Cynthia's Breast Cancer Confession

Kudos to her for opening up about this…and hopefully helping other women in the process!
Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon, who’s currently 42, has revealed that she was diagnosed two years ago with breast cancer.
On Tuesday, Nixon spoke about her diagnosis with the disease on Good Morning America.
She said, “I didn’t really want to make it public while I was going through it. I didn’t want paparazzi at the hospital, that kind of thing.”
Nixon’s mother battled breast cancer when Nixon was 12 years old. Her grandmother also battled with breast cancer.
“I always sort of thought, ‘I’m probably going to get breast cancer. There’s a really good chance.'” Nixon said. “I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, ‘Well, I have some — it’s not such great news, but here it is, but it’s very small and we’re just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you’ll probably have radiation.”
Nixon’s mentioned that her girlfriend of four years, activist Christine Marinoni, was also frightened. “My girlfriend was very scared. She was the one doing the eating. She was in a panic. She was just trying to calm herself down any way she could. And, actually, we made a big point of talking to my kids about it.
Nixon broke the news to her children first before going public, saying “I talked to them together and, basically, I told them, ‘You know, they found some breast cancer in my right breast. It’s very small. It’s very early. I’m going to have an operation. They’re going to take it out, and then we’re going to have six-and-a-half weeks of radiation every weekday, and this is like what Grandma went through and I’m going to be fine.”
Nixon will now become the official spokeswoman for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation for the next year.
Nixon says, “I want them [women] most to hear me saying that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don’t go get your mammograms, because there’s some part of you that doesn’t want to know, and that’s the thing that’s going to trip you up. That’s the thing that could have a really bad endgame.”
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