I love “Sex and the City.”  I never watched it during its regular run on HBO because I didn’t subscribe to HBO.  However, I happened across one episode, and I was hooked.  I immediately went out and bought the first season on DVD.  I watched it back-to-back and eventually went through every single episode.  I have the show on my TiVo list, and I often watch reruns. Yesterday I read that Cynthia Nixon had breast cancer two years ago.  She kept it a secret so that paparazzi wouldn’t hound her while she was going through radiation treatment.  It seems ironic that she got breast cancer when that was the cancer that Samantha (Kim Cattrall) battled on SATC.

Here’s the story:

Cynthis Nixon’s Quiet Cancer Struggle
AOL(April 15)
“Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon has revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and beat the disease outside the public eye.

The 42-year-old actress, who plays Miranda in the series and upcoming film, shared her story during a visit to “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, saying she purposefully kept the illness from the press.

‘”I didn’t want to make it public while I was going through it,” Nixon said. “I didn’t want paparazzi at the hospital and things like that.”

Nixon said her doctor broke the news to her after having a routine mammogram. “I get a call from my gynecologist and she says, ‘Well I have some, it’s not such great news,’” she recalled.

The actress is now fully recovered after having the small mass in her right breast removed and undergoing radiation treatment.

“I felt scared. Even though I felt scared and I thought, ‘Oh I don’t want this to be happening,’ I was very cognizant of if it’s going to happen, this is the best way for it to happen — that it’s found so early and we can just get right on it,” Nixon added.

Nixon said she was frank in her discussions about the cancer with her kids, which she shares with girlfriend of four years, Christine Marinoni.

“We made a big point of talking to my kids about it,” Nixon said. “I basically told them they found some cancer in my right breast. It’s very small and 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. This is what grandma went through and I’m going to be fine.”

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