Editor’s Note: What’s your favorite Sally Field role? There are plenty to choose from – "Gidget," "The Flying Nun," "Sybil," "Smokey and the Bandit," "Steel Magnolias," "Punchline," "Forrest Gump" and "Brothers and Sisters," among others. Over the years, Sally has garnered three Emmys, two Oscars and two Golden Globes, as well as a plethora of other awards. Most recently, she was nominated for another Emmy Award for her role in "Brothers and Sisters." Sally recently partnered with Roche and GlaxoSmithKline for the Rally With Sally for Bone Health campaign, to spread awareness of osteoporosis. She was in New York recently kicking off the Boniva “Bone Healthy Workout,” which can be found at bonehealth.com, and wOw had a chance to catch up with her and to talk about health and the campaign as well as reinvention, valuing oneself, her biggest regret and more.

WOWOWOW: Sally, let’s start by talking about osteoporosis. You were recently diagnosed with this condition, correct?

SALLY FIELD: I was diagnosed in 2005.

WOW: How did you react to the news? What did you immediately do when you learned about your bone loss?

SALLY: I have a really good doctor so I was aware of the fact that it was probably going to be something I was going to be dealing with at one point in my life. I was a prime candidate and my doctor told me, "This will probably be something that we will be dealing with." I have it on both sides of my family; I am Caucasian; I’m small. And one out of two women over the age of 50 will experience osteoporosis-related fractures sometime in their life. One out of two. It is a huge, huge number. He watched me as I got older; he started giving me bone density tests when I was in my 50s, just to get a baseline understanding of what my bone health was. And as I got older they moved into osteopenia, which is the precursor to osteoporosis. And eventually, right before I was turning 60, he diagnosed me with having osteoporosis.

WOW: What was your next move?

SALLY: Before I was actually diagnosed with it, when it was just simply osteopenia – which is something to be reckoned with in itself – he did all sorts of tests to see what my calcium level was. In other words, was I taking enough and absorbing enough calcium and Vitamin D? In this country and other countries, we try to stay out of the sun because there’s skin cancer. We have all this sunscreen slathered on us and hats and long-sleeved shirts. But what happens is you’re not getting enough unprotected exposure to the sun. You don’t need a lot, but you need some so that your body can absorb the Vitamin D that is actually taken in through your skin. It works hand-in-hand with the calcium, and calcium cannot be absorbed unless it has enough Vitamin D. So it’s like the two work hand-in-hand. So he then started me on Vitamin D therapy. I was taking a lot of Vitamin D to try to get that Vitamin D level up. And I was always eating right; I was always exercising. It wasn’t like I had never done those things so I could start now and it would make a difference. I was going to get osteoporosis at one time in my life. Maybe I kept it from happening earlier because I was always working out and eating right, and I never smoked. So we watched the calcium levels, the Vitamin D levels, and then eventually I got osteoporosis anyway, and he knew it was time to decide on the treatment.

WOW: And then shortly after that is when you signed up with Roche and Boniva for the Rally With Sally for Bone Health campaign?

SALLY: Yes.

WOW: Sally, one of the things I read is that you said it encourages older women to value themselves.

SALLY: Yes.

WOW: When did you really first learn the importance of valuing yourself? Was it something that you always had within you?