Belinda Goldsmith: Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie: CANNES/LOS ANGELES - As a tattooed wild child wearing her husband's blood in a locket and luring Brad Pitt away from Hollywood rival Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie was dream fodder for the tabloid press, according to Reuters. Her deeply personal account of the decision to undergo the operation, published in the New York Times, won her wide praise for her courage and Pitt's support of her move has put the couple in a new light in and beyond Hollywood. Jolie said she made the difficult choice in order to "tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer." By Belinda Goldsmith and Piya Sinha-Roy But her transformation into a humanitarian campaigner and now poster girl for the fight against breast cancer with her revelation that, faced with a high cancer risk, she had undergone a double mastectomy has elevated her to heroine status in the media. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.