Clare Bowen has gone pixie for a princess.

It takes a lot of courage to chop off all of your hair, but it takes even more courage to face cancer head on.

Inspired by a little girl who said she couldn't be a princess because she didn't have long hair, Nashville's Clare Bowen recently debuted a short look. According to her Facebook, she wanted to encourage others to look beyond the physical when meeting others.

"I wanted her, and others like her, to know that's not what makes a princess, or a warrior, or a superhero. It's not what makes you beautiful either. It's your insides that count…even if you happen to be missing half of them."

Bowen went on to explain that she was diagnosed with end-stage nephroblastoma, which is a cancer of the kidney that accounts for 95 percent of kidney and renal cancers in children under the age of 14, according to the Children's Cancer Research Fund. While she battled the cancer, she was surrounded by children who, like her, were sick and undergoing chemotherapy.

"And then I got really lucky. I survived, my hair grew back and I got strong again. I look relatively normal on the outside, but on the inside, I am still the same stitched back together little creature, in a world where people are judged so harshly for the way they look."

 

 

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