As cyclist Lance Armstrong competes in the Tour de France, he's still making huge strides in his fight against cancer — only this time he's teaming up with a Gossip Girl writer.
Nike and Lance Armstrong's Livestrong Foundation have joined forces with Gossip Girl writer Jessica Queller to create a video telling both the inspiring story of her mother's battle with cancer, as well as her brave decision to get a preventative double mastectomy after testing positive for a breast cancer gene.
Watch her touching video after the jump.
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Jessica Queller, Gossip Girl writer and author of Pretty Is What Changes
Jessica Queller had everything going for her at the young age of 35: An amazing career on the hit show Gilmore Girls, a fabulous boyfriend and a full life with wonderful friends. However, outside of her job, she was going through the roughest period of her life. After watching her mother painfully succumb to ovarian cancer (after a successful fight with breast cancer six years earlier), she decided to be tested for the breast cancer gene. And it was positive. TVGuide.com sat down with Queller to talk about her drastic decision to have her breasts removed — detailed in her new memoir, Pretty Is What Changes (shop Amazon)— and how life is post-surgery, writing for the CW's hit
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