Brian Damage
12-05-2009, 02:11 PM
Fittingly, Jane Kaczmarek hosted the Children's Defense Fund Los Angeles Beat the Odds Awards Thursday night, to honor local students who have overcome adversity – given that the actress has faced public personal challenges of her own the past months.
She and husband of 16 years Bradley Whitford filed divorce papers in June.
"It's been very hard," Kaczmarek, 53, told PEOPLE about the split. Still, she says, volunteering for charity organizations like the Children's Defense Fund and Clothes Off Our Back, which Kaczmarek and Whitford founded together, helps her get through.
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She and husband of 16 years Bradley Whitford filed divorce papers in June.
"It's been very hard," Kaczmarek, 53, told PEOPLE about the split. Still, she says, volunteering for charity organizations like the Children's Defense Fund and Clothes Off Our Back, which Kaczmarek and Whitford founded together, helps her get through.
http://www.people.com/people/news