'I actually love being in menopause': Angelina Jolie says she feels more 'settled' and 'grown up' since early menopause took effect following removal of her ovaries

Angelina Jolie-Pitt has been candid about her road to early menopause, after having her ovaries removed earlier this year.

Now, the 40-year-old - who alos had a double mastectomy after learning she had an 87 per cent risk of developing breast cancer due to a defective BRCA1 gene - told Sunday Style magazine on Sunday: 'I actually love being in menopause'.

She added: 'I feel older, and I feel settled being older. I feel happy that I've grown up...I don't want to be young again.'

'I actually love being in menopause': Angelina Jolie admitted in an interview with Australia's Sunday Style magazine that she is happier since having her ovaries removed earlier this year

'I actually love being in menopause': Angelina Jolie admitted in an interview with Australia's Sunday Style magazine that she is happier since having her ovaries removed earlier this year

The Hollywood heavyweight has shared her journey over the past two years to raise awareness of the preventative treatment options for those with the defective BRCA1 gene.

She first had a double mastectomy at the age of 37 and subsequently had her ovaries removed earlier this year, eight years after her actress mother Marcheline Bertrand died, aged 56, having battled both breast and ovarian cancer.

The faulty gene is also believed to have affected eight other members of her family, including aunts and cousins.

See more of the latest news and updates on Angelina Jolie and husband Brad Pitt 

Candid experience: The Hollywood heavyweight has been candid about her journey over the past two years from her double mastectomy in 2013 to having ovaries removed recently to lower the risk of cancer

Candid experience: The Hollywood heavyweight has been candid about her journey over the past two years from her double mastectomy in 2013 to having ovaries removed recently to lower the risk of cancer

Raising awareness: Through her experience the actress has raised awareness of the BRCA1 gene mutation, which has been dubbed The Angelina Effect, after thousands of women have been tested for the 'faulty' gene

Raising awareness: Through her experience the actress has raised awareness of the BRCA1 gene mutation, which has been dubbed The Angelina Effect, after thousands of women have been tested for the 'faulty' gene

Angelina noted to the publication that she's been able to enjoy things as normal post-op because she's been fortunate enough not to have a bad reaction following the surgery.

It mean the most powerful woman in showbusiness, who works tirelessly for charities in her spare time, is excited about getting back into work.

Currently Angelina is promoting her new movie, By The Sea, which she not only wrote and directed, but also stars in alongside her real-life husband Brad Pitt.

The movie signifies the couple's first on-screen collaboration in ten years, after first finding love while filming Mr & Mrs Smith in 2005.

Back together on-screen: Angelina's new movie with husband Brad Pitt, By The Sea, is the couple's first on-screen collaboration in ten years, after first finding love while filming Mr & Mrs Smith in 2005 (pictured)

Back together on-screen: Angelina's new movie with husband Brad Pitt, By The Sea, is the couple's first on-screen collaboration in ten years, after first finding love while filming Mr & Mrs Smith in 2005 (pictured)

Intense couple: By The Sea shows the real life husband and wife as dysfunctional American married couple Vanessa and Roland who are on a last-ditch vacation to the South of France

Intense couple: By The Sea shows the real life husband and wife as dysfunctional American married couple Vanessa and Roland who are on a last-ditch vacation to the South of France

By The Sea shows the real life husband and wife as dysfunctional American married couple Vanessa and Roland.

Set in the 1970s, things unravel for the pair during a vacation to the South of France, which is a last-ditch effort to save their marriage.

The 51-year-old Moneyball actor told the publication that he enjoyed being directed by his wife, who he described as: 'decisive, incredibly intuitive, knife sharp and, might I say, sexy at her post.'

While Angelina admits she enjoyed pushing Brad to his limits on-screen in the role, it was a 'strange' experience directing her husband through their sex scenes in the movie.

'Sexy at her post': Brad revealed he enjoyed being directed by his wife in the couple's new movie together, describing her as 'decisive, incredibly intuitive, knife sharp and, might I say, sexy at her post'

'Sexy at her post': Brad revealed he enjoyed being directed by his wife in the couple's new movie together, describing her as 'decisive, incredibly intuitive, knife sharp and, might I say, sexy at her post'

'It's the strangest thing in the world': The writer and director says the experience of directing her real life lover in sex scenes was a bizarre experience

'It's the strangest thing in the world': The writer and director says the experience of directing her real life lover in sex scenes was a bizarre experience

The Academy Award winning actress told Entertainment Weekly: 'I've done sex scenes before. But this is obviously different. 

'It's the strangest thing in the world to be lying naked in a bathtub with an iPad that's showing you the shot outside, while your husband is at the door and you're directing him to come in and make love to you,' she said with a laugh, adding: 'In front of a bunch of other men with cameras.'

In the film, there are also topless scenes for the actress, which she had written in prior to her double mastectomy but didn't want to take out on account of her surgery.

Full interview: The full interview with Angelina Jolie Pitt is in this week's Sunday Style magazine

Full interview: The full interview with Angelina Jolie Pitt is in this week's Sunday Style magazine

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