She left her fans concerned that she had fallen ill after she shared a snap of herself in a hospital bed.
But Sharon Stone was aiming to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month with her selfie, which she shared with her Instagram followers on Monday.
The Basic Instinct actress, 62, wore a grey and white striped face mask and sunglasses while she waited to get a mammogram in hospital.
In a caption alongside her post, she urged her female fans to head out and get their annual breast cancer screening.
Mammogram: Sharon Stone has took to Instagram on Monday to share a snap of herself while she was getting a mammogram to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month
She wrote: ‘Getting my mammogram. Have you gotten yours ladies?
‘An annual screening mammography has decreased the DEATH RATE of breast cancer by 40%!!!’
Sharon shared the snap with her 2.3million Instagram followers, who flocked around to praise the Hollywood star for her candid comments about the disease.
Her post came during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is an international health campaign organised by major breast cancer charities annually in October.
Awareness: The Basic Instinct actress, 62, (pictured in May, 2014) urged her female fans to head out and get their annual breast cancer screening in the caption of her Instagram post
As well as increasing awareness about breast cancer, the annual initiative also aims to raise funds into research about the disease.
Other celebrities have flocked to support the campaign this year, with January Jones sharing an underwear snap to pledged her support for Breast Cancer Awareness month.
The Mad Men actress, 42, grinned as she posed in a light pink bra for the picture, which she shared with her one million Instagram followers last week.
January matched her bra with her pink ombre bobbed hair as she urged her followers to check their breasts regularly.
Alongside the snap, she said: ‘October is Breast Cancer awareness month! please please don’t procrastinate getting your mammograms/ultrasounds ladies!
‘Sending love to all who have fought and are currently fighting, and to those in my family who are, I love you and am standing with you!’
Campaign: January Jones also joined an initiative #kitstokickcancer by Kit Undergarments, sharing an underwear picture for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
The model helped to promote Kit Undergarments in her post, who are donating five per cent of their sales this month to Women’s Cancer Research Fund.
Her picture was part of the brand’s breast cancer awareness initiative #kitstokickcancer, which a number of other celebrities, including Katy Perry and Mindy Kaling, have backed.
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As well as raising awareness for breast cancer, Sharon Stone has also been encouraging her fans to vote in the upcoming US election.
The Ratched actress urged the ‘sexy’ women of Florida to vote in a letter penned on Sunday.
She made a political statement as she posted the open letter, encouraging Florida women to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
She wrote: ‘As a mom, a woman, and someone who sees you, I urge you to believe me when I say trust is why voting for a woman in the White House will save your families’ lives. Vote #BidenHarris to live.’
Stone went on to say she’s a ‘longtime infectious disease worker’ and has even presented an award to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who’s on the Trump administration’s beleaguered White House Coronavirus Task Force.
‘I helped your families and friends with HIV/AIDS and I will be there to help you recover from this,’ Sharon continued.
Sharon wants a better future for her sons – Laird Vonne, 15; and Quinn Kelly, 14 – as well as Roan Joseph, 20; from her five-year marriage to Phil Bronstein, which ended in 2004.
The star has not shied away from using her social media platform to educate fans about the pandemic and express her political views.
She has also shared photos of herself wearing face masks, and has urged her followers to stay at home in order to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Stone starred in films such as 1985’s King Solomon’s Mines and Total Recall in 1990.
Her most recent screen credit is Lenore Osgood in this year’s Netflix series Ratched, from TV wunderkind Ryan Murphy.
In the creepy, hospital-set show, she stars opposite Sarah Paulson as the infamous Nurse Mildred Ratched, first brought to life in an Oscar-winning performance by Louise Fletcher in 1975’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
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