John Travolta’s first love died of breast cancer 43 years before Kelly Preston
death from breast cancer Sunday was a tragic end to her 29-year marriage to John Travolta, which bore three children: Ella Bleu, Benjamin and the late Jett, who died in 2009 of a seizure.Preston’s passing at 57 is, sadly, not the first time 66-year-old Travolta has lost a significant other to breast cancer.In 1977, actress Diana Hyland, who the actor had been seriously dating for a year, died of the very same cause. At 41, she was 18 years older than 23-year-old Travolta, and somewhat scandalously played his mother in the TV movie “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.”As soon as the cameras rolled, Travolta was smitten.“I thought I was in love before, but I wasn’t,” Travolta told People magazine in 1977.