In a shocking revelation, the daughter of a rock star is thinking of doing an Angelina Jolie-that is, removing her breasts and ovaries.
Kelly Osbourne, 30, mentioned during her appearance in The Talk last Tuesday, March 24, that she may also go through the same surgeries Angelina Jolie had since, like the A-list star, she also carries the BRCA1 gene, a well-known breast cancer gene. Although carrying a cancer gene doesn't have to mean the woman eventually develops cancer, it significantly increases the risk. In her first op-ed in the New York Times after she underwent mastectomy and a reconstructive breast surgery, Jolie shared that the gene made her at least 75% at risk of having breast cancer, the same disease that killed her mother.
The young Osbourne is also familiar with cancer. It can be recalled that about a decade ago, her mother, Sharon, who co-hosts the same show but was absent during her daughter's appearance, suffered from advanced colon cancer with a survival rate of only 33% after the cells had already spread to her lymph nodes. She definitely conquered the disease but not without repercussions including a severe depression of Jack who once decided to commit suicide. Their family's struggle with the disease was documented during one of the seasons of their reality show, The Osbournes.
Sharon encouraged the family to take a genetic testing, a diagnostic tool used to determine the presence of possible cancer genes. It was then that Kelly discovered she had it.
Although she seems definite to go through the same surgical path, it's unclear when she's planning to do it. Right now, she wants to have children and then take the necessary precautions later to ensure that she will be around to raise them.
Jolie has been praised for her bold move to decrease her risk of cancer. In fact, the UK's National Health Service attributes her confession on mastectomy to the sharp increase of breast cancer screenings and preventive surgeries.