In Touch Weekly is running a “Nannies Tell All” story that I think got cut-and-pasted from a piece Star Magazine did about a month ago. In Touch allegedly to spoke to current or former nannies that worked in the homes of Angelina and Brad, Madonna, Courtney Love, Kelly Bensimon and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. I have to admit, the stories these alleged nannies tell aren’t all that shocking. They basically sound like the sh-t I make up just from looking at photos of these kids. Like, Zahara “is the leader of the kids. She’s taught all of them how to act out and get the biggest reactions.” Durr. Of course Zahara is the leader. You can tell that from her beautiful little hardcore “Don’t f-ck with me” face. Oh, and fun fact: Kelly Bensimon spikes her coffee… wait for it… with tequila. Ick. The bitch is too crazy for Bailey’s I guess.
In Touch interviewed a number of celebrity nannies to uncover what A-listers like Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Madonna and Courtney Love are really like behind closed doors. After all, celebrity nannies do more than take care of stars’ pampered children – they know everything that goes on in their homes and with their partners!
The Jolie-Pitt Six Are Hell-Raisers
You’d think that landing a job with Brad and Angelina would be the jackpot of nanny jobs, but a former caretaker to the couple’s six children says the Jolie-Pitt brood is not easy to control. “The kids are wild in the morning, running into Brad and Angelina’s room to attack them, pull her hair and jump on him,” says the nanny, who adds the entire family often sleeps in one big bed, so the kids have become very needy. The Jolie-Pitts’ nanny had to put up with Shiloh’s temper tantrums, which included throwing broccoli at her, and Zahara’s “death stare.” She says: “Zee is the leader of the kids. She’s taught all of them how to act out and get the biggest reactions.”Kelly Bensimon Is Just As “Batty” As She Seems On TV
When Real Housewives of New York City’s resident airhead Kelly Bensimon hired a nanny in 2009 to watch her children Sea, 12, and Teddy, 10, her neighbors weren’t shy about alerting the new employee to what she’d signed up for. “They said, ‘You’re the fourth person in the last six months to work for her,’” claims the former nanny, adding that she thinks that Kelly is “crazy” and says she’s seen her start her day by spiking her coffee with Patrón tequila.Madonna Runs A Tight Ship
According to Angela Jacobsen, the former nanny to Madonna’s adopted Malawian son, David, the household follows a strict kosher, macrobiotic diet, which means no salt, sugar or fast food. Madonna’s kids — Lourdes, 13, Rocco, 9, David, 4, and Mercy, 4 — never watch TV, and magazines and newspapers are not permitted in any of the star’s several homes.Nannies Raise Courtney Love’s Child
It seems like Courtney was fine leaving her daughter in the care of others from the start. “In my opinion, there really wasn’t any parenting involved. She was not ever really there, mentally,” says one of dozens of different nannies who assumed parental responsibilities for Frances’ upbringing.Suri Is Surrounded By Adults
Tom Cruise’s kids are sheltered and Suri is “surrounded by adults” and rarely sees kids her own age.
[From In Touch Weekly – additional pieces via Jezebel]
The only stories that makes me sad is the Kelly Bensimon one and the Courtney Love one. You know Kelly’s kids are going to be f-cked up royally, and I suspect that although Frances Bean is more well-adjusted than she has any right to be, she’s probably pretty screwed up too. But the others just seem obvious. Suri, surrounded by adults? Of course. The Jolie-Pitt kids are hellraisers? Shiloh throws broccoli? Gasp, clutching pearls. Sounds bratty, but also sounds like something they’ll grow out of. Zahara should visit all of these other celebrity kids and organize them, like a union. Can you feel Zahara’s world domination coming? It’s only a matter of time.
It seems Angie works more since being a parent then when she was single, but it should be Brad’s turn to make a movie soon & Angie may have to spend a little time at home.
The Brad and Angelina one is nonsense. They for one make all staff sign confidentiality contracts, I doubt the staff are stupid enough to say what goes on in the home. Second some of that doesn’t sound bad but when they say the kids are needy and all this crap, its just not ok. I don’t like tabloid pieces on kids.
