Jael Strauss Dies: 'America's Next Top Model' Contestant Who Shared Cancer Diagnosis Was 34

Jael Strauss, the America’s Next Top Model season 8 contestant who announced her cancer diagnosis in October and shared her short battle with the disease on Facebook, died this morning in Austin, Texas. She was 34. A Go Fund Me page started by Strauss’ partner and friends last month to help defray her medical expenses confirmed her death this evening. “Today we lost our earth angel and she is back in the spirit world from which she came and we know she will be watching…