Cancer Inspires Rosemont Mom to Start Bra Business
Kara Gorski co-founded Alexandria-based business braGGs after coping with issues stemming from cancer.
So one day you’re walking into Disney’s Animal Kingdom with your family when you get a call. The news is so disturbing you hand the phone to your husband. It is August 2010, you have just turned 35 and discovered you have breast cancer. You are Kara Gorski. The call was heartbreaking on so many levels, but it also made Gorski think of her mother, who died of breast cancer at 39, when Gorski was seven and her sister, Kristin, was 12. When Gorski was diagnosed, both sisters discovered they carried the genetic mutation for breast cancer – BRCA1, which carries a 90 percent chance of developing breast cancer, a 20 percent chance of developing a second round of breast cancer and a 50 percent chance of developing ovarian cancer. Combined, they …
Kara Gorski
10:22 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012
Hi Abby! Thank you for your note! As I told Emily, we will have bras Sunday to test this week! I would love your help testing them! Please email me at kara@braGGsonline.com to coordinate! Can't wait to meet such a STRONG woman who has been through a lot at such a young age. All the best, Kara. more ›