--- title: Angelina Jolie Pitt on Surgeries: 'I Can't Wait to Hit 50' description: "Both of the women in my family, my mother and my grandmother, started dying in their 40s" canonical: https://time.com/4077345/angelina-jolie-pitt-surgeries-turning-50/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-17T16:45:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:57:27.100Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Angelina Jolie: 'I Can't Wait to Hit 50 and Know I Made It' og:description: The actress talks about her preventative surgeries in a new interview og:url: https://time.com/4077345/angelina-jolie-pitt-surgeries-turning-50/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcba3518d5851a4a0/698868c0bc6cfc1d7b3d9f65/gettyimages-462146288.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4104 og:image:height: 2309 og:image:alt: IRAQ-UN-UNREST-DISPLACED og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Angelina Jolie: 'I Can't Wait to Hit 50 and Know I Made It' twitter:description: The actress talks about her preventative surgeries in a new interview twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcba3518d5851a4a0/698868c0bc6cfc1d7b3d9f65/gettyimages-462146288.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Angelina Jolie on Her Surgeries: 'I Can't Wait to Hit 50 and Know I Made It' > Sponsored content. 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After finding out she had a gene that raises her risk of developing breast cancer to 87%, Angelina Jolie elected to have a preventative double mastectomy._  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Oct 17, 2015 4:45 PM UTC  Angelina Jolie stands during a visit to a camp for displaced Iraqis in Khanke, a few miles from the Turkish border in Iraq's Dohuk province, on Jan. 25, 2015. Angelina Jolie stands during a visit to a camp for displaced Iraqis in Khanke, a few miles from the Turkish border in Iraq's Dohuk province, on Jan. 25, 2015. Safin Hamed—AFP/Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Oct 17, 2015 4:45 PM UTC Given that opportunities for women in Hollywood can become [few and far between as actresses age](http://time.com/4062700/hollywood-gender-gap/), it’s rare to hear from a celebrity who’s excited to grow older. But after what she’s gone through with her health, Angelina Jolie Pitt says [she can’t wait for her next big birthday.](http://www.vogue.com/13357646/angelina-jolie-pitt-november-2015-cover/) “Both of the women in my family, my mother and my grandmother started dying in their 40s,” Jolie Pitt, who covers _Vogue_‘s November issue, told the magazine. “I’m 40\. I can’t wait to hit 50 and know I made it.” In the past few years the actress has undergone two preventative surgeries—a double mastectomy and the removal of her fallopian tubes and ovaries—since learning she carried the BRCA1 gene mutation that put her at a high risk for certain cancers. Both Jolie Pitt’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, and her grandmother Lois Bertand died from ovarian cancer. “I wish my mom had been able to make those choices,” she told _Vogue_. She detailed the decision to have her most recent surgery in a New York _Times_ op-ed [earlier this year](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/opinion/angelina-jolie-pitt-diary-of-a-surgery.html). “I know my children will never have to say, ‘Mom died of ovarian cancer,’ ” she wrote. \[[_Vogue_](http://www.vogue.com/13357646/angelina-jolie-pitt-november-2015-cover/)\] ## Transcript Actress, activist, advocate, mother, Angelina Jolie is many things, and Tuesday the actress added proactive survivor to the list. In an op- ed piece for the New York Times, the actress talked about her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy after testing positive for BRCA1, a gene that increases a woman's risk of certain cancers. Jolie writes, quote, my doctors estimated that I had an 87 % risk of breast cancer and a 50 % risk of ovarian cancer. You guys look awesome tonight, Man. The Oscar winner began her preventative process in February, at the Pink Lotus Breast Center in Beverly Hills, where singer Sheryl Crow was treated for her breast cancer in 2006. Now, nine weeks later, she says the final surgery has been completed, and her breasts have been reconstructed with implants. Cancer is something Jolie knows only too well. Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died six years ago after a decade long battle with ovarian cancer. She was 56. Jolie talked about Bertrand in a 2011 60 Minutes interview. She didn't have much of her, her, her own career, her own life, her own experiences, her own, you know, everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. I will try my best. At 37, Jolie doesn't want the same legacy for her six children, writing, quote, I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer. Jolie says she wrote the New York Times op- ed to tell other women, that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy, but it is one I am very happy that I made, adding she chose not to keep her story private to let other women know they have options if they too are high- risk. 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