Zee does give great b* face!
well, madonna probably doesn’t want the kids seeing articles and ‘stories’ about her or them in newspapers or magazines…and i don’t blame her. they can and will read and see enough of that once they are adults.
Six kids under the age of 10 aren’t easy to control??? Shocker.
Madonna is strict? I’m stunned.
Courtney Love wasn’t a good mother? It can’t be!
This does seem like a rehash of that earlier story, and it seems like stuff anyone who follows celeb gossip could make up and sound believable.
all kids are broccoli-throwing hellraisers at various points in their lives. that’s their job.
as for courtney love, i think its a good thing that a nanny raise her child rather than herself, although a parade of nannies not so much. maybe mostly being around a nanny is why frances seems relatively normal.
The bit on the Jolie-Pitt kids sounds like total BS. I doubt there’s a shred of truth in it. Even if there was, what’s the big deal? . Kids are kids. They are known to chase around and jump on beds. DUH!!! They’re just doing what kids do.
lol at Lucy…yeah, shockers, indeed!
sounds like the Jolie-Pitt household is a LOT more fun than Madonna’s!
And Zahara’s “death stare”
Too funny, she is SO going to be the boss of all of them.
Z is my favourite !
She oozes natural leadership like noone. She is like a born royal highness saying to those who dare upsetting her or her loved ones :
“Bring it on b*tch ! Don’t you dare messing with me !”
I totally second the idea of Zee unionizing willing and able celeb kids and then making the whole bunch do her bidding.
First task: drive the paps nuts wherever the kids see them.
I predict one day Madonna’s little purchases .. I mean children will break free of their chains, drape themselves in rainbow colored outfits, drive through the next MickyDs in one of her luxury cars, stuff their faces with burgers, and pick up a bunch of transvestite hookers on the way home from the liquor store. that’s what oppression will do for them.
I’m not a fan of Jolie (take or leave her), and I used to dig Pitt a bit, but now that’s movie-to-movie.
Having said that, from the select few pics I’ve noticed, ALL of their kids SEEM pretty well-behaved in public considering how much drama surrounds them. No more or less “wild” than others their age and number count. Don’t tell me their soooo “media savvy” that they can turn it off/on btwn camera flashes.
Zahara, The Grand Puppetmaster, is awesomeness. Bow down.
that chanel/hello kitty purse is hilarious!
i see a clothes-off in the near future between fashionistas suri & zahara.
fierce! 🙂
JP house sounds like mine. The kids slept in our bed often and I have a son Shiloh’s age and he went through a stage where he would throw whatever was handy during a tantrum. This is normal stuff that all 3 year olds go through and outgrow. No big deal.
She’s a pretty little thing. All the kids are. Looks a little daunting however, I would look mean if I had camera’s shoved in my face 24/7. Poor kids can’t do anything w/o it being on film. Maybe they just want to run and can’t cause they will run into a papparazzi.
To me, Suri’s the one that’s going to be majorly effed up. Not enough time left on her own to play with other kids (she might slip them a help me! note).
Shiloh and Zahara look kick ass. Oh to be a fly on the wall in that house!
I’d love to see Suri get to play with the JP kids she would have a blast.
I guess the idiots at IT don’t read their own mag since earlier this year they claimed the boys harrass and tease Zahara bringing her to tears.I’ll try to find the issue on jezebel.com. Well at least the tabs didn’t put Brad and Angie on any covers this week.FYI Jeri, Angie didn’t film any movies in 2008, 1 in 2009(Salt) and one in 2010(the Tourist). according to IMDB besides doing voice work on KFP 2 she has no more filming scheduled for the rest of 2010.
@ Whatever: Ummm, not exactly all toddlers go through tantrum phases if parents are able to actually discipline their children. What a ridiculous statement, that this is expected or normal behavior! If parents can actually control their kids and set boundaries (i.e., Don’t you dare throw stuff, yell at me, cause a scene in public), then no, this is NOT normal behavior that one should expect to have to just deal with until the kid grows out of it. Parents these days have no stones…no way should a child be walking all over them or setting the standard for acceptable behavior that is so outlandish! Maybe the only reason your child would throw anything he could get his hands on during a tantrum is because you LET him? How about just disciplining him to do otherwise when he’s upset? Which one of you is in charge here? Geez…
too funny lucy2…..
