Oooh, Angelina Jolie in a hat! She looks fabulous. This shot is from Angelina’s interview with Parade Magazine this week. The highlights have just been put online, and they’re good. Angelina talks more about her kids and her late mother Marcheline. But she spends a lot of time discussing Brad and their love. Oh yes – Angelina is bringing it. La Jolie feels “sad” that any of us might not have experienced the kind of love she and Brad have. And she gives us this: “Love? It’s such a funny word. Brad can find certain phrases of poetry for it. I’m terrible at it.” I would love to know the poetry Brad uses. Wouldn’t you?
When Rader asks if their children are the reason she and Brad stay together, “she looks at me like I am nuts.” Jolie tells Dotson:
“The children certainly tie us together, but a relationship won’t hold if it’s only about the kids. You also must be really interested in each other and have a really, really wonderful, exciting time together. We do. Brad and I love being together. We enjoy it. We need it, and we always find that special time. We stay connected. We talk about it. It’s very important. If Brad and I are strong and happy, then our kids have happy parents, and that’s the best thing we can give them.” She adds, “Brad knows me completely, exactly as I am, every part of me. He loves me. The kids love me. They know all my flaws and all my oddities. And they accept them. And so I can feel complete.”On knowing love…
“I feel sad for someone who has never known love. Love elevates. You know, Brad would joke about me having this conversation about love. Love? It’s such a funny word. Brad can find certain phrases of poetry for it. I’m terrible at it. But I know it means wanting the best for the people you love, putting their interests above your own, always. Love does that. Love is what you live for.”On her rebellious past…
“I used to cut myself or jump out of airplanes, trying to find something new to push up against because sometimes everything else felt too easy. I was searching for something deeper, something more. I tried everything. I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren’t there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.”On her early roles in Hollywood…
“I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.” She points out an inscription on her arm, one of her 13 tattoos. “The wild heart caged. I unlocked my cage years ago. I want my children to have that freedom. I want that for other people, too.”On the unrelenting media circus, the paparazzi…
“We do everything we can to keep our kids away from it. We travel to places where the kids aren’t aware of that kind of thing. We try to give them a full life where they don’t have to come face to face with that world. With the paparazzi present, we’re careful when we leave the house. Other than that…” She laughs at the absurdity of it all. “We don’t stand in the checkout line at the grocery store looking at the magazines. Our friends don’t tell us about it. And our kids don’t know. I feel if we keep looking out for them, they’ll be fine.”On balancing work and children with Brad…
“He takes the kids to school; he visits me on set with the kids. I’m home for dinner, or I’m there for breakfast. We’re together all the time. We plan. Brad and I take time off between films to travel, have big experiences, do things together. That’s how we work it out.”On being a happy homebody…
“There’s never a period when Brad and I are pulled apart. We are not separated for more than three days, ever. We stay really connected. We actually don’t go out much. It’s funny. We’re very homebound. We’re very much Mommy and Daddy in our pajamas.”On her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died in 2007 of ovarian cancer…
“Mother never put herself first, ever. At the end, she said her greatest success was being a mother. I remember Mother singing in church. How pretty she was! I lit candles with her. She said she had missed nothing in life except getting to know her grandchildren. When she passed away, I brought my son to church to light a candle for her.” Jolie’s eyes fill with tears. “Forgive me,” she says. “I loved her so much.”
[From Parade]
Yes, she saying a lot of the same stuff that she’s said in other interviews over the past few years, but to her credit, I think this is her life now. She’s very focused on being a mom and making this relationship with Brad work. As far as Angelina’s past and all of that, I’ve always liked she’s dealt with it in interviews, considering her wild, crazy days always get pushed into her face to this day. Yeah, she was a wild kid. She’s not anymore, I buy that. The only time I rolled my eyes was at the part about the paparazzi and keeping the kids away from it. I would prefer if she found a new talking point about that, like, “We’re trying to teach the kids that it doesn’t matter, if someone takes their photo or whatever, it doesn’t matter.” That sounds better, because it certainly doesn’t seem like they’re hiding their kids away all the time, although it does seem very contingent on what city they‘re in. Which is fine by me – I love photos of the kids.
Angelina in a hat, courtesy of Parade. Also: Angelina on June 30, 2010. Credit: REUTERS/Geraldo Garcia.
Aww what she said about her mother was truly lovely.
sounds much better that the Vanity Fair which was embarrasingly uninteresting.
wow! that photo of her in the hat? she looks amazing!
Zzzzzzz!
Man, I love that woman. She’s amazing. Love the top picture. GORGEOUS!!
Loved the Parade interview. She’s eloquent and wears her heart on her sleeve.
In that top photo… that doesn’t look like her nose at all compared to the bottom photo, she does look nice though!
Great cover pic. I got to find out who took that pic. Parade always has great interviews with Brad and Angie.
She’s talking way too much about how comfortable and compatible and solid she and Brad are.
Never good.
