Angelina Jolie must have an amazing PR machine...

[max_tranmere]

I can not believe how much world coverage the story of Angelina Jolie having her breasts removed has got. Front page of newspapers, TV news programmes, Hello magazine, and everywhere else. So much so we even have a story on BBC News programmes today about how her aunt has died from breast cancer (?). No one had even heard of her aunt before. The coverage in most outlets covers it from a news story point of view, the Hello magazine coverage is a kind of celebrity tale - you can get fame for getting married, getting divorced, having a baby, and now - it seems in these magazines - get the same sort of celebrity type coverage for having your breasts removed. What has the world come to? I would love to know why all print and TV media organisations went along with her PR people requesting this be reported, and I am very puzzled as to why a breast removal story is now celebrity fodder in the chat mags too. The world has gone mad, and we are becoming more American all the time.

[mrchapel]

Funny how Christina Applegate had the same procedure done a year or two ago and there was no media fanfare, no one calling her a saint to all womankind.
Ten quid says within a year Madonna and Elton John are both trying to get it done too

[Arginald Valleywater]

For some strange reason this very mediocre actress is seen as some demi god earth mother, along with the equally average and self righteous paltrow. I applaud her for undergoing such drastic surgery but would imagine such to be a private matter.

[andy ide]

What awful, depressing reading these posts make. If Angelina Jolie saves one woman's life by going public about her surgery then it will have been worth it. I imagine the number will in fact be many more.

[David Johnson]

"What awful, depressing reading these posts make. If Angelina Jolie saves one woman's life by going public about her surgery then it will have been worth it. I imagine the number will in fact be many more."

Good Heavens, an outbreak of commonsense and decency on the O/T Forum. Has to be post of the month!

[Arginald Valleywater]

It'll never catch on!! Pilchards.

[frankthring]

Sorry, Arginald, but Andy is right and so is David.....no one steps into an
operating theatre without taking this kind of thing very seriously and
Max`s suggestion that she has done it as some kind of media thing is
silly. But Angelina`s media clout is colossal worldwide and I too hope it
helps other women to consider their bodies and helps save lives.

[max_tranmere]

Interesting comments there. My issue is with how this got on the news to the extent it has, I even read in the Evening Standard newspaper here in London last night about her aunt dying, someone no one has ever heard of, and the coverage about Angelina Jolie's surgery has resonated across the entire world on news programmes, magazines, and everywhere else. It is a story that would inevitably have got some coverage as she is famous, but on news programmes in amongst updates on Syria, Woolwich and everything else is inappropriate and very surprising that the editors of these shows chose to put it on the programmes. Like I said, she must have an amazing PR machine.

I never said she had the op for publicity, she did it because it was necessary to do, but has got mega mega publicity out of it subsequently. 'Hello' magazine exclusives where she says "I don't feel any less of a woman following my breast removal op" is very strange and a case of someone certainly trying elevate their name in the eyes of public as much as possible. You would think a 'Hello' magazine exclusive would be stuff like "I got married", "I've had a baby", "I got divorced", "I won four Oscars" and so on - not "I've had by boobs removed". This is a celeb tale, and something one would think would be kept private, not cashed-in on.

That idiot Katie Price appears on the cover of 'Hello' magazine every time she gets married, and will no doubt continue to use the magazine to announce to the world every time she gets married in the future aswell. It is also a way of her making money out of each of her marriages. 'Hello' is certainly trash, but I am surprised even they have gone as far as to have a "I had my breasts removed" story as a front cover feature. Seems extreme even for them.