@glowkey
Totally correct. Kids _can_ be raised to be well-behaved. Tantrums and bad behavior should not be assumed as the norm
Sorry, but if my kid threw food at me once they would never do it again. That is just wrong and disrespectful, not to mention a nasty waste. I hate food throwing and wasting food, and before you silly willy’s call me fat, I am the opposite of fat, K?
wow glowkey, you must have angels for children. my sister and brother-in-law are great parents, but every now and then my niece gets a little cranky and cries. my friend disciplines her son and every now and then he throws tantrums. he is put in time out when he does it, but he still throws a fit every now and then. there is something called the terrible twos and it’s called that for a reason. kids can’t express themselves like adults can, that’s why they throw stuff during tantrums or cry or throw a tantrum in the first place. but again, we can’t all be as lucky as you to have saints for kids.
Kids go through developmental stages and many if not most have a phase where their language and emotional control don’t meet. There’s actual science to back it up. Both of my kids have had temper tantrums though not alot, and they are well-disciplined, loved and cared for. It’s unrealistic to think that no child should ever behave that way. Everyone is different, with different coping levels and development. Everyone has bad days, even kids. I used to look down on the screaming brats at the grocery store, but now I give the parent sympathy and a smile. How could I know what led up to that moment?
IMO, until you’ve had your own kids, like being with them 24/7, you’re entitled to your opinion but it will be all theory.
I really can’t stand Zahara. For being a little kid she sure has an attitude.
Wow TxGal, I didn’t know that you knew Zahara. Well, since you do, I would like for you to answer some questions for me:
1. How often does she have an attitude and what are the reasons behind it?
2. How does her parents reprimand her for cutting up?
3. What exactly does her daily routine consist of?
4. Did she ever give details on how she will rule the world in the future?
Please give me an answer soon, inquiring minds wants to know.
1 more thing: What did it feel like when she gives you that bitch face?
The kids are wild in the morning, running into Brad and Angelina’s room to attack them, pull her hair and jump on him,” says the nanny, who adds the entire family often sleeps in one big bed, so the kids have become very needy.
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Haven’t both Brad and Angelina said that they had to order a very large bed because all the kids like to climb into bed with them in the morning? What’s the problem? Running into the parents bedroom every morning means the kids feel safe and loved, not “needy”? Besides, why would a nanny for the Jolie-Pitts complain? There are at least FOUR nannies in the household (probably more) so it’s not like she was overworked. Hope she didn’t get much money for this “story”!!! (But I believe this was just pasted together by those idiots at the ragmag.)
“Did she ever give details on how she will rule the world in the future?”
as if she’d reveal her plans…sheesh. 😉
Sleeping in a family bed doesn’t make kids “needy.” Kids are “needy” because they are children. It sickens me that so many people think children are supposed to be independent from babyhood. They are supposed to NEED adult guidance and affection.
All children throw tantrums. They don’t know how to regulate their emotions yet. They have to be taught. Celebrity children are no different.
all kids are broccoli-throwing hellraisers at various points in their lives. that’s their job.
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I never threw broccoli.
I threw mashed potatoes. They made a better splat. And guess what? I grew up to be a well adjusted, happy, healthy, successful, relatively non-bratty adult.
I could have written all of these stories, just based on pictures and stories the celebs themselves have told: Madonna has said that she is a strict parent about food and tv, we all can see that Courtney and Kelly B. would have a lot of trouble being stable, decent mothers, and as for the Jolie-Pitt kids: yeah, Brad and Angie talked about the family bed, and the tantrums that the kids have, and of course they’re wild in the morning: there’s six kids under the age of 8! Those are some rambunctious years! However, the kids seem pretty well-behaved when out in public- and you can look at the photos and see that Z is the leader in that group!
