About Us
MEET BELLA'S FAMILY
As a family, we have experienced first-hand the unbearable pain caused by losing a child to
cancer. While we belong to a club that no one wants to be a part of, we continue to raise
awareness and offer emotional and
financial support to families affected by childhood cancer.
Live Like Bella® was founded in 2013 with the mission to help children with cancer maintain the
same love for life that Bella had. To “Live Like Bella” means to serve and help others. As Bella’s
family we will continue to honor her legacy by serving and helping children with cancer.
became a better place. Despite having
developmental delays from low oxygen at birth,
Bella was a healthy and happy baby.
becomes paralyzed and diagnosed with
Stage Four Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma.
We are heartbroken, but not hopeless.
From this point on, our lives changed forever.
daughter’s fight with pediatric cancer, pens the
bestselling novel “Why Not Me? A True Story
About a Miracle in Miami.” All of the proceeds
from the book are donated to childhood cancer
research.
collaborated with her mom Shannah and
organized a “Band-Aid Drive”. Over 3,000 fun,
colorful children’s band aids were donated by
“Bella Believers” and given to Miami Children’s
Hospital patient’s undergoing treatment.
Shannah encouraged the world to go out and
Live Like Bella in her honor.
were filled with sorrow, we knew we could not
rest in our mission to find a cure for childhood
cancer. The same evening Lebron James and
Dwayne Wade wrote #LiveLikeBella on their
shoes during the NBA play offs and the
#LiveLikeBella movement was ignited.
Cancer Foundation is founded in memory of Bella.
treatable disease, the state of Florida
created The Live Like Bella® Initiative which
grants $4.4 million dollars to fund research
exclusively for childhood cancer under the
leadership of Senate President Pro Team
Anitere Flores.
Program opens at Miami Cancer Institute in
alliance with Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Ascendant Insurance Solutions Live Like Bella®
has an official office and is no longer run out
of the Rodriguez-Torres family home.
families in 49 states and 36 countries and
funded over 66 research trials.