Q&A with Kathy Bates
The veteran actress, who is in three movies
and two TV series this year, talks about what she learned from
surviving ovarian cancer.
Reviewed by
Louise Chang, MD
A popular actress on stage and screen, Kathy Bates has played everything from an unhappy wife (Fried Green Tomatoes) to a literary fan gone psychopathic (Misery), a free spirit mother of an adult son (About Schmidt), a wisecracking political advisor (Primary Colors), and Gertrude Stein (Midnight in Paris). She has appeared in numerous TV shows and series, including Six Feet Under, The Late Shift, and Annie. She sat down with WebMD the Magazine to talk about her experience with ovarian cancer, her health habits, her favorite healthy snack, and just what piece of advice she'd like to give other women.
In your video interview for the Ovarian Cancer
National Alliance, you said that going through the experience of
fighting ovarian cancer was the best thing that ever happened to you.
Why is that?
It helped me see that I'm lucky, and I feel grateful to have the opportunity to continue working, to have relationships
with friends, to travel, to have a good relationship with my family.
All the things that we begin to take for granted in our daily lives.
You advocate listening to your body and heading to the doctor if anything strikes you as wrong. Before the cancer, did you tend to ignore what your own body was telling you?
You get to the point where you don't want to go to
the doctor. You tell yourself you don't want any bad news. [In 2003] I
was in Europe and a friend said, "You know, you don't look well." I was
very flushed and very tired and I kept thinking it was the heat. Finally
I decided I was not feeling right and I went back home and saw the gynecologist.
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