Angelina Jolie and Julia Roberts Share Words of Wisdom with Younger Selves
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- Published on Friday, 10 October 2014 10:34
- Written by Hollywood
Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Jodie Foster and Julia Roberts have shared their best pieces of advice for their younger selves as part of People magazine's 40th anniversary issue.Editors asked a host of celebrities to revisit their pasts for the special October (14) edition and reveal what they would have wanted to know in their youths. The stars offered words of encouragement and love.Jolie insists she wouldn't "change anything", but encourages her younger self to travel more, saying, "I would probably say enjoy the freedom as much as you possibly can before it goes away. Enjoy the walks in the park and the backpacking and travelling and living. Which I did, but I would have liked to have done more before it became a little less easy to do so." The newlywed mum of six adds, "You can never prepare for the future, because it's all those things that build up to who you are. You have to let your younger self be scared of things and attack things head on. Make bold choices and make mistakes, and it's all those things that add up to the person you later become."Meanwhile, Roberts encourages her younger self to "be happy with your natural curls" and "relish every moment with Dad", and Lopez writes, "Keep your feet on the ground, don't forget who you are, and love yourself - appreciate yourself."
Former beauty queen Halle Berry wishes she had been more relaxed during her youth, saying, "Everything happens for a reason. The highs. The lows. It's all for a higher development. And I would not stress about the down times. That's part of one's evolution", while Foster regrets not stepping behind the camera earlier in her career, stating, "I wish I could have directed more in my 30s."Transgender Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox has also opened up to her teenage self, urging her to "know you are beautiful" and adding, "You are not crazy for knowing you are a girl. This knowledge about who you are is not a disappointment to anyone, but an acknowledgement of God's plan for you."Jennifer Aniston, Cate Blanchett, Sharon Stone, Matthew McConaughey, rocker Adam Levine and singer Kelly Clarkson also shared their words of wisdom for the article.Meanwhile, Taylor Swift admits she wishes she'd have laughed more as a teenager, adding, "You have to laugh when you're humiliated, when you're rejected... At a certain point you have to be able to turn whatever bad experience you have into a funny dinner party joke."
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Angelina Jolie: I Feel in Contact with My Mother When I Look at My Children
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 October 2014 03:53
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Angelina Jolie honored her late mom, Marcheline Bertrand, at her wedding in August, and now the Oscar winner is opening up about how motherhood has connected her to her mom's memory.In a new new interview with French Marie Claire, Jolie speaks about her mother's legacy and its impact on her own humanitarian work.Bertrand, who passed away in 2007 after a long battle with ovarian cancer, "was very soft but could move mountains for her kids," Jolie, 39, told the magazine. "That's something I always admire in women: that mix of softness and strength. She was half Indian, and I remember that as a small girl, she took me to a dinner for Amnesty International." "She always tried to understand the complexity of the world. She had a great heart which was sensitive to the world's violence."Asked whether she believes in life after death, Jolie replied, "I'm not certain ... I feel in contact with my mother when I look at my children. I can feel her influence over me then. I see that my way of raising them resembles the way she raised my brother and I. It's more apparent with my daughters Shiloh and Vivienne. Therefore, yes, my mother is there, present in this influence, all the time."The actress, who has been in Malta with new husband Brad Pitt and their six kids as part of a working honeymoon, also spoke about their upcoming romantic drama By the Sea."We'll play an American couple in the south [of France] that should remind you no doubt of someone."
As for the couple's real-life home base in the south of France, Château Miraval, Jolie says it is "perfectly situated" for their busy family."I'm not very good at relaxing," she says. "I can't stay put. I read, write, negotiate films, I carry my office around with me." Miraval, she notes, "is close to European cities, but also to Africa and the Middle East. To all the theaters of operations where my United Nations work obliges me to go. L.A. is clearly too far from all that." Speaking about her role as a special envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency, Jolie addressed her work at The Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, where she delivered the opening remarks in London in June.Given her ongoing activism, would she ever be tempted to run for office? "I don't think my family would agree," she says. "And then I don't know how I could be more useful than now, because my position as a public figure helps so much in generating media attention for my fight." One thing she does know for certain: Her famous tattoo collection is sure to grow – possibly influenced by her upcoming WWII film, Unbroken."You can be certain I'll have a new one soon," she says. "Without a doubt, something with Japanese inspiration."
