"Maleficent" star Angelina Jolie recently gave a special message to children about being unique and trying to belong.
With two of her children Zahara, 10, and Shiloh, 8, Jolie attended the 2015 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards held at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif.
Zahara and Shiloh could not stop hugging their mother when "Guardians Of The Galaxy" star Chris Pratt announced her as the Favorite Villain for her "Maleficent" role.
In her acceptance speech, Jolie compared her younger self to the character Maleficent. She said when she was young, she was often told she was different just like the character.
"Then one day I realized something, something I hope you all realize: Different is good," Jolie said. "So don't fit in, don't sit still, never try to be less than what you are, and when someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up high and be proud."
More coverage from the 2015 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards will be aired on E! News on March 30, Monday night at 7 and 11 p.m.
The event was Brad Pitt's wife's first public appearance after her recent surgery. She recently wrote an article published on the New York Times, in which she discussed the preventive surgeries she has undergone.
In 2012, Jolie had a preventive double mastectomy. She explained that a simple blood test had revealed that she carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene and gave her about 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.
"I lost my mother, grandmother and aunt to cancer," the mother of six wrote.