She became the queen of workout tapes in the 1980s.
And 85-year-old Jane Fonda has revealed that she continued to exercise even as she underwent brutal chemotherapy during her battle with cancer last year.
“Usually I can hold a push-up for minutes,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.
The icon: Jane Fonda (pictured), who became the queen of workout tapes in the 1980s, continued to exercise while undergoing chemotherapy last year.
Jane, who graces the cover of the trade magazine’s latest issue, beat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma last year and managed to get her cancer into remission.
But her triumph over the disease was a difficult one because chemotherapy “really hit me hard.”
She used to prefer climbing stairs, but found herself riding the elevator in her home because her stamina had been drained by her treatment.
She announced in September that she had cancer, admitting she was “privileged as a celebrity” and how “lucky” she was to have “health insurance, the best doctors and treatment.” ” was pointed out.
Appearance: “Normally I can hold a push-up for minutes,” she told The Hollywood Reporter, adding, “When the chemo was in me, 30 seconds later I collapsed.” I got
FRONTWOMAN: Jane, who graces the cover of the latest issue of the trade magazine, beat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma last year and managed to get her cancer into remission.
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Fun: “I’m not afraid to die,” she said in a wide-ranging new interview, adding, “I think I’m telling the truth when I say it.”
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Older age: She “had some boyfriends who always bothered to ask, ‘Are they still alive?
In November, she shared that her cancer was in remission, stating: It makes it difficult to accomplish many things.
“I’m not afraid to die,” she said in a wide-ranging new interview. It’s really scary to do it all the way through, and once you figure it out, it teaches you how to live from now until the end.
Jane has three grown children, two daughters and a son, and confessed that the cause of her regret was “all child related.”
The controversial activist, whose son Troy was named after the Viet Cong bomber that tried to assassinate the US Secretary of Defense, admitted frankly: “I didn’t know how to be a parent. But , it’s never too late, you can show up.
Staying active: Jane is pictured attending a Greenpeace rally in Washington DC in December, the month after she announced her cancer was in remission.
‘Blessed’: She announced she had cancer in September and how ‘lucky’ she was to have ‘health insurance and the best doctors and treatment’ admitted.
She also revealed that at her age, “I’ve had a few boyfriends that I always wondered about, so I made it a habit to check the obituary column. Are they still alive?”
Kroot Starr’s latest exercise statement comes more than 40 years after the release of his 1982 smash videotape, “Jane Fonda’s Workouts.”
Sold across America, it was the best-selling VHS for six years and one of the most successful videotape releases of all time.
Journeying between anorexia and bulimia as a young woman, Jane sought funding for left-wing political causes, including PAC, run by her then-husband Tom Hayden, one of the infamous Chicago Sevens. stepped into the athletic industry.
Remember: Kroot Starr’s most recent exercise statement came more than 40 years after she released her 1982 smash videotape, “Jane Fonda’s Workouts.”
A runaway success: Wrapped across America, it was a best-selling VHS for six years and one of the most successful videotape releases in history.
“Never get into a business you don’t understand,” had been advised, so she had an EEG: “Training! If there’s one thing I understand , that means it’s working.
In her HBO documentary Jane Fonda Five Acts, she said the tape was made with “one camera”, adding that “there was no teleprompter or anything like that.”
She said, “We sat on the floor of our hotel room and wrote the script. We did our own hair and makeup. So it was spitting and praying – and the rest is history.”
After the explosive success of her original workout tape, she released several more tapes and later ventured into exercise DVDs aimed at older women.
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