Yesterday we announced that Angelina Jolie made the brave decision to have her ovaries and Fallopian tubes removed merely two years after her double mastectomy in a courageous attempt to prevent the onset of cancer.
On The Talk, the TV star revealed that she too has the ‘cancer gene’ and will be following in Jolie’s brave footsteps and plans on taking the preventative surgery route as well.
While neither Kelly nor her mother, Sharon have suffered ovarian or breast cancer before, in 2002 Sharon was in fact diagnosed with colon cancer; undergoing two surgeries, Sharon successfully fought the disease.
After her recovery it was revealed that, like Jolie, Sharon underwent genetic testing which revealed that she carried the BRCA1 gene-it was then that Sharon made the decision to undergo a double mastectomy.
Since the gene is carried through the maternal genes, it is for this reason that Kelly has opted to take the preventative surgery route eventually.