World rap - celebs who spoke openly about their personal batteles

We want to share one experience to start. We've the way been trying to have a child for a couple of years and have had three miscarriages along ,' wrote Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, as he announced that he and wife Priscilla Chan are expecting a baby girl. Apart from making millions go Aww' with the announcement, Zuckerberg's post struck ` a chord with numerous couples across the world that have had to go through similar experiences. While many celebrities shy away from speaking about their personal lives, there are those few who have taken the initiative to discuss the problems they've battled.

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ANGELINA JOLIE BREAST CANCER AND DOUBLE MASTECTOMY
Angie juggles multiple jobs; be it her humanitarian efforts, duties as a mother or her job as an actress.A couple of years ago, the actress revealed her decision to undergo preventive double mastectomy after she came to know that she had an 87% risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer and 50% risk of ovarian cancer. In an article, Jolie wrote, `Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could.'

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BEYONCE AND GWYNETH PALTROW
MISCARRIAGE
Prior to delivering Blue Ivy Carter, Beyonce suffered a miscarriage. She revealed this in the documentary Life is But a Dream. Even actress Gwyneth Paltrow has gone on record to state that she suffered a miscarriage while being pregnant with her third child. “I had a really bad experience when I was pregnant with my third. It didn't work out and I nearly died,“ she had said during an interview with an international publication.

NICOLE KIDMAN AND SARAH JESSICA PARKER
SURROGACY
Both the actresses took the help of surrogacy to conceive. In an interview in 2009, Parker spoke about how she and husband Matthew Broderick were `planning to expand their family' and that `surrogacy was one of the things that had real possibilities' for them. Kidman's second daughter, Faith Margaret, with Keith Urban was a result of surrogacy and though she had kept the process secret, Kidman revealed the surrogacy part later.

HALLE BERRY AND CHARLIZE THERON
DOMESTIC ABUSE
During a speech about domestic violence, Berry spoke about the trauma she underwent as a kid.“I'm a victim of domestic violence,“ she said. “I wasn't married to a man that beat me up, but my mother was,“ she added before telling the crowd how she watched her mother `getting kicked and hit on the head with a wine bottle'. Theron is another actress who went through a troubled childhood as her father was an alcoholic and would beat up Charlize and her mother. The trauma ended when Charlize's mother shot the man in self-defence after he pulled a gun on her one night.

LADY GAGA AND JANICE DICKINSON
RAPE
Last year, Dickinson opened up about being raped by Bill Cosby in 1982. This was one of the many allegations against Cosby, and when asked why she had kept mum about the incident for so many years, Dickinson confessed that she had avoided speaking about it because she was embarrassed.Another person who spoke out about being raped was Lady Gaga who revealed that she was raped at the age of 19 by a man 20 years elder to her.

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JAIME KING
INFERTILITY
The Hart of Dixie star is a rare example of a celebrity opening up about infertility. Last year, Jaime shared her experience on a photo-sharing site. `For all the struggling women & moms out there that think they are alone -This is the truth about conceiving my son and struggles after. 8 yrs of pain and undiagnosed PCOS & Endometriosis. 9 doctors until Dr. Randy Harris diagnosed me & saved my life from a severe ectopic, 5 miscarriages, 5 rounds of IVF, 26 IUI's, most with no outcome... worked until the day before I [gave] birth and went back after 6 weeks because I was afraid of letting others down (sic)', she posted.

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