Angelina Jolie-Pitt has accepted growing old and early menopause following her mastectomy.
People reports the 40-year-old actress opened up about her reaction after losing her ovaries and fallopian tubes in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.
"I actually love being in menopause," Jolie-Pitt told the newspaper. "I haven't had a terrible reaction to it, so I'm very fortunate. I feel older, and I feel settled being older."
The By The Sea actress and director underwent mastectomy in March to prevent cancer growth. Her decision to go through the preventive measure was urgent since her late grandmother Lois Bertrand and mother Marcheline Bertrand both lost their lives to ovarian cancer.
The mother of Maddox, 14, Pax, 11, Zahara, 10, Shiloh, 9, and Knox and Vivienne, 9 pointed out her family has already given her the contentment she needed.
"Now I've settled into my life with my children and Brad," she said, adding her 51-year-old husband "made it very, very clear to me that what he loved and what was a woman to him was somebody who was smart, and capable, and cared about her family, that it's not about your physical body."
"So I knew through the surgeries that this wasn't going to be something that made me feel like less of a woman, because my husband wouldn't let that happen."
The actress previously told People she's even looking forward to growing old with her Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star already.
"We both appreciate the beauty in looking at each other and thinking, 'God, you're just getting stranger as you're getting older,'" she shared. "Brad and I are fortunate because we see the beauty in each other's changes," she added. "I'm more interested in his 50-year-old self than his 40-year-old self. And then you look forward to even more years together."
For Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie-Pitt, Hollywood marriages do last forever.
