{"id":472685,"date":"2026-02-11T10:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:56:19","slug":"angelina-jolies-touching-confession-about-double-mastectomy-scars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472685\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie’s touching confession about double mastectomy scars"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\ufeffngelina Jolie<\/a> has opened up about her double mastectomy scars.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Oscar-winning<\/a> actress \ufeffsaid she didn’t mind having a few extra scars on her body because they serve as a reminder of what she chose to do in order to have more time with her kids in this lifetime.<\/p>\n

Jolie, 50, received a double mastectomy in 2013 \ufeffafter doctors discovered a gene that increases her risk of breast cancer.<\/p>\n

Watch the videos above.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"AngelinaA\ufeffngelina Jolie has opened up about her double mastectomy scars. (Getty)<\/p>\n

“I’ve always been someone more interested in the scars and the life that people carry,” she said in an interview with French radio station France Inter.<\/p>\n

“I’m not drawn to some perfect idea of a life that has no scars.”<\/p>\n

The actress shares six children with her ex-husband Brad Pitt: Maddox, 24, Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 19, as well as twins Knox and Vivienne, 17.<\/p>\n

She continued, saying she \ufeffsees the scars as a reminder of “the choice I made to do what I could do to stay here as long as I could with my children”.<\/p>\n

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\"AngelinaJolie, 50, received a double mastectomy in 2013 \ufeffafter doctors discovered a gene that increases her risk of breast cancer. (Getty)<\/p>\n

“I’m grateful that I had the opportunity to have the choice to do something proactive about my health.”<\/p>\n

“I lost my mom very when I was young. I’m raising my children without a grandmother,” she went on.<\/p>\n

Jolie’s mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, died at the age of 56 in 2007 after an almost 10-year battle with cancer.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Zahara Jolie-Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, Maddox Jolie-Pitt and Knox Jolie-Pitt. (Tim P. Whitby\/Getty Images)\"AngelinaIn December, the actress bravely displayed her scars for the first time while covering TIME France. (Nathaniel Goldberg-H&K for TIME France)<\/p>\n

“If you get to the end of your life and you haven’t made mistakes, you haven’t made a mess, you don’t have scars, you haven’t lived a full enough life.”\ufeff<\/p>\n

In December, the actress bravely displayed her scars for the first time while covering TIME France.<\/a><\/p>\n

“\ufeffI share these scars with many women I love. And I’m always moved when I see other women share theirs,” she told the publication.<\/p>\n

Jolie said the scars remind her of the decison she made to stay with her children. (Getty)<\/p>\n

“When I shared my experience in 2013, it was to encourage informed choices,” she said about women keeping on top of their health.<\/p>\n

In the powerful cover photo, \ufeffthe Maria star is wearing a low-cut black top as she stares pensively at the camera, placing her hand over her bare chest.<\/p>\n

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