"I decided to be proactive and to minimise the risk as much I could," she said at the time.
Now in an interview with Entertainment Weekly she said she is "very happy" with her decision to have the operation."There's still another surgery to have, which I haven't yet. I'll get advice from all these wonderful people who I've been talking to, to get through that next stage," she said.
"I was very fortunate to have great doctors and very, very fortunate to have a good recovery and have a project like Unbroken to have something to be really focused on, to be getting healthy for, and to be able to just get right back to work."
She said she has had a lot of support from the public.
"I was very, very moved by all the support and kindness from so many people."The mother-of-six has previously explained her reasons for having the surgery, arguing she needed to minimise her risk after her mother died from ovarian cancer aged 56.
In an article entitled My Medical Choice, she explained that her mother fought cancer for nearly a decade.
Jolie's partner, Brad Pitt, praised her choice as "absolutely heroic".
Doctors estimated the Hollywood star had an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer, because of genes she had inherited.
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