--- title: Girl in Remission from Cancer Dresses as Superhero description: Josie decked herself out in a cape and costume that read: "Destroying cancer one day at a time." canonical: https://time.com/4103827/girl-superhero-cancer-halloween/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-07T16:55:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:43.518Z og:title: Girl in Remission from Cancer Dresses as Herself for School's 'Superhero Day' og:description: Her costume reads: "Destroying cancer one day at a time" og:url: https://time.com/4103827/girl-superhero-cancer-halloween/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Girl in Remission from Cancer Dresses as Herself for School's 'Superhero Day' twitter:description: Her costume reads: "Destroying cancer one day at a time" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Girl in Remission from Cancer Dresses as Herself for School's 'Superhero Day' by [Alex Heigl / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Alex Heigl / People Contributor Nov 7, 2015 4:55 PM UTC by [Alex Heigl / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Alex Heigl / People Contributor Nov 7, 2015 4:55 PM UTC When Josie Kimberlin and her mother Alyssa Butler were going through the 4-year-old’s closet looking for a costume for her school’s “Superhero Day,” they discovered that her options were limited. “She didn’t really have anything with any kind of superhero stuff on it,” [Butler told the Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/josie-kimberlin-in-remission-from-cancer-goes-as-herself-for-superhero-day%5F5633c77ce4b0631799126121). “So I asked her, ‘Do you just want to go as yourself? Because you know you’re mommy’s superhero,’ ” Butler said. That’s because Josie was diagnosed with [acute lymphoblastic leukemia](http://www.cancer.gov/types/leukemia/patient/child-all-treatment-pdq) in June 2013\. (She went into remission about nine months after her diagnosis.) So Josie decked herself out in a cape and costume that read: “Destroying cancer one day at a time,” and went off to Superhero Day. Butler said she shared photos of Josie because she wanted to showcase the strength of kids everywhere fighting cancer. “There are a lot of kids out there battling cancer and they are heroes,” she said. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/little-girl-in-remission-cancer-dresses-herself-school-superhero-day?xid=IFT-Trending) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://people.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4103827/girl-superhero-cancer-halloween/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4103827/girl-superhero-cancer-halloween/"},"headline":"Girl in Remission from Cancer Dresses as Herself for School's 'Superhero Day'","datePublished":"2015-11-07T16:55:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:43.518Z","description":"Her costume reads: \"Destroying cancer one day at a time\"","url":"https://time.com/4103827/girl-superhero-cancer-halloween/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Cancer","U.S.","costumes","Heroes","Superhero","leukemia"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Heigl / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4103827/girl-superhero-cancer-halloween/","name":"Girl in Remission from Cancer Dresses as Herself for School's 'Superhero Day'"}}]}] ```