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'Angelina Jolie effect' on breast cancer screening endures
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- Published on Friday, 19 September 2014 10:41
- Written by CBC
The "Angelina Jolie effect" on referrals for genetic counselling for breast cancer risks was immediate and long-lasting, a new U.K. study suggests.The Hollywood celebrity announced her decision to be tested for the cancer-linked BRCA1 gene and subsequent double mastectomy, to reduce her risk of breast and ovarian cancer because of her family history, in May 2013. The announcement fuelled publicity about breast screening.In Thursday’s issue of the journal Breast Cancer Research, British investigators say referrals first increased by 2.5 times and remained around nearly double their previous levels through October."The Angelina Jolie effect has been long-lasting and global, and appears to have increased referrals to centres appropriately," Gareth Evans, a professor of clinical genetics at Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention in Manchester and his co-authors concluded.There were concerns the increase in appointments for screening after Jolie’s announcement might have been from "worried well" patients coming back for another test. But Evans said, in fact, many were women who were already overdue for screening. Similarly, researchers in Toronto told a breast cancer conference earlier this month that the effect seemed to increase awareness and referrals for women who were truly at high risk for hereditary breast cancer.The U.K. researchers pointed to other examples of female celebrities who spurred increased use of health resources, such as higher colonoscopy rates after Katie Couric’s colorectal cancer awareness campaign on The Today Show in 2000 and Kylie Minogue’s breast cancer diagnosis in Australia.Jolie’s announcement likely had a bigger impact than other celebrity announcements "possibly due to her glamorous image and relationship to Brad Pitt. This may have lessened patients’ fears about a loss of sexual identity, post preventative surgery, and encouraged those who had not previously engaged with health services to consider genetic testing."They concluded that education of the general public is important in increasing awareness of, and improving access to, familial cancer services.
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Angelina Jolie’s Demons Revealed: A Secret Hospital Stay, Self-Harm, & Incest Rumors
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- Published on Saturday, 13 September 2014 16:31
- Written by Radar Online
Angelina Jolie‘s former caregiver is speaking out on the record for the first time ever, and exclusively exposes some of the A-list actress’ darkest demons to RadarOnline.com.The family friend is blowing the lid off some of Jolie’s deepest secrets, including a hush-hush hospital stay, self-harm and incest rumors.“She just liked that little bit of pain. She liked that edge,” Cis Rundle — who came into Jolie’s life in the 70s when her best friend and Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, needed help with her 3-year-old daughter — told Radar, revealing that that actress loved to dip her fingers in wax.“She was a wild child. I knew she was always going to be a force to be reckoned with.”And a force she was — with many public stories coming out over the years about Jolie’s bizarre and dark behavior, but Rundle reveals there’s even more.“I carried her into the hospital. She was in that anorexic stage…it was one of her stages. She didn’t stay, it got worked out,” Rundle said.“But Marcheline got scared that she wasn’t eating.”Rundle said Jolie didn’t fit in at Beverly Hills High School because she wasn’t into all the cliques and the kids would make fun of her big (now trademark!) lips.“She didn’t really like Beverly Hills High School… They used to call her ‘Ubangi Lips,'” Rundle recalled.“They made fun of her because of her lips and the girls were mean to her. She has these broad shoulders and long legs, she moved like a gazelle.”And when Jolie infamously kissed her brother, James Haven, on the lips while walking the red carpet at the Oscars in 2001, society screamed incest, but Rundle explains what it really meant.“The day she kissed Jamie at the Oscars, it was the first day Marcheline was treated for cancer. They left the hospital together and got ready together,” she said.“Nobody in the world knew that they spent the day in the hospital. It was like, ‘Look where we’re at now.’ But the world saw something incestual. It was meant to be ‘Here we are.’ They only ever had each other. They had a very tight relationship with each other and their mother.”Rundle tells Radar she was a caregiver to Jolie for eight years and cherishes every moment she had with the family.“She knows I love her unconditionally. I was with them for eight years for almost every day of my life,” she concluded.“I cherish every moment I got to be with her. I’m so proud of her.”
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Newlywed Angelina Jolie Arrives in Malta After Her Wedding to Brad Pitt - See Her Wedding Ring!
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- Published on Saturday, 30 August 2014 12:55
- Written by Just Jared
Angelina Jolie flashes her wedding ring for the first time as she enjoys a boat ride in Gozo, Malta on Friday (August 29).The 39-year-old actress arrived in the country to presumably begin filming By the Sea with her new hubby Brad Pitt! Also seen on the boat with Angelina were her daughters Shiloh and Vivienne (not pictured).In case you missed the amazing news, Angelina and Brad got married this past weekend in France in a surprise wedding ceremony. The couple’s six kids were part of the ceremony in a big way. In all, twenty-two guests were invited to the affair.
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