Elizabeth Hurley, Global Ambassador of The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign served as host for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) annual Hot Pink Party at The Glasshouse in New York City last night. The evening raised over $11 million-a new record for the Foundation-to support BCRF's global legion of 260 scientists pursuing high-impact, lifesaving breast cancer research. Also in attendance, Hurley's son Damian Hurley, fashion designer Vera Wang, actress Nia Long, ballerina Misty Copeland, and former Bachelorette star Katie Thurston who revealed earlier this year that she was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer. Later in the evening, 17-time Grammy Award winning artist Sting took the stage to perform his classics including 'Every Breath You Take,' 'Fields of Gold,' 'Englishman in New York,' and more. In the 30 years since BCRF's founding, breast cancer mortality rates have declined by 44%, and a recent study by the American Association for Cancer Research revealed an 80% reduction in breast cancer deaths among women 20-49 over a decade. Hurley who has been working with the organization since the beginning told us, 'I've really learned how vital it is for women to look after themselves, look after their health. Particularly to be breast aware.' How does she do that in her own life? The stunning 59-year-old says it's important to de-stress, keep your food as pure as you can, drink lots of water, and self-check your breasts and go to the doctor the minute you notice any changes. And of course, we had to ask how she has been spending time with new boyfriend Billy Ray Cyrus. 'We both love the countryside so whether we're in Tennessee or soon going to be England we like to be outside a lot with the dogs in nature ... sort of casual easy things,' she explained.
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00:00With the 30 years that I've been working for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation I've really
00:18learned how vital it is for women to look after themselves look after their health and particularly
00:23to be breast aware and so we've been spreading the word about that for a very long time and it's
00:27something that we continue to talk about all the time so that women learn to take care of themselves
00:32and not to feel guilty about taking care of themselves it's something we have to learn to do
00:36we tell everybody to familiarize themselves with their breasts and to self-check regularly and to
00:43go to their doctor the minute they feel there might be a difference or a change in their breasts
00:47and that's the most important advice we can give we've also tried to teach people the importance of
00:53trying to de-stress easier said than done but we know that stress can lead sometimes to health
00:59problems so we try to be as stress-free as we can that's a challenging one and we've also learned
01:04or are learning to eat as healthily as we can and to keep our food as pure as we can and drink plenty
01:11of water all those things that we're all told about but actually they all mean something and they matter
01:15we both love the countryside so whether we're in tennessee or we're soon going to be in england
01:22we like to be outside a lot with dogs at nature sort of casual easy things
01:27i mean we girls kind of do everything we not only work many of us have to raise families too so
01:35you know i've always said where would the world be without women
01:38there was this huge relief when sharing my story the first time i think it's so hard to pretend like
01:47you're okay when you're not when i finally got to say like i'm not okay and here's why the support
01:54that came in after that just really like helped lift me in a way that i didn't even know was gonna
01:58happen i mean just talking to other patients i think has been huge i have a friend she's stage four
02:04but 10 years as stage four so finding stories like that is what gives me hope and peace with with my
02:10situation i think the best thing to do is find community you can do that anonymously through
02:16different forums you know you can do that publicly through your own forum but the support has been so
02:21big and just hearing other people's stories and just knowing like hey i made it to here you're
02:26going to make it to here too