Overview

• In a new Hello! magazine profile published Oct. 7 and reported this week, Jolie reflects on her decisions and reiterates her comfort with them.
• She confirms carrying a BRCA gene mutation and points to doctors’ earlier estimates of roughly 87% breast and 50% ovarian cancer risk.
• Her choices were influenced by losing her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, at 56 in 2007, as well as the death of her grandmother.
• Jolie underscores that the procedures were her own decision and says she is not prescribing them for others, emphasizing the value of informed choice.
• She links her experiences to her film Couture, which portrays a woman facing breast cancer, and says she honored her mother during production by wearing her necklace and ashes.