Glowkey: LOL, you really have no idea, do you? ALL kids (yes, even the ones with strict parents) go through a hellish phase, during which they throw things, swat at their siblings, etc. And of course most parents (me included) reprimand them and do our best to instill manners and a sense of respect for others. But it takes more than one stern lecture for a child to understand and abide by the rules, hence the tantrums you wrongly assume only the children of “bad parents” exhibit. ALL parents have to navigate bad behavior in some form or another throughout their child’s upbringing, and the idea that “good parents” have their kids under control right out of the womb is ridiculous.
I threw mashed potatoes.
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There were 13 of us and I don’t remember throwing ANY food!! There never seem to be enough to go around so I stuffed everything I could into my mouth. Now, throwing toys was another story . . .
@ Whatever: Ummm, not exactly all toddlers go through tantrum phases if parents are able to actually discipline their children. What a ridiculous statement, that this is expected or normal behavior!
THAT is a ridiculous statement! Personality is largely a matter of nature and most kids do, in fact, go through a stage of having tantrums. Of course, when parents are consistent, the stage is short lived, which is why, if you read my post with just a little comprehension, I said they outgrow it and it ends. SO GEEZ to you, incredibly rude person. You have no idea what you are talking about. I hope you are not teaching your kids to be as rude, judgemental and ignorant as you are.
we can’t all be as lucky as you to have saints for kids.
Over a lifetime of working with children and families, it is more likely they are afraid of being hurt.
@truthSF
Thank you… perfect.
My child NEVER threw brocolli at me let alone a nanny. Tantrums are NOT thrown by every child. Parents can easily control a childs tantrums. I am sick of people saying tantrums are normal for all kids. Maybe 1 or 2 in their entire childhood if overtired or hungry but tantrums as a pattern are not normal and reflect on bad parenting. Children learn if they throw a tantrum for attention or to get something they want and the parent(s) caves they learn to have tantrums as way of getting what they want. Dont cave in and they wont throw tantrums.
It seems MANY sources have said the Brangelina brood are bad kids. Majority of these kids were adopted so they could have issues outside of normal tantrums to be dealt with. I think adopted kids perhaps need more hands on parenting and stability which obviously isnt provided in the Brangelina household.
Please don’t delete my posts.
Any normal household with children involves chasing about and jumping on beds, along with a lot of yelling, pushing, wrestling, etc. So the Jolie-Pitts seem perfectly normal and especially because there are six of them.
I want to know if the people saying that not ALL kids throw tantrums have kids. I don’t, but I’ve always given the little brat kicking and screaming in the grocery store and his mother the benefit of the doubt because I figured all of them did that now and again. Not to be a b*tch, but it seems like people who do not have kids are all, “Oh, MY kids will be perfectly behaved at ALL times…” but people with kids are like, “tantrums happen…what are ya gonna do?”
@Kim: LMFAO!!!
Edited to include glowkey in that.
I have worked in education for over 13 years. I have my MSW and M.Ed in elementary education. I have worked with children from all parental backgrounds. I can tell you with great confidence that, yes, parental discipline and boundaries do play a major role in a child’s behavior and whether or not they tantrum. However they can also be developmental in relation to many factors. So, Glowkey,Kim, in my professional opinion I disagree with your statements 100%. SOME children’s tantrums can be controlled and prevented, and some cannot. Trying to control a tantrum at times can often make the next one 110% worse. It’s best to ignore them and hope that they phase out or age out.
I really beleive it all has to do with Zahara being black. So disgusting at worst. She’s so innocent but yet there are always morons wanting to paint her as being mean.
Most experts agree that temper tantrums are indeed a normal part of child development, ocurring most often in children between one and three years of age. A parent can lessen the severity of a tantrum and lessen the frequency of tantrums by how they handle tantrum behaviors. Most tantrums are caused by a need that cannot be expressed through language. There is a difference between a child who needs something and cannot express it and one who simply wants something and acts up because they know that will get it for them.
