Melissa Etheridge: Angelina’s Double Mastectomy Wasn’t Brave
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Movies, Music, Features,
While many people have praised Angelina Jolie for her decision to undergo a double mastectomy surgery for preventative measures against cancer - of which she discovered she is at great risk due to a mutated gene - singer Melissa Etheridge is not one of them.
"I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer," the 52 year-old musician - who underwent five rounds of chemotherapy herself in 2005 - said in a recent interview.
The LGBT activist reasoned that there are other ways to avoid cancer: "[Having a double mastectomy] is way down the line on the spectrum of what you can do and [considering] the advancements we’ve made in things like nutrition and stress levels. My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not. Plenty of people have the gene mutation and everything but it never comes to cancer. There was so much acidity in everything. I really encourage people to go a lot longer and further before coming to [Jolie's] conclusion."
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Celebrity Chatter: Kal Penn Gets Robbed, Applegate Gets Engaged
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Movies, Music, Television, Break-ups, Divorce, Engagements,
-Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks has just been voted “America’s Best-Looking Woman” by readers of Esquire. Maybe she should have been the one hosting Saturday Night Live.
-Harold & Kumar‘s Kal Penn was reportedly robbed at gunpoint early Tuesday morning. The incident happened in Washington, D.C., where Penn has been working in the White House as an associate director in the Office of Public Engagement.
-Congratulations are in order for Christina Applegate. The Samantha Who? star is now engaged to musician Martyn LeNoble. Applegate was previously married to Johnathon Schaech.
-Long-time partners Melissa and Tammy Etheridge have decided to separate. The parents of 3-year-old twins had been together for almost nine years.