I don’t really having anything to add to the glowing cuteness of these photos. Brad, Angelina, Shiloh, Pax and Zahara came out to play in a public park in Budapest yesterday, shortly after Brad came back from his whirlwind NYC trip (in which he went to the premiere of Megamind). It seems like Pax and Shiloh got to play with some kind of zip line for kids – and relax, parents, the zip line was like two feet off the ground. Still, that brings up a question I had when looking through these photos, and seeing that Brad was the one trying to figure out the harness for the kids: would you allow Brad to harness you? I’m not talking about a sex thing, I’m talking about a safety thing. Personally, I would prefer Angelina to be in charge of my rig. I’m just saying – she comes across as the better parent for harnesses and such.
I don’t see any photos of Empress Zahara playing in the zip line. She was all “Bitch, please. Like I would dirty my beautiful white coat.” And it is beautiful. And so is she. Like, she’s a ridiculously gorgeous little girl. And you know she’s going to be the family heartbreaker – not Shiloh. Shiloh is too busy trying to be (and achieving) the Ultimate Tomboy. When boys try to flirt with her, she’ll probably punch them. Bless her heart.
Last year, Brad Pitt dressed up as a character from Yo Gabbba Gabba for Halloween. This year, the Jolie-Pitts were in Budapest, and they still found time to celebrate, although there is no information on what Brad or Angelina wore. Us Weekly does have details on the kids though – the Empress was a “spring fairy” while Pax was a mad scientist, and Maddox was a chimney sweeper – in all-black, probably just like his mother. Is that a Mary Poppins thing, the chimney sweeper stuff? You know what I would love? If one year, the Jolie-Pitts would dress up like the Von Trapps from The Sound of Music. I want Zahara to be Liesl. Anyway, the kids got a special Halloween celebration, but Shiloh didn’t get to join in! Boo!
Boo from Budapest! Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s kids definitely got into the Halloween spirit over the weekend in Hungary, where their mom, 35, is currently shooting her directorial debut. Brothers Maddox, 9, and Pax, nearly 7, got crafty at school (Lycee Francais de Budapest), carving jack-o-lanterns with their classmates on Friday.
And, for their costumes, the famous tykes didn’t go for the store-bought variety. Instead, an insider tells UsMagazine.com, “the kids sketched out the types of costumes they liked” and worked with their nannies to make DIY getups for the big day.
On Sunday, the Jolie-Pitt gang had a “a little dress-up party” at their lavish rented home. Pax dressed as a “mad scientist in glasses and a cute outfit,” and trick-or-treated at the nearby home of a girl from his class, the insider tells Us.
Meanwhile, Zahara, 5, was “a spring fairy. She looked so beautiful, with flowers in her hair. She is such a girly-girl!”
Maddox wore an all-black chimney-sweeper-like outfit. “He is obsessed with black colors [and] loves the brush they carry,” explains the insider.
Where was little sister Shiloh, 4? Sadly down with a cold, the blonde, blue-eyed girl had to sit out the festivities. (Twins Vivienne and Knox, 2, didn’t participate either.)
The kids weren’t able to join their classmates for a special Halloween trick-or-treat walk through the city — but they had candy waiting for them at school on Monday, the source adds.
That’s sad that Shiloh didn’t get to go trick-or-treating. I bet the Empress lorded that over Shiloh. I missed one year of Halloween too- the chicken pox, if I remember correctly. When you’re that young, missing an event like Halloween is like the worst thing ever. Hopefully, the other kids shared their candy with Shiloh.
Y’all can just pack it up, because Passive-Aggressive Crazy has chimed in. Jon Voight gave an “exclusive” interview to Us Weekly about the tabloid topic of the year, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt dressing like a boy. Now, since Angelina publicly allowed her father back into her life and the lives of the kids, Jon hasn’t been able to shut up. He’s been giving “exclusive” interviews all over the place, so the only thing surprising about this is that Us Weekly seems to be the first to ask Jon about Shiloh’s Montenegro Style. To his credit, Jon doesn’t throw Angelina under the bus, and he basically reiterates what Angelina has said – that Shiloh is her own person, making her own style choices, and she chooses to dress like a Euro hipster.