@Kim it’s laughable that you believe anonymous sources in tabloids instead of actual named people who met the kids. I seriously doubt people like Matt Damon and Liev Schreiber would lie about liking the Jolie-Pitt kids and would allow their own children to play with dangerous, evil kids. As much as people want to bash the Jolie-Pitts, jumping into bed, throwing food, etc is extremely common. I really don’t understand why everybody thinks the kids are bad. I have never seen any photographs of them fighting, having tantrums, etc. The worst anybody can say is Zahara gives paps dirty looks. Both of her parents have said how much she hates them.
If JP stop parading the kids out to the public ALL the B.S will stop. Kids can only have repeated tantrums if the parents allow the 1st one to continue. And as far as the B*%^h looks to the paps by Z goes.. that is LEARNED behavior, so who taught her that??
Teri — I have black kids (and am a white mom) and I have had every kind of strange racial experience you can imagine (including adults running across parking lots to touch my child’s afro-puffs! on several occasions!) — and my racism bells do not go off about the Zahara comments. She is just a kid who happens to have an almost comically high level of self-possession. If she were white I think people at this site would make the same comments. They sound loving (perhaps admiring?), not mean-spirited to me.
I threw one tantrum in my whole life… I never did it again because my mother beat me with a rice paddle like it was her job… which arguably it was. OH NO, MY MOM ABUSED ME! No, she didn’t… she whooped my ass because I deserved it. Every ass whipping I got, I earned.
My kid is seven now and she has thrown a ciouple of tantrums, but she learned that Mommy has no shame and can scream louder. And everyone knows the loudest one wins. SO THERE.
To all the people who say it is not normal for kids to have tantrums. Please take a child development class. It is normal in ages 1-3 to have tantrums. As Liana pointed out how parents deal with it effects how bad thay get.
That said I have friends who adopted a child who had a drug addicted mother and those kids can have behavioral problems. They don’t always look different but can have a lot emotional outbursts so cut people some slack with tantruming kids cause you may not know the whole story.
Just imagine, one day Brad and Angelina are going to have six teenagers in the house at once! Those are going to be stressful years for the whole family.
Not surprised by the Brangelina kids being a handful. How old is Maddox? 8? 6 kids under the age of 8 = recipe for disaster unless you are the Duggars and assign older children to take care of the younger ones.
I remember Madonna saying herself in a Vogue interview a few years ago that she doesn’t let her kids watch tv or read magazines. Probably just as well with all the stuff that is said about her.
Well it’s pretty obvious that there aren’t enough threats to kick these kidz in the throat when they act up. Duh! That would solve everything, at least that’s what I do. But seriously, how do you think terrible two’s and three’s got that name? Children test their boundaries, that’s what they do, no matter how strict, how much fear you instill in them.
As far as “folks” coughTxGalcough not liking Zahara, are you effing kidding me? That MUST be a joke. There is no way you could have enough of an inkling about her and her life to like or dislike her. Grow the eff up and then STFU.
TxGal – You “really can’t stand” a little girl you’ve never met? Let’s be real. I think you “really can’t stand” black people. You probably describe ALL black women and girls as having attitude. Do you hate the Obama girls, too?
Just a reality check: a. She’s a LITTLE GIRL. Hating her is off limits for rational, intelligent adults. b. You’ve never met her. There is very little live footage of her. No media has ever even recorded her voice so we don’t know anything about how she speaks or what she says. So you hate her based on paparazzi photographs? Meaning you hate her based on nothing.
I think we know why you REALLY hate her. I hope no black children ever have to interact with you. Scary.
I think Madonna’s children will grow up to be thoughtful and non self-obsessed adults. Missing out on tv is not a big deal.
The Pitt kids look extremely spoiled and all over the place because they don’t have much stability, but what do I know? It just looks that way from pics. They change schools whenever there is a movie or something.
I remembered little David Banda was quoted as saying to his biological father that one day madonna, his mother spanked him after he went riding a poney when he didn’t have permission.
I also remembered looking at the french channel TF1 and hearing Lourdes translating in english to her mum what was said in french. Her french speaking is flawless.
The only thing i have against is sometimes how too sexy her clothes are or how much make up she has on at times though she is barely 13.
I also find it weird that Madonna’s lover is closer in age to her own daughter (10 years apart) than to herself and that in 3 to 5 years they will date guys the same age.
