This is from a TV Guide interview with Jessica Queller, a writer for Gossip Girl (and former-writer for WB shows like Felicity and Gilmore Girls) who recently published a memoir about coping with the breast cancer gene. While she was writing for Gilmore Girls, she had a double mastectomy:

TVGuide.com: What was the reaction of creators Amy Sherman Palladino and Dan Palladino?
Queller: Amy and Dan and I weren't close. I wasn't going to get a lot of sympathy from Amy…. I always say, the warmer the tone of the show, the meaner the bosses. [When Queller finally told them that she was having the surgery, Sherman-Palladino said, "Can't you just dip your boobs in green tea?"]

Um, yikes?