Angelina Jolie describes her double mastectomy and ensuing scars as “a alternative” she is “grateful” she may make.
The 50-year-old actress had a preventative double mastectomy in 2013 after studying she had a excessive familial danger of getting the illness.
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Whereas she doesn’t typically focus on it, in a brand new interview with France Inter she mentioned that she loves her scars, describing them as “a alternative I made to remain right here so long as I may with my youngsters. I really like my scars due to that. And I’m grateful that I had the chance and the selection to do one thing proactive about my well being.”
She additionally mentioned she’s “at all times been somebody extra within the scars and the life that individuals carry. I’m not drawn to an ideal thought of a life that has no scars.”
Angelina felt that present process the surgical procedure was particularly essential to her as a result of she misplaced her mom, Marcheline Bertrandto most cancers when she was younger and is elevating her youngsters with out a grandmother.
“So for me, I feel that is life, and when you get to the tip of your life and also you haven’t made errors and also you haven’t made a multitude, you don’t have scars, you haven’t lived a full sufficient life,” the Mr. & Mrs. Smith star concluded.
Angelina‘s new film Couture can be launched in France on February 18. She not too long ago attended the premiere in a ravishing, sheer, bedazzled robe. See the photographs right here.