![]() ![]() I feel like the biggest idiot for not doing so." "I could have had a mastectomy with reconstruction and skipped the part where I got cancer. "It seems I am the designated driver at my Seder table," Wurtzel wrote. Wurtzel underwent a double mastectomy in 2015. Writing in The New York Times in 2015, she shared her regret over not being tested for the BRCA gene mutation, which Ashkenazi Jewish women are 10 times more likely to carry, and advocated that others get tested. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer, Wurtzel again turned to her life for candid material. In October, she contributed a piece titled " A Gen X Icon on Why American Isn't Ready for a Gen X President" to Gen, a political outpost of Medium. ![]() In 2018, Wurtzel wrote a piece for The Cut on her discovery that the man she thought was her father was in fact not, and her real father was the famous civil rights photographer Bob Adelman. ![]()
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