For Angelina Joliescars are an eternal reminder of her journey through life.
That’s why the Oscar winner doesn’t mind having a few marks on her body from her double mastectomy, which she underwent in 2013 after doctors discovered she possesses a gene that increases the risk of breast cancer.
“I’ve always been someone more interested in the scars and the life that people carry,” she said in a recent interview with French radio station France Inter. “I’m not drawn to some perfect idea of a life that has no scars.”
In fact, the 50-year-old—who shares kids Maddox24, Pax22, Zahara21, Shiloh19, as well as twins Knox and Vivienne17, with ex Brad Pitt—said the double mastectomy scars will always serve as reminders of the “choice I made to do what I could do to stay here as long as I could with my children.”