That hat photo of her is really nice! I guess this puts an end to the gossip about Brad having secret visits with his ex.
She looks lovely in the hat shot although it’s airbrushed to perfection. I can see where her twin daughter gets her looks from. This woman is very media savvy. Not so sure I buy into everything she says.
Flawless and beautiful, she’s a great ro-model to me. 😉
“I feel sad for someone who has never known love.”
How condescending. I hope all the unloved people unite and throw their cats at her 🙂
We should all just kill ourselves as women because we will never be the awesomeness and perfection that is Angelina Jolie.
*sarcasm*
I wonder if she told the kids that she & Brad were adulterers. Sounds she is trying to convince herself. Denial, denial, she is so full of crap. Marry him then, he must be under her spell right now, or she wouldn’t be so happy with him. Brad must be being a marsh mellow right now…if he so understands, why won’t she marry him and make him and their kids happy. She throws him out if he expresses independence…She has tantrums and is mean to him, when he tries to have somewhat of his own life too, which is healthy..Angelina is narcissistic. Words are cheap; she needs to put her actions where her mouth is…get married Angelina – for the kid’s sake. Maddox has asked for that for years, not right for the kids to have parents who are not married, and she knows that.
Why is that a bad comment? Who would want to go through life not knowing how special loving someone can be, and having that loved returned?
Jolie probably NEVER really found it except from her mother, when she got married to Miller she was a kid, with BBT it was a mistake and she was just acting out, and did put her heart on her sleeve only for him to throw it at her later. So with Pitt they had a family, decide to do every thing they probably DIDNT do their other marriages.
She and BBT spent way more then three days apart when they were together, if you let him tell it. Aniston/Pitt supposedly spent MONTHS apart during their marriage when he was filming, and she was doing “Friends” so he knew and Jolie seen what NOT to do to maintain a happy relationship/partners/marriage.
love la Jolie…aww and what is said about her mom brought was so sweet
love la Jolie…aww and what is said about her mom brought was so sweet…kaiser please delete this comment its a duplicate
@ Anon
LOL!!!
I love the picture of her in the hat!!!! So beautiful!
I enjoyed the interview, how sweet.
it’s really strange. I never hear her voice when I read her interviews. You know, most people you can hear them, in your head, speaking the words when you read them. tone. infliction. For as much as I read, hear, see Ang; I never hear her voice when I read her interviews. To me, without seeing her speak them, they fall flat.
Her nose seems so fake at this shoot. Photoshop??
She looks like Lena Olin in one of my favorite films, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, in that hat. Gorgeous. I would love it if she and Brad were together 40 years from now still defying the tabloids. No matter how their relationship started they have SIX kids now. So hopefully they’ll find a way to make it last.
Sorry don’t believe a word of it.
I think her and Brad have been over for a long time. She is gross.
Jolie’s description of her family life sounds overly maudlin, and overly saccharine to be realistic. She makes it seem as if she and Brad have the most perfect family life, where he’s quoting poetry, while they sit in bed with their kids, dressed in pajamas. He loves her a lot and so do the kids, and even at such a young age, they are sophisticated enough to know all of her oddities and flaws. She thinks love is a funny little word but knows what it means….Umm…this sounds more like a children’s story, than reality. And what woman could talk about such a romantic thing as love, but actually achieve to be smug and full of ill-will in the same sentence?. I feel sad for someone who has never been loved??? Umm…that sounds more like an insult, than her expressing her compassion. Because in the same sentence that she expresses her supposed pity, she makes it seem as if she is the only person on earth who has been loved. Ughh…insufferable.
That quote about love is CLASSIC. I’m praying that Michael K gets a hold of it.
Poor Ogechi” she has tantrums and is mean to him” really who told you that your tabloids or the voices in your heads. BTW I’m married but my parents never married and my siblings and I turned out great – all loving,kind productive people.I think its great that they never spend more than a few days apart and that they don’t film at the same time to keep their family together. Obviously a couple who didn’t get along would want to get away from the other for weeks or months at a time. Brad has MIR project in NOLA,architecture interests his photography,collecting art etc. Angie has her refugee work.They share the love of flying, motorcyles, traveling and wanted to have lots of kids according to their interviews. I’m glad they found each other. Can’t wait for Salt
I just love her and I think she is always honest. It sounds like Brad is more the romantic but whatever it works for them.
I personally do not care for; nor do I aknowledge the idea that is love. I think it’s an annoying inconvienance. People who are slaves to their hormones. Esspeically the little girls from the ages 13 to 18. I think chemical imbalance is what love is. It annoys the crap out me esspeically on ‘valentines’ day; which I call Singles Awareness Day. What irritates me more about the idea of love; is when the drama of it is dragged to your door, and you’re literally acting like a buffer/punching bag between two ‘lovers’. I don’t have to know love to know how blind and daft and just plain idiotic a person ends up being. Love is like constipation, you can’t help it when it happens and all you can do is ride it out. …and hope to God you don’t fart- er break up.