Seems everyone has something to say about 4-year-old Shiloh Jolie-Pitt’s style. What does grandpa Jon Voight think?
“Shiloh’s an amazing person,” he told UsMagazine.com Sunday at a gala honoring film producer Avi Arad in Los Angeles. “I look at the way she dresses and she has a style! And she’s only 4-years old! I’m going, ‘What!?’”
Echoing previous remarks made by Angelina Jolie, Voight, 71, told Us, “Shiloh chooses everything she wears, so she’s an amazing person. The press, they’re going to make a lot of stuff about it, but she’s incredible.”
Jolie recently described Shiloh as having “Montenegro style” — a phrase that baffled many fashion experts — because she prefers to wear “tracksuits.” “Shiloh’s hysterically funny, one of the goofiest, most playful people you’ll ever meet,” she said. “….Goofy and verbal, the early signs of a performer.”
Jolie, 35, recently scoffed at reports that she chooses Shiloh’s clothes for her.
“I think she is fascinating,” she told Reuters, “the choices she is making.”
Good for him. I guess Jon really could have made it worse, but he defended his granddaughter from the plague of douchey tabloid stories. Once again, I’m not sure why it matters how a four-year-old dresses, but people are still up in arms about it, and apparently, the whole situation is completely Angelina’s fault. Whatever.
For. The. Love. Of. God. Life & Style seems to think they’ve got a winning tabloid recipe by continuing the “Angelina Jolie is evil, and a horrible mother, because Shiloh is dressed like a boy” cover stories. I’ve lost count of how many covers they’ve run on that theme – this might be the sixth, maybe? It’s beyond ridiculous. Life & Style’s editors seems to think that Angelina and Angelina alone is the “reason” that Shiloh wears pants. According to their sources and experts, when Angelina isn’t sending messages to the gerbils via carrier pigeon, she’s barking orders at her stylist to find some cargo pants for Shiloh. “Yes,” Angelina says, rubbing her hands together. “It’s her fault for not being born a boy, I will rectify the situation by giving her a bowl cut.”
While Angelina Jolie has always insisted she has nothing to do with daughter Shiloh’s controversial boyish behavior, insiders close to the family tell Life & Style that Angelina’s actually the one dressing Shiloh like a tomboy. “She’s been dressing Shiloh in her older brother Maddox’s hand-me-downs, including making her wear boys’ boxer shorts, for years,” the insider tells Life & Style.
“It definitely doesn’t look like she dressed herself,” Children’s stylist Zoey Washington tells Life & Style, referring to Shiloh’s trendy ensemble on Sept. 14 at LAX–an Old Navy Pique Polo boys’ top, shorts brother Maddox wore in 2007 and unlaced combat boots. “Maybe her mom had her stylist throw the look together.”
“Angelina has an idea that each child should have a specific personality that she picked out for them practically at birth,” the insider says. “She’s the tomboy.”
In fact, she even gave her daughter a boy’s name. Of Hebrew origin, Shiloh has meanings including “his gift” and “he who is to be sent” and is traditionally used for boys. And she’s come to prefer boys’ names: Shiloh asks to be called John or Peter, Brad once revealed. And a second insider tells Life & Style she’s added the name Gregory to her list.
“It’s normal for a little girl to explore the opposite gender,” notes psychologist and parenting expert Jonathan Alpert. “But if a parent is trying to defy a cultural norm at the expense of the child, that’s a different story. Parents shouldn’t push their agenda via their child.”
I thought they named her Shiloh because Angelina’s mother Marcheline loved the name “Shiloh Baptist” and Marcheline always wanted to name one of her kids that? And “Shiloh” was a name that was used by both Angelina and James Haven at various times in their lives, and it had great significance to them? As far as wanting to change her name – yeah. A lot of kids do that. I wanted to be called “Diane” for years when I was a kid. And now I write under a completely different name too. And I wear pants ALL THE TIME. ZOMG!!! Angelina has forced me to become a lesbian too!!!
So, basically, I wish Life & Style would eat a big, burning bag of d-cks. F-ckers.
