Sunday 7 August 2022 10:52 PM Mother of one, 29, wants to be the new Angelina Jolie... and prove there is ... trends now

Sunday 7 August 2022 10:52 PM Mother of one, 29, wants to be the new Angelina Jolie... and prove there is ... trends now
Sunday 7 August 2022 10:52 PM Mother of one, 29, wants to be the new Angelina Jolie... and prove there is ... trends now

Sunday 7 August 2022 10:52 PM Mother of one, 29, wants to be the new Angelina Jolie... and prove there is ... trends now

When Angelina Jolie had a preventative double mastectomy in 2013, it did much to raise awareness of a genetic mutation linked to a higher risk of ovarian and breast cancer.

Now a model is aiming to become the ‘new Angelina Jolie’ after undergoing a mastectomy following her sister’s breast cancer diagnosis.

Miss Jolie, whose mother died of ovarian cancer aged 56, decided to have the surgery after discovering she carried the mutated BRCA1 gene.

But lingerie model Jade Power, 29, carries another less well known gene called PALB2, which was only discovered in 2006, and similarly raises the risk of breast cancer.

Jade Power, 29, has taken the decision to have a double mastectomy to reduce her lifetime risk of breast cancer

Jade Power, 29, has taken the decision to have a double mastectomy to reduce her lifetime risk of breast cancer

It has led her to make the heartbreaking choice to have a double mastectomy at Guy’s Hospital in London.

Miss Power’s sister, Donna, 39, found out she carried a mutation in the PALB2 gene in September 2020 after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Jade, a former Miss Sussex, is now determined to reduce her lifetime risk of breast cancer – which is up to 63 per cent compared with 15 per cent for other women.

The mother-of-one said: ‘Angelina Jolie was one of the people who helped me make this decision by showing there is life after a mastectomy.

‘But many people just don’t know anything about PALB2, as we didn’t, so I hope to try to make it as well known, just like Angelina became a poster girl for the “Jolie gene”. 

'Learning I had this gene and facing this operation is scary, but I aim to go back to modelling lingerie afterwards with my new body.’

Donna, who is the second woman in her family to get breast cancer after her aunt, who was only 37 when she was

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