How can anyone find anything negative to say?!?!?! Angelina sounds extremely happy and satisfied with life. Angie wants to share those feelings with the world and more importantly wants others to feel her bliss in their own lives, she wants other to be just as happy. Yes and I want all that. I want love and happiness. Money wouldn’t hurt. However love and happiness for sure. She is sooo happy and I am for her. Angelina looks f*cking amazing in that hat. Ja’dore her. 😀
I adore Jolie, but I wish “journalists” would stop asking her the same questions over and over again.
oh, please. nice photo. but she should be as embarrassed by this interview as some of her true fans are. (lainey)
oh…and whoever called her media savvy above? IMO she’s even losing that touch (even though Chris Brown could probably still take a page from the book of Jolie).
Don’t get it. She just isn’t very pretty. She has such an odd face.
She sounds ridiculous. There’s such a thing as oversharing. We’ve heard how much she and Brad are in love and how they’re raising the kids, now keep it simple. Why she has the need to go all dreamy and yes, condescending everytime someone asks about her feelings is beyond me.
We get it. You and Brad are in love and you adore your children. You travel, you can’t stand being apart. You’re no different than millions of other people, so stop saying things like you feel horribly for people who don’t know what wonderful things YOU are experiencing, like YOU are more special than anyone else.
Gah.
She sounds like someone who is really content in life and is very happy. Those who are saying negative things are just jealous 😛 Love really can make you feel elevated. It’s an amazing feeling to be loved and to love.
She is damned if she says something nice about Brad and damned if she doesn’t. They are barely apart while other couples are rarely if ever together yet they are always accused of being miserable and breaking up just because it sell tabs and people are still so bitter about the way they got together she is happy good for her. I have been single for a while and notice that all happily attached couples have some cluelessly arrogant statemnt about being together it is just part of the territory being famous of course would make it worse and of course it is BRAD PITT so that rubs the burn in even more but I for one am glad for her and wish her well.
I’m finding her more tolerable these days (much more than Brad), though it does seem like she’s laying it on a little thick. For the kids’ sake, I hope they really are happy and good parents. The constant scrutiny is only going to get worse as the kids grow up, so I hope they have a great home life.
As for hiding the kids from the media – when they want to, they do it well, but I don’t think they always want to – particularly when there’s something to promote. There are other celebs who are a lot more blatant about it these days though.
M, ITA
Huh. I thought that was Keira Knightly at first. Her nose has been whittled to non-existant.
I just don’t get all the hating on Angelina. She’s quite beautiful and her pics in Vanity Fair were stunning. I feel like she’s genuine in what she says and her and Brad are like a god and goddess on the red carpet when he’s pulled together. She’s probably the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.
Yyaawwnn.
She sounds about as fake as a synthetic diamond. This is also reflected in her acting.
Wow. Photoshop city. The hat pic is beautiful, and I like her much better with less makeup (didn’t like the blue thing with the bangs), but look how much is photoshopped out: the mole on her cheek, her tear wells & naso-labial folds. A little retouching is fine, but that much kinda strips the character out of a persons face. I think the pix of her in the white dress are the best.
Ogechi says: “She throws him out if he expresses independence…She has tantrums and is mean to him, when he tries to have somewhat of his own life too”
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Do share with us the sources of your infinite wisdom. You live in their house? You hide under their bed? Or have you just overdosed on In Touch magazine?
The problem with you, Ogechi, is you can’t stand to see her happy. Get a life, will you? Nobody is obliged to be miserable just to please you.
It’s all very endearing but… does she really need to scream from the roof tops about their love and happiness? May be I’m old cynic but it’s a bit over the top.
I hope it’s thanks to them putting only all the personal quotes in this preview and the whole interview is much more than that.
It’s not even about “why doesn’t she talk about her movie”, it’s like she’s totally lost in this happy mundanity of family life. It’s not healthy. There should be something else, something that’s hers, something that defines her and that isn’t related to Brad and kids.
On the other hand – I’m jealous 🙂 She’s clearly living in her own rosy babble and couldn’t care less what the world may think of it.
“Mother never put herself first…Mother was beautiful”
Tuttut now! Lorries and bobbies and bangers and mash for the lads! Step of the lift for tea time mum? Consul the barrister on the way to the chip-shop!
She sounds like a fucking idiot.
LOL
I took her comment about the paparrazi to mean she keeps them away from the articles and nasty headlines. Like when she said they don’t stand in line at the store and look at the headlines and pictures. Thank goodness, some of that stuff is awful!
I really like the main picture, not Angelina in the picture, but the picture itself: I really love that 70s Vogue cover style.
I want to make it clear first that I’m not a hater, I used to like her during the early 2000s because I thought she was a fresh faced interesting girl (odd looking, and not so good at acting, though) and sincere. Now the only thing I think is that she’s way overrated as an actress (she overacts too much for my taste) and as a beauty, and that there’s nothing left of the girl I used to find interesting. Now the firts word that comes to my mind when I see her is “FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE” (read that word as if it is that WAAAAAAAAAAAAALT screamed by Michael of Lost).
