O’DONNELL SURPRISED SHE’S STILL ALIVE
Actress-turned-U.S. TV personality ROSIE O’DONNELL is struggling to live = life to the full - because she didn’t expect to be alive in her 40s.
The A League of Their Own star’s mother died when she was young and O’D= onnell felt sure she too was destined for an early grave, so she packed e= verything into her first 40 years and then stepped back from the spotligh= t.
During an appearance on Oprah in America on Monday (25Jan10) she reveal= ed, "As a child I never thought I would live past 40, because my mother d= idn’t, and my goal was to do everything I could before I was 40 and then = retire and wait for the doctor to say, ‘You’re gonna die’.
"So every year I get my mammogram and every year they say, ‘You’re fine= ,’ and I go, ‘Would you squish it a little harder, are you sure?’ They’re= like, ‘Y’know, I think you’re gonna live’.
"So I had to make a plan for what to do."
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