President of the Farrah Fawcett Foundation for Cancer Research, opened on June 25, 2010.
Revealed in her memoir, "Rearview Mirror", that she was raped at age 18, grew up poor, lived with her religious grandmother, was a bulimic and had a problem with alcohol.
In the early 1990s, she discovered that she had the Epstein-Barr virus after having suffered from symptoms caused by the virus for two decades. In 1994, she began speaking out about her illness and revealed that she removed her breast implants because she felt that they contributed to her illness.