“I share these scars with many women I love.”

Twelve years after her preventative double mastectomy in 2013, Angelina Jolie is sharing for the first time why she is comfortable sharing her scars from the operation.

The actress bravely shared her scars in a new interview with TIME France, telling the publication, “I share these scars with many women I love. And I’m always moved when I see other women share theirs.”

Jolie underwent the procedure six years after losing her beloved mother, Marcheline Bertrand, to breast cancer in 2007. The actress said that doctors told her that tests found that she had the BRCA1 gene, which significantly increased her risk of breast cancer; this pushed her to undergo the preventative double mastectomy, which she wrote about in a May 2013 piece for The New York Times.

“I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy,” she wrote at the time. “But it is one I am very happy that I made. My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.”

She called her “proactive” choice one that was “not easy” but “is one I am very happy I made.”

The mother of six also had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed as a preventative measure against developing ovarian cancer, she shared in March 2015.

“Every woman should always be able to determine her own healthcare journey and have the information she needs to make informed choices,” Jolie told TIME France. “Genetic testing and screening should be accessible and affordable for women with clear risk factors or a significant family history.”

“When I shared my experience in 2103, it was to encourage informed choices,” Jolie added. “Healthcare decisions must be personal, and women must have the information and support they need to make those choices. Access to screening and care should not depend on financial resources or where someone lives.”

She continued, “Hardships, illnesses, and pain are part of our existence, but what matters is how we face them.”

Angelina Jolie Is Reportedly Planning to Leave L.A. and Move Abroad

The actress has long expressed a desire to live elsewhere in the world, outside of Los Angeles.

The youngest of Angelina Jolie’s six children—twins Knox and Vivienne—are nearly 18, and after they become adults, Jolie is likely to move abroad. In preparation for that, People reported that the actress is getting her historic home ready for sale and is “eyeing several locations abroad” to move to after she leaves Los Angeles. A rep for Jolie did not immediately respond to InStyle‘s request for comment.

Jolie first purchased the home in 2017 and has been living there “because of the custody arrangement” with her ex-husband Brad Pitt, a source told the outlet. Page Six was the first to report that Jolie planned to list the estate for sale, and the source speaking to People added that Jolie “never wanted to live in L.A. full time. She didn’t have a choice.” (Jolie and Pitt share six children: Maddox, 24, Pax, 21, Zahara, 20, Shiloh, 19, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17.)

As soon as the twins turn 18 in the summer of 2026, Jolie “plans to relocate,” the source added. “She’ll be very happy when she’s able to leave Los Angeles.”

Some improvements are needed to the home, which the insider added is “a historic masterpiece and truly such a beautiful estate.” The home is a 1913 build, and Jolie purchased the property 104 years later for $24.5 million. The home has six bedrooms and 10 bathrooms across 11,000 square feet.

Jolie herself previously told The Hollywood Reporter in 2024 that she still lived in L.A. “because I have to be here from a divorce.” (Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016, the year before she purchased her home.)

“When you have a big family, you want them to have privacy, peace, safety,” Jolie told the publication. “I have a house now to raise my children, but sometimes this place can be…that humanity that I found across the world is not what I grew up with here.”

While it’s unknown where Jolie plans to go exactly after she leaves L.A., she did previously say, “I’ll spend a lot of time in Cambodia”—which is where she adopted her eldest son Maddox from in 2002. She said at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February that the country is the one place “in my heart” that she considers her home, per People.

“I’ll spend time visiting my family members wherever they may be in the world,” Jolie previously said of her future plans.

Billy Bob Thornton Gives a Rare Update on His Relationship With Angelina Jolie 22 Years After Their Divorce

“She and I are still very, very close friends,” he shared.

 

 

•  up about his relationship with Angelina Jolie in a new interview with Rolling Stone.
• “She and I are still very, very close friends,” he shared.
• The pair married in 2000 after a short relationship, and divorced in 2003.

Before there was Brangelina, there was… Billy Bobjelina? Anyway, back in the early 2000s, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton were one of the hottest couples in Hollywood. The pair tied the knot in 2000 after a brief two month romance, and they split just a few years later in 2003. Now, 22 years later, Thornton is reflecting on their marriage—and it seems all of his memories are fond ones.

“Angelina and I had a great time together,” he said in a new interview with Rolling Stone. “That was one of the greatest times of my life.”

He added that he and Jolie remain “very, very close friends” despite their marriage not working out.

 

 

Thornton also reflected on the difficulties that came with being a famous couple. “When we got together, for some reason, the people and the media are very interested in celebrity couples, that seems to be a very popular thing,” he said, adding that everything they said “became sound bites.” One of the most popular soundbites? That they each wore vials of each other’s blood, which Thornton explained, was a big exaggeration.

“We each had a little locket, literally with a drop of blood in them,” he said. “That’s a romantic little idea, and that’s all that was. But by the time it’s over, we’re vampires. We live in a dungeon, we drink each other’s blood, and this kind of stuff.”

Back in 2018, Thornton made similar comments about their short-lived relationship.

 

 

Speaking on the HFPA in Conversation podcast, Thornton said, “I look at that time as a great time. Angie is still a friend of mine and she’s a great person and she’s done so much.”

He also explained why he thinks their relationship failed. “We just had different lifestyles. Hers is a global lifestyle and mine is an agoraphobic lifestyle,” he said. “So, that’s really—that’s the only reason we’re probably not still together, maybe, because of a different path in life we wanted to take.”

Jolie was Thornton’s fifth marriage. In 2014, he married for a sixth time, tying the knot with Connie Angland, his current wife. “I found the right spot to be,” he told Rolling Stone of his current marriage. “The other times I got married were just like, you had a little too much to drink one night and somebody said, ‘We should get married.’ You go, ‘Yeah, OK.’ I always tell people, at least I was trying.”

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