Us Weekly: Brad Pitt ‘lost a bunch of weight, he’s had time to focus on himself’

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This week’s issue of Us Weekly has a side-bar story on the cover called “Brad’s Back! Fighting for his kids.” The idea is that because Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie issued a joint statement resolving to work through their issues privately, that somehow means that “Brad’s Back!” Us Weekly does have two new Brangelina stories, and both of them have a weird tone.

First off, Us Weekly reports that Jolie has started renting a second home in Malibu. She’s already staying at a five-bedroom rental in Malibu, but this second house is apparently more secluded, has more bedrooms and access to a private beach. And it has a tennis court, a pool and a guest house. Apparently, Angelina and the kids have been splitting their time between both Malibu rentals, which are only about a mile away from each other. It sounds like she’s got six growing kids who like to be active and like to have their own spaces.

Next up: Brad Pitt has lost weight and he’s been focusing on himself.

Brad Pitt won best makeover honors at the Golden Globes. The Moonlight producer was noticeably trimmer when he introduced the best picture nominee to much applause at the January 8 awards show — his first major event since Angelina Jolie filed for divorce September 19.

“He lost a bunch of weight,” a close Pitt source reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. “He’s focusing on himself again, watching what he eats and has a chef making him healthy meals.”

The 53-year-old Allied actor has also recommitted himself to fitness. “He’s exercising,” says the source. “He’s been outdoors a lot, hiking and walking. He’s had a lot of time to focus on himself.” Adds another insider, “He does a lot of weight training. He’s dedicated to clean living and eating right.”

Progress in his continued custody battle with Jolie, 41, has also left Pitt feeling lighter. The Missouri native saw Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10, and 8-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne after their New Year’s trip to Colorado with Jolie, says another insider: “They had a good visit and filled him in on all of their adventures.”

And in another step forward, the exes hired a private judge “to make any necessary legal decisions and to facilitate the expeditious resolution of any remaining issues,” they told Us in a January 9 statement. The duo — who also signed agreements to preserve the privacy rights of their kids — added they are “committed to act as a united front.”

[From Us Weekly]

My guess is that Brad’s recent weight loss is the product of many different things, notably… lack of booze. I de-bloated when I stopped drinking too. And when I stopped drinking, I started working out so that I would actually be tired enough to go to sleep without the liquor helping me sleep/pass out. But not for nothing, it’s not like Brad was super-bloated or overweight before all of this, but you can totally see the weight loss on his face. And you don’t de-bloat that much just from cutting out alcohol (unless you’re consuming a lot of alcohol before). He probably is on a “clean” diet and he probably is “working on himself” or whatever.

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  1. Lemon says:

    First, I am a HUGE Angelina fan. But……..brad does look great here.

    Honestly, I was looking at old pictures of Angelina the other day and I forgot just how beautiful she used to be. It kinda puts it into perspective what tons of stress (her mom dying, her cancer scare/surgery, ending of a long relationship, aging) can do to a person.

    • mini says:

      She is still gorgeous. So I am not sure what you are saying.

      • almondmilk says:

        +1000 @Mini

        I’ll tell you what they’re saying.

        They would love to put Angelina in a flash forward time machine and have her age 20 years in two minutes. Many women want her to lose everything and it annoys them that she still has that face.

        I really did think that her split from Brad would make them less vicious, but I’m starting to think as long as she has that face it will be claw city.

        You know, what women usually do to beautiful women.

        Oh and “HUGE fan.” I always love that caveat before the kick to the teeth. They sometimes also say, ‘I’m a fan of all three of them,’ mmmhmmm… Okay.. Lol

      • Lemon says:

        I’ll clarify since everyone seems to be in a bad mood today. I think that Angie has been through so freaking much and it’s unfair that she is now so drawn and tired while stupid brad Pitt is “taking care of himself” and looking great. She is a survivor and does so much for her kids and the world while brad Pitt gets to look great because he doesn’t have a care in the world. I wish Angie could get that sort of break. It seems he gets to have fun and she is the one who constantly is taking hits. IMO I think brad has sucked so much of the life out of her.

      • Friendof says:

        Brad would spend his time with his kids if his ex wasn’t trying hard for sole custody and preventing it at every turn. Thus, he has time for himself since he’s not spending the time partying and dating. Good tradeoff. Since he can’t be with the kids right now, he’s working on improving himself. But, soon, he will get joint custody and he will be able to relieve her of some of the stress of proving child care to the 6 kids.

      • almondmilk says:

        @friendof

        Angelina has sole custody of the children TEMPORARILY because her husband was being investigated by 4 agencies after a drunk tirade (allegedly) not because Angelina wants sole custody for all time. She told you this.

        She said at the outset it was a temporary arrangement (while Brad is getting therapy and drink/drug testing and her kids are also in therapy as well) – she wants Brad Pitt sober and clean so that he can raise his children with her.

        Contrary to your caricature of her Angelina leads a full life and I’m sure she’d rather her children had a father who was responsible and raising them too – rather than his skipping out to Turks&Cacaio, while she essentially a single parent raised them alone.

        She’s not Maleficent, Chelsea Handler.

      • Carmen says:

        @friendof: Brad spent the past year running away from his family every chance he got. It was only after he lost them that he wanted to spend time with them. You never miss a good thing till it’s gone.

