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"It wasn't an easy decision"/ Actress Angelina Jolie publicly shows her mastectomy scars

2025-12-16 18:04:00, Lifestyle CNA

"It wasn't an easy decision"/ Actress Angelina Jolie publicly

World-famous actress Angelina Jolie showed the world the results of her double mastectomy more than a decade after undergoing the preventive procedure in 2013.

"I share these signs with many women I love. And I'm always touched when I see other women sharing theirs," Jolie told Time magazine.

Jolie's mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, died at the age of 56 in 2007 after being diagnosed with cancer.

"It wasn't an easy decision"/ Actress Angelina Jolie publicly

In a May 2013 New York Times opinion piece called "My Medical Choice," Jolie said doctors told her that tests revealed she had a "faulty gene," BRCA1, which significantly increased her risk of breast cancer.

"I wanted to do this to show other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is a decision that I am very happy I made. My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87% to under 5%. I can tell my children that they do not need to be afraid of losing me to breast cancer," Jolie said.

In March 2015, Jolie said she also had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed as a preventative measure against developing ovarian cancer. /CNA

 

 





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