Oprah Winfrey’s Pink Ribbon Episode: Pink is Powerful
September 30, 2008 by Karen Lynch
Filed under Women's Health
“By the end of this hour, 20 women will hear the words, ‘You have breast cancer.’”
That’s how Oprah opened today’s show. Powerful.
Right off the bat she introduced Christina Applegate.
Christina is five weeks into her recovery, and spoke candidly about the grieving process she went through, is going through, after the loss of her breasts.
She also describes the expanders she now has and the process she has gone through since she heard the words, ‘It came back positive.’
Christina, having been at high risk because her mother had breast cancer (twice actually), has been getting mammograms since she was 30. But she …read more




