Eva Longoria hopes to raise awareness of breast cancer.

The 42-year-old actress had to experience the suffering of the disease first-hand when her sister Liza was diagnosed with the cancer. This could face the fight against breast cancer because it was recognized early enough, but of course the whole thing left its mark. The Desperate Housewives actress says of her sister: "It was a few years ago. I didn't say anything [at the time] because it was something private. It was my sister who has a disability, so she had such a tough life [...] You made it early, level 1, mammogram. We were lucky. "

However, the Hollywood beauty is aware that not every woman is as lucky as her beloved sister. That's why she wants to offer a "platform" that helps women learn about breast cancer and that they know better - or better: "A platform that can help raise funds to find a cure." In her opinion, it was also important that women put themselves in the foreground, as she told People magazine: "Women are terrible at putting themselves first. And the thing that suffers is your health, so I would encourage every woman who comes to be their own advocate because you have to insist on the test or the ultrasound scan - insist on the extra step. " A "no" when it comes to health should "not be accepted".