When Angelina Jolie said she’d stay at home with the kids to make sure newly-adopted Pax could adjust to his plush fast-paced lifestyle in the states she must have meant this month, because she’s lined up for a ton of projects starting in May. Brad, on the other hand, will be free to take over diaper duty and English lessons as he doesn’t have a film shooting until next year.
And Angelina is stirring up a minor controversy by selling the first photos of Pax to People for a reported $2 million. Radar Magazine says they have inside information that those are the numbers involved, but People says that number is “absurd” and that they don’t pay and tell. There was a bidding war according to Gawker, though, and the final rights went to People, which has a long standing relationship with Jolie.
Zahara was flown out to Vietnam for the People photo shoot to join adopted big brothers Maddox and Pax, but Shiloh was left at home with Dad. There’s a cute report in Life & Style that Shiloh said her first word, which was “dada.”
Angelina sold the first baby bump pictures back when she was pregnant with Shiloh to People for $400,000. She gave the proceeds to Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti organization, which strives to change lives in the troubled nation. I bet she’ll donate these proceeds too.
She may have another reason for being friendly with People. Gawker points out that People has run fluff pieces on people close to Angelina, a co-worker at the UN and the pediatrician who helped nurse Zahara back to health after she was adopted from Ethiopia.
I guess you can’t blame her for trying to quell people’s curiosity. It seems like she’s in a no-win situation with the paparazzi and she must want to promote adoption. There’s always the risk that the public will get sick of her, though.
TMZ’s founder Harvey Levin is quoted as saying “How many shots of another kid she’s adopting can you get before it all starts to feel the same?”
It takes a huge sacrifice to adopt a child and Angelina just seems like she’s trying to do her best to deal with the publicity. If she hid the boy away we’d all be complaining too.
No one complains when Johnny hides his kids away. I think that movie stars should protect their children at all costs. Johnny, Matt Damon do a great job of keeping their kids out of the limelight, and many people respect them for that.
Also, I really dislike Pax’s new hairdo. The poor kid must be utterly scared. Not many little kids like to have their hair cut. Add that to the whole difficulties of new people, new language, new suuroundings. One word: No. I’m really not seeing her even trying to be a kind mother here.
What new hairdo? Anyway, people will complain no matter what. The truth is there is no bounty on Matt Damon’s kids or even Johnny’s kids. Gwen Stefani couldn’t get $300,000 for pix of Kingston and Jack Black jokingly complained that nobody’s offering him any money for Sam’s picture. The truth of the matter is, it’s easy to be protective when nobody really cares to get that first shot. When it comes to the Pitts and Britney, it’s an entirely different matter. BTW, did Brit give the money to charity for SPF’s spread in People?
I saw where she signed onto a new project after proclaiming that she was going to be a stay at home mom and help Pax adjust – which is what this child truly needs. After all, she showed up with no forewarning to this child and I can only imagine the shock of it all. She proclaims to be “sorry” for the media storm..yet every chance she gets, she’s doing photo spreads.
Me thinks Angelina talks out of both sides of her mouth…which further makes me believe that this has so much to do with her ego and publicity.
Come on all you mothers out there – you know in your hearts if you had the kind of money Angelina has and if you just had a newborn that is doing all the new exciting stuff of learning to walk and talk and you just adopted a 3 year old from another country – you would want nothing more than to stay at home. So many of us do not have the luxury of being able to stay at home with our kids, but she does.
Again, I’m entitled to my opinion, but it appears as though she is more interested in collecting them and I feel sorry for them – it can’t be easy moving from place to place and being constantly uprooted for movie locations. I really feel sorry for this child and all the trauma he is enduring right now.
Oh, whatever…yeah, those things have to be traumatic, but I’m sure he’ll be fine, as will the others. (Of course, there’s always the teenage yars…) Perhaps Angie had signed on to do this movie, BEFORE she knew exactly when she’d be able to finalize things with the adoption of Pax. She’s NOT a stagnant person! Besides, who can blame her for needing some time on a set, away from four kids, no matter how much you love them! She has the money and staff to help her raise them. Other people work, who have lots of kids and have less money and help. Their family will be fine! I think it’s BETTER that these kids are being adopted by her and Brad and will have a great life with loving parents. No one can deny that they have alot of love to give to their children, and the kids will want for nothing.
I think the above comment about missing out on Shiloh’s learning to walk and talk etc. is interesting and insightful. Every mother I know talks about these milestones as being just HUGE and how they wouldn’t miss them for the world . . . yet Angie IS missing them, voluntarily and unnecessarily.
