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Former Trump Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has weathered several tragedies in her life, and she's been very open about at least one of them. McEnany's family has a history of breast cancer. In fact, her mother got a double preventative mastectomy after she was diagnosed with the BRCA2 gene, increasing her chances of developing the deadly disease by 84%. Understandably, the former White House staffer wanted to know if she had the gene, so McEnany decided to get tested. Unfortunately, it wasn't good news.
"Early one morning, close to Christmas, an unknown number appeared on my cell phone. Typically, I wouldn't answer a call like this, but I did this time," she recalled in her book, "For Such a Time as This." "'You've tested p