I don’t know her of course, but her words sound so over the top that I can’t help thinking she is lying.
She overtacts even during the interviews…
She speaks about love so eloquently. No ‘I love the way he thinks thoughts’ quote to express the love about the man she loves most.
I love the interview, it sounds exactly like the one any woman her age who is content with her life, serene and at peace, having love and children will express around her entourage, friends, even co workers at times, ect.
How many times didn’t you hear that phrase from a woman or even a man ‘i am so in love that i wish you could one day find someone who makes you feel that way like i do’.
This is typical of people who are deeply in love…they chanting about it everywhere with their voice, their eyes, ect…to the point that people around get jealous.
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO??
You know some of us are happily in love with our partners and kids. My husband and I are still in love 10yrs and 2 kids later. Oh, should I just shut up about it to make you people who don’t have or want love feel better. My life isn’t perfect and I am sure hers isn’t either. They have 6 kids and I am sure those kids fight with each other and whine at their parents. But those aren’t all the moments of the day. And I too feel sorry for you if you haven’t ever expericenced love with the right person it is a very beautiful thing.
Dave, what it is, is jealousy. She gets interviewed, she answers the questions and excerpts are posted. She seems pretty happy to me, like someone who has found what she needs, after being lonely for a long time. Based upon what she said about her younger acting out, she seems to have a pretty good understanding of herself. I think living in England for a few years, getting involved in charity work and adopting a child really helped her grow up.
Oh, and the hat photo is amazing.
What is it with the hate, disbelief and accusations that she is lying? Why is she lying? Because In Touch has them breaking up every other week? I don’t get it. Why do people want them to be unhappy? It’s weird.
I was expecting this. As SOON as she spoke about her life with Brad the negative would come. Just as if she had not talked about him/their life then it would be the usual.. They are over. The problem is her comments don’t give the rags an opening. Nothing for them to run a headline for. I don’t think she is saying they have a PERFECT life. I think she is just saying her life is PERFECT FOR HER. Worts and all. It must be insane at home on occasion. But that does not mean your life is not good. They seem to have found the person right for them and who in the world does not want that for themselves. When she talks of being happy the negative comes because so many none fans live for the tabloid lies that have been printed for their entire relationship. Every actor giving an interview talks about their life. If they have children they talk about them, if they have a relationship, they talk that. People want to know. This is not the entire interview. The personal stuff was highlighted because that get the public’s attention. I really like them as a couple. They just seem to fit. If you ever read an interview of Brad’s or Angelina’s before they got together.. you will see they were talking the same language. EVEN their film role choices seem similar. If it is working HEY Good for them. And like any and every relationship. Theirs will last as along as it last.. I hope it lasts a LOOOOONNNG time.
@Whatever: some people want them to be unhappy because they beieve they have no right to be otherwise. In Touch lying? Let the heavens fall.
Well said lisa.
As someone who lost the love of my life when our child was just a year old (she’s 6 1/2), I just want to say that I hope anyone in a relationship cherishes it, and don’t take anything for granted, because you never know how long you will have with each other.
That includes thinking/talking negatively about someone you know/don’t know, because what goes around comes back around to you.
Her PR group hands out written statements about what she can and cannot be asked in interviews. That’s why she is -asked- the same lame questions over and over and over…
I don’t really read much into anything she says anymore. It’s all the same schtick she’s had for years.
I personally don’t care if she’s happy or not. I doubt many people really personally care either. IMO, I think it’s pretty stupid that she has to constantly talk in rounds about her fantastic relationship because she’s trying to make herself feel more solid about how she wants to feel.
@constance Angelina doesn’t have a PR team, its one the things she is well known for as one of the few celebs who doesn’t. People are just interested in Her and Brad. Of course their kids because they are so different.
@truth. So sorry to hear that.
I can kinda relate to her since I recently lost my mother. We were best friends, so it’s really difficult not to have someone to talk to about anything at any time. She was always there. 🙁
Anyways, the interview is a bit of a sugar overdose. When celebs do this sappy stuff, I have to be a bit of the cynic and wonder if they are overcompensating? Or, maybe now that she’s lost someone so close to her, she cherishes everything and that’s what made her so sappy? Hmmm . . .
well I hope it works out for her.
Thank you OC lady.
I agree with Constance. It seems like she just says the same thing over and over and over in an attempt to solidify her relationship for the masses. If she really didn’t care what anyone thought, she would keep her personal business out of her interviews. There are lots of celebrities who don’t talk about their relationships at all and they are quite successful.
She’s overrated and overly famous because of her “crazy” behavior as a young person and then her adulterous affair as an adult and now her child-hoarding and constant chatter about how perfect her life is. She’s trying too hard. She’s always tried to hard. She was trying to hard when she was a “wild child” and she’s trying too hard now that she’s settled.