      • Malak says:

        I’ve seen the pictures of Angie and the kids in Colorado. She could be tired and stressed, but she looks absolutely beautiful. So the GG audience applauded him enthusiastically… nice, but they’re other people. Then they go home to their family. Where is Brad’s family? I bet he misses them. So true, Carmen, you don’t know what you’ve got, until you lose it. Then it’s too late. Who knows, they can reconcile or be good friends, raising and doting on the kids they love.

      • Dolphin7 says:

        James please stop with the internets and go back to cleaning the house FFS?!?!?!

    • NeoCleo says:

      Yes, she is still beautiful, but she does looked pale and worn. Certainly not a surprise given what the last 6 or so months must have been for her.

      • almondmilk says:

        I actually have thought the opposite @neocleo and @whoarethesepeople

        In fact many posters here, even the non-fans on threads where Angelina’s recent candids have been featured thought the same thing the fans did (shocker! Seriously) that Angelina looked relieved, happy and well rested making her look even more stunning.

        I put it down to the stress of not having to babysit or pacify a spouse who maybe was increasingly going off the rails due to drink/drugs, being out of the house and in treatment.

        If she’s watched this gradually take over Brad’s life and turn him into someone he’s not. She’s got to be relieved on a number of fronts that he’s now getting help. It shows. I was surprised how genuinely happy she looked on the slopes.

      • nikko says:

        Angie’s been looking like that for a long time. I really think she needs to put some weight on. She was so much prettier (is that a word) when she was pregnant. She too can take time for herself. We forget she’s not the typical single parent. She has nannies, domestic help, chef’s, etc. BTW, Brad looked soooo good Sunday night.

    • TJ says:

      I agree. She is still aspirationally gorgeous but she used to be much healthier looking. Age and stress and maybe not taking the best care of yourself really can manifest!

      • Who ARE These People? says:

        Age, surgery, medical menopause, stress, and taking care of 6 children because her partner seemed to be rarely around and, when he was, might have had a substance-abuse problem….

        What am I saying? I agree. It’s so irritating that Pitt “finally had a chance to take care of himself” when he clearly was not the primary parent for some time. No one was stopping him from taking care of himself then.

      • almondmilk says:

        Actually @TJ

        Let’s not kid ourselves. What are we talking about here? She doesn’t look noticeably different than her candids with Shiloh and the bear they bought, or than she did this time year before last at the Oscars or last year at Critics Choice or last year at the Kids choice awards with her daughters.

        In fact, her most recent candids on the slopes and video for the UN (which most said she looked stunning on) have her looking no diff than she has in the last several years.

        Talking it up, won’t demolish or age that face any faster. No matter how much some may wish it.

        I think she looks happy and well rested, and in fact some of the usual suspects here even thought she had gained weight and looked better when her first few candids with the kids came out (they may have been feeling generous since this was only a few days shy of all of us finding out about the investigations and drug testing)

        Lastly, i find it extremely patronizing for you to tell a woman who has literally and quite possibly saved her own life from the ravages of cancer and a shortened life span, who’s gone through the rigorous testing, prep, for surgeries and recovery — that she is “not taking the best care of herself.”

        Her doctors nor she, have ever said or claimed that Angelina Jolie was not in good health.

        In fact William Hauge, British diplomat said her stamina and robustness on their field visits and trips to work to end war crimes and sexual violence against women/girls was such that he never even knew she had just had surgery a few days prior.

        She travels, she works hard she raises her kids and deals with a possible drunk at home.

        If she wasn’t taking care of herself you’d know it.

      • sarah says:

        I have never thought she was beautiful – I always thought she looked like an alien. But she looked very, very thin and stressed the last five years or so. I hope she is looking better now.

        And if you are drinking a lot, stopping can certainly take weight off AND make you look 15 years younger, as Brad does. He looks like he was hitting the booze very hard, and has quit. Good for him. It’s not easy to quit drinking and if he stays that way, it will be in the best interest of everyone in that family, even Angelina.

      • Dolphin7 says:

        Why does she smoke then? Also, I’m happy for her she got the mastectomy because of that B gene in her family but it has come out in Forbes I believe that the health industry said her op-ed cost 14 million in unnecessary testing. Very few women have the gene and those who do are likely to know about it already from their maternal health history. I’m not shading her for doing the surgery I would too in her place.

    • Fa says:

      @LEMON
      No women get a break from public judgement, whether a woman is bad or good public will always judge her in every aspect of her life

      • almondmilk says:

        @Fa +1000

        You’re speaking truth to power.

        While men are hardly ever judged, even when they may attack their kid on a plane when drunk.

        Wait, i take that back. Brad for the last 13 years was constantly judged here and elsewhere on his looks when he was with Angelina. Magically, now that he’s not with her, he’s a stunner again- no judgement or criticism will be forthcoming. Lol

      • bap says:

        Angelina is Global she does need approval from the U.S. public. Some women want her to fail. Angelina is truly a Good Person.

    • hogtowngooner says:

      Off topic but his styling in that top photo is ON POINT.

    • YepIsaidit says:

      I think he looks terrible. Saggy skin around his neck, eye lids look heavier, his ear look big, his face looks gaunt. But I’ve always thought he was fug.

      Hopefully, now that Brad is “working on himself” he can get it together for the kids that want (or are forced) to see him and Angelina can have time to herself to rest and relax. 🙄

    • India Andrews says:

      Folks are far too emotional about this divorce.