Since we haven’t gotten a lot of photos of the Jolie-Pitt kids lately – they’ve mostly been at the photo agencies that we don’t have access to – I thought I’d bring you the rare photos of Angelina Jolie with her daughters Shiloh and Zahara at LAX yesterday. For those keeping track, Zahara is five and a half and Shiloh is four. And they’re the same height! Man, Empress Z is always going to be petite, isn’t she? Meanwhile, Shiloh is starting to get longer.
In case you can’t tell what the girls are wearing, Shiloh has got on a polo shirt, knee-length shorts and combat boots (love it). Empress Z is wearing a cute little cap-sleeved blouse, black pants and Mary Janes. The Daily Mail has some good photos of the girls too – and it’s clear that both of them are carrying their “silkies.” Or maybe just their bankies?
Also – I’m sorry these photos are so small! It sucks, I know. Just click on the right-hand corner of the ad to see the full photos!
Angelina and the girls at LAX on Sept. 14, 2010. Credit: Bauer-Griffin.
Life & Style Magazine hasn’t released any excerpts from the cover story yet, which basically means that they know that the issue is going to be controversial and they’re going to take a lot of heat for it, so they don’t want to give away any additional grist for the mill. For what I can see of the cover, L&S is continuing their theme of insinuating that Angelina Jolie is a horrible mother whose sh-tty parenting is turning Shiloh into a tomboy lesbian. The new twist seems to be that Brad is very, very upset that Angelina doesn’t seem to feel any shame about turning their four-year-old into a lesbian, and he wants Angelina to stop talking about Shiloh as if she’s an adorable 4-year-old tomboy going through a phase. Brad wants Angelina to acknowledge that she’s doing irreparable damage to Shiloh for letting Shiloh wear pants, it seems.
L&S is probably pulling lots of quotes from Angelina from her Salt press, in which Jolie talked a lot about how she thought it was “bad parenting” to force your kids to wear certain clothes, and how Shiloh “begged” to have short hair and how Shiloh loves to wear a tie: “that’s her thing.” All of which sound like funny little stories that a mom would tell about her kid, in my opinion. Of course, I did think Angelina should stop talking about Shiloh in general, just because she seemed to give interview after interview about Shi’s tomboy ways, and it was just getting tedious (check out our Shiloh archives for a refresher). Anyway… whatever. I thought the tabloid were past questioning Shiloh’s gender identification, but it seems like they’re going to push this story until Shiloh goes through a girly phase, I guess.
In other Brangelina news, Radar had a funny story yesterday – they interviewed a NOLA local named Melba Leggett Barnes, who is apparently pretty tight with Brad and Angelina after the Make It Right Foundation gave her a house. Melba claims that she was the one to introduce Brad to New Orleans’ Saint Reggie Bush, and she has lots of nice to say about Brad and Make It Right NOLA. The funny part was when she was talking about hanging out with Brad and Angelina, and this happened:
Melba says: “Brad loves New Orleans and he is a cool guy. He has given me a house that I will be in until I die and I will be forever grateful for that. More people are coming back all the time and the residents here are actively involved in the process too. After Katrina people were getting ripped-off all the time by corrupt contractors but now we advise them to go through The Make It Right Foundation if they need work done.”
“We had a lot of fun at our event and Brad took time to talk with a lot of people and that was really appreciated. Angelina was not with him this time but, hopefully, we will get to see her over the holidays with her kids. They have visited our home before, and I like her she is really down-to-earth and their kids are very happy and fun-loving too. Brad really likes my ‘corn-porn’ [her special corn recipe] which I make with green onions and I want to give her the recipe.”
Okay, I’ll believe that this lady truly adores Brad and that she’s met Angelina and everything. What I don’t buy is that Angelina would ever be like, “Oooh, I need that corn porn recipe!” Angelina has stated time and time again that she only does cereal. She’s not going to make Brad a special corn porn dish, although I would pay good money to see her try.
