In an interview that aired on Good Morning America Tuesday, 48-year-old Sandra Lee revealed that she found out she has breast cancer during a routine mammogram, and will be getting a double mastectomy. “Girls have to know,” Lee said, encouraging women to get checked. “Girls in their 20s and their 30s just have to know. And I don’t want women to wait.”
Sandra was recently in the news for happier reasons; it’s been rumored that she’s getting her own lifestyle show. Through tears, Lee told Robin Roberts she found out about her diagnosis shortly after finishing a photoshoot for her inclusion in People magazine’s Most Beautiful issue. (Roberts was clearly a carefully chosen interviewer, given that she herself survived breast cancer.) She’s already had a lumpectomy, and will soon get a double mastectomy, though doctors say they caught the cancer early and her outlook is good. She says her boyfriend, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, has been very supportive.