Angelina Jolie, the memory of her mother and her “long battle against cancer”

On the occasion of World Ovarian Cancer Day, Angelina Jolie launched a important message from his social channels, talking about the importance of prevention. And posting a sweet photo with her mother, the actress Marcheline Bertrandwho died in January 2007 precisely because of this pathology. «She went off after one long battle against breast and ovarian cancer,” recalled the star of Hollywoodwishing her best wishes to her mother who would have made just these days 73 years old.

«In June (when he blows out 48 candles, ed) I will be one month from age where she was diagnosed with the disease» added the Oscar Prizewhich in the past has undergone both a double intervention of mastectomy than to one oophorectomy. “I underwent preventive operations to try to reduce the chances to get sick, but I continue to submit to check. My mother loved Jimmy Hendrixhe signed his letters Kiss the Sky, which he took a new meaning after his death,” continued Angelina.

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«I send my love to those who have lost loved ones and I send the force who is he fighting right now for own life and for the lives of those he loves,” he concluded. “To the other women I say: please save the time forr take care of you and have mammograms, blood tests, or ultrasounds, particularly if you have a family history of cancer”. A post that in a few hours recorded hundreds of thousands of likes and many comments, confirming the role of Angelina about certain topics.

Already in 2019, for example, he had written a beautiful essay on the Time in which – also starting in that case from the disappearance of the mother – he had explained his preventive surgery choices. “My mother’s doctor, when she died, told me that he had had to promise her that he would make sure I was taken care of, mine medical situation. For me, I simply feel that I have made certain choices for increase the chances of being able to see my children grow upto meet my grandchildren.”

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