There are a bunch of Angelina Jolie stories in this week’s tabloids, but most of them are pretty uninteresting. The National Enquirer has one about Angelina Jolie inappropriately kissing Johnny Depp while they were filming The Tourist, even though the script didn’t call for it. They made it sound like Angelina just wanted it “spicy” and Depp was offended. However, doesn’t The Tourist have a bunch of sex scenes? Weird. Also, the British tabloid Grazia has some strange quotes attributed to Angelina. I’m not sure if Jolie actually said this stuff or not, but it’s interesting:
Salt star Angelina Jolie has revealed that it is “not her choice” that daughter Shiloh wants to dress like a boy.
The 35-year-old actress has six children with partner Brad Pitt, 46, and their four-year-old daughter Shiloh has recently been making headlines with her tomboy dress sense and short hair.
Jolie admitted that Shiloh didn’t like her previously long hair and asked her mother to cut it off.
She told UK magazine Grazia: ‘It’s not my choice. I have a very strong-willed four-year-old girl, who tells me what she want to wear and I let her be who she is. I think people think kids should be a certain way, but I feel they should wear what they feel like wearing and they should express themselves.’
“Shiloh cried one night and said, ‘Please cut my hair off. I don’t want to have long hair’.”
She added: ‘I’m not going to leave it long because somebody thinks I should.’
It seems like Grazia is just guessing as to how Angelina felt and just put those words in her mouth, but whatever. There are worse things, I suppose.
Additionally, Star Magazine has a great story about Angelina and her alleged lesbian lover:
Sitting side by side in a candlelit white leather booth, Angelina Jolie cozied up to a beautiful woman with short, dark hair.
“Angelina and this lady were pretty playful and affectionate,” an eyewitness at popular date spot Dresden Restaurant tells Star. “They were having a lot of fun.”
The pair couldn’t keep their eyes off of each other as they talked and lingered over their drinks for hours.
On another occasion, Angelina brought the same woman to meet up with several of her closest friends – “Angelina was laughing and seemed very relaxed… she was wearing very little makeup and slipped under the radar.”
Intimate encounters like these are becoming a regular occurrence for Angelina. She has reportedly spent time with her special friend, who appears to be also in her 30s, at the Dresden at least three other times in the past two months.
An insider speculates: “Who knows? Maybe Brad is OK with Angie seeing some women on the side.”
Another insider: “Brad just doesn’t know yet that Angie is dating someone,” noting that Angelina often disappears for hours and is unreachable on her cell phone. “She is still very much into women.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
And then the story goes into an ad for Andrew Morton’s new book, in which a source describes Angelina as “megasexual” and that women are Angelina’s “true love.” As for this mystery woman: meh. Pics or it didn’t happen. I find it hard to believe that Angelina goes to the same place with her lesbian lover FIVE times and no one has ever gotten a photo. That being said, the lady sounds nice, and I’m sure Brad is into it. Oh, wait, I meant to say that Brad is SHOCKED by how SCANDALOUS Angelina is.
This is probably only interesting to the die-hard loonies, but both Us Weekly and Hello! Magazine had interviews with Angelina Jolie last week, and there were some somewhat interesting quotes. Most of it was just more of the same – eating spiders, Shiloh dressing like a boy, but there is some new stuff. In Us Weekly, she talks about how Zahara is really fast:
How does it feel to film a movie again?
Great! I hadn’t worked in over a year. I had two babies and was home in my nightgown a whole lot. It was nice to get really aggressive and physical. Brad was very supportive. Anything I was ready to do, he was going to jump behind.
Were you nervous to film with the spider?
I like spiders, so I’m not that squeamish. I’ve eaten some in my days in Cambodia, so I didn’t have a problem. But I didn’t eat this one!
What do your kids think of the movie?
They saw the trailer. Half of them were completely uninterested, and Shiloh wanted me to cut my hair short. Pax got upset because someone was trying to hurt his mom. I’ll say “It’s ok, because mommy is OK in the end, and that’s all you need to know!”
With six kids, guess you’re used to running around a lot?
Yes, but they can run faster. [Zahara] is the fastest by far. They’re all over, and the twins go in different directions at the same time. We’ve gated off a lot of the rooms in the house where they were going, though.
