She became the queen of the workout tape in the 1980s.
And Jane Fonda, 85, has revealed she persisted with her exercises even while undergoing brutal chemotherapy during her battle with cancer last year.
“Normally I can hold a push-up for a few minutes,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “When the chemo was in me, after 30 seconds I was collapsing.”
Icon: Jane Fonda, who became the queen of the workout band in the 1980s (pictured), persisted in her exercises even while undergoing chemotherapy last year
Jane, who features on the cover of the trade magazine’s latest issue, faced non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma last year and successfully beat the cancer in remission.
His triumph over the disease was hard won, however, as the chemotherapy “really hit me hard”. Sometimes my energy crashed.
Although she preferred to take the stairs, she found herself taking the elevator out of her house because of how the treatments had drained her stamina.
She announced in September that she had cancer, acknowledging that she was “privileged as a celebrity” and stressing how “lucky” she was to have “health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments “.
The look: ‘Normally I can hold a push-up for a few minutes,’ she told The Hollywood Reporter, adding, ‘When the chemo was in me, after 30 seconds I would crumble’
Frontwoman: Jane, who features on the cover of the trade magazine’s latest issue, faced non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma last year and beat the cancer in remission
‘Sometimes my energy crashed’: His triumph over illness was hard won, however, as chemotherapy ‘really hit me hard’
Looking to the future: ‘I’m not afraid to die,’ she said in her high-profile new interview, adding ‘I think I’m telling the truth when I say this’
‘I didn’t know how to be a parent’: Jane has three grown children, two daughters and a son, and confessed her causes of remorse ‘all had to do with the children’
Advanced age: She also revealed her habit of checking obituaries because she has “a few boyfriends that I always wonder, ‘Are they still alive?’
In November, she shared that the cancer was in remission and noted, “I’m especially happy because while my first 4 chemo treatments were pretty easy for me, only a few days of fatigue, the last chemo session was difficult and lasted 2 weeks making it difficult to accomplish much of anything.
“I’m not afraid to die,” she said during her high-profile new interview. “I think I’m telling the truth when I say that. But I’m really scared of coming to the end with a lot of regrets when it’s too late to do anything. And when you understand that, it says how you live between now and the end.
Jane has three adult children, two daughters and a son, and confessed that her causes for remorse “all have to do with the children”.
The controversial activist, whose son Troy is named after a Viet Cong suicide bomber who attempted to assassinate the US Secretary of Defense, candidly admitted: “I didn’t know how to be a parent. But it is never too late. You can introduce yourself.
Staying active: Jane is pictured attending a Greenpeace rally in Washington, DC last December, the month after announcing the cancer was in remission
‘Privileged’: She announced in September that she had cancer, acknowledging how ‘lucky’ she was to have ‘health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments’
She also revealed her habit of checking obituaries because, at her age, she has ‘a few boyfriends that I always wonder, ‘Are they still alive?’
The Klute star’s final remarks on exercise come more than four decades after the release of his hit 1982 video Jane Fonda’s Workout.
Released across America, it became the top-selling VHS for six years and remains one of the most successful videotape releases in history.
Jane, who oscillated between anorexia and bulimia as a young woman, ventured into the exercise industry to raise money for her left-wing political causes, including a PAC led by her husband from at the time, Tom Hayden, one of the infamous Chicago Seven.
Remember when: The Klute star’s final remarks on exercise come more than four decades after the release of his hit 1982 video Jane Fonda’s Workout
Booming Success: Released across America, it became the top-selling VHS for six years and remains one of the most successful videotape releases in history.
After being advised to “never start a job you don’t understand”, she had a brilliant idea: “The workout! If there’s one thing I understand, it’s that it works.
In her HBO documentary Jane Fonda In Five Acts, she said the tape was made with “one camera” and added, “There were no teleprompters or anything like that.”
She explained, “I wrote the script sitting on the floor of a hotel room. We did our own hair and makeup. I mean, it was a spat and a pray – and the rest is history.
After the runaway success of her original workout tape, she released several more and in her later years broke into exercise DVDs aimed at older women.
‘Movement is a gift’: Jane continued her workouts into her mid-80s, letting her fans get a glimpse of her fitness routine on social media
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