Personal Life
She was born in Shanghai to a business magnate, Hsu Ta Tung, and later married Stephen Fan Sheung-tak until his death from liver cancer in 2004. The couple had a son and a daughter. Their daughter suffered from renal failure in 1995, and Fan donated a kidney to save her daughter's life. Fan was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001 and underwent a mastectomy. She is Honorary President of the Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation.
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