  2. Tris says:

    I lose weight from depression and stress. Isn’t it more likely that he’s been unhappy and not eating or partying for the last few months because of his public bad behaviour and divorce than from a healthy new eating and exercise regime?

    • Esmom says:

      Yes, I said something below. I’m the same way. I’ve gotten to the point where I associate thinness with unhappiness and being normal and overweight with happiness.

      • Tris says:

        Totally! I call it my “happy fat”! Thin for me equals sad.

      • Capepopsie says:

        I think it’s different for everyone.
        I comfort eat when I’m depressed,
        So, when I gain weight, it’s because
        I’m unhappy. Sadly, But there you are.

      • Esmom says:

        Very true, we are all different. I also know that my own thin/overweight associations are in fact irrational, I’m trying to work on that.

      • Gwen says:

        I can’t eat when I’m unhappy. When my grandmother passed a few years ago ai couldn’t eat for weeks. I didn’t have an appetite.

    • Katherine says:

      Me too. From stress and broken heart

    • YepIsaidit says:

      Yeah, and Angelina has been depressed for their entire relationship that’s why she’s so skinny. Hopefully she can find happiness that will help her gain weight.

      But she looked a lot happier in Colorado.

      The pity party continues for Brad Pitt, 🙄

      • geneva says:

        I think it was stress and loss and that sort of thing. people really don’t eat sometimes..just can’t eat when bad things happen. I agree maybe A. was depressed for a long time and is better off now that the burden is lifted.

  3. IlsaLund says:

    I hope they’re able to work through the issues and come to an amicable agreement for the kids sake. It does sound as though Brad’s getting clean and healthy again. Hopefully, the relationship with the kids will be improved.

  4. Fa says:

    Is pretty clear he is doing all this for his kids, to clean up

  5. Esmom says:

    If he’s lost weight I’d guess it’s largely from the old tried and true method that always works for me: stress and anxiety. Not fun.

    • Maria T. says:

      Sorry to snicker but that’s my M.O. too. I look AMAZING when I’m losing my mind.

      • Lalu says:

        Maria t…. I love this comment!

      • Esmom says:

        Ha, me, too. The worst is when people are like “omg you are so thin,” as if it’s the greatest thing in the world…when I am in fact feeling dead inside. Good times.

      • Pansy says:

        Haha I’m laughing bc this is meeeee! I went to talk to a doctor about something unrelated one time when my anxiety was TERRIBLE and he complimented my weight loss and asked what I was doing, so I could “keep it up.” I completely LOST it on him, and he was so amazing, but sometimes thin does not equal healthy.

      • LadyT says:

        I had a well-meaning acquaintance greet me with “Wow, how did you lose the weight?” My mother was dying. I just said thank you.

      • Izzy says:

        I’m chuckling with you all. I lost 25 lbs in one month when I got mono a few years ago. My hair was falling out from malnutrition, I looked like a corpse, but I kept getting compliments on the weight loss. It would go something like:
        “How did you lose the weight?”
        “I got mono.”
        “Is that a new diet? I’ve never heard of it.”
        “It’s an infectious disease.”
        I was too exhausted and grumpy to care how my response sounded to them.

      • Backstage Bitchy says:

        Omg @MariaT this made me LOL.
        “It’s funny because it’s true”…

    • ravensdaughter says:

      Call it the Divorce Diet. I lost 20 pounds in the first 6 weeks or so after I moved out from my joint house with my ex husband. Between the stress of facing divorce and the stress of being separated from my kids and abruptly displaced to a sketchy neighborhood, I had no desire to eat.

      • Rene says:

        I hope you are doing better now, it sounds like a horrible time for you. You might think I am crazy but, I really would like to know how you are. Blessed Be.

  6. Maya says:

    Being forced to be clear of alcohol and drugs/weed can make you lose weight as well.

    The article is a dig towards Angelina and pretty much claims Brad lived unhealthily before the divorce etc.

    Never going to support Brad again because he ruined Angelina’s image because of something he did.

    Angelina used her pr power to do some actual good in the world and she helped lots of women and children. Now he ruined that because of his selfish cowardly decision to choose his image over his wife and children.

    • Lemon says:

      Exactly! Angie has been such a positive force for good whether it be with refugees or women’s health. Brad has insured that a large portion of that work is now going to be overlooked. I take back what I said earlier about him looking good. He’s a loser who 1. Can’t find his own image so he has to steal the look of who ever is his current GF is and then 2. throws said GF to the wolves to better his own image when he screws up. He’s a douche.

    • Aiobhan Targaryen says:

      @ Maya. I think we have to give Angelina a little more credit than that. She is a strong woman who has been through so much in her life (some of the pain caused by her own bad decisions) and fought past it to get where she is today. Brad, nor any other man, can never take away her strength and accomplishments. She left him, remember. Angelina is a rich white woman with a lot of power; she and her kids will be fine.

      I will say that this article (if true) is kind of admitting that Brad had on going issues, but written in a way to make him sympathetic., as all the other stories have been written. It comes off as slightly tone-deaf, selfish, and sexist. She was also going through a rough time with losing her mom, deciding to have the surgeries, etc. but she kept herself together. He is the one that spiraled out of control which led to the night on the plane. He gets most of the sympathy and benefit of the doubt and she gets questioned about every single move she makes.

      • Maya says:

        I know Angelina is a strong and intelligent woman and her strength is what I admire about her the most.

