Not everyone thinks Angelina Jolie should go into sainthood for having a double mastectomy for preventative reasons. Melissa Etheridge, who is an actual breast cancer survivor and friend of Brad Pitt's, gave an interview to LGBT magazine The Washington Blade, questioning Jolie's "brave" decision. Etheridge has the same gene mutation as Jolie, but says the double mastectomy is "not something I could believe in for myself." Etheridge goes on, "I wouldn't call it the brave choice. I actually think it's the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer…Plenty of people have the gene mutation and everything and it never comes to cancer. I would say to anybody faced with that, that choice is way down the line on the spectrum of what you can do and to really consider the advancements we've made in things like nutrition and stress levels." Of course Melissa would shudder at the removal of a woman's boobs, and we get that it's not necesarilly a "brave" choice, switching from Pepsi to Diet Pepsi, now that's a brave choice. But you know what, when it comes to someone's personal health and family history, that's their business--Go away from their window!
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