When I heard about this, I couldn’t help wondering how many other women actors had similar procedures, but in the dark of night surrounded by secrecy. She DOES have a habit of using her body as a canvas for self dramatization, only now has been able to do so in a worthy cause.

While the women in the huts are far more likely to starve or die of cholera than they are to die of breast cancer, there is also an element of boutique medicine here, unavailable to the hoi polloi. Genetic testing and Hollywood-grade reconstruction are out-of-pocket, and those pockets must be very deep.

I was a little dismissive of Jolie’s widespread canonzation – I’m sorry for her situation, and hope it works for her. But she lives for attention, so her braveness is a little hyped. My reaction was more ‘Meh’ than anger, and Graham’s column is as over the top as Jolie herself.