She acts like she doesn’t want any of this attention and like she wants her privacy but she talks about her personal relationship and her children constantly and even released private photos of herself and her family-in one of which she was breastfeeding.
I just think she’s disingenuous and a bad actress to boot.
EDIT: love Angelina if you believe she doesn’t have any kind of manager/PR person/agent/whomever who speaks to the media or comes up with statements for her, I’ve got some beachfront property in Arizona that I think you’d be interested in.
That was a little over the top IMO – I agree with anon. Too sugary sweet to possibly be true.
OTOH she does look happy. It’s Brad that always looks miserable. lol
@Lilias: maybe you’d better go take a swim in that Arizona beachfront property. Angie has never had a PR person or anyone else speaking for her. That’s one reason so much of what she says has been taken out of context.
@Constance: If she didn’t have anything positive to say about her relationship with Brad, you’d be claiming they had already broken up or were just about to.
It’s pathetic that a weekly insert has a better cover and interview than a major magazine. I can’t get over why people have one set of rules for Angelina and another set for all other celebrities. Most celebrities talk about their personal lives and nobody has problem. Angelina talks about it and it’s called proof that she and Brad are breaking up. Why can’t she just be happy? Most celebrities tell interviewers not to ask certain questions. If you’re going through a divorce you probably don’t want to talk about it publically. Angelina doesn’t have a publicist but I’m sure the studios hires one for her while promoting movies. I don’t buy that she can only be asked three questions. She answers questions about her past, Brad, and Jennifer so I doubt she would be closed off now. Well, she probably does refuse to answer anymore Jennifer questions.
Is she a Stepford Wife now? Love, love the pictures but the interview?Not so much…she sounds a bit pretentious and over the top.I guess I prefer a more mysterious Angelina, not some housewife on Prozac.
Lilias I never said Angelina doesn’t have anything, I know she has a lawyer she goes to for help and advising and thats about it. Angie handles most of her affairs herself. Angelina doesn’t have or need a PR spin machine. Angie says what she feels and she either means what she said or she changes her mind. There is no one behind her pulling strings or cultivating an image for her, which is why I like Angelina so much. What you see is what you get with her.
God she is just so beautiful…A honest person who doesn’t give a shit what anyone says about her….And why should she? She had her priorities in life Brad and their kids…Beautiful.
@Cheyenne: How do you know she doesn’t have a PR team? Because Angie said so? You do realize that celebrities take liberties with the truth to ingratiate themselves with the public, right? Look, I don’t care if she has a PR person or not, I just don’t understand how you can state with such certainty that she doesn’t have a team working to mold her image.
If people don’t like her answers and say she is saying the same thing over and over.. then have a word with the people who are asking the questions. If you are asked the same questions all the time, then the answer is the same.She speaking about her life. I guess it is hard for some to accept that they may be happy. And regarding a PR team NOPE. and if she did don’t you think the PR people who are very high profile would be talking about that. Most of the ones in the press have also said she does not have a TEAM..and would love to represent her and or Brad. She does give 1/3 of her income. I remember Bill O’Riley and his team wanted to “bust her on her UNHCR work and how much money she actually gave”.. He said that he and his team dug deep and found that she is the real deal and what she said was the truth. Mind you I am not a fan of Bill, but I have no doubt that any and every media outlet had done digging to see it that was the case. AND none of them have ever reported that what she has said is not true. So when you naysayers can offer proof and not Tabloid gossip. Then anti up or shut up.
Well said Lisa.
Absolutely stunning picture of her with the hat, gorgeous. Now that is a face of a movie star.
I can’t find anything to hate on in this interview, sure its a bit sugary, but so what, she seems happy to me and that is probably her way of expressing it, so good for her. At least she seems to know who she is and isn’t quoting crap from self help books.
“I always had too much energy for the room I was in.”
My heart kind of skipped when I read these words. She is so amazing and I relate to her on a level unlike other celebrities. She is such a fierce spirit. Love this woman! Can’t even be bothered to defend her to petty nay-sayers, really. She is strong and unaffected. This one simply doesn’t need it, because there was a time she needed it desperately, she admits it, and she has gotten past it. I admire this about her most of all. She knows what matters like very few do. So bugger off. 🙂
I’ve never cared much for her but I liked her in this interview. It was a little sugary, but heck, love makes you stupid and giddy sometimes – I’m living proof of that. I’m usually pretty no- nonsense and matter-of-fact, but get me with my husband or get me talking about him, and I’m a sappy jackass!
Angelina sounds very happy and settled with Brad and their family. She is more beautiful now at 35 than ever, she just has the most wonderful facial bone structure. I like her interviews because she has no PR rep and never has had any PR whispering words into her ear for her mouth to utter. Brad does not have one either since early 2008, he said he does not need anyone to say what he can say for himself. They both save so much money this way, and say what they want to say.
Funny the comments here that she is lying in some way. There has never been any proof that she does not tell the truth in her interviews. If anything she is too honest for some, which I find refreshing in this day and age of manufactured spin spoon fed by celebs PR.
