Angelina Jolie Had a Double Mastectomy

Angelina Jolie has written a New York Times op-ed revealing that she underwent a preventative double mastectomy earlier this year. Jolie's mother, the actress Marcheline Bertrand, died in 2007 at 59-years-old from cancer. In the Times piece, Jolie writes about having long told her kids "not to worry" that "the same could happen to me." However, her doctors recently discovered that she carries a "faulty" gene, BRCA1, that predisposes her to both ovarian and breast cancer.

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