Palm Beach Illustrated, January 2011
To many of her fans, Fran Drescher always will be known for her Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated role as Fran Fine on the television series The Nanny, but the actress has leveraged her career into many different occupations. Her books, Enter Whining (1997) and Cancer Schmancer (2003), were both on the New York Times best-seller list. As a uterine cancer survivor, she also is a health activist and inspiration to many women. Drescher speaks at the Hearing the Ovarian Cancer Whisper (H.O.W.) Time Is of the Essence luncheon on January 17 at the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach.
Why are you such a passionate humanitarian?
I feel an obligation as a high-profile celebrity to leverage my visibility toward issues that benefit the greater good, and the things that I’m particularly passionate about are women’s health issues, education for our children, and civil liberties and justice for all.
What will be the message of your speech at the H.O.W. luncheon?
It will be about my journey as a gynecologic cancer survivor and my mission to educate women on the early warning whispers of gynecologic cancers so that they can transform from being patients into medical consumers, become better partners with their physicians and lower the risk of late-stage diagnosis.
What upcoming projects are you working on?
The Fran Drescher Show on Fox stations, a new sitcom for TV Land, a new children’s book that I wrote for Penguin Group Publishing, and a trip to Haiti and the Middle East with the U.S. State Department as a public diplomacy envoy for women’s health issues.
