Angelina Jolie Opens Up about New Single Life

This week, Angelina Jolie sat down for her first in-depth interview since her split from Brad Pitt. Speaking to Vanity Fair magazine, she opened up about what her life is like as a newly single woman.

Angelina spoke candidly about her goals in life, revealing that her main priority these days is to create a loving home for her six children. She said that while she’s still trying to get the hang of being a ‘domestic goddess’, her kids have been encouraging her all the way.

She also opened up about her childhood, and the affect her parents’ split had on her. Angelina has always been open about the fact that she does not have the best relationship with her father, Jon Voight. She did, however, say that the two of them are working on re-building their father-daughter relationship.

“I was very worried about my mother, growing up…I do not want my children to be worried about me. I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right even when you’re not sure it is [sic],” she said.

Angelina has often praised her mother for the way in which she raised her and her brother, and has said that her mother’s death due to cancer had a major impact on her life.

In 2013, Angelina underwent a preventative double mastectomy, in an effort to lower her chances of developing breast cancer. She did this after finding out that carries the faulty gene, known as BRCA1, which increased her risk of developing breast cancer to approximately 87%.

Two years later, in 2015, she revealed that she had both her ovaries and her fallopian tubes removed as a preventative measure against ovarian cancer.

She revealed in the Vanity Fair interview that she had no qualms about the surgery.

“I went into the actual surgery happy as they come…I was skipping. Because at that point it was just preventative,” she said.

Angelina emphasised again that her main focus is her children, and that she never wants them to feel stressed or traumatised.