        Angelina will be fine but in the Public’s eyes, her reputation has taken a blow and she is back to square one.

        She now has to rebuilt her reputation and that to for something she didn’t do.

        Brad must know that he has ruined her goodwill and reputation and yet he doesn’t seem to care. He calls himself humanitarian and yet he has singlehandedly made sure that women & children around the will not benefit from Angelina’s PR power.

      • Agapanthus says:

        If this is being put out by his PR team, it does him no favours. Some of it is insensitive and rather narcissistic, eg the implication that the marriage made him unhealthy. This reminds me of some of the quotes he made about how he was unhealthy and didn’t like who he was when married to Aniston.

        I hope he is looking after himself and getting help for any substance abuse issues he may have but I also hope he is prioritising the needs of the kids as well.

      • MrsBPitt says:

        @Aiobhan…I don’t understand your point that Angelina will be fine because she is a rich, WHITE woman…Are you saying, if Beyonce left Jay Z, she wouldn’t fine, because she is a rich, BLACK woman???? Let’s just tell the truth…if you are rich, you will be fine! GREEN is the only color that helps!

      • Aiobhan Targaryen says:

        @MrsBPitt

        1) Why ask me a question if you are then going to provide your own answer?

        2) Beyonce is not the only rich black woman.

        3) Not mentioning someone’s race does not make racism magically disappear. It just makes it easier for white people to pretend that it does not exist.

        4) Your truth is not my truth.

    • EOA says:

      I’m amazed at how someone who loves Angelina Jolie so much is so obsessed with saying that her image is ruined.

      • bap says:

        Angelina is a Global Icon. In Asia, South America, Middle East her popularity is off the chart. In China Angelina ranks third most popular foreign Celebrities.

  7. Greata says:

    Is there no one on this idiot’s team who realizes that this makes Pitt seem a tad selfish? Yeah dude, you focus on yourself while your wife does the heavy lifting. I actually think that Pitt looks a bit haggard, with an increasingly shifty look on his face. JMO.

    • swak says:

      What was he suppose to do, sit around and mope? He’d have been slammed for that. If Angie did the heavy lifting it’s because Brad was given limited time with the children via the parenting plan. And we don’t know, for sure, whether he did or did not try to get more time with them. Reports are he tried and was turned down but that information came from “sources”. Not putting down the fact that Angie had the children full time.

      • LadyT says:

        I was the only adult child living in the same city when crisis would strike my aging parents/grandparents. As hard as it was, I got the impression it was way harder on those that couldn’t be there. They felt helpless and sick with worry.

    • Chaine says:

      Me too. He looks hollow-eyed and gaunt, especially when you see the full-body pics. Im not saying everyone needs to be Dwayne Johnson level muscle, but scrawny is not good.

    • GoOnGirl says:

      @ Greta: I agree. It’s easy to look after yourself when it is only yourself. Meanwhile his wife is looking after their six children. You know, the big family he always wanted. And I for the life of me can’t get over the fact that everyone wants to forget that all this is caused by his own selfish actions.

      • Friendof says:

        He wanted the kids more, but was turned down. His wife left him and took the kids. He can’t very well provide support now. Not till he gets joint custody.

      • Carmen says:

        friendof says: “His wife left him and took the kids.”

        Gee, I wonder why?

  8. OSTONE says:

    Not choosing teams here, but he does look great on the pictures and looked great at the golden globes

  9. MostlyMegan says:

    He looks HOT. Hotter than in a very long time – although he was always gorgeous. I watched Fury the other night (great movie) and he takes off his shirt – and there isn’t any fat on him at all – not even bloaty dad-bod that Ben Affleck gets away with – but his face was jowly. Not now at all. So whatever he is doing now, that he wasn’t doing then (Angelina?) – it’s working for him.

    • L says:

      So it’s Angelina’s fault he looked like crap??? 🤦‍♂️ 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

      • Snowflake says:

        Nobody said that L. Just sometimes when you are single again, you develop new habits.i think that’s all she/he is saying.

      • Fa says:

        @SNOWFLAKE

        He is not quiet single, he is a father of 6 children to look after when he clean up his life, he got lot of responsibilities waiting for him when finally he get the joint custody, he was already slim during the summer but since the accident he lost quite a weight and this is due because of stress and he stop drinking.
        He participated group and individual therapy
        weekly, let’s hope it works for him because his kids need him

    • Snowflake says:

      I think he was doing some fillers and Botox. I say that cause for awhile there, his face was fuller and smooth, less wrinkles. Like this look better. He is so f@cking fine.

      • L says:

        Nope the poster mentions Angelina. As in she was the reason he looked the way he did while with her (at least that’s what I understood from the comment.) If he did Botox or fillers or whatever while with her then that was his choice but it has nothing to do with her. Personally, I think he looked better when he first started his relationship with her..but anywho.. Hope he’s doing well for the sake of his children.
        Hope they both are.

    • MostlyMegan says:

      Just that some relationships aren’t really that healthy for the individuals. Whatever changed, it changed after he and Angie broke up. Maybe it was cutting out the booze and weed, maybe it was something else. But he looks better now than he did when he was with Angelina. I hope they can both find happiness and a way to be a functioning family again, regardless of their personal relationship with each other.

