NEW YORK: Angelina Jolie revealed on Tuesday that she has under-gone a preventive double mastec-tomy to reduce her risk of con-tracting breast cancer.

Jolie said she was speaking out to encourage other women with a family history of cancer—her mother died of it age 56—to seek out information from doctors and make informed choices about their bodies.

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