Guess Angelina being in a great place in her life and talkng about it like most people do is not what some want to hear. She is who she is and she has found in Brad someone who loves her for herself. Good for the both of them.
I personally don’t like when actors are so open about the details of their personal lives. They lose their mystery and become more of a celebrity than an actor. These days nothing is kept private, it’s all about cultivating an image. Kind of disappointed, but she’s no different than the majority of actors these days.
From the interview, she is no better than Katie Holmes. Where is the old Angelina Jolie?
She sounds like a narrow-minded bourgeoise housewife who gushes about how wonderful their little rich life is from top of her Paris apartment.
I believe there was an entire article about Angelina’s lack of a PR team. I found it fascinating. I wish I could remember what magazine it was from.
I am pretty sure she doesn’t have a publicist. I think the most she has is a lawyer, I could be wrong though.
BEAUTIFUL!!! I am glad she is gushing about HER man!! It is her right and if others are bothered…Oh well….
Well – if this is what “bringing it” means I guess so. Obviously bringing it means talking about personal stuff. Is her stuff offensive? No. And great they love each other – we get it. Whenever a celebrity says stuff I imagine it coming from another celebrities mouth. Can you imagine Cate or Meryl Streep etc. saying my kids love me, my husband loves me I feel sorry for peope who have never experienced love? Or what if Megan Fox said this? People would be making fun of her for days.
Another things is Angie is suppose to be promoting a movie not her personal life. Usually the stars talk about the other actors/actresses and how they enjoyed working with them, how cute their children were, how much they liked their wives, etc. Remember when Cate worked with Brad she went on about how sweet his family was. Not so Angie. It always seems to be all about her – all the time. Not a bad thing but a bit tiring after many interviews. What is she going to say when she does the promotion for The Tourist? More about herself and her family? Again?
Finally if we are honest we all know that she only gets away with this becuase it is Brad she is talking about. Can you imagine if she was going on about Billy Bob like this? |Also they are only interested because these are Brad’s children. Again if these children were Billy Bob’s do you think anyone would really care that much?
It is fine for Angie to do this just getting old. But the fans love it – strange I love the ones who don’t talk about their personal life much like Johnny or Leo, or Cate. But to each his own.
It’s hard for me to tell where the actress ends and the person begins. I hope this is representative of their relationship, but it could be her just spouting pretty words. I don’t know, my bullsh*t radar is up on this one and I can’t tell you why, just is.
the part when she said about her mother hurt me. esp that lighting a candle and think about her. too nice, it hurts.
I TOTALLY agree with her. I pity anyone who is not in love and being loved back. Its the most special feeling in the world. Im so in love it makes my dizzy! I wish everyone felt this.
The tabloid week after week put out stuff about her, her partner and her family.
I think she has a right to tell about her life as she sees it, as she lives it. Funny no one complains when a tabloid or blog prints rumors and such. They latch on and spread those lies. But when she talks about her life some people feel she should not do so. REALLY. If all the naysayers including the lying tabloids will stop telling lies, fabricating stories and speculating about her life and family life and leave them alone; she would not need to explain that she has a loving and happy home and not the lies and spin the press put out there.
They have had a free pass every single week. Now it is her turn to talk. So like it or not I think she has the right to do so. And I for one would much rather hear from her then those idiots that have been WRONG for almost 6 years.
joe “Finally if we are honest we all know that she only gets away with this becuase it is Brad she is talking about. Can you imagine if she was going on about Billy Bob like this?”
well, she WAS going on about Billy Bob like this too and it felt just as over the top to me as it does now 🙂 But both back then and now my impression was that she’s sincere, that it’s just her way of living her life – she’s very emotional, intense and open about everything. Not everyone’s cup of tea, sure, but that’s how she is.
It’s weird but it’s much easier for me to understand how she was so into unconventional Billy Bob for a couple of years they were together than how she stays so much into domesticated goody-goody Brad after 6 years and 6 kids 🙂 Usually intense feelings are aroused by someone extraordinary and don’t last long. By my estimations they should have settled into some rather calmed down mature love by now 🙂 But I guess not 🙂 Everyone and every couple is different after all.
It’s amusing how psycho people are about this interview. I don’t know why people are saying she’s not talking about the movie. She talks about it a lot in her interviews. This isn’t even the whole interview so it’s stupid to say she doesn’t talk about Salt. Personal quotes always makes headlines not what it’s like to work with a director, etc. Nobody is whining about Cameron Diaz not talking about Knight and Day in her interviews, although she does.
ALL these stars talk/pimp about their personal lives- INCLUDING Leo (I’m hiding & clubbing- don’t look at me while I shop with my latest youngster), Cate (my kids, my hubby, my shoes) & Johnny (VP is the greatest,my kids tell me what’s going on outside bc I’m too scared to leave the house)…I like all of these actors in some films, but every single one does press and says personal stuff…NONE get asked if you are only together for the kids..Angie did a great job setting the record straight…maybe if reporters asked better?s or different?s, the interview wouldn’t be so upsetting as it seems to be for some of you.