      • Fa says:

        @MOSTLYMEGAN

        There is not maybe here is clear that he do drug test 4 times a week because of the booze and weed when you stop the habits that make you miserable before then you look good

    • almondmilk says:

      @MostlyMegan

      I prefer Brad with a goatee, when he has just a moustache and at his age, he looks weasel-y, like a molester.

      @L
      +1 but yea, i think that’s what mostly Megan is saying, that was a common refrain for the last 13 years. Jen had Brad when he was hot, Angelina doesn’t. Except if that were true they wouldn’t have been driven insane due to. Mr and Mrs Smith and tracked the whole family like blood hounds for a dozen years. Lmao.

      Also I’ve never understood the obsession with disassembling people by their looks, their faces in particular, especially when people used to constantly say Brad was the pretty girl in his marriage to Aniston and regularly said she as beneath him because of her butter face.

      Yet they will slur two of the most beautiful movie stars in the history of movies and critique their looks to the nth degree.

      Some women, it’s so sad.

      • bap says:

        Question Why do some women support men who do not take responsibility for their actions? Let the woman get the brunt of the blame. These women consider Brad to be a Real Man and consider him pretty they will over look his bad behavior, Wow such low standards in the 21st century.

  10. Lucy2 says:

    He does look better than he did about a year ago. Whether it’s from stress or clean living, I don’t know.
    There will always be tabloid stories about them, impossible to stop that, but it’s important that they keep everything as private as they can.

  11. Icantremember says:

    On the edge of too thin, and gaunt. Both of which I got when I went through my divorce and sucked. These days Im closer to 50, though, so that stress effect is not there. Which kinda sucks, cause if I’m going to be stressed, at least losing some weight could happen. Anyway, yeah. Having spent 5 hours per week with kids frees up a lot of me time. Not sure I’d consider it something to brag about, there, under the circumstances.

  12. Nikki says:

    MOST of my friends have lost weight immediately after being left for a divorce. Whether depression, time for oneself, or motivation to rejoin the dating pool, a lot of people lose weight. Hardly a story.

  13. Sixer says:

    “Brad’s Back! Fighting for his kids.”

    That’s a really offensive title and almost worthy as an entry on the Fail’s sidebar of shame. Keep the kids out of it, FFS.

    • mia girl says:

      Totally agree…

    • sage says:

      I find the “Brad’s Back” title more offensive than the “fighting for his kids”.

      Where did he come back from?

      • Gwen says:

        Exactly. Where did he go? But since this is tabloid let me guess. It means Brad is back to looking good again or Hollywood Golden Boy is back because Angelina took him away. Probably a mix of both.

  14. Mar says:

    He looks soooooooooo good

  15. LAK says:

    Nah….he is on the divorce diet. Most people lose tonnes of weight overnight from the emotional stress of divorcing or breaking up a committed relationship. I expect AJ will look thinner than usual for similar reasons.

    US weekly just wanted a reason to run his ‘thin’ pictures.

  16. Clare says:

    He looks great – but some of it is definitely a result of the nips and tucks settling in – remember how he looked at the Allied premier when it looked like the work was still healing/settling?

    • tracking says:

      Yes, he looked very plastic then. His work has settled, he de-bloated, lost the stringy highlighted hair for a nice natural clean cut look and is letting his stylist dress him like a movie star. Maybe on the advice of his PR people.

  17. sage says:

    He had a good detox. This is not just stress weight loss. He looks healthy.

  18. Ramona says:

    When I go through a hard time, I try to distract myself. I take a new cooking class, I pick up a new hobby, I work out obsessively, anything not to ruminate. Whatever he is doing, he looks great but should focus on muscle gain now.

  19. Anitas says:

    He’s just right now, wow he’s gorgeous. I hope he doesn’t go any thinner though.

  20. Brittney Buckley says:

    He just looks haggard and stressed to me, so I can’t believe so many people think this a hot comeback look. Guess I could be biased because of my own experiences, though. Breakup-associated weight loss has never had healthy causes, for me or for my friends and family members.

    (I also spy a lot of similarities, PR-wise, between his clean living write-up and the stories about celebrity women who insist they rapidly lost pregnancy weight by “running after the kids” or doing yoga. It’s usually code for surgery and/or drugs. In his case, it seems to be stress and drug tests… AKA no more munchies or alcohol bloat.)

    • bap says:

      The man is 53 years old the press tries to brain wash the public in believing he is forever young. Please. Paul Newman never worried about his looks that because he was a great actor. Brad relies on his looks and the press job is to keep him young for the public.

  21. BJ says:

    I don’t think he looks great.His face is too thin.He looked better last year when he presented with Ryan Gosling.

    I don’t believe Brad’s friend is discussing with US Weekly what his kids shared with him during their visit.I believe USWeekly made that up

  22. Fa says:

    He is playing the victim and is not good character for a man to play victim when you know that you responsible in the first of what happening to your family, he should man up and sending his sources to tabloids, this article is trolling Angelina and his kids, in a sense that say that he finally looking good without his family stress

    • Carmen says:

      He always plays victim. Every time something bad happens to him in his life, somebody else is to blame for it.

      • bap says:

        The media made him, he is a boring actor. Since the media created the persona of him they must protect his image. Angelina knows this but her children come first.

    • Snowflake says:

      Is he playing the victim? Or are the tabloids painting him as one? I’m sure they have both leaked stories. We don’t knowthen or who is at fault. We don’t have to take sides. We can wish them both the best, no one is perfect.