I don’t think it’s psychologically sane for any mother who still raise very young kids and a youn teen girl to have a boyfriend who in a few years could definitely date her daughter. Hell he has that perfect age where teens who are Lourdes’s age tend to fantasize about, he embodies the first love they dream of…you know those girls dreaming about the early twenty year old hunk like R Patz.
It’s better when your children are a little bit older and that you have a more separate life than to include in their life a father figure who looks like their own sibling and who could definitely date your own girl in a few years…
what’s with the comments about the kids being spoiled and misbehaved? From the photos I’ve seen they look like normal kids, even a little grungy at times. I’m sure they’re spoiled because their parents are rich but the photos of them don’t SCREAM that fact. Damn I wish Zahara was around to dress me, that girl has style. If it’s true the kids pick out their clothes I’m impressed lol.
My mother had the theory that nobody should have to listen to other peoples screaming brats. And working in retail hearing screaming darling demons for 6-8 hours at a time,I agree with her.
Zahara looks so bad ass.
Wow… so theres so much fun in JP household! I want now to hypnotized everyone here….
I want to be a Jolie-Pitt kid… I wish Ill be a Jolie Pitt kid, I wish ill be a jolie-pitt kid, i wish ill be a jolie-pitt kid!
I don’t even…ugh. We’ve cracked it, start the preparations for posthumously executing Dr. Spock, we’ve cracked it. Those photos on the balcony of a crying baby weren’t because that’s what babies do, it’s because her oldest sister harnessed the power of her evil armies of the night to permanently corrupt the mind and spirit of her tow-headed baby sister. It’s believeable, that’s what I like. And she certainly isn’t the ‘leader’ because she’s one of the oldest children and little kids frequently like to dote on younger siblings out of play and as a means of asserting their ‘big boy/girl’ status, and it’s not because little ones like the attention/acceptance from older siblings, so I’ll illuminate. She does it because the malignant hand of Pazuzu compels her to do so. Geez, that’s science.
People far older do and say some dumbass shit when it comes to paparazzi–it’s in the past now, and it’s good that she apologized, but wasn’t it just last week when Twilight O’Lip-Chew awkwardly phrased the dismay she felt about being hounded in that same way? Lots of people said that she’s just a kid and to lay off and give her a few years and if she ever gets the THC out of her system, she might grow into a person who is actually tolerable.
So, a 20-year-old is too young to understand the implications of her own words and actions made on the record, but a child who has really just exited babyhood is excoriated for her moral turpitude because…she plays with her siblings and doesn’t act out in public?
Does anyone have some pearls I can clutch? We’re not safe. I say we bring back the forresters and the oprichniki, and MAYBE we’ll be saved from the menace that is Zahara the Poised and Adorable. After that, we can set up a task force and deploy the recruits all over San Francisco, for I fear the mention of Shiloh’s name with cause my heterosexuality to wither on the vine.
Of course, that surely be redundant because her older sister would’ve something to compromise her as well. Yeah, there’s absolutely no subtext there.
Miss Thang a/k/a Empress Z has always impressed me as being an unusually self-confident, poised and secure child. That death stare at the paparazzi cracks me up. She’s far too polite to give them the finger — although I bet she knows how to — but those eyes say it all.
Maybe Zahara is so “bitchy” because she wishes someone would grease her scalp and brush her hair properly.
I too bow down to the queen Zee.
@ylg: Why is Zahara’s hair any of your damn business?
@Miranda Ann
Yeah that’s what my husband says! There were lots of kids and meal times were a snatch and grab situation.
And as a result he eats really fast to this day, even though I have told him he can certainly slow down and still get seconds if he would like some. 😀
“ALL kids (yes, even the ones with strict parents) go through a hellish phase, during which they throw things, swat at their siblings, etc.”
Well that’s not true, because I have a brother who has never acted out in his life. And in fact my parents held him up as the example to me, of what I SHOULD be like. Which screwed me up good and proper. 😉
It’s wrong to say ALL kids do anything, and it diminishes your point.
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