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She regularly reminds her Instagram followers to look out for unusual lumps and bumps on their bodies.
And on Tuesday, Elizabeth Hurley urged women to check their breasts as she revealed that her late grandma kept a lump she discovered a secret for a year, and eventually died from breast cancer.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain, the actress, 56, admitted it's often the fear of a diagnosis which puts people off going to a doctor once they find something that doesn't feel right, but impressed the importance of early diagnosis.
Please ladies! Elizabeth Hurley, 56, has urged women to check their breasts while appearing on Tuesday's Good Morning Britain
Elizabeth explained: 'My grandmother was diagnosed [with breast cancer], she didn't talk about it. She'd found her own lump she didn't tell anyone for more than a year.
'She was scared, she was embarrassed and she didn't know anything about it.'
After finally going to a doctor, her grandmother received a breast cancer diagnosis, but Elizabeth revealed: 'It was "don't talk to grandma about it". No one sat with her with her chemotherapy.'
'Times have changed but they still need to change,' insisted the actress.
