Kim Zimmer — a well-known cleansing cleaning soap opera star — has breast most cancers … a shocking coincidence since her character on “The Guiding Mild” suffered from the affliction.

The actress — who carried out Reva Shayne on the current from 1983 to 1990 after which between 1995 an 2009 — launched the knowledge all through “Daytime Stands Up: A Profit for Stand Up To Most cancers ? We All Have a Story” Thursday … saying she acquired the prognosis late last 12 months.

Take a have a look at the clip … KZ says she’s had a mastectomy and expects to have her last chemotherapy infusion later this month … sooner than cracking a joke about how utterly glad she is collectively along with her new breast dimension and slicing straight by the stress.

Zimmer — a four-time Daytime Emmy Award winner — advocated for regular checkups and thanked her family for his or her ongoing assist.

Like we talked about … Kim’s character Reva dealt with breast most cancers on the current — an odd coincidence some followers might acknowledge. She obtained the knowledge all through a 2006 episode, and the storyline carried out out over the following couple seasons.

In distinction to Kim’s public acknowledgment of the sickness, her character hid the knowledge from everyone … a switch Zimmer talked about she couldn’t take into consideration doing in precise life, sooner than together with it made for wonderful TV drama.

Zimmer married her husband — actor A.C. Weary — once more in 1981, and they also have three kids collectively.