About Kimberly H. Coleman
Purpose in Every Scar
I'm Kimberly H. Coleman,
a colorectal cancer survivor, ostomate, and speaker who has spent a decade proving that visibility is the advocacy.
In 2015, at 47, I was diagnosed with Stage 2 colorectal cancer. A few months after, I was given a temporary ostomy I named Toodles. I chose to keep it permanently.
What began as learning to live in a body transformed by surgery and time, became a platform. Faith carried me through the part no-one saw. Showing up in public is what I've done with it; in front of legislators, on runways, stages, and alongside the patients and families this disease touches.
In the past two years, I competed for Miss Texas USA at 56, served as Honorary Observer for the Cologuard Classic, advocated on Capitol Hill for colorectal cancer and ostomy legislation, and skydived from 14,000 feet with my husband of 26 years for my 57th birthday.
Every room that sees Toodles is a room that can't look away from the 158,850 Americans who will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer this year, or from the roughly 100,000 who will have ostomy surgery. Nearly a million of us are living with one right now.
That's the work. If your mission aligns with mine, I'd be honored to connect.
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