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Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon, who’s currently 42, has revealed that she was diagnosed two years ago with breast cancer.

On Tuesday, Nixon spoke about her diagnosis with the disease on Good Morning America. She said, “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.”

“I always sort of thought, ‘I’m probably going to get breast cancer. There’s a really good chance.’” Nixon said. “I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, ‘Well, I have some — it’s not such great news, but here it is, but it’s very small and we’re just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you’ll probably have radiation.”

Nixon’s mentioned that her girlfriend of four years, activist Christine Marinoni, was also frightened. “My girlfriend was very scared. She was the one doing the eating. She was in a panic. She was just trying to calm herself down any way she could. And, actually, we made a big point of talking to my kids about it.
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