Angelina Jolie doesn’t regret her decision to remove her ovaries and undergo a double mastectomy.

The “Maria” actress reflected on the preventative surgeries — which she underwent after discovering she carried the rare BRCA gene — in a new interview with Hello! magazine.

The BRCA gene, also called the BReast CAncer gene, can increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Those with the mutation tend to develop cancer at younger ages than people who do not have such a variant, according to cancer.gov.

“I did choose to have that [surgery] because I lost my mother and my grandmother very young,” she explained.

“I have the BRCA gene, so I chose to have a double mastectomy a decade ago. And then I’ve also had my ovaries removed, because that’s what took my mother.”

Her mom, Marcheline

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