Shiloh might have been dumped on as being a “blob” but now she’s developing the “personality” Angie claims her other children already came with, and yet Angie isn’t there to be part of Shiloh’s development. I feel sorry for Shiloh because she seems to be the true “orphan” in that family, at least by the way Angie treats her.
Poor Shiloh. I would be happy to adopt her.
Just to be fair: Brad’s publicist did say that Pitt only couldn’t join them due to his movie schedule. So actually, if Shiloh does appear in that movie, the same could go for her. I’m really no believer in Angelina’s motives, but the reasons for leaving Shiloh behind could be reaaly good ones. It bothers me more to fly out Zahara just for the photo op. Crossing 2 continents in a matter of days to get the loving family pictures out does not seem right to me…
Does it seem like she tries a little harder to ‘shield’ Shiloh than the others? Granted, she’s still a baby, but we do see a lot more of Maddox and Zahara, even before Shiloh came along.
Not to bash her, but I guess I don’t understand why she changes all of the adopted children’s names. I mean, they all had names before she claimed them as hers, so why did she have to change them? I find that odd. Not to mention I think the names she picks are pretty stupid, but so are most celebrity baby names.
only time will tell, folks……..in about 15 years, maybe we’ll see how they all develop. Will there be drug abuse, nasty tell-all books?
Sam, I don’t think I have ever heard Johnny refer to his biological child as a BLOB.
She talks of this kid going into an unfamiliar life, a new language, being outside his comfort zone and what does she do but put the poor child on display in several gossip rags for money to donate to her so called charities.
This woman is so starved for public adulation it is sad. She craves this attention because some folk put her on a pedestal as if she is Mother Theresa or something. She is a narcissist in the worst form.
She is pathetic for using her children the way she does. She might want to try to hold her own biological daughter for once and try bonding with her.
she’s a media whore!!!!
declanium I can see your point. The Hollywood lifestyle has not historically been a positive one for most children. It does make you question why she doesn’t just resign herself to her charity work and being a Good Will Ambassador- and oh yeah- first and foremost a mom to four children. I have to say, I think she should quit doing films and focus on her family life- she has more than enough money to do so.
I too wonder how she can be away from her littlest one and miss the milestones of her development. Most mothers cherish these milestones and take the time to enjoy them. I don’t see most mom’s rushing out to get the next kid as soon as the last is born. I can’t help but feel that she’s out and about ‘collecting’ children. It’s about darn time she settle down and stop collecting and start raising them. Hired help is STILL not mommy/daddy no matter how good they are and how much they are paid.
She wanted these kids so she better settle down and start being a mother to them.
I’ve never seen Maddox smile. Zahara does not understand the meaning of the word. And this child will take a long time to smile too, if she drags him around the world like she does her other trophies.
Oh, and Shiloh’s not in the pics. After all, Shiloh’s just a blob.
She’s not a mother, she’s a collector. A mother would respect children’s need of regularity, quiet time, balance in their lives.
I disagree with above posters claiming that Angelina doesn’t spend any time with Shiloh, or with her other kids for that matter. How often do you see her, or Brad for that matter, without their kids? They go everywhere and do everything with them. When Angelina is working on a movie, her kids are there with her, she doesn’t leave them. Both she and Brad seem really hands on with their kids, and aren’t always passing them off to nannies, unlike other celebrities. Who are we to say what goes on behind closed doors? Angelina, I’m sure, isn’t missing anything…and the blob comment was most likely taken out of context and actually sounds more funny than insulting to me. Babies are kind of like blobs when they are first born…they have so much to absorb and learn.
Jeannified –
Of course this child is experiencing trauma and GRIEF. This child has been removed from the only home he has known and taken away from his care givers. He is 3 years old and had no idea he was being adopted until Angelina showed up. No one knows how attached this child was to his care givers at the orphanage or to any of the other children there – I cannot even fathom the sense of loss this child must feel at this time. My goodness, he has even had his name changed – anyone adopting a dog from the pound wouldn’t even do that!
Someone said it earlier and I think they hit the nail on the head – she is starving for adulation.
I dunno, I think all the haters out there should be quiet. I see nothing wrong with what she is doing, and I firmly believe that her heart’s in the right place.
I agree with GG.
Maybe Shiloh did got because she has not had her shots to travel outside the country. The other kids came with the shots in order to get into the country. Shiloh is still just a baby and maybe she didn’t want to expose her to a third world country. I wouldn’t.
Here is one more thought about keeping your kids OFF the magazine covers…as bad of a mother that Britney Spears has been since the birth of Jayden – she has managed to keep him very under exposed.
