Angelina Jolie was forced into early menopause when she removed her ovaries and Fallopian tubes to prevent cancer and in a new interview, the actress says she loves the new changes to her body.
Jolie went public with the procedure in March in a New York Times op/ed called 'Diary of a Surgery.'
"I actually love being in menopause," she told Australia’s Daily Telegraph. "I haven’t had a terrible reaction to it, so I’m very fortunate. I feel older, and I feel settled being older."
Jolie, who shares six children with her husband Brad Pitt, has talked about her confidence in the decisions she’s made to decrease her odds of getting cancer. In 2013 she got a double mastectomy after a blood test revealed she had the cancer gene BRCA1.
"I feel happy that I’ve grown up,” she continued. “I don’t want to be young again.”
In her op/ed, Jolie, 40, wrote, “I will not be able to have any more children, and I expect some physical changes. But I feel at ease with whatever will come, not because I am strong but because this is a part of life. It is nothing to be feared."