{"id":38684,"date":"2017-09-29T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=38684"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:59:44","slug":"julia-louis-dreyfus-of-seinfeld-fame-reveals-she-has-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/julia-louis-dreyfus-of-seinfeld-fame-reveals-she-has-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Louis-Dreyfus, of &#8216;Seinfeld&#8217; fame, reveals she has cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, an American television actress who gained fame on the hit series \u201cSeinfeld,\u201d was diagnosed as suffering from breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Louis-Dreyfus, whose paternal grandfather was Jewish, broke the news Thursday on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c1 in 8 women get breast cancer. Today, I\u2019m the one,\u201d wrote Louis-Dreyfus, who portrayed Elaine Benes on the hugely popular sitcom. She currently stars in the HBO comedy &#8220;Veep,&#8221; for which she has won a record six consecutive Emmy Awards playing the role of Selina Meyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good news is that I have the most glorious group of supportive and caring family and friends, and fantastic insurance through my union,\u201d the 56-year-old actress continued. \u201cThe bad news is that not all women are so lucky, so let\u2019s fight all cancers and make universal health care a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her revelation prompted an outpouring of sympathy on social networks from many film and television stars, including breast cancer survivors Rita Wilson and Christina Applegate, the New York Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour undaunted spirit has always been an inspiration to your family at HBO. Sending our love and support,\u201d the network posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Louis-Dreyfus has been married to Brad Hall, like her a former cast member on &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; for 20 years. They have two sons, Charlie and Henry.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Julia%20Louis-Dreyfus%2C%20of%20%27Seinfeld%27%20fame%2C%20reveals%20she%20has%20cancer\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[4977,8790,8795,7787,8788,1470,8970],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38685,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38684\/revisions\/38685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}