Magda Szubanski warmed hearts with her layered and endearing performance in the award-winning 1995 film “Babe.” Today, the Australian comedic actress sports a shaved head, a far cry from the grey-haired updo she wore when playing the farmer’s wife in the wholesome pig-led comedy-drama.
Szubanski was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer—a very rare and very aggressive type of blood disease known as mantle cell lymphoma. Affecting roughly 1 in 200,000 people each year, there is currently no cure for this form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but treatments may help manage symptoms, the Mayo Clinic reports.
