Deanna Favre – Age, Family and Facts About Brett Favre’s Wife
1. Breast Cancer Survivor
Deanna Favre is one of the lucky few women who fought and won against breast cancer. News of her struggle with the disease first hit the airwaves in October 2004. In what many describe as the beginning of her life’s purpose, Deanna began receiving touching letters from women all over the US about how her story had motivated them to get breast examinations.
After having a Lumpectomy and undergoing five-month chemotherapy, Deann bounced back to complete recovery. The following year, she started to sell pink Green Bay Packers hats to raise money and awareness for breast cancer. Deanna’s Green Bay Packers reportedly outsold regular Packers hats in the first half of 2005.
2. She Runs a Breast Cancer Foundation of Her Own
After going through all that, Deanna Favre didn’t stop at selling Green Bay Packer hats. She founded the Deanna Favre Hope Foundation; an NGO which supports breast cancer education, women’s breast imaging and diagnosis services for all women, especially medically underserved, underinsured and uninsured women.
As of October 2007, DFHF has raised over $500,000. However, before founding DFHF, Deanna Favre oversaw the Brett Favre Fourward Foundation; a foundation focusing on the needs of disadvantaged or disabled children in Wisconsin and Mississippi. And has so far raised over $3 million. As of 2018. Brett and Deanna Favre’s foundations have given out over $6 Million in grants.
3. She is an Author of Two Books
Surviving cancer is like returning from the dead. You surely have something to say. More than that, you have the ears of millions of people. And so in October 2007, Deann Favre published her first book; Don’t Bet against Me – an autobiography. She then published another, The Cure of the Chronic Life: Overcoming the Hopelessness That Holds You Back, which she co-authored with Shane Stanford.
