Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie recently sat down for an interview with The Today Show, where the couple opened up about Angelina's cancer scare (Angelina lost her mother Marcheline Bertrand to ovarian cancer at the age of 56 in 2007). Here's what they had to say:
Jolie: "We had some of the same nurses, some of the same doctors. So, the doctor that did my ovary surgery was my mother's doctor. And apparently my mother had said to her, 'Promise me you will take Angie's ovaries out.' So when we kind of got together, we both had a big cry, and she said, 'I promised your mother, and I gotta do this.'''
On By The Sea being inspired by Jolie's grief after losing her mother:
Jolie: "We can't say what the whole film is about, but a lot of the film was when I went to visit my mom in the hospital, when she found out she had cancer the first time, she was gonna have her ovaries removed, (and) she was very upset, feeling like...they're taking out her parts that were female, and there was a woman down the hall who was wailing. I later found out it was a young woman who had not had children yet, and that put everything into perspective."
On going through menopause:
Jolie: "Every woman is different when they go through menopause, and...I didn't know emotionally how I would feel. I knew the breast would be a bigger surgery and physically changing. The ovaries is more, your hormones changing and your emotions changing, but it's different. You feel different."
On the decision to remove Jolie's ovaries:
Pitt: "There was no vanity to my wife's approach. It was mature. 'This is our life and we're gonna make the best of it.' There was a strength in that. It was just another one of those things in life that makes you tighter, and she was doing it for the kids, and she was doing it for her family so we could be together."
Jolie: "I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn't something where I was gonna feel less of a woman because my husband wasn't gonna let that happen,'' Jolie said. "To face these issues together and speak about them and talk about what it is to be human, I think can be a beautiful thing."
And on where Angelina could use some improvement in their marriage (the couple have been married a year):
Jolie: "Every three months I'll say, 'Honey, I think I should learn how to cook.'''
Pitt: "I just humor it. But really, she has no business in the kitchen."
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