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<\/p>\nThe actress Kathy Bates has been a mainstay in both film and television for several decades. She’s portrayed some very fierce roles, and she’s just as scary in person. <\/p>\n
Actress had to make some major lifestyle adjustments after being diagnosed with a chronic disease.<\/p>\n
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Kathy Bates moved to New York in 1970 to pursue a career in acting. She looks back and reflects on how she was never an ingenue but made do. <\/p>\n
\u2018I was never a naive young thing,\u2019 she insists. Just a character actor all my life. I had a terrible time as a kid because I just wasn’t attractive enough. <\/p>\n
Bates reflected on how challenging it had been to confront the judgments of others in the absence of employment. <\/p>\n
Stella May, in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean!, launched her Broadway career in 1980. <\/p>\n
The actress was passed up for film roles that were based on roles she had previously portrayed. However, <\/p>\n
at the age of 42, because to her performance as a deranged fan in Misery, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, she went from unknown to a major star. <\/p>\n
\u2018You’re either young and glamorous and you’re going to get the lead or it’s the opposite: you’re not pretty enough,\u2019 she said of the jobs she was offered. <\/p>\n
\u2018So you’re playing the friend\/lesbian\/doctor\/whatever,\u2019 she mused. But the one who plays the young, lovely, gets the lad at the end character has no say in the matter. The inverse is also true: a female character can be powerful but not feminine.<\/p>\n
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She then moved on to directing episodes of other shows, including the critically acclaimed Homicide: Life on the Street, NYPD Blue, Oz, and Six Feet Under. <\/p>\n
Sadly, the actress has had some health problems in her personal life. Twice in her life, in 2003 and 2012, she was told she had cancer. <\/p>\n
She was initially diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003 and then with breast cancer in 2012. <\/p>\n
Actress Kathy Bates began speaking publicly about her lymphedema diagnosis after undergoing breast cancer surgery. <\/p>\n
As part of her job, she acts as a spokesman for the Lymphatic Education & Research Network.<\/p>\n
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She disclosed that she had dropped 80 pounds over the course of several years. To prevent her arms from swelling, the actress must wear compression sleeves. <\/p>\n
As her disease is more likely to flare up without them, she takes sure to wear them on flights and when performing physically demanding tasks. <\/p>\n
The actress has found that slowing down helps her manage the condition: \u2018If I can stop rushing, relax my shoulders,<\/p>\n
straighten my spine, breathe deeply, and focus on each little minute completing a task, I have more confidence in my capacity to live with LE.\u2019 Forcing me to take it easy, the epidemic made me slack off. <\/p>\n
She urges people who are diagnosed with the ailment to keep moving on and not let it define them.<\/p>\n
The pain of wearing a compression garment in public, the actress noted, \u2018may sometimes be more agonizing than the sickness itself, especially when people aren’t educated about LE.\u2019 <\/p>\n
However, staying inside and being inactive will only worsen your physical and mental health.<\/p>\n
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She is actively striving to increase funds for lymphedema research and increase awareness of the issue. <\/p>\n