  23. Shijel says:

    A combination of divorce diet but also having to give up booze and weed?

    I recently cut down my boozing drastically (I used to down a about 3 litres of alcohol or a quart of hard liquor a night, depending on the day and I’m a 5’2ft woman) and it freakin’ floored me how my face and body immediately began de-bloating.

    He looks good here. Slim, yes, but not like his face’s about to melt off and swim away in butterfly style in a pool of booze.

  24. Lola says:

    He looks amazing, I can’t deny it. I’m glad he’s getting healthy and fit so he can be the best parent to his kids. They deserve his best.

  25. Adorable says:

    Well he does look good,whatever..in my mind I was just annoyed at how smug(to me)he seemed at the Golden globes…just saying…Will never look at him the same after he through the mother of his kids down the bus….

  26. molly says:

    What annoys me the most is, he has gotten away with shady behavior because people always see him as the wholesome hollywood golden boy. Angelina will always be seen as the self destructive goth outsider who few relate to? The truth is that brad has actually shown destructive behavior & angelina grew out of her past a long time ago. They have switched the perceptions in real life but in the sexist ,biased media, Angelina will always be at fault. Brad could run over a basket of puppies & people would be like ‘poor brad , it’s ok we know that evil witch made you do that’.

    • NYCgal says:

      I find him more laid back and approachable and he makes good movies which also matters to me. If doesn’t have to be a comparison between the two but I’ve always liked him more. Pre this latest mess, I liked her a lot too and I’m sure I will like her again but she turned me off with how she handled the divorce, and it wasn’t due to anything he put forth. I formed my opinion based on her actions alone. No need to lay the blame on him or the biased media.

      • Lady D says:

        We’re just going to ignore the fact his actions started all this?

      • Gwen says:

        It’s the exact opposite for me. I find her more interesting. She’s very well spoken and expressive. I like how she’s open with her flaws. It seems like the opposite with Brad. Every relationship he ends, the women are at fault and part of that is because of the media and him.

        He didn’t end his first marriage with, “hey I’m part of the reason why my relationship failed” but “she was boring me and my relationship was a dead end so I had to find happiness somewhere else”. This was said about Jennifer Aniston five years after the divorce. I believe we’ll hear something similar about Angelina years from now.

        Brad is a great actor and I love his work but he’s boring to me. His interviews are blah.

      • NYCgal says:

        Lady D- I am not absolving him or anything he has said or done but in the absence of a full recount by either one of them, how can I know? Neither can anyone on this board. Whatever he did, that’s between him and his family and more than anything, he will need to make sure that he repairs that relationship despite of who the public thinks won the PR battle.

        What I meant by the messiness of how it was handled, I was strictly speaking about the press releases started by her initially, and then followed by him. A lot of couples go through tough divorces. Not everyone is investigated by DFCS, but even that aspect was blown out of proportion through the media because of her initial press release.

      • almondmilk says:

        @NYCgal

        I find her more honest and real and she’s the authentic humanitarian which also matters to me. It doesn’t have to be a comparison between the two but I’ve always liked her more. Pre this latest mess that they say bad drunk dad Brad caused, i liked him too. But he turned me off with how he was supposedly drunk and high on a plane attacking one kid and traumatizing the others- then with the investigations across 4 agencies, his therapy and drug testing… It wasn’t due to anything Angelina said, she was/is trying to get him help. I formed my opinion based on his actions alone. He blew up his family. No need to lay the blame on her or the biased media.

      • Lady D says:

        Agree NYCgal, her initial announcement could have been worded better.

      • LadyT says:

        I could have done without the last one, too. In the motion to seal the case (ironic) on Jan. 4, her lawyer writes Brad is “terrified the public will learn the truth…particularly given the detailed investigations of the FBI and DCSF into allegations of abuse.”
        He clearly royally screwed up but that just seems like pot stirring.
        And Angie wants it sealed because it’s genuinely in the best interest of the family but Brad’s motive to do the same is selfish and only his image?

      • Dolphin7 says:

        @NYC
        I agree. None of us (at least that we know of) were on the plane.

    • wyatt says:

      Molly what you said is true, the sad truth about all the mess and comments doesnt matter, what matter is :his children was on that plane and saw everything we think what happen.

  27. Who ARE These People? says:

    When has Brad Pitt ever *not* focused on himself?

    • NYCgal says:

      1. When he decided to have kids
      2. When he built houses in New Orleans for those affected by Katrina
      3. When he produces movies with an all black cast.

      Focusing on yourself is pretty healthy to me. If you don’t take care of you first, you can’t be there for others, including your family.

      • Anitas says:

        True. I guess it’s possible to be both a champion of human rights and an asshat, as Brad and Angelina both like to demonstrate.

      • Carmen says:

        All of which were great for his image, which will always be number one with him. Don’t ever kid yourself that it isn’t.

    • bap says:

      You are telling the truth.

  28. bap says:

    He has always been about protecting his Image. Throwing Dame Angelina under the bus. Angelina will be stronger than ever.

    Angelina on February 18, 2017 will be in Cambodia to premiere her new movie she directed FTKMF.

    • Adorable says:

      Awesome!…I wonder if she has removed that Brad co-ordinates tattoo on her arm yet….anyway Angie has been looking spectacular since the divorce so she will most definitely continue looking Gorg On The 18th of Feb.

