Living With Cystic Fibrosis14 Feb 2022

CF Mom and Plus Size QVC model Rebekah Farley talks CF

Rebekah Farley is someone you may know from Instagram or the QVC channel where she is a Plus size model. Rebekah and her husband Craig,have a 6 year old daughter Madelynn with cystic fibrosis and a son Craig junior who does not have CF. CF Mom’s connect instantly, as we did. She lives inWest Chester Pennsylvania.

Rebekah Farley aspires to be a voice over artist and published author.

In 6 short years Rebekah has already used her voice to educate, fundraise and get involved in community service. She is currently active, as well as being one of the two founding members on her local hospital’s pediatric cystic fibrosis parent advisory board.

Links:

Rebekah blog: www.jauntywithasideofdoubt.com

Rebekah Farley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebekah_plusmodel/

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The original music in this podcast is performed by Kevin Allan, who happens to have Cystic Fibrosis. You can find him on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/KevinAllanMusic

This podcast was produced by JAG in Detroit Podcasts. https://jagindetroit.com/

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