Angelina Jolie isn’t always the super confident woman we’ve come to know her as.

In a candid new interview with The New York Times, the 40-year-old actress and director shows her vulnerable side, and admits to having insecurities about her body, particularly after undergoing a preventative double mastectomy in February 2013. Jolie opted for the surgery to reduce her chances of getting breast and ovarian cancer, which runs in her family.

“There were lots of scenes I wanted to change or cut,” the Oscar winner tells the newspaper about her latest film, By the Sea, which tells the emotional story of a married couple who experience some heavy ups and downs in their relationship. “I realized it was going to be me [naked] in that bathtub. But I told myself, put all of that aside. Like, you can’t change or cut this scene because you’ve had a mastectomy, or because we’re married and people are going to analyze this or that. That would be cheating.”