Deepak Chopra, Fran Drescher Talk Women's Health

... Although the mood was at times quite serious, Drescher quickly reminded the audience just why she was so beloved as the iconic nanny in “The Nanny” television series; her trademark laugh was familiar, and quite comforting in person. The 53-year-old spoke candidly about some of her darker life experiences, including being told by her mother (as a young girl) that her birth had caused near-fatal hemorrhaging, being raped at gunpoint in 1985, going through her difficult divorce and being diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2000. “As a chubby kid growing up in Queens … if I knew then that my life would take some very dark turns … I would have pulled the covers over my head,” she said. “Fortunately we don’t have a crystal ball.”

Drescher, who described the way in which she dropped to her knees and wept when she received her cancer diagnosis, became an vocal activist for women’s health in 2007 with the launch of non-profit organization, Cancer Schmancer. The organization has three areas of focus: education, policy change and cancer prevention -- specifically working to bring attention to women’s gynecologic cancers, which affected more than 80,000 women in 2007 alone, killing 27,739 women. Drescher views her activism as a natural part of the healing process. “Turning pain into purpose is extremely healing,” she said....

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