# @todayshow on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr_sW60ByMq
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/6233182-todayshow-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-05-08T20:15:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** TODAY (@TODAYshow) — https://gondola.cc/TODAYshow

## Caption

Angelina Jolie is honoring her late's mom's birthday by urging women to undergo screenings for breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

"Tomorrow would have been my mother’s 73rd birthday. She passed away 15 years ago, after a long struggle with breast and ovarian cancer," the 47-year-old Oscar winner wrote alongside a throwback pic of her and her mom, Marcheline Bertrand, which she posted on Instagram on May 8, World Ovarian Cancer Day.

Bertrand died in 2007 at age 56, after a nearly eight-year cancer battle.

"In June, I will be a month away from the age when she was diagnosed. I have had preventive surgeries to try to lessen chances but I continue to have check ups," continued the actor, who revealed in 2013 that she’d undergone a preventative double mastectomy to reduce her chances of developing breast cancer. She later opted to have her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed.

“Sending my love to those who have also lost loved ones and strength to those who are fighting at this very moment for their lives and the lives of those they love,” she wrote. “And to other women, please take the time to look after yourself and go for your mammograms and blood tests or ultrasounds, particularly if you have a family history of cancer," Jolie concluded.

#WorldOvarianCancerDay #WOCD2023

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