[From US Weekly, print edition, August 9, 2010]
I’m struggling to draw something out of the information that Zahara is a great runner. Will this affect her global domination?
Also, Angelina had some interesting stuff to say to Hello:
Angelina on traveling with the kids: “We can drag them around with us now, but as they get older, they’re going to want to be with their friends, so we’re going to have to move our life around them a little more. I hope they won’t be less traveling, I hope I’ve got them healthily addicted.
On me-time: “I just don’t get it. Most people with kids just don’t get it. Sometimes you get a bath or a shower by yourself, but usually somebody is trying to come in.”
On letting the kids see her films: “The girls are just starting to be interested. They’ve seen a few minutes of Tomb Raider, but not the whole thing. Both Brad and I have done animated films this year, so they think we just do cartoon. Mr. and Mrs. Smith is going to be fun for them to discover one day because it’s their mom and dad.”
On Brad’s advice on stunt work: “He’s not [worried]. We both consider each other quite capable. he’ll ask me to double-check my harness or my rig, or he’ll say, ‘Don’t get sloppy when you are out on the roof.’”
On maybe doing a comedy: “Like everybody, I thought The Hangover was funny. I end up watching a lot of kids’ movies, so I find my children very, very funny. I am very goofy I think. I laugh and giggle – when I was pregnant I used to get the giggles for about 15 minutes, unstoppable. But I don’t think I’d be very good in a comedy. I think there are other actresses who do it brilliantly. I’d love to try, but I think I might be better as the straight man or something.”
On funny moments filming Salt: “Well, the dog didn’t like me. We did a shot which we changed later where his head was sticking out of a backpack and the whole time he was growling in my ear. I was thinking he was going to bite my ear off. Bit it looked too funny so we put his head in.”
On Shiloh being like her, and how Shiloh wants to be a boy: “She has always wanted to dress like a boy. She wants her hair cut like a boy, and wanted to go by the name John for a while. Some kids wear capes and want to be Superman; she wants to be like her brothers. So we kind of let her. It’s just who she is and it’s been a surprise to us. She’s lovely. She’s so funny and light and sweet and pretty, but she does love to wear a tie – that’s her thing.”
[From Hello Magazine, print edition]
Aw, that stuff about Shiloh was really cute. I love that Shiloh is all about the tie. I bet Zahara has already mastered tying the Windsor knot for her little sister. Zahara knows that this whole “Montenegro Style” will help in her global domination. Then they pull each other’s hair and Zahara runs away. Cute.
PS… I’m considering joining Twitter, and I think “MontenegroStyle” would be a cute name. Thoughts?
More Angelina Jolie interviews! Hurray. Angelina spoke to Reuters over the weekend, and she got some more “Why is Shiloh dressing like a boy?” questions. Angelina basically said that Shiloh is just a kid and Shi‘s Montenegro style is the bomb. But since this is the new, haughty Angelina, she couches her response with a side of judgment. Angelina says: “I think she is fascinating, the choices she is making. And I would never be the kind of parent to force somebody to be something they are not. I think that is just bad parenting.” Hear that, all of you “Shiloh should dress like a princess all the time” moms? Let a tomboy be a tomboy.
It’s never easy being a style trendsetter, opening yourself up for criticism from the world’s fashionista. But for a four year-old, it might seem especially hard — unless your mother is Angelina Jolie.
Jolie, who is currently promoting her upcoming film “Salt,” defended her daughter Shiloh’s style choices over the weekend, calling them “fascinating” and saying she would not force any of her six children to be something they are not.
In recent months Shiloh, 4, has been pictured wearing boys’ neckties, jackets, hats and other clothing that sparked headlines about the youngster being a bit of a tomboy.
“I think she (Shiloh) is fascinating, the choices she is making. And I would never be the kind of parent to force somebody to be something they are not. I think that is just bad parenting,” she told Reuters on Saturday.
Jolie, who is raising her kids with partner Brad Pitt, said encouraging the kids’ sense of self-expression was an important part of their upbringing.
