The gorgeous 37-year-old Hollywood actress has been very brave and has written an article for the New York Times explaining that she came to the conclusion that she would undergo a double mastectomy after finding out she had the BRCA1 cancer gene, this particular gene means that she would have an 87% chance of developing breast cancer in the future, this gene ran in her family and back in 2007 Angelina’s mother Marcheline Bertrand died after battling ovarian cancer, so I think many would agree that the decision to under go such a major operation whilst being so young was not such a tough choic