{"id":130384,"date":"2024-05-18T18:10:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T18:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/the-guiding-light-star-kim-zimmer-has-real-life-illness-that-her-character-faced\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T18:10:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T18:10:35","slug":"the-guiding-light-star-kim-zimmer-has-real-life-illness-that-her-character-faced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/the-guiding-light-star-kim-zimmer-has-real-life-illness-that-her-character-faced\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Guiding Light&#8217; Star Kim Zimmer Has Real-Life Illness That Her Character Faced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kim-zimmer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kim-zimmer\" data-tag=\"kim-zimmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim Zimmer<\/a> portrayed <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/reva-shayne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_reva-shayne\" data-tag=\"reva-shayne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reva Shayne<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\" data-tag=\"cbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS<\/a> daytime drama <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-guiding-light\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-guiding-light\" data-tag=\"the-guiding-light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guiding Light<\/a><\/em> from 1983 to 1990, returning in 1995 till the present\u2019s closing episode on Sept. 8, 2009. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn 2006, a storyline had Shayne recognized with breast most cancers. Now, Zimmer faces the identical disaster in actual life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI was diagnosed with breast cancer on Nov. 6,\u201d she revealed on the particular <em>Daytime Stands Up: A Benefit for Stand Up To Cancer \u2013 We All Have a Story,<\/em> that streamed reside Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tZimmer has undergone a mastectomy and expects to have her final chemotherapy infusion on May 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDuring the streaming occasion, Zimmer thanked her household and mates for his or her assist, admitting that she \u201cwould have fallen apart,\u201d if not for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tZimmer has been married since 1981 to actor A.C. Weary. They share three grownup youngsters, together with actor Jake Weary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShe strongly advocated for going to the physician for screenings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m here to say early detection, early detection, early detection, early detection,\u201d she mentioned. \u201cGet your mammograms, get them soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tZimmer\u2019s character on <em>The Guiding Light<\/em> did to not share her analysis with family members.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI can\u2019t imagine getting a diagnosis like that and not wanting the person that you love most in the world to be there standing next to you,\u201d she mentioned. \u201cThe fans reacted to that too\u2026 It made for great drama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGuiding Light concluded a 57-season run in 2009. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Kim Zimmer portrayed Reva Shayne on the CBS daytime drama The Guiding Light from 1983 to 1990, returning in 1995 till the present\u2019s closing episode on Sept. 8, 2009. In 2006, a storyline had Shayne recognized with breast most cancers. Now, Zimmer faces the identical disaster in actual life. \u201cI was diagnosed with breast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1600,3927,3924,3926,142,3269,1740,250,3925],"class_list":{"0":"post-130384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-character","9":"tag-faced","10":"tag-guiding","11":"tag-illness","12":"tag-kim","13":"tag-light","14":"tag-reallife","15":"tag-star","16":"tag-zimmer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}