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Christina Applegate is Selling Ribbon Roses for Breast Cancer

October 15, 2008 in Giving Back by Kristen Seymour | No comments

Christina Applegate was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year after learning that she had an increased risk of developing the disease, and spent quite a bit of time in the hospital afterward recovering from a mastectomy. Fortunately, she caught it early enough and she is now cancer-free, but she’s concerned that other women won’t have the same good fortune because of the high cost associated with screenings and genetic testing.

While recovering in the hospital, Christina made roses from ribbons — a craft she learned when she was just six years old. She made hundreds of them on her own, and when anyone came to visit her, she taught them how to do it, too, saying, “Anytime you would come into my room there would be, like, six people in there making these roses.”

Now, she’s using these hundreds of roses for a good cause — soon, she’ll be auctioning them off to raise money for Right Action for Women, but in the meantime, she’s encouraging her fans to make a donation to the charity.

Photo courtesy of rightactionforwomen.com

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