Article: Cosmo's 11 fun, fearless forces.(Cosmopolitan's 1998 Fun, Fearless Females)

Karen "Duff" Duffy

Lean, Mean, Fighting Machine

In September 1995, Duff was on a professional high: She had just signed a contract with Revlon, had scored juicy parts in two big films, and had a Disney sitcom in the works. She was single and happy. But Duff awoke one morning with an excruciating headache and, at age 30 was diagnosed with a rare and dangerous illness: a lesion on the base of her brain stem and spinal cord was rapidly affecting her central nervous system. Surgery might have paralyzed or killed her. Her only option was grueling chemo and steroid therapy to shrink the lesion. Duff scared? Fuggeddaboutit. With dignity, courage, and a ...

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