Angelina Jolie’s aunt has died of chest cancer less than two weeks after Jolie had a preventative double mastectomy to avoid the disease.
Debbie Martin died at age 61 on Sunday in a San Diego hospital.
Debbie
Martin was the younger sister of Jolie’s mother Marcheline Bertrand,
whose own death from cancer in 2007 inspired the surgery that Jolie
described in a May 14 New York Times article.
“I can tell my children they don’t need to fear they will lose me to chest cancer,” she wrote.
