer awareness, at one point hanging “Be Breast Aware” swing tags on a million of her products. It’s an entreaty that she follows religiously, with yearly medical checks that began when she discovered a lump in one of breasts, then the other, in 1972.
“They were totally benign, but from that moment on, I decided that I was going to sort myself out and see someone every year,” she says. And it’s thanks to this hands-on approach to her health that Kenton is now in recovery from the grade three cancer that her doctor discovered last November.
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