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Breast cancer survivor and Grammy winning singer Olivia Newton John attended the Breast Cancer Awareness Event in Vienna, Austria. Olivia entertained the guess with a couple of her hit songs.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so ladies be sure and do your self breast exams.
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The love story of Olivia Newton-John and her husband, John Easterling, began 15 years ago and was finally cemented this summer with weddings on a mountaintop in Peru and then again in Florida.
After a broken marriage to Matt Lattanzi — with whom she has a daughter, Chloe, now 22 — Olivia was left heartbroken when her boyfriend of nine years, Patrick McDermott, went missing in 2005. But now the Grease star has found happiness again. Here, Olivia tells OK! about her magical wedding days.
“We were married in Peru, and it was so wonderful that we decided to do it again!” she tells OK!. “The second ceremony took place on Jupiter Island, near John’s home, in a sunrise ceremony with an Episcopalian minister. ”
Olivia, who sports a rare 5.1 carat natural intersecting twin diamond set in platinum, tells OK! that both she and John designed the ring to symbolize “the two of us and our love for each other.”
As for the ceremony, the Aussie star wore a “simple white dress” and planned to wear sandals at the ceremony, “Until the night before I realized how cold it was going to be in the morning. So John and I went shopping at 10 o’clock at night and I found some handmade suede boots and a traditional matrimonial shawl.”
Olivia continues, “John’s family from North Carolina were there, as were my daughter, Chloe, and friends and family. We had a dance floor set up in the yard with red, white and blue accents on the tables.
“There were hundreds of lights in the trees. We ended the evening with sparklers, joining hands in a labyrinth on my property. It was a very memorable moment and one I will always have in my mind.”
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Olivia Newton-John has compared her battle with breast cancer to climbing the Great Wall of China.
The Grease star has become a health advocate since fighting off the disease following her 1992 diagnosis.
And Newton-John – who led an inspirational three-week walk along the Great Wall of China in just last April – insists her efforts have awakened a fighting spirit in herself.
She says, “I liken the walk to the cancer journey actually, because it was the unknown, it was sometimes difficult, it was strenuous, it was challenging. But when you got through it, it was amazing. (There was) an amazing feeling of accomplishment… I’ve never done anything like that in my life.”
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Olivia Newton-John wed new husband John Easterling twice before stunning family and friends with the good news at a weekend Independence Day party.
The Aussie singer/actress and Easterling officially wed in a beach ceremony on Florida’s Jupiter Island on June 30th, but they had already exchanged vows in Peru earlier in the month.
According to sources, the bride and groom initially became man and wife during an Incan spiritual ceremony held on a mountaintop on June 21st, but they knew they’d have to marry again because their first nuptials would not be recognized under U.S. law.
Newton-John and Easterling, the founder of the Amazon Herb Company, then shocked friends who joined them for a July 4th
barbecue, at their Malibu, California beach house, by revealing they had wed.
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Olivia Newton-John and her daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, 21, gave an interview to Australian magazine Woman’s Day this week about Chloe’s struggle with anorexia.
Chloe, given your mother is so healthy and clear-headed, did it take her long to see the signs?
I think that it’s hard for a parent to notice what their child is going through. Maybe sometimes parents don’t want to notice what’s going on. As a parent, you want to think everything is ok.
How did your mum react when you told her about your anorexia?
There wasn’t really a moment when I told her I had a problem. I was more in denial about it. I think she was the one that had to come to terms with it because everyone was in denial. When you go through things like that it’s a long process of accepting what’s going on.
Chloe, you’re still very slim today. Do you feel you’ve now triumphed over your eating disorder?
I’m taking very good care of myself now but I’m not going to be like ‘Oh, I eat pizza every day!’ And I’m honest about that. It hurts my heart when I think how many girls are going through that [eating disorders], and I’m lucky that I got through it because it’s a fatal thing if you don’t pull through it.
Olivia, what advice would you give to mothers in your situation?
That the parent need look at why their child has developed such a detrimental disease. And look at the issues causing the disorder. Listen to your child. Be supportive. Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can’t help if the parents aren’t present, loving and proactive.
