Friday, 14 October 2011
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5 Inspirational Celebrity Breast Cancer Survivors!
Continuing to promote breast cancer awareness for the month of October, here are five inspirational celebrities who have stomped on the face of breast cancer and now rock the title of "survivor" - and what they had to say about their journey.
Wanda Sykes (pictured above)
"'I was like, 'I don't know, should I talk about [breast cancer] or what?' How many things could I have? I'm black, then lesbian. I can't be the poster child for everything ... At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade, we get a float, it's a party. [But] I was real hesitant about doing this, because I hate walking. I got a lot of [cancer] walks coming up.'"
Christina Applegate
About her bilateral mastectomy: "'I didn't want to go back to the doctors every four months for testing and squishing and everything. I just wanted to kind of get rid of this whole thing for me. This was the choice that I made and it was a tough one,' she said in the interview. 'Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.'"
Kylie Minogue
About her chemotherapy: "'When you are stripped of everything and you have to grow your eyelashes back, grow your hair back, it's just astonishing,' Minogue told British Glamour magazine. 'It's hard to express what I've learned from that, but a deep psychological and emotional shift has obviously taken place.'"
Sheryl Crow
"'I kept my breast cancer tattoos -- where the radiation was lined up on my chest,' Crow told Health. 'Once in a while I look at it to remind myself that I have to put on my oxygen mask first before I put it on anybody else.'"
Melissa Etheridge
"I had been running along in my life at a fast pace. When I heard it was cancer, I just stood still," Etheridge told Shape magazine in a 2009 interview. "My life passed over me like a big wave, and after, I was left there standing. This turned out to be a very good thing. I stopped. I looked at my life, I looked at my body and spirit."
To see even more inspirational celebritors (celebrity-survivors, duh!), check out the original Huffington Post article here!
Who else could you add to this list? In your eyes, who is the most inspiring celebritor?
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I think your list is wonderful. Christina Applegate has a special place in my heart. She was so young when she got it. I liked her as a kid & her story gives hope to SO many young women suffering with this disease because she had a baby afterwards. Some people thing once you get cancer, it's a death sentence & your life is over but there's life after surviving & possibilities of having children too.
I friggin love Wanda Sykes. Christina Applegate is a sweet heart too. I think this shows just how Cancer can happen to anyone. These are all beautiful successful strong women who (I'm assuming) were all healthy and in shape when they were diagnosed. It really can happen to anyone and awareness is very important.