Angelina Jolie’s preventative double mastectomy has landed her the cover of the latest issue of Time Magazine.

The magazine went with Angelina, and covered a story about how her decision will put “genetic testing in the spotlight.” The cover photo was taken before her surgery in February.

“[When] a woman known for her powerfully iconic beauty announced that she had undergone an elective double mastectomy to reduce her genetically high risk of breast cancer, it was a cultural and medical earthquake — a revelation so arresting it became the subject of TIME’s newest cover story,” wrote Time’s Jeffrey Kluger.

Jolie revealed in a New York Times op-ed Tuesday that she had a preventative double mastectomy after discovering she had a mutated BRCA1 gene known to raise risks of breast and ovarian cancers. Jolie has been widely praised for the decision and for sharing the news publicly.

What do you think of her cover? Does she deserve the amount of press she’s getting?

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Everyone is speaking out about Angelina Jolie’s preventative double mastectomy. Her fiance, Brad Pitt, handfuls of celebrities, even Dr. Oz. Now Brad Pitt’s mom, Jane, has spoken out in support of her son’s future wife.

After she revealed she underwent a preventative double mastectomy, Angelina Jolie’s family members are voicing their support.

“We’re so very proud of Angie, this means so much to our family especially our grandchildren. We love her dearly,” Brad Pitt’s mother, Jane Pitt, says in a statement.

Jolie’s brother, James Haven, also spoke out about her decision to undergo the procedure.

“My sister like our mother always put her children first,” he says in a statement. “I am so grateful to be her brother.”

In a New York Times op-ed piece, Jolie describes her difficult choice to have surgery after genetic tests showed her to have a high risk of developing the disease. Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian cancer at 56 in 2007.

Jolie, 37, also expressed how much she leaned on Pitt, 49, whom she described as “loving and supportive,” and there for her “for every minute of the surgeries.”

Pitt released a statement of his own on Tuesday, saying, “Having witnessed this decision firsthand, I find Angie’s choice, as well as many others like her, absolutely heroic. I thank our medical team for their care and focus.”

There’s another story swirling around this afternoon, saying that Brad is dying to marry Angelina sooner than later. A source told The Mail, “Angie is keen on a wedding and the kids are clamouring for a marriage and keep asking Brad and Angie when it’s happening. Brad has been caught up in production turmoil with his new film World War Z, so there’s been no wedding planning as a result, but Angie has said it will happen sooner rather than later. They are all for all intents and purposes married, but it’s become clear that it’s important to them to make it official.”

That would be great if they tied the knot!! I want pics!

It was also revealed today that Angelina was going to have her ovaries removed. I wonder if she’s going to freeze any eggs – or if she’s done having kids?

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Angelina Jolie, 37, has experienced no complications since undergoing a double mastectomy in February, and reconstructive surgery in April. According to sources, “she’s doing well.”

After going through with the mastectomy, Angelina isn’t done yet. The mother of six is also planning on undergoing a surgery to remove her ovaries. Because she has the faulty BRCA1 gene, her chances of getting ovarian cancer is over 50%. No word as to when she’ll be having her next series of procedures.

In the weeks surrounding the surgeries, “life was normal” for the children, says a source, and they didn’t notice anything amiss.

Adds a family insider: “Her kids always come first to her.”

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Brad Pitt is calling his fiance Angelina Jolie “heroic” after the Oscar-winning actress revealed that she had undergone a double mastectomy because of her extremely high cancer risk.

Angelina revealed in a letter to the New York Times that she chose to undergo the drastic procedure because of her extremely high cancer risk (some experts put it at 87%).

Angelina, 37, lost her mother Marcheline Bertrand of ovarian cancer in 2007 at the age of 56.

Brad Pitt told the Standard, “Having witnessed this decision firsthand, I find Angie’s choice, as well as so many others like her, absolutely heroic. I thank our medical team for their care and focus. All I want for is for her to have a long and healthy life, with myself and our children. This is a happy day for our family.”

Angelina Jolie has undergone a preventative double mastectomy. The actress revealed the news herself in an article she wrote for The New York Times titled ‘My Medical Choice.’

Angelina explained that she underwent the breast removal procedure because he has the mutated BRCA1 gene, which is known to increase a woman’s chance of getting both breast and ovarian cancers.

Angelina, 37, explained her decision in the article (which you can read in full here):

My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman.

Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.

On April 27, I finished the three months of medical procedures that the mastectomies involved. During that time I have been able to keep this private and to carry on with my work.

My own process began on Feb. 2 with a procedure known as a “nipple delay,” which rules out disease in the breast ducts behind the nipple and draws extra blood flow to the area. This causes some pain and a lot of bruising, but it increases the chance of saving the nipple. CONTINUE READING (SHE OPENS UP ABOUT BRAD PITT) AFTER THE JUMP! (more…)

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Yesterday we got our first look at a series of pictures taken by David LaChapelle, which were being put up for auction at Christie’s. The photos were originally taken for a Rolling Stone article Angelina Jolie did back in 2000. The picture from yesterday had never been seen before, but these have seen the light of day before. The unseen photo will be part of “The Wild Side of Photography” auction in May.

A beautiful picture of a carefree Angelina Jolie posing with a white horse will lead a sale of photographs at London auction house Christie’s next month. The never-before-seen image by celebrated photographer David LaChapelle is expected to fetch between £25,000 and £35,000 when it goes under the hammer as part of The Wild Side of Photography sale.

The colour snap from 2001 features the actress as a 25-year-old throwing back a mane of brunette hair and showing off some of her many tattoos, including a ‘Billy Bob’ drawing on her arm, a homage to her then husband which has now been erased.

The photograph of the 37-year-old actress will go on sale alongside a black and white print of Angelina and Brad Pitt posing as husband and wife for Steven Klein in 2005. The black and white image was taken as part of a shoot that the couple appeared in for W magazine before they were officially an item and is expected to to fetch £8,000-12,000.

Both pictures are part of the Contemporary section of the sale that is highlighted by four works by controversial American photographer LaChapelle.

Christie’s claim that this is ‘an opportunity for discerning collectors around the world to acquire photographs with remarkable provenance.’

She looks beautiful in these pictures. It’s back when she had a little meat on her body. She looks so much more beautiful with curves.

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