Is Angelina going to take a year off work as she’s promising, or is she going to put her foot in it once a juicy role comes along that she can’t pass up? Maybe she was trying to redeem herself by saying she’ll take a year off. A lot of people bashed her for going back to work when she promised to be a stay at home mom after adopting Pax. Angelina has so much help and a lot of flexibility in having her children nearby while she’s working. Even if she had a 9 to 5 job, no one would be saying she’s a bad mom for working if she wasn’t famous and didn’t insist that she wasn’t going to work:

“I’m working this summer. I’m in Prague for a few months, then I take two months off, then I work for two months,” Jolie said Tuesday while promoting A Mighty Heart at the Cannes Film Festival. “And then I take a year off.”

Asked if the time off will be for her family, she replied: “Yes.”

Lower-profile celebrity mom Kate Winslet said last October that she was going to take a year off working to stay with her two children Mia, six ,and Joe, three and a half. She was back working in Mid-May, which means she was off for about seven months, not a full year. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that, but when Winslet went back on her word no one really pointed it out.

I don’t think anyone should have to take time off for their kids if they don’t want to, that’s their business. Some moms work, and some stay at home, and it’s a personal choice. When celebrities make public statements like this, though, people will call them on it if they don’t fulfill their promises.

The Daily Mail pointed out Angelina’s new latitude and longitude tattoo on her left upper arm, as we mentioned yesterday. It is indeed the coordinates for her new adopted son Pax’s birthplace, as was speculated. The new “M” on Angelina’s palm is for her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, according to the Daily Mail, and is not for Maddox as we stated.

Here’s an interview with Angelina Jolie and some footage from Cannes. She looks a lot tinier in the video than in the pictures. thanks to Oh No They Didn’t for finding this.