Yeah, I just knew the moment this was posted the “I hate Angelina” vs the “Angelina is Great” warfare would start in earnest. Interesting how lots of posters think they know the woman or what exactly goes on in the lives of all concerned. It also seems like every blogsite I read concerning Brangelina is firmly in one camp or another and every story (unsurprisingly) seems to reflect the blogger’s own personal feelings for or against Angie and or Brad) Celebitchy I have to say is one of the few sites that tries to examine the facts and sift through the bullshit to find the truth and the opinions expressed are merely that. Nor is she afraid to apologise/say when she’s made a wrong call. Live and let live I say and keep up the good work Celebitchy.
Rose no thorns, can you explain to me why are so many people are invested in condemning this woman OR in crowning her queen of everything? Why does she inspire people so much one way or the other? I so don’t get it.
I have never been able to get over her comments (I’m probably distoring them, but you get the idea) about how she sympathizes with her adopted children more than Shiloh because Shiloh’s never had it rough and the others have….so on and so forth. That’s just a weird thing to say and it doesn’t help me like her any better.
One more thing….it’s like she doesn’t want to seem partial to her biological child so she’s cuddles up to and loves on the adopted children more in an effort to seem less biased. Not trying to pass judgment – just commenting on what I’ve observed from mags and pics!
Hey Fab, I don’t think her ‘supporters’ are fanatics – I think they’re just fair people who want to give her the benefit of the doubt which IS the most reasonable response considering none of us really know her or understand her motivations.
The haters on the other hand, are sad people hell bent on disliking her for reasons they aren’t really honest about. My opinion is that envy is probably a root cause.
I’m not a big fan of Angelina, but I don’t think she deserves some of the
hate she gets. People say she doesn’t care for her kids, but there’s no basis for that. She’s blamed for the Brad/Jen breakup and somehow it’s not Brad’s fault as well. Apparently the time and money she invests in humanitarian work is all for publicity or for some other selfish reason, but she’s been doing it for years and didn’t have to do it in the first place. She’s not Mother Theresa, but when there are celebrities who don’t bother at all and spend their excessive wealth on
designer looks (which we admire them for), I don’t see a reason to hate her for it.
we can never be too sure. but i wouldn’t call the woman a media whore. she’s smart, at least she’s auctioning off the pics to magazines for charities. she probably knows someone will try to sneak into their lives and make millions for their own selfish purposes.
yea, she seems okay. she’s not the kind of person i think who would be happy just as a housewife. a lot of women work and hold families. she’s got the money and drive to do much more than a regular mom.
haters are unbelievable, they’re so in love with tearing someone else down. i think its all from feeling inferior. Haters can’t do the same things as Angelina so want to invalidate her deeds with irrational negativity.
I have never been a fan of whorelina, I didn’t have an opinion about her one way or another, until I saw her at an awards show, slobbering all over her brother, and saying how much “in love” she was with him, I thought it was disgusting..and then on the red carpet with BBT, giggling like a school girl when he told the world that they fuc-ed in the car on the way there…she couldn’t keep her hands off him, trashy, pure and simple. So she is the one who caused my bad opinion of her..and I think she is mentally unstable, and a liar..I feel sorry for all those kids.
And lets not forget she broke up the relationship of Billy Bob and Laura Dern…..
This woman takes what she wants when she wants it.
It’ll be interesting to see what she does next. At the very young age of 31, she’s had 3 marriages and 4 children. WOW.
“I have never been able to get over her comments (I’m probably distoring them, but you get the idea) about how she sympathizes with her adopted children more than Shiloh because Shiloh’s never had it rough and the others have….so on and so forth. That’s just a weird thing to say and it doesn’t help me like her any better.
ER | 03.21.07 – 6:20 pm | # ”
I don’t see what is weird about that – the adopted kids HAVE had a hell of a time – they are third world orphans!!!! Try to imagine what that must be like for them!!!!!
I can’t believe what I’m reading all over these comments – would you all rather this woman live in a hollywood mansion, spend all her time and money on whining and clothes and her hair and drugs and not giving a crap about the rest of the world? I’m totally shocked that so many people are so hateful, when there are people dying of disease, malnutrition, aids and the effects of war. It is so easy to sit in our warm homes in front of our computers, having the LUXURY of even having the time to read blogs for fun, with food in our stomachs, so indulged that we’re all worried about our weight – ie being overfed – and competing for a goddam handbag.
These people, who are not perfect, the same as us, are taking action in whatever way they can. They have seen the suffering first-hand, and are trying to help. They are making an effort. They’re doing their best.
