Angelina Jolie makes first public appearance since announcing double mastectomy
Angelina Jolie made her first public appearance since announcing her double mastectomy, joining fiancé Brad Pitt on the red carpet in London for the premiere of his new movie.
The Oscar-winning actress has managed to stay out of the spotlight since announcing her operation in a column in The New York Times last month.
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The decision was made after finding she carried a gene giving her an 87 per cent chance of getting breast cancer.
The preventative surgery had cut that risk to 5 per cent.
The 37-year-old, praised for her courage in publicly revealing her surgery, is now reported to be planning another operation to remove her ovaries as the BRCA1 gene also gives her a 50 per cent chance of ovarian cancer.
On the red carpet on Sunday for the world premiere of Pitt's zombie film World War Z, Jolie said she welcomed the debate on women's health that the surgery had sparked. She also praised her partner as "a wonderful man and a wonderful father".