      • kay says:

        i truly hope she doesn’t remove his tattoo…though things ended, and hella badly, those tattoos are a family mark and he is still part of the nuclear family.
        if my husband and i ended our marriage, even this badly, i still would never remove him from the tattoo that represents the family he and i created together.

      • bap says:

        Thanks for your support of her new movie.

    • Wait&See says:

      This movie will be a flop. Her fans will watch it but that’s it.

      • bap says:

        Well as long as one persons see it that good enough.

      • Wait&See says:

        It’s never good to have a financial flop. I guess she wants to do more movies? So she needs successful ones otherwise people in HW will stop giving her money and that would be a shame.

      • Maya says:

        Sorry but that movie will be released on Netflix and not in theatres. So it won’t flop and will be watched by millions.

        It will premier in Cambodia to the Cambodian people but it is not an actual premier.

      • Zut alors! says:

        Speaking of flops, how much money has Allied made? He made such a big deal out of going to China for the first time! and the movie made $1.2 million opening weekend. Sad!

      • Wait&See says:

        I have no idea. Google it. I haven’t seen Allied or BTS and I won’t be watching this movie because I don’t have Netflix.

  29. Pandy says:

    You know, I like both AJ and BP for their humanitarian actions. Still don’t know what went down between them and probably never will. But I’m not tarring Brad as a child beating drunk. I’m sure a hot story like that would have surfaced well before now.

    • Maya says:

      I ding think he is a child beater either but I do firmly believe he was an alcoholic and weed user and he verbally abused both Angelina and those children especially Maddox on that plane trip.

      He most have said some horrible stuff because his sons are talking to him and they need family therapy.

      I have mentioned this lots of time and I don’t think he is a bad man. I just think he was/is a coward who chose his image over his wife’s and his children’s. That’s the only issue I have with him.

      • Mi says:

        That’s how I see it too, Maya!

        He put his own needs and wants before those of their children, and certainly before his wife and marriage.

  30. Sera says:

    I really do not like Brad right now. Allowing all of these pity stories to put Angelina as the bad guy is how he has acted it seems to me throughout their entire relationship. These revenge body stories make impound just like his pitiful former ex. If he doesn’t at some point come out and comment on this whole situation and make sure people know Angelina was acting I the families best interest than I am done with him. Angelina has always had his back. She could he be just said what happened on that plane and the whole year prior but she didn’t. Angelina once said Brad was a man’s man. Maybe that is not the good thing she thought.

    • bap says:

      Hi Sera,

      If you go to http://www.the guardian click on Angelina Jolie or Cambodia. Angelina will be showing her new movie in Cambodia on Feburary 17, 2017. Angelina Jolie, her son Maddox Chivan and Loung Ung on the set of First They Killed My Father. Photograph: Pax Thien Jolie Pitt/Netflix. It seems Madddox is now going by Madddox Chivan.

      • crogirl says:

        Chivan is his middle name, just because his last name is not written doesn’t mean he is dropping Pitt. I am team Angie but Brad is his father and I hope they will mend their relationship

      • YepIsaidit says:

        I just posted something similar. I wonder if Maddox no longer wants to use his dad’s last name. I think he’d have to wait until he’s 18 to change it?

        That’s a huge blow to the Brangelina fans because they still hope they reconcile because Angelina didn’t say the d word in her latest statement. Lmao

      • almondmilk says:

        @bap @crogirl

        Yes crogirl is right, that paragraph in no way says Maddox current day, has changed his name.

        the paragraph was describing the then 7 month old baby ‘Maddox Chivan’ (his name at the time) that Angelina adopted.

        Let’s not give tabloids fake news.

    • YepIsaidit says:

      You’re so right sera. Angelina wasted so much time on someone who was undeserving.

      Many people do that for their kids and now she dumped him for her kids. Good for her.

      Looking up reunification and welfare of the children shows a lot of info about drug/alcohol addicted parents who have to have help reconnecting with their kids. It all makes sense when you compare it to what we know about Brangelina’s situation.

    • Friendof says:

      Brad said once that he trusted Angie with his life. I wonder what he thinks now. Things are never as clear as they seem to us outsiders. There were at least two people fighting in their household. They all reference fights. Brad wasn’t fighting by himself. He left to get away from the fighting. I guess that’s better than what happens in some families. They need to be divorced and with joint custody so they can go on more happily with their lives. The kids will adjust. All kids adjust. And Angie said she would never marry again. She’s never seemed happy to marry to me. She was very sad looking in her little doodle dress. Glad she is free. And glad Brad is free. They both have family. Angie can do the humanitarian work she wants to do. Brad will support her and the kids. And Brad can find a woman who wants to be a wife. In the meantime he can get his parents to help him sort out the kids upbringing. Maybe they can go to school with other kids. At least part time when they are with him.

  31. YepIsaidit says:

    Angelina Jolie has a new interview with the gaurdian about her new movie that is premiering in Cambodia next month. Maddox is now going by Maddox Chivan. Chivan is his middle name. Pax is given credit for the photographs.

    It’s in interesting read

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/11/angelina-jolie-cambodia-first-they-killed-my-father?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2FhJng+%28World+news+%7C+The+Guardian%29

    • LadyT says:

      I’m just going to put on my rose-colored glasses and hope that’s his choice as a “professional” name and has nothing to do with the recent family turmoil.

