Rita Wilson reflects on her gratitude ten years after triumphing over her battle with Breast Cancer.
Rita Wilson is taking stock of her blessings. The "Count Your Blessings" singer thanked contemporary medicine for the successful results of her treatments more than ten years after undergoing a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery in 2015 after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
"These parts of your body that had been there for you in such a beautiful way were gone," Rita informed People. "I'm very grateful that there are things nowadays in modern medicine like reconstruction and implants."
Rita did, in fact, give a reference to the ladies who had experienced breast cancer in the past.
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"In my mom's generation, if you had breast cancer, that was it,” she clarified. "There was nothing. You were left with sort of a shadow."
Furthermore, the 69-year-old is not embarrassed to possess the medical advancements at her disposal.
"I like to say that I've finally gone Hollywood now,” she made a joke, "and I have some in place."
However, Rita continued to struggle ten years after receiving a diagnosis in 2015. She was unable to ignore the contradictions between the changes occurring in her body at the moment.
"It was interesting to look at my body in that way and see it, understand what is missing," she added, "but also [see] what my body could do to keep me healing and healthy and have that appreciation."
The Now and Then actress, who has been in remission for more than ten years and is the mother of Chet Hanks, 35, and Truman Hanks, 30, with husband Tom Hanks, recently disclosed that she had prepared ahead of time for the worst.
"I said to Tom, I'm like, ‘OK, if something happens and I go first, I just have two requests. And one is that you should be sad for a very, very long time,'" according to People, Rita informed Demi Moore at the Sounds of a Woman event in New York City on April 28. “The second one was throw me a party.”
"I want it to be a celebration of life,” she went on say. “I want it to be about people telling stories and joy and remembering me in that way. And I think people, a lot of people want that, you know? I think there's room for that."
Last year, the singer of "Throw Me a Party" celebrated being cancer-free for ten years.
“It's a celebration for me,” Rita stated in an Instagram video from March 2025. “March 31st marks 10 years of being cancer-free. 10 years. And I am so deeply grateful.”
“I'm so thankful to my doctors, to my friends, to my family,” she went on to say. "The gratitude is overwhelming. Didn't always feel this way. And you know that, anybody who's going through [it, or] who's survived knows that it's an up and down like a hamster wheel. But then you get to this point.”
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