Leave them alone.
listen, she is a very public person. very public by choice. the media exposure of her helps her to get more work, make more money, and compete for rank in hollywood. public people will always be commented on. period.
yes, people are questioning the choices that angelina is making. they are questioning them because she has a rather sketchy past. (while also noting that mister- im too sexy for you- brad pitt has a whole hell of a lot of skeletons in his own designer closet. there are so many hot guys out there..what with the obsession?he doesnt exactly have a squeaky clean stable thing going on either.)
like people here have said…she has been married three times already..(a lot of the dudes she married were co stars in her films), went through a major lesbian phase with jenny shimizu, gave her brother sloppy french kisses in front of everyone at a major media gathering, went into this whole really long morbid thing that was really intense goth…this obsession with corpses…she once said that she wanted to be a mortician in high school. for years she has been into cutting herself, and is very obviously anorexic. and yeah, i dont care about jen jen or whatever, but yes, she was screwing brad while he was still married and got pregnant….she is going to have to keep keeping herself on the edge of wild and exciting to keep brad or whatever sex appeal she thinks she might have going at the same frenetic pace. it takes a lot of work to stay popular.
weird, i was looking at that picture and i had this random thought… … is this supposed to be some kind of new world feminist ideal?? and then i thought no, if this were a man doing this, he would be thrown the same scrutiny.
as much as anyone would like to be….nobody can be everything to everyone..oh hell yeah, people try….and some things have to give, and some things get put behind, …
what i think is weird is that i think that mothers out there giving it their absolute everything to nurture and raise their children in the best way possible arent given the same kind of hero status. i think that in the midst of this crazy and getting crazier world…to have the courage and will to still do the right thing whether or not anybody takes notice or gives this big adulation is a Very big deal in my book.
before we pass the saint card off to angelina, lets remember all of the very sincere and real and loving mothers (and fathers) who did put the children first.
my hats off to my mother and your mothers, too. ;o)
Thank you greenjeans, I will choose to take your comments personally. I had a really good career which I looked forward to everyday, when I found out that my 2 year old daughter had been molested at daycare. I quit my job and stayed home with my kids. Now, i’ve no time for hobbies outside the home, my circle of friends has narrowed, etc. No one will ever know how much I gave up, even my husband doesn’t seem to notice. So thanks for understanding and recognizing that nurturing your kids has value, even though unseen.
greenjeans is right. And the end of the day, the woman is personally saving children, one at a time. I hope she considers adopting American kids as well.
And kudos to all the tireless mommies out there who juggle meals, activities, fatigue and self-sacrifice to make sure their children are looked after in a healthy way.
Of course this child is experiencing trauma and GRIEF. This child has been removed from the only home he has known and taken away from his care givers. He is 3 years old and had no idea he was being adopted until Angelina showed up. No one knows how attached this child was to his care givers at the orphanage or to any of the other children there – I cannot even fathom the sense of loss this child must feel at this time. My goodness, he has even had his name changed – anyone adopting a dog from the pound wouldn’t even do that!
Iva | 03.21.07 – 2:53 pm | #
This comment has completely wrecked my head!
The child was living in an orphanage, not with foster parents. The ideal for most children in such orphanages is adoption or reunification with family.
Their “care givers” were employees of the facilites, not permanent parents. Of course the child is going to be confused with a whole new family being given to them – that’s hardly an earth shattering insight. “Grief” is stretching it though.
I think she’s using the popularity and interest to her advantage and since all the money goes to charity … I don’t see what the big deal is. I think in the long run it helps her kids so there is less of a frenzy about getting that first shot. I hope the paps lay off the new guy. He’ll be traumatized if the first time he steps foot in his new home hundreds of people are shouting and taking pictures. I feel bad for him.
LIKE I SAID BEOFRE ON NUMEROUS COMENNTS
1.AJ WILL NEVER BOND WITH SHILOH
2THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT TIME FOR SHILOH SHE NEEDS HER MOTHERS LOVE
3AJ IS TREATING SHILOH THE WAY SHE FEELS HER DAD TREATED HER
4 SHE NEVER HOLDS SHILOH
5 WHEN MADDOX WAS YOUNGER THEN SHILOH SHE ALWAYS HAD HIM IN A SNUGLI OR CARRYING HIM
THERE ARE SOME MOMS WHO IGNORE AND EVEN DISLIKE ONE OR MORE OF THIER CHILDREN AND THAT DOSENT EXCLUDE CELEBRITY MOMS
The paragraphs below are from an expert – read it yourself if you don’t think that this child is experiencing grief.
“Intellectually, we understand that babies and children experience feelings of discomfort, loss, and confusion during the first weeks