You know…I love Angelina Jolie. I admire her humanitarian work, I think she’s a decent actress and there’s no other face that gorgeous in this world. And this cover looks simply stunning! I mean “beyond words” kind of stunning.
But I could have passed without the cheese. Really, and it doesn’t go along well with promoting an action movie about a spy.
“Love elevates…Love does that…Love is what you live for…”
BARFS!
I miss my kick-ass Jolie.
I adore her, and have since saw her in Gia all those years ago. Beautiful, inside and out. The work that she does for impoverished children around the world is amazing. I love that she not only donates her wealth to these causes she more importantly donates her time and energy to try an make the world a better place.
@Eve: Maybe Angelina outgrew her old kick-ass persona. She’s got six children to raise now. Settling down and raising a family kind of changes your perspective.
@Cheyenne, you are right (1 child changes you 6 yikes!) The children are the ass kickers now 🙂 Her perspective is different now 🙂
Jolie should have stuck to talking about how much she loves her kids and partner, not how much they love her, warts and all. It comes across like bragging.
It was a little bizarre. I can’t recall any public figures ever talking about how much their families love them. It’s always the other way around–how much they love others, not how much they are loved.
the only constant thing in this world is Change. And she changed to a positive person. thats what i like about her. See how motherhood can change outlook. Look at nicole richie. so reading about this from angelina is not a surprise and for me, it sounds genuine. some says its cheesy but i think love is actually supposed to be like that. u become cheezy, corny, u become a poet, a singer and you even got crazy. talking and gushing about lovelife is very normal esp if your man is brad pitt who waits for you at home with your kids everyday and the same man you sleep with every night.
There is always no comment when a reporter asks a question. Or how about my family is private – I love them and want to protect them.
How exactly is this setting the record straight? I always have believed that you should let the other people say that they love you – you should not have to say it. I don’t think I have ever once said that my kids love me – who knows if they do? Who is she trying to convince – us, brad or herself.
And this is common for her. All her interviews are are about brad and her kids. Nothing wrong with this and she certainly has the right, but people are getting tired of it. Notice how when they got together when she talked about Brad the stories were always #1 quickly. Now not even on the top 20 on huffington post, not even in the top 9 on popsugar and not even in the top 5 on people. Her fans care but the rest of the world is getting tired of it. We get the picture – you are in love, your kids love you, everyone loves you. Get over yourself and talk about someone else for a change or what your hobbies are, or your co-stars (is anyone else doing this movie with her or is it a one man show?)
Oh and to some who think this is upsetting for those who are talking against this interview – honestly this is gossip site. If you want to see people upset go to a Megan Fox post people who criticize her interviews, they get crazy with it. the hate there is unbelievable People here on this post are being pretty good – some really good comments.
This totally cracked me up: “…it’s like she’s totally lost in this happy mundanity of family life. It’s not healthy. There should be something else, something that’s hers, something that defines her and that isn’t related to Brad and kids.”
umm, yeah, she needs something else, she’s such a Stepford wife, if only she could be, like, a HUGE film star or a UN ambassador…
She’s ALWAYS worn her heart on her sleeve, even when she made a total ass of herself. She devours life, she’s a questioner, she’s intense and people respond to that in her, even when she’s f*cking up.
People either respect her and it interests them to see someone striving and constantly evolving, or she makes people uncomfortable and insecure and they want her to be another sheep and just step in line, slip her hair, and shut up.
She must be FAAAAAAKE!!! She must be a HOMEWRECKER!!!!! She just has to have had TONS of plastic surgery!!!!! Waaaaaah!!!
whatever gets you through the night I suppose.
She is GORGEOUS!! My favorite photo shoot is still the one Brad did for her last movie- the love just jumps off the pages…new SALT clips released today- I can hardly wait to see this movie!
“If only she could be, like, a HUGE film star or a UN ambassador…”
Yeah, she’s all that, but it doesn’t look like she cares all that much about it from these last two interviews. She hardly mentions anything but her domestic bliss. I know that she’s answering questions but when you’re really interested in something you can’t help but include it into your conversations in one form or another. Like “oh, btw I’ve just been in that place” or “Oh, I’ve just read the book about it” or something. It seems that her family life is her only point of reference, no matter what she’s talking about she ends up mentioning them. I’m not saying she’s crazy or something but I think it’s better when you have a life. For real, not going through the motions. She looks like that but she doesn’t sound like it. In this interview. And the previous one too.
joe and Guest, you both had really good points. It’s always all about Angie, isn’t it? That’s narcissism for you.
@96: Considering this interview was about AJ, then yes it was all about her 😆 . Obviously the reporter asked her questions and she responded to them.