“Children should be allowed to express themselves in whatever way they wish without anybody judging them because it is an important part of their growth,” she said, before adding: “Society always has something to learn when it comes to the way we judge each other, label each other. We have far to go.”
Indeed, Jolie said the crew grew uncomfortable on the set of “Salt” when she dressed in men’s clothes for her role as a gung-ho CIA officer wrongly accused of being a Russian spy. To hide, she must disguise herself as a man.
“It was fascinating,” she said. “The stunt guys I usually hung out talking to, didn’t want to hang out with me. The girls didn’t know how to respond…there was something about him that kind of freaked the whole crew out.
I cosign what Angelina says about Shiloh and letting kids express themselves. Most likely, whatever tomboy style Shiloh wants to rock is just some phase. And if it’s not? Who gives a f-ck? What’s the worst case scenario? That Shiloh has a lifelong aversion to dresses? That she grows up to be a tomboyish woman? That she’s – gasp – a pantsuit-wearing lesbian? Whatever.
Meanwhile, Angelina also has a new interview with Nightline, and ABC News just put some clips and excerpts online (ABC News piece here). Here are some highlights:
Angelina on the real-life Russian spy drama: “It’s bizarre, isn’t it? It’s been so bizarre for us. … I have two halves. You know, a part of me feels, as a citizen of a country, you think, ‘I don’t want anything to affect our new positive relationship with Russia.’ And the other part of me is somebody who’s in a film, thinks, ‘My god, what timing.’ And this is so strange, because all through making the film, there was a question of, ‘Is it possible? Does it still exist today? Is it poignant? Is it relevant?’”
Has Angelina ever punched someone? “I have,” Jolie said. She was a teenager. “I did punch,” Jolie said. “I think because I was so — it was my first fight, you know? And you — and you don’t know what else to do. But you just want it to be, I don’t know. You figure you better do it right the first time or they’re gonna come back at you!” But she added, “real fighting is so awkward and not cool at all.”
On her dangerous stunt-work: “Because I have six kids, I would never do something that could kill me,” Jolie said. “But there were things that were — I could have broken my arm or broken my leg, or that kind of thing.”
The tough-girl persona: “In some way,” she said, “I suppose. Or I wouldn’t be able to do the film. … As I said, if it came down to something I had to do, I’m fine to get dirty and tough with the best of ‘em, you know? Because I would believe in what I’m fighting for. And I’m not afraid. But I’m also just Mommy, and goofy Mommy.”
Her kids? “They’re in the hotel room,” Jolie said “…I’m sure they’ve made a fort out of every possible thing in that room.”
Plans for more kids? “There’s no plans at the moment for more,” Jolie said. “But always talk about it. We’re always open. You know? We kind of joke about it, ’cause in the morning we’re so tired. ‘Cause there — nobody spends the night. We wake up and we have breakfast. … And so, we always have this thing kind of first thing in the morning where we’re really, really tired. And we always look at each other and wonder like, Are we ever gonna get sleep?’ And then we joke about sleep. … But yet, we still love the idea of having more children.”
Food, and a Knox story: “We take turns. He’s better at making eggs and bacon than I am. I try. But I think everybody prefers Dad’s eggs and bacon. They always want pancakes. Knox is very into pancakes right now. And gets really upset if he can’t have pancakes. You know, we just try to– we try to corral them. We’ve had to put new gates up, because the twins are kind of going everywhere, while we were trying to make breakfast and get the other others out the door for camp. So, we’ve had to put like extra gates on the kitchen. And– we have drawers in the kitchen full of toys. And we’ve got– you know, just stations kind of for somebody’s getting ready. So, the twins have their own little section. … We pride ourselves on the fact that we got it. We got this… We got it. You get the juice, you get the thing. We’re like bartenders. We’re like– we’re like waiters. You know?”
Who is the Bad Cop with the kids? “I think I’m better at disciplining the girls. And he’s better at disciplining the boys,” she said. “But we — we kind of made a plan early on that we believe that you can’t be good cop / bad cop. That you have to back each other no matter what! We are working together. You cannot break us.”
