Speaker

Kris Hallenga

Founder of Coppafeel Charity

“Take it from someone who has done a lot... sometimes the beauty and the fun is in the more simple things. It's the little things that count.”

Kristin Hallenga received public attention after being profiled in Kris: Dying to Live, a documentary that covered her experience living with terminal breast cancer.

Driven by the difficult experience, she turned her shock and anger into pure energy, immediately making it her full–time mission to encourage her friends, her generation, and young people everywhere to keep hold of their wonderful, carefree lives by getting to know their boobs.

Together with her sister Maren, she founded CoppaFeel!, the award-winning charity that has become a household name while reminding over 100,000 people a month to check their boobs.

In 2009, she won a Pride of Britain Award.

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Live A Life That You Love
Kris HallengaSocial change
What happens at 23? Well, if you’re lucky, seeing a bit of the world, brunching with mates and a whole load of carefree fun. And if you’re less lucky? Cancer. Kris Hallenga is a truly remarkable woman. Shocked by a stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis a...

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