Angelina Jolie had a precentive mastectomy to reduce her risk of genetic breast cancer

    

Angelina Jolie was born in 4 June 1975 at USA (California)Angelina Jolie is an Oscar-winning actress who has become popular by taking on the title role in the "Lara Croft" series of blockbuster movies. Angelina is left-handed and therefore had to have guns specially made so that she could reload them easily for “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

One of Angelina’s nicknames is Cat woman.Her first tattoo is a dragon, a Japanese symbol for death. She also has a tattoo of the Tennessee Williams quote, “A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages” on her Left forearm.

She has the longitudes and latitudes of her kids’ birthplace tattooed on her arm.Angelina began modeling at age 14. She eventually played real-life supermodel Gia Carangi in the HBO biopic “Gia,” Jolie’s first breakthrough role.

Growing up, Angelina says she always dreamed of being a funeral director
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She described how she’d tested positive for a faulty BRCA1 gene and decided to have a preventive double mastectomy. Jolie went through the procedure to reduce her personal risks of breast cancer (from 87 percent to under 5 percent) and ovarian cancer, from which her mother died from in 2007 at age 56. She said, “I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer” .she wrote, “It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options.” While many patients and experts in breast cancer community are praising Jolie for her brave decision. Jolie's honesty about the surgery helped raise awareness and got people talking about breast cancer and the faulty gene, BRCA1 and BRCA2 that may cause it.She has a fascination with Blood, Angelina married Johnny Lee Miller in a black leather pants and a white shirt, on which she painted her husband’s name in her own blood .When Angelina and Billy Bob Thornton were married, they each wore a vial of one another’s blood around their necks. Brad and Angelina have six kids.

Angelina holds a Private Pilot Certificate with Airplane, Single Engine and Land rating. This means she has the ability to legally fly a single-engine plane based on land.

Angelina hasn’t only received awards for her acting. In 2003, Angelina was the first-ever recipient of the Citizen of the World Award from the United Nations Correspondents Association. She was also awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA in 2005.she’s highly involved in charity work.

Angelina has said her biggest fear is losing her children. Angelina has admitted that she often thinks about death.

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