Tough choice: Angelina and Brad were pictured at Shiloh and Zahara's soccer match on March 15 - Angelina was weighing her surgery decision at this time
Signs of support: The famous couple shared a rare public kiss at the game - it's now clear it was a time of turmoil while Angelina feared she had cancer and was contemplating surgery
Loving: Angelina reveals in her op-ed that Brad flew from France immediately after hearing his wife was at risk of cancer
Two years after Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy to prevent the onset of breast cancer, the actress has revealed that she has since had her ovaries removed due to a second health scare.
The 39-year-old Maleficent star published a lengthy opinion piece, titled Angelina Jolie Pitt: Diary Of A Surgery in the New York Times on Monday explaining her decision.
Her revelation comes as Brad Pitt was seen comforting his wife at Shiloh and Zahara's soccer match. It's now clear the couple's affection came during Angelina's agonizing wait to establish whether she had cancer - a fear which ultimately prompted her to have surgery.
With her ovaries and Fallopian tubes now gone, the mother-of-six has entered early menopause and will not be able to have any more children, she writes in her candid, deeply personal essay
In May 2013, Brad Pitt's wife famously had her breasts surgically removed after she found out she was carrying a genetic mutation that greatly increased her risk of potentially fatal breast cancer.
In the op-ed piece, Jolie explains that the mutation in the BRCA1 gene gave her an estimated 87 per cent risk of breast cancer and 50 per cent risk of ovarian cancer.
The director of Unbroken and the upcoming By The Sea, starring her newlywed husband, lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to cancer.
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