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How Kathleen Turner Is Overcoming Health Struggles at 70: ‘I’m Getting Stronger’


Kathleen Turner says she's 'getting stronger all the time' in her battle with arthritis after turning 70, and the actress reveals if she plans to keep working.

Get back to the As a young starlet, Kathleen Turner discovered that three of Hollywood’s most notorious ladies’ men had made a bet on which one of them would take her home. “ Body Heat was a blessing because I went straight to being a leading actor,” says the star, who has been married and divorced once and is the mother of daughter Rachel Weiss, 36, a singer-songwriter. In recent years, Kathleen has struggled with rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease that affects her mobility, but she hasn’t let it take over her life.

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