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Elizabeth Hurley: My grandmother didn’t feel able to tell anyone about her breast cancer, I desperately wanted that to change

J.Jones28 min ago

I had just started working with Estée Lauder Companies in 1995, shooting their advertising campaigns when Evelyn Lauder, who was Estée Lauder's daughter-in-law, asked me to help with a new project. "Women all over the world are dying of breast cancer, and no one is talking about it," she told me. "I want to change that."

She was right, even though it's hard to believe now: this was a time when nobody spoke about breast cancer. I understood this all too well because my grandmother had recently died of breast cancer in the early 1990s. Back then, it just wasn't talked about.

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