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Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she had a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of breast cancer has provoked a cruel backlash online.

Some have accused her of being an attention seeker — a former sex goddess who’s past her sell-by date and is now trying to use her medical problems to boost her public profile.

Others — and I fall firmly into this category — believe it was incredibly courageous to share the details of her dramatic surgery, especially when it’s not yet over. She is due to have a hysterectomy and her ovaries removed to reduce her risk of ovarian cancer.

Online backlash: Some have accused Angelina Jolie of being an attention seeker - a former sex goddess who's past her sell-by date and is now trying to use her medical problems to boost her public profile

She is doing it for her children, she says. She did not want them to suffer as she did losing her mother to breast cancer when she was just 56.

But perhaps the most striking thing Angelina said was that she did not feel any less of a woman after having her breasts removed. ‘I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.’

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Stirring words, but ones, I fear, which may have a rather hollow ring for the 122,000 British women who have mastectomies, breast surgery or hysterectomies each year. For most, these operations herald a staggering diminution of one’s sense of self and femininity, not to mention the crippling fatigue and terrible depression that often follows such radical surgery.

The best thing Angelina can do is to acknowledge what a traumatic ordeal she has been through and take time off work to rest and recover

Not Angelina, apparently. Four days after her breasts were removed, we are told she was working with ‘bountiful energy’ on a new film project, while six surgical drains dangled from her chest, fastened to an elastic belt.

She even accompanied Foreign Secretary William Hague to the Congo to highlight rape in war zones.

Brave or deluded? If Angelina wanted to set a more honest example, she would not behave like Lara Croft. She would slow down, take time to recuperate and nurture herself back to full strength over a period of months. 

To imply, as she has done, that it is possible to bounce back in a few days places an unfair burden on those women who struggle physically and mentally in the aftermath of such major and life-changing surgery.

Instead of the sympathy and understanding they deserve from bosses, colleagues, friends and family, there is a worry they will now be expected to ‘bounce back’ in a few days, too.

I’ve no doubt Angelina is sincere in her devotion to her children, but the best thing she could do for them — and for all families in the same position — is to acknowledge what a traumatic ordeal she has been through and take time off work to rest and recover and just be a mum. I, for one, would admire her all the more.

 

Kate Moss says her beauty regime is little more than plunging her face into icy water. Any chance she could keep it there?

  Becks was the Blair of football

Announcing his retirement, David Beckham says he’s hurt that some people don’t celebrate what a brilliant footballer he was and instead remember the ‘other things’.

What ‘other things’? That affair with Rebecca Loos? The red card for kicking Diego Simeone in the 1998 World Cup? The over-stuffed pants? Or just the awesome greed in promoting Brand Beckham?

Take your pick. 

His wife Victoria says he is ‘not just an inspiration to myself and our children, but millions of people worldwide’. 

To millions more, Beckham will always be the Tony Blair of football — a good-looking and gifted bloke who, spurred on by a ghastly and grasping wife, morphed into a preening egotist who was far more interested in making millions on the global stage than on public service to his country.

  Throwing in the scowl Surprise: Jennifer, John Cleese's fourth wife, was pictured at the premiere of The Great Gatsby looking pencil-thin, scowling and wearing an extravagant designer gown

When John Cleese fell in love with jewellery designer Jennifer Wade it was because she was a happy, jeans-wearing, down-to-earth girl — albeit one who was 32 years his junior. So how surprising to see Jennifer, now his fourth wife, at the premiere of The Great Gatsby looking pencil-thin, scowling and wearing an extravagant designer gown. 

I do hope Cleese remembered to get a proper pre-nup this time.

+ BBC Watch +

+ The Beeb was forced to make a grovelling apology for its disgraceful Newsnight programme that wrongly accused the Armed Forces' charity Help For Heroes of misusing funds.

The charity estimated the resulting damaging publicity cost them £100,000 in lost donations. Forget the apology, the BBC should refund them the money.

+ Alan Hansen quits Match Of The Day, for which he was paid £1.5 million, just as we learn Gary Lineker has renegotiated a seven-figure deal. What a pointless waste of our money. You could get an orangutan to present a football show and men would still watch it in their millions.

Protection racket Only one low-ranking social worker has been sacked after six men were imprisoned for grooming, trafficking, drugging and repeatedly raping girls as young as 11. One mother cried: ‘Someone needs to take the blame.’

And she’s right. The villains of this piece are not just the men who abused her daughter, but the social workers who turned a blind eye despite the wealth of evidence and the police who failed to protect the young victims even when they found the courage to report their abuse.

And yet, I can’t help feeling that some of the blame must also lie with the mothers and fathers of these girls. 

Yes, as one of the victims’ parents describe in the Mail today, the girls were often impossibly hard to control. But the first line of defence for any child must surely be their family — however difficult that duty may be.

  Give that girl a break The secret to a happy marriage, according to Rod Stewart, is to hire a nanny three times a week to free him to seduce his wife Penny with champagne and candlelight

The secret to a happy marriage, according to wrinkly Rod Stewart, 68, is to hire a nanny three times a week to free him to seduce his wife Penny, 42, with champagne and candlelight. What’s the betting there are nights Penny would rather do the babysitting and leave the nanny to look after Rod’s libido?

Westminster Noticeboard... + Margaret Hodge accuses Google of being ‘evil’ for paying just £7.3 million tax on its £3 billion UK earnings. Surely the real evil Google commits is refusing to block the plethora of pornography websites that paedophiles and sex offenders can find so easily — an issue on which our politicians are surprisingly silent.

+ The PM spent the week in the U.S., holding a Press conference in which the President affectionately called him ‘David’ and he responded with a blushing ‘Barack’. If President Reagan had addressed Lady Thatcher as ‘Maggie’ in public, she would have floored him with her handbag.

+ Chris Huhne’s vindictive ex-wife Vicky Pryce announced she is penning a memoir, including her time in jail, entitled Prisonomics. It is aptly being published by Biteback. When will this sad woman realise that until she lets go and gets on with her life, she will be imprisoned by her own bitterness.

  Equality cuts both ways

Myleene Klass’s former husband Graham Quinn has been pilloried for seeking a slice of her £7.5 million fortune, with the suggestion that if he had any pride, he’d walk away with nothing. Why should he? He’s the father of her two children, and if the roles were reversed and he was the departed wife, no one would bat an eyelid. 

Welcome to the world of equality, girls.

 

Rick Stein, Marco Pierre White, Heston Blumenthal . . . now the Great British Bake-off’s Paul Hollywood has joined the ranks of celebrity chefs who’ve ended up in the soup over sex scandals. He has left his wife amid rumours that he’s got a bit too hot with his luscious co-presenter on the U.S. version of the show. You might expect such behaviour from an ego maniac chef. But Hollywood seemed different — kinder, gentler, more cultured. Perfect for the traditional values Bake-Off celebrates. I hope the demure and blissfully married Mary Berry tells him where to stuff his pastry brush.

 

Delighted to see Olivia Colman collecting her two Baftas. She has come from nowhere but is now suddenly everywhere — Broadchurch, The Accused, Twenty Twelve, The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher.

Olivia is only 39, yet is already one of our best-loved actresses and is even being tipped as the new Judi Dench. No wonder they killed off M in the last Bond movie.




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