Cynthia Nixon is a Survivor

Today, Cynthia Nixon spoke to Good Morning America about her battle with breast cancer two years ago. Her doctor found a small lump in her right breast during a mammogram. She had surgery followed by six and a half weeks of radiation, but kept her condition a secret from the public.



"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," she said in the interview.

Christine Marinoni, Cynthia's girlfriend, was there for her but took her illness hard. "My girlfriend was very scared," Cynthia told Good Morning America. "We made a big point of talking to my kids about it."

Cynthia will next year become the official spokesperson for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. She told Good Morning America about her new role, "I want them 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."

Learn more about Cynthia's inspiring story in The Huffington Post

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