She also says she “really does root for women” when asked about the research she did with female CIA officers. It sounds like a good interview, doesn’t it? The full Nightline interview comes on tonight, after your 11 pm local news. I might have to stay up for that. My favorite part was when Angelina talked about how weird the real-life Russian spy drama is. CB and I were talking about this last week, and I theorized that perhaps the whole thing was some kind of unconventional promotional campaign for Salt, just because the story seemed to fit so perfectly.
Oh, and Us Weekly has a new interview with Angelina where she’s talking about how much she loves speaking in Russian, the “sensual” language. She and Johnny Weir should really get together. Us Weekly’s piece is here.
Here’s a clip of Angelina’s Nightline interview:
Angelina & Shiloh on February 16, 2010. Also, Angelina & the twins on March 26, 2010. Credit: Fame.
Well, that took about two seconds. Just a few hours ago, Vanity Fair released some excerpts from Angelina Jolie’s cover profile (we just covered it here). Angelina was talking about her kids, and she had some sweet things to say. However, the excerpts provided online we’re even the tip of the iceberg, I guess. Because Us Weekly got their hands on an advance copy of the interview, and Angelina talks more extensively about Shiloh and how Shi “likes to dress like a boy. She wants to be a boy. So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear boys’ everything. She thinks she’s one of the brothers.” Judge away.
In August’s Vanity Fair, Angelina Jolie opens up about her six children and relationship with beau Brad Pitt.
The Salt star, 35, admits she dresses Shiloh, 4, “like a little dude. Shiloh, we feel, has Montenegro style. It’s how people dress there. She likes tracksuits, she likes [regular] suits. She likes to dress like a boy. She wants to be a boy. So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear boys’ everything. She thinks she’s one of the brothers.”
But Jolie says she isn’t worried: She was just like Shiloh as a kid.
“Shiloh’s hysterically funny, one of the goofiest, most playful people you’ll ever meet,” she says. “….Goofy and verbal, the early signs of a performer. I used to get dressed up in costumes and jump around.”
Maddox, 8, is “a real intellectual, which I can take no credit for genetically. He’s great at school, great at history. He feels like he could be a writer or travel the world and learn about places and things.”
Five-year-old Zahara has “got an extraordinary voice and is just so elegant and well spoken,” adds the proud mom.
And twins Knox and Viv (who turn 2 next month)? They’re “classic boy and girl,” says the actress. “She’s really female. And he’s really a little dude.”
Jolie describes their home life “as happy.”
Says the mom, “I got back from work last night, and everybody was playing music and dancing and I suddenly found myself dancing around with a bunch of little fun crazy people.”
Are more kids on the way? “No, I’m not pregnant [but] we’re not opposed to it,” she says. “We want to make sure we can give everybody special time. They’re kids now, and can play together, but they’re going to need a lot more talking in the middle of the night, like I did with my mom for hours. We want to make sure we don’t build a family so big that we don’t have absolutely enough time to raise them each really well.”
She says things are stronger than ever with Pitt, 45, despite those split rumors.
“[We're not] against getting married [but] it’s just like we already are,” she tells Vanity Fair. “Children are clearly a commitment, a bigger commitment [than marriage]. It’s for life.”
She didn’t even mind his scraggly beard.
“I love Brad in every state,” she says.
Adds Jolie, “I feel fortunate to have a relationship where I actually feel safe enough to imagine growing old together.”
And still no mention of Pax! I’m sure she talked about him, those excerpts just haven’t come out yet. Either that, or he really is “The Forgotten Jolie-Pitt”. That will probably be the name of his tell-all memoir. Either that, or “Call Me Fred”.
As far as Shiloh dressing like a boy and thinking she’s a boy and wanting to be a little boy, this has all been discussed before in the tabloids, usually with headlines like “Why is Angelina turning Shiloh into a boy?” and “Is Angelina repressing Shiloh’s sexuality?”. But to me it just sounds like Angelina is letting her daughter be a kid and do kid things, letting her find her personality and be herself. Angelina and Brad seem to embrace it. But I’m sure it will start a new round of “Angelina is a horrible mother for letting her daughter wear pants” stories.
Also… “Montenegro style“? I’ve never heard that before.
