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Angelina Jolie 'Appreciates Getting Older' as 50th Birthday Nears 'Because She Lost Her Mom Young'

Ahead of Angelina Jolie turning 50, a source tells PEOPLE that the actress "appreciates getting older" due to losing her mother at a young age.

While discussing the film with W magazine in January, Jolie spoke candidly about how her late mother encouraged her to become an actress — and how her death made furthering her career even harder. "But by the time my mom was 25, she was divorced with two kids and she decided she would focus her life solely on motherhood," Jolie continued, referring to Bertrand's split from her father, actor Jon Voight. I remembered it made my mom happy," Jolie added, also noting acting helped her mother pay the bills during her childhood, as Bertrand served as her manager.

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