And shes as narcissistic as ALL the rest of the celebs in HollyWeird… 😆
Um, no Camille. You were given plenty of examples of celebs who talk about their costars and THEIR families once in awhile while promoting films. I have never once heard Angelina utter anything close to that in any promotional (or otherwise) interview. Have you?
I’m not tossing the word ‘narcissism’ around casually. I am well aquainted with the syndrome in that I have a close family member who is a pathological narcissist which I personally believe AJ exhibits symptoms of.
I have to LOL at some of these comments criticizing Angie. So lets see here, In Touch, NOTW, Star and all the other slanderous gossip media can write their weekly lies about this woman and her family, and everyone is free to speculate, and its all good. But somehow Angie talking about HER family, HER life and setting the record straight that she has a strong happy family is subject to scorn? Well colour me surprised. When Brad and Angie were silent about their relationship in the early days, and were frugal with their PDAs, all the speculation was ,”they are together for the kids”, “Brad is going through a midlife crisis”, “they don’t love each other”. You people can’t have it both ways. EVERY celeb talks about their family, EVERYONE of them. It is also funny to hear that when she talks about how much she loves her man, you don’t believe she’s genuine, but the same people are quick to bring up what she said years agoin their ongoing hate for this young woman. She is not sharing private aspects of their life. We don’t know their schedule, what their home looks like, the children doctors, we know NOTHING. So the charge that she is sharing too much about her life is BS. She talked about her MAN, her CHILDREN, and the love she shares for and with them. It’s her life, she has a RIGHT to set the record straight. For those offended, TOO BAD.
love angie, she’s cool inside and out, her family is blessed to have her.
Hey, Camille! Totally agree. 🙂
I also think the choice to become an actress leading to fame probably entails some level of narcissism. It’s not exactly like becoming a social worker, teacher or nurse. It also seems like many actors have also suffered childhood traumas and they believe that fame can raise their self-worth, or make up for something they’re lacking? Jolie seems to fit in that category. But, it does sound like she’s trying to get away from it.
I don’t think you can diagnose someone you’ve never met as a narcissist. Unless, you have real strong evidence and unscripted access to her life. Paper interviews are edited words on paper. They don’t reveal everything: who the interviewer is, all the questions asked, the subject’s facial expressions, attitude, what was left out, etc. Knowing a narcissist doesn’t make you a psychologist. Besides, I think AJ displays some level of non-narcissistic behavior, which would includes 10 years of work for the UN. I doubt a narcissist would do that, esp when the work involves traveling long distances, placing yourself in harm’s way, staying in places with no running water, or no creature comforts. She could just write a check, do a commercial or a celeb-a-thon. The latter would take very little effort and still earn major PR. Finally, I saw E!’s special on her, they had an interview with family who said she was always into social work and they had pics of her as a young child being a social activist on behalf of lunch workers at her school.
In any case, I don’t know her, but it seems like she isn’t an extreme narcissist, but probably one of the bunch in Hollyweird.
Again…every word she say is analyzed to pieces.. Had NO idea so many psychologist were on board. If she talks about her family then she is a narcissist. Just laughable
This is not the entire interview. They just highlighted the family and personal stuff.. But of course the naysayers act as if this is all she talked about. PLUS this is what the interviewer ASKED her.
But whatever.. Good for her. I hope she only talks about Brad and the kids.. mainly because it pisses so many people off.. How dare she be happy.
Lisa…that is hilarious…yeah, happy families- especially Brad &Angie’s- get some of these people soooo angry – they’ll spend all their time online- 6 years worth…hoping that they can make a difference, but Brad loves Angie &Angie loves Brad…more than e…keep taking, Angeles!
“Angelina outgrew her old kick-ass persona. She’s got six children to raise now”
@ Cheyenne
I completely understand that and I do know there’s a difference between playing a kick-ass and actually being one in real life (which I still think she is — as I stated on my previous comment: I really admire her for her humanitarian work). I also find sweet when she talks about her children’s personalities and I believe every word she says about them. It’s the way she talked about (specifically) Pitt that I found cheesy, the choice of words, get it? I’m in NO way suggesting they don’t love each other, I just think there’s a TAD of PR-ing crap whenever they talk about each other in interviews.
Still think she’s a nice person, who has changed and turned into a wiser, more mature woman, someone who has learned with her own mistakes — as far as I know, obviously.
well, now that I read more excerpts from that interview (http://www.pbpulse.com/gossip/2010/07/09/salt-star-angelina-jolie-on-life-with-brad-her-religious-beliefs-and-more/) I have to say she sounds much more sane and balanced then what you can make from this post quotes.
Eve, i agree with you on several points…La Jolie has not done a proper interview in almost two years and you know that bitch is smart about her pr, i think this is her way of putting to rest a lot of tabloid speculation about her relationship with pitt to rest… i know people often compare them to liz and richard, but i really think they are the joanne woodward and paul newman of our times (newman left his wife for joanna and they went on to life a very rich life together)…i mean shes even gaining some weight, i really think this is a good period in her life, the girl has found some peace of mind 😀