Australian Story: June 3

With Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy making news, Monday’s Australian Story on well-known fashion PR and ex-Elle publisher, Lisa Poulos has ended up being very timely.

Confronted by surgeon sample snaps of women who had undergone surgery prior to experiencing it herself, Lisa decided to work with a photographer to document the journey and create some positive images for women in a similar position.

When Lisa Poulos stepped into a Melbourne taxi six years ago, she had no idea how her life was about to turn upside down.

To that point she appeared to her friends to be the woman who had everything.

But when her taxi was involved in a minor accident that day in Melbourne, it set off a dramatic series of events, eventually revealing a dark truth that nobody knew was there.

It gave Lisa Poulos the idea to turn her bad fortune into something positive.

As a prominent player in the fashion world, she decided to use her contacts to create a project which would help other women facing the same difficulties.

But first she had to get used to the idea of laying her life bare…

Introduced by actor Aaron Jeffery (Wentworth, Underbelly).

Monday, June 3 at 8pm on ABC1.