Zsa Zsa Gabor Follows in the Footstep of Sarah Bernhardt

Zsa Zsa Gabor will have her right leg amputated below the knee today, according to the LA Times (above) and the BBC.  The problem seems to be both a blood clot and a cancerous lesion. Good luck to her.

Zsa Zsa Gabor was one of the great 20th-century glamour girls, so maybe she can be inspired by Sarah Bernhardt, one of the great 19th-century glamour girls. 

Sarah Bernhardt was 71 when she had her right leg amputated above the knee in 1915, thanks to tuberculosis of the knee joint.  But you can't keep a good diva down:

Just eight months after her amputation, [Bernhardt] was back in Paris starring
in "La Dame aux Camélias," the play that was later adapted by Verdi as
"La Traviata," moving about the stage in a wheelchair (she preferred the
wheelchair to the wooden leg). Paris wits referred to her as "Mère la
chaise," a play on words on the name of the cemetery [Père Lachaise] where she would be laid to rest seven years later, in 1923 at the age of 78."

Zsa Zsa's been through a lot lately, but there's always hope.  If nothing else, an amputation can keep your name in the papers for decades: Bernhardt's celebrated leg turned up in a Bordeaux storeroom 94 years later.    

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(Photo of Zsa Zsa Gabor supplied by WENN)