13-year-old Talia Castellano was diagnosed with cancer at age 7, but hasn’t let her diagnosis stop her from living a life that people triple her age have yet to live. She decided to put her love for makeup to good use and began her own YouTube channel where she gained a huge following of supporters, including Ellen DeGeneres.
The ever-popular talk show host decided to have Talia on her show to share her story with the world. Of course, being on Ellen, one never goes away empty-handed.
Ellen got in touch with the people from CoverGirl, as she is a spokeswoman for the brand, and gave Talia the news that they wanted her to be an honorary CoverGirl with her own cover.
That was not the last of the surprises though. Talia also got the chance to attend the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada where she got to mingle with and interview Ryan Seascrest, Demi Lovato, Gwen Stefani and Usher.
Even though Talia is in and out of the hospital receiving many treatments for her illness, she continues to post videos for her fans and viewers from her hospital bed.
She has a spirit that stretches far and wide when most people would have given up. We wish Talia the best of luck and a clean bill of health!
Here is a link to Talia’s YouTube channel. WARNING: Her videos are addicting and your jaw will drop when you hear how well spoken and mature this 13-year-old girl is.
http://www.youtube.com/user/taliajoy18
What do you think of Talia’s story?
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Good for her! I’ve watched her videos for quite some time now and I’m happy to hear this!
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It’s awesome that despite her struggles in life, she puts positivity into the world. She’s also very pretty, I love her eyes they’re gorgeous!
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She is definitely an awesome little girl with a great sense of style. I need that sweater for my weekend wardrobe. That picture of her and Usher is adorable.
magnolia / 1027 posts
She’s a little cutie patootie!
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Wow she is really pretty
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She has an attitude on the Ellen show. “what do you want me to do? Be depressed?! A fish told me to just keep swimming , etc.” it was quite annoying. I applaude her for her success and over coming cancer but she’s in her preteens acting a bit sassy.
cherry blossom / 28 posts
She looks like the child Talia al Ghul from the Dark Knight Rises. Or is it just that thing where all bald people look alike?
daisy / 647 posts
I love Talia! I’ve been following her YouTube and Facebook for months. She is such an inspiration!
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i love that blue star sweater she has on in her meeting with usher
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@iKEEPiTCLEAN@xanga - really? I thought the ‘just keep swimming’ reference was cute (after all, Ellen did voice the character that said that in Finding Nemo’…) I don’t know how on earth you could call her a prissy teenager. You seriously need to meet the average teen nowadays. haha
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D’wah
Such a pure soul
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She view to my school she is so nice I live in orlando florida she view to taskawilla middle school
sunflower / 338 posts
Wonderful
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It’s amazing the horrible things people say to this girl on her Youtube channel. Clearly she does not let it get her down.
She really is inspirational. If I were diagnosed with such a disease the first thing I would do is regret all of the time I’ve wasted and how self-destructive I’ve been. She’s been dealing with this most of her young life and appears to have lived in a way that she would not regret
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Ohhhh, fuck off.
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@iKEEPiTCLEAN@xanga - how was that sassy?