Angelina Jolie posted this throwback. (courtesy: angelinajolie)
New Delhi:
Ahead of what would have been her mom’s 73rd birthday (May 9), Hollywood famous person Angelina Jolie shared a shifting Instagram put up by which she urged girls world wide to care for themselves. Sharing a beautiful throwback picture of herself as a child together with her mom, Hollywood star Marcheline Bertrand, Angelina Jolie detailed her mom’s decade-long battle with breast and ovarian most cancers. In her observe – shared on the event of World Ovarian Cancer Day (May 8) – the Changeling star wrote, “Tomorrow would have been my mother’s 73rd birthday. She passed away 15 years ago, after a long struggle with breast and ovarian cancer. In June, I will be a month away from the age when she was diagnosed. I have had preventive surgeries to try to lessen chances but I continue to have check-ups. My mom loved [Jimi] Hendrix. And would always sign her letters ‘Kiss the Sky’. It took on new meaning after she passed.” Marcheline Bertrand died on the age of 56 in 2007.
Urging girls to “look after themselves,” Angelina Jolie continued: “Sending my love to those who have also lost loved ones and strength to those who are fighting at this very moment for their lives and the lives of those they love. And to other women, please take the time to look after yourself and go for your mammograms and blood tests or ultrasounds, particularly if you have a family history of cancer…”
Take a glance the Angelina Jolie’s put up right here:
For context, the preventive surgical procedures that the Oscar winner is referring to in her observe is a double mastectomy that she underwent in 2013, adopted by surgical procedures to take away her ovaries and fallopian tubes. In addition to her mom, Angelina Jolie additionally misplaced her aunt and grandmother to most cancers. Using her private experiences to lift consciousness about most cancers, Angelina Jolie wrote in an essay for Time journal: “My mother fought cancer for nearly a decade. As I stood in the hallway of the hospital waiting for my mother’s body to be collected and taken to be cremated, her doctor told me she had promised my mother that she would make sure I was informed about my medical options. Years later, I was able to have a genetic test that revealed I carried a gene, the so-called BRCA1, that predisposes me to cancer. The test came too late for the other women in my family.”
Explaining her resolution to go forward with the preventive surgical procedures, Angelina Jolie added: “I had an estimated 87% risk of developing the disease and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer. Because of my high risk, experts recommended preventive surgeries. I had a double mastectomy and later removed my ovaries and fallopian tubes, significantly reducing, although not removing altogether, my risk of developing cancer,” including that she hoped her decisions will permit her to dwell longer.
Angelina Jolie was beforehand married to Hollywood star Brad Pitt with whom she shares six youngsters.
Source: www.ndtv.com