Can`t wait to turn 50: Angelina Jolie

London: Actress-filmmaker Angelina Jolie is says she is excited to reach the milestone age of 50 in 10 years.

The 40-year-old actress, who has six children with 51-year-old husband Brad Pitt, cannot wait to turn 50 after undergoing a "brutal" preventative double mastectomy as well removing her ovaries and fallopian tubes to reduce her cancer risk in recent years, reported Female First.

"Both of the women in my family, my mother and my grandmother (who passed due to ovarian cancer), started dying in their 40s. I'm 40. I can't wait to hit 50 and know I made it," she said.