Breast cancer does not know or care about fame

Edie Falco, 45 (diagnosed 2003 at 40)

When Sopranos star Edie Falco was diagnosed with breast cancer back in 2003, she kept it almost completely secret at first a hard thing to do when you are famous, she barely told anyone on the set of the six-season HBO hit series on which she played mob wife Carmela Soprano. Falco quietly went into treatment & emerged cancer-free and with shorter hair in 2004. GREAT news for us fans.

She says she chose to stay mum because she didn’t want any fuss or pity. “It was very important for me to keep my diagnosis under the radar...because well-meaning people would have driven me crazy asking, ‘How are you feeling?’” Falco told Health magazine, earlier this year. Instead, she "bucked up, put on my Carmela fingernails, and was ready to work.”Good for her

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