    • kay says:

      “I hope people see not just the horror of war but the love it takes to survive.”
      what a strong heart and soul loung has <3

    • almondmilk says:

      Hey Yep

      Chivan is Maddox middle name, and the name he had when adopted — the paragraph in the guardian piece is describing the 7 month old baby Maddox Chivan.

      Maddox hasn’t changed his name present day.

      • LadyT says:

        He is also labeled as such in the current day picture. But I don’t think it means anything either.

  32. Tanakasan says:

    Two huge houses a mile away from each other? That’s just fucking WEIRD, but I’m sure those kids have weird, Jacksonesque lives anyway, unable to walk the streets in peace anywhere.

    Bead does look great, which I personally contribute to no drinking and no weed, laying the foundation for maintaining a healthy relationship with his children (and my retinas). It’s the “losin’ the old ball and chain” tones that bother me. Even in this day and age, a wife who was a PARTNER (and in some ways a LEADER) is still just some weight trying to tie a good man down with marriage and children bullshit.

    I am a big fan of both of them – his acting, respectability, work ethic, and LOOKS; her weird rich wild child past, LOOKS, and charity. She harnessed that big hole inside of herself and turned her self-destructive flaws into compulsive do-gooding. Turned narcissisim into empathy. That’s admirable!

    • almondmilk says:

      @Tanakasan

      Oh the transparency! Lol

      Acting, respectability and work ethic for Brad

      Narcissism, flaws, OCD and wild childness for Angelina

      Melissa Etheridge is that you?

      Odd take since Angelina is the only one in the family with the acting Oscar, and ranks in the top 10 of Most Admired and Most Influential Worldwide and on the regular (for the last 13-14yrs)…

      …while Brad is the one who said he was a lazy weed smoking doughnut when Angie came along.

      That’s straight from the horse too, and I mean Brad, not his first ex.

      ‘Respectability,’ is not exactly a Brad Pitt lynchpin, and the bitter hater women here know it- because they were always the first ones to taunt Brangelina fans and say that Brad was a perv who dated teens when he was a grown man.

      So you’ve got that bass ackwards hon, lol

      You do know Tanaksan, that your bias and rank bitterness re Jolie is like a neon sign, yes?

      I don’t find misogyny funny, nor the continued smearing of the only responsible custodial parent those kids have at the moment.

      Says a lot when a man is investigated across 4 LE agencies, is drug and alcohol tested weekly, doesn’t have custody of his own children and is in intensive therapy alone and with them…

      ..and still the tendency is to ignore all that and slur the accomplished influential admired humanitarian and Oscar winning mom who’s trying to heal her family and get a sick fool some help.

      Yet she gets kicked in the head constantly. Woman hate is strong nasty stuff

      I read sly posts like yours and want to apologize to Angelina and Hillary all over again, for women as a group.

  33. Dolphin7 says:

    Pretty amazing some posters going on about misogyny and then saying another woman has a butter face. I’m beginning to think one of us was really on that plane.

    • Zut alors! says:

      Aren’t you the very same poster who stated Maddox mouthed off to Pitt which led to the “isolated incident” as his lawyer describes it? Since Angelina has never disclosed the details, were you on that plane?

      • Dolphin7 says:

        No I have never mentioned the children in any of my posts except to say I wish them the best and I hope things are private for their sakes. My only contention, as a mandated reporter and as a parent, is I find it concerning a parent who was alleged-and anyone can make an allegation-and then been cleared has such limited visitation. Which I know he agreed to while DCFS investigated. I was in the middle of a custody fight between two parents of my student, and it was very intimidating.

      • Zut alors! says:

        @Dolphin7
        You honestly do not recall writing that you read somewhere (conveniently without a source) that Maddox had supposedly told Pitt “f:ck you” and that’s why Pitt put his hands on him? How very interesting.

    • Dolphin7 says:

      I guess butter face then is okay with some celebrities. Its disappointing to see a double standard on a feminist website.

      • Agapanthus says:

        I agree, the hypocrisy is astounding.

        Your comment about being on the plane made me laugh! 😊

  34. katie2you says:

  35. virginfangirl2 says:

    I agree that he looks better than he has in years & my guess is because he lost weight. And from the several couples I have known that went through a divorce, they often lose weight. I’m guessing the extreme stress of it all causes you to lose your appetite.

  36. d says:

    Such a weird story to have out there. Why state the obvious? It’s a nothing story with a fake source or a maybe real quote by a pathetic source imo who should know better. I know his reputation has been trashed, deservedly or undeservedly, but as a first story about him out of the gate of going private, it seems kind of petty or high school-ish? Why not take the high road and let actions and behaviour speak for itself? IDK, Pitt needs better friends/sources who can keep their mouth shut. Makes me think more now that Jolie had reason to cut ties.

  37. Mew says:

    I noticed the change earlier. Yeah, he’s definitely looking much better these days, clean and all. I wonder how long it takes before he finds his next wife.

  38. miasys says:

    They are both insanely attractive people. My personal opinion is that he is not as pretty on the inside, where it matters most. He comes off as more selfish, as well. This kills his hotness for me. All of this aside, I feel badly for their children & hope they are able to coparent effectively and respectfully, soon. I truly do not want to know what happened if it means those kids have to live with the whole world knowing, too.

  39. lili22 says:

    I only know of 2 closed investigations, FBI and DCFS. People keep writing here that there were 4 investigations?
    Can anyone enlighten?