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Barbara Walters: I Relate to Angelina Jolie Because I Had My Ovaries Removed

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4:24 pm, May 14th, 2013

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Barbara Walters says she relates to Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy because she also took a preventive measure against cancer and had her ovaries removed.

The newswoman, who recently announced her retirement, revealed on Tuesday’s “The View,” “My sister passed away from ovarian cancer and I had my ovaries removed. It’s not like having the breasts because people don’t see it. But it’s a decision you have to make — it’s preventative.”

Walters offered, “What I think with Angelina… she’s such a sex symbol and we associate sex with breasts so often. And the fact that she did this and has retained her beauty and her sexuality.”

“I think it was brave of her, she did it for her own health, but it was so brave to write about it. A women’s sexuality is not tied up with her breasts,” added the anchor.

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Barbara Walters on Retirement: “I’m Not Walking Into the Sunset” (VIDEO)

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12:48 pm, May 13th, 2013

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Barbara Walters opened up about her retirement plans on Monday’s “The View.”

As Gossip Cop reported, the TV journalist announced late Sunday that she plans to retire in the summer of 2014.

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After a special video highlighting her 50-year career, Walters said, “It has been an absolutely joyful, rewarding, challenging, fascinating, and occasionally bumpy ride.”

“I wouldn’t change a thing. I’m perfectly healthy. This is my decision,” she added. “I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, and this is what I want to do.”

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But Walters doesn’t plan on disappearing from TV entirely, and will stay on “The View” as executive producer and even possibly make appearances on “special occasions.”

“I’m not walking into the sunset,” she insisted.

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Barbara Walters Announces Retirement

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Truth rating: 10

10:13 pm, May 12th, 2013

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Barbara Walters has officially announced her retirement.

The journalist revealed late Sunday that she plans to leave TV news behind next year.

That will give her one more season on “The View” — where she will remain an executive producer after her on-air exit — and with ABC.

“I am very happy with my decision and look forward to a wonderful and special year ahead both on ‘The View’ and with ABC News,” Walters says. “I created ‘The View’ and am delighted it will last beyond my leaving it.”

She adds, “I do not want to appear on another program or climb another mountain,” she says. “I want instead to sit on a sunny field and admire the very gifted women — and OK, some men too — who will be taking my place.”

Walters’ retirement was rumored earlier this year, but in April, she shot down speculation that an announcement was imminent.

She was sidelined from her duties for a number of weeks in January and February, after suffering a serious head injury in a fall, and later contracting chicken pox.

Walters storied career began at the “Today Show” in 1961, and she went on to join ABC’s “Evening News” in 1976.

The broadcaster later became a “20/20″ co-host, and launched “The View” in 1997.

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