Judy Reyes is “Para Todos” magazine’s cover girl for their “Los 20 latinos más attractivos del año” issue, a nice departure from played-out Latina pretty girls Lopez, Mendes, Dawson, and especially, Alba. Here’s to showing the world us Latinas don’t all look a certain way! Go Judy!

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The beautiful Judy Reyes of television’s ‘Scrubs’ discusses her mother’s battle with breast cancer in the October issue of Latina Magazine, of which she said:

“It was 14 years ago; my mother was 49. She got misdiagnosed by a gynecologist she’d been seeing for 10 years. She felt something in her right breast, but he kept telling her it was a cyst. She went back to him four times in one year, but he kept saying there was no need for a mammogram. When she went for a second opinion, the doctor confirmed she had cancer. They caught it in time before it spread. She got a mastectomy and then took chemo pills, which had side effects-nausea and depression.”

On questioning a diagnosis and researching symptoms on one’s own, she said:

“As Latinos, we’re raised to think that doctors are gods. But they’re human; they make mistakes. My mother took the doctor that misdiagnosed her to court and got a settlement. So question everything and do your research. Now we have so much information available in English and Spanish. Learn how to examine yourself and trust your instincts. I believe that people go through things so other people don’t have to. In retrospect, my mother might have gotten a lumpectomy [surgery to remove the lump, as opposed to the entire breast].”

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