MIAMI -- Six breast cancer survivors were featured in a fashion show benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Ever After Boutique hosted the Passionately Pink for the Cure event, which featured the women who were selected from 100 applicants.

"I was single, 36 years old, but my life was more important than anything else, so I took both breasts off," said Barbara Glenn, a survivor for 28 years.

"I'm 35 years old. I've been a survivor for two years, even though this is my second bout with breast cancer," Carla Hill said.

For 56-year-old Judy Celender, her battle started in 1995.

"It took a total of 15 surgeries, including the mastectomy," Celender said. "It was a long journey. I had four months of chemo and it will be three years this December that I'm clean this time."

After enduring chemo and radiation, 48-year-old Susan Cassone described breast cancer as a mixed blessing.

"The worst goes without saying, but the best is that it has changed my whole perception, and I'm really a much happier person for it," she said.

Thirteen months after her mastectomy, Carla Genender got pregnant.

"When I wasn't supposed to be able to. My daughter is now 21 and calls herself a vicarious survivor," Genender said.

Sarah Hoag, 36, has been a survivor for seven years.

"My daughter was only three months old when I found a lump, so I thought, 'Let me check it out, just in case.' Good thing, because there were two more where that came from," Hoag said.

The women donned pink dresses and strutted down the runway for a packed house, which gave them a standing ovation.

"I feel that we really needed to have a component that celebrated the women who've been through this disease and share their stories as an inspiration to others," said Camille Thiry Russler of Ever After.

The women said they were happy to participate.

"This is the first time I've ever been in a formal gown," Celender said. "It's absolutely beautiful. I feel like a princess."

"This is a way to applaud everything I went through, because I never really did that for myself," Cassone said.

"And to show people, 'Hey, this is what being a survivor looks like,'" Hoag said.

"I'm just happy to be alive," Hill said.