Empower Your Heart

Survivor Susan Lucci empowers women to focus on heart health and put yourself on your own “to-do list”.

Susan Lucci at Red Dress Concert

Four years ago, Susan Lucci had her first cardiac episode. She had been shopping for a birthday present for a friend when suddenly she had a tightening in her chest that radiated around her rib cage. She'd felt something similar twice in recent weeks. Both had been mild enough to dismiss, but the manager of the store insisted on driving her to the hospital. Once there, doctors discovered that two of her arteries were blocked, one 90% and the other 75%. That night she underwent an emergency procedure that restored full blood flow in both damaged arteries.

Then in January 2022, it happened again – a discomfort radiating around her rib cage, shortness of breath and pain in the left side of her jaw. Her cardiologist met her at the ER and by morning she had a stent implanted in a coronary artery that was 80% blocked, potentially avoiding a serious heart attack.

Lucci wants her message to resonate with women, especially since learning that heart disease is their No. 1 killer, claiming more lives each year than all forms of cancer combined.

"We're not on our own to-do list," she said. "We are nurturing others. That's what we do, and we have places to go and people to see, and we don't think we can fit (caring for ourselves) into our schedules."


Lucci wants her message to resonate with women, especially since learning that heart disease is their No. 1 killer, claiming more lives each year than all forms of cancer combined.

Susan’s Message to Women

In addition to spending decades as Erica Kane on “All My Children,” Susan Lucci is known for being extremely fit. So when she felt “an elephant pressing on my chest” she knew something was very wrong. Doctors cleared two blocked arteries and now she’s helping the American Heart Association spread the word about the warning signs of heart disease.

Actress Susan Lucci in March 2017. (Photo by Mike Coppola Getty Images for United Cerebral Palsy of New York City)

Susan Lucci thriving since getting 2 stents in heart; recognizing warning signs avoided heart attack

Susan Lucci walks the runway for The American Heart Association's Go Red For Women Red Dress Collection 2019, February 7. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for AHA)

Take it from Susan Lucci: Prioritize your health

Susan Lucci reveals she had another cardiac incident in January. (Photo by Justice Apple)

Susan Lucci's new stent and renewed mission for women's heart health

Tiary: Empower Your Heart

Empower Your Heart: A new collection of jewelry from Susan Lucci in support of the American Heart Association.

For every Susan Lucci Custom Pendant Jewelry sold from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024, Tiary Jewelry, Inc. will donate 25% of the purchase price to the American Heart Association’s Life Is Why™ Campaign.