Angelina Jolie underwent a surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes last week. The actress announced the news in candid op-ed for The New York Times on Monday. She said she is now in menopause as a result of the procedure. "I will not be able to have any more children, and I expect some physical changes," she wrote. The procedure follows up Angelina's double mastectomy, which she wrote about in May 2013. Angelina said she made the decision after a "blood test had revealed that I carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene" that gave her "an estimated 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer." As she explains in her latest piece, the results hit especially close to home. "I lost my mother, grandmother and aunt to cancer," she wrote. For more on Angelina's perspective following the surgery, read the full article on NYTimes.com.
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