Recently, the two of us trekked up to the presidential suite of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to have a talk with two famous females who were in the pink!

The occasion was a wOw get-together with the beautiful actress Elizabeth Hurley and the petite dynamo Evelyn Lauder. Elizabeth is the international spokesperson for the cosmetics company and Evelyn is the wife of Leonard, the son and scion of his company’s creator, the late Estée Lauder.

But while we may have wanted tips on which mascara really doesn’t run, we didn’t go to talk makeup. Elizabeth and Evelyn have a higher purpose. They have become committed to the cause of curing breast cancer. Ergo, the pink!

Pink has taken over their lives. There sat the British star, shining in her vibrant pink satin shirt with Evelyn at her side, also in pink, a cashmere checked shawl over her shoulders. This duet of diligence had been up since 4:30 being made up for the CBS’ "The Early Show," where they talked cancer stats. One out of eight women will get breast cancer. That’s astonishing.

This is Breast Cancer Prevention month and their chat with us was part of a full day of interviews. After us, these disease warriors were off to Bloomingdale’s to light the store in a wash of pink. It’s part of a worldwide "Landmarks" project where world famous buildings get bathed in the color that now says "Beat Breast Cancer" – buildings like the Sydney Opera House (aka The White Elephant), the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building, Niagara Falls and Harrods in London. Elizabeth told us that only once before had Harrods changed its lighting — and that was to mark the end of World War II.

Click here to view photographs of more buildings lit up in pink.

At first we badgered Elizabeth to tell us if it is true that she (one of earth’s most elegantly attractive creatures) lives mostly on a farm in the countryside due west of London. It is true, she said. She spends her time mucking out stalls, caring for cows and pigs and raising Christmas geese. "I just called and bid my 11-year-old son goodnight. My mother is with him there." She told us she’s gone totally organic and no longer drinks any wine. "I’ve become ragingly healthy." And she looks it!

Evelyn first got interested in the fight against breast cancer in 1988. It was a time, she said, when you never heard the word "breast." "This was a disease not to mention in polite company." It was also a time when AIDS activists were winning federal research grants. Twenty-eight thousand men died a year from that disease; 44,000 American women were dying of breast cancer a year. Why weren’t we getting research money? And so she started the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, raised $252 million in 16 years and funds 171 different research projects around the country.

Over tea that day, both Evelyn and Elizabeth bombarded us with new medical findings and exciting new research avenues.

But we turned the conversation back to pink, something we both understand a little better! Lesley said she’d watched NFL football over the weekend and noticed that all the players on all the teams wore pink. One quarterback looked mah-velous in his fuchsia cleats!

It came out that it was Evelyn who first thought up the pink ribbon. She laughed: "Pink once meant strawberry ice cream, roses, little girls; but today it means breast cancer and even men are fighting it. We all are!"

We realize that their fight is our fight. We salute their commitment; and we join them.