Elizabeth Edwards is slowly re-entering the spotlight nearly six weeks after the bombshell news exploded that her husband, former senator and presidential hopeful, John Edwards, had been involved in an affair with a campaign worker.

In an interview with the Detroit Free Press, Edwards answered questions about her husband's affair with her usual candor and grace. When asked if she had forgiven him, she responded, "I don't want to feed the monster if you don't mind." She pointed out that if she'd had a leg amputated, no one would ask, "Are you over that leg thing yet?"

She said, "When you mention trust, that is probably the most difficult hurdle," but also said she is undergoing "an ongoing process of finding your feet again."

She told the Free Press that she wants to make sure her children -- Cate, 26, Emma Claire, 10, and Jack, 8, have positive image of their father. She wants them to think of him as, "an advocate for poverty, not for this current picture of him to be the only one they carry with them, as young people and as adults."

Edwards is fighting Stage 4 breast cancer, and has made it her mission to try to help other women who might end up in her boat. Edwards, who once put off a mammogram for eight years, told the newspaper, "You can get your nails done on a walk-in basis, you can get your hair colored, but you can't get a mammogram" as a walk-in.