Article continues below advertisementAngelina Jolie spoke out in a rare comment about the preventative double mastectomy and ovary removal she chose to undergo after discovering she carried a rare gene."I did choose to have that [surgery] because I lost my mother and my grandmother very young," Jolie, 50, explained in an interview with a news outlet published on October 7.Article continues below advertisementAngelina Jolie Made a Rare CommentSource: MEGAAngelina Jolie decided to undergo a double mastectomy in 2013.