A former Victoria’s Secret model who quit her job to pursue her Christian faith has revealed she is battling an unexpected stage 4 cancer and is asking friends and fans for prayers.

Listen to them in the latest episode of Quick Start

“Please pray for me and for me,” Nicole Weider wrote in an Instagram post during Thanksgiving week. “I noticed a large lump had grown under my left breast (I ignored it for a while), but today when I felt it was enlarged I knew I needed to see a doctor immediately.”

Weider said she assumed the lump was “just a cyst or a piece of fatty tissue,” but her doctors were concerned and sent her for a CT scan before a radiologist quickly confirmed she had breast cancer.

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The former model also revealed that the cancer had spread to other areas of her body.

“Since it has spread to more than three places, the oncologist told me I have stage 4,” Weider said in a separate post on Monday. “I had a biopsy today of the mass in my liver that has spread.”

She said her doctor told her that younger people tend to get more aggressive forms of cancer because it is less common.

Despite the negative news, Weider said her faith remains undeterred.

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“I stay positive and always trust God,” she said. “Thank you for your prayers; I feel them.”

As CBN Digital previously reported, Weider made headlines after quitting her modeling job to focus on her faith.

“I realized that being a model is really not what you imagine it to be,” she told CBN. “I felt humiliated because I was never ‘perfect’ enough, and being judged based solely on my looks damaged my self-esteem.”

She continued: “I realized I wanted more for my life. I rediscovered the faith I had as a little girl and it changed my life because I was passionate about using my gifts for God rather than the empty modeling industry.”

Read more of her comments here and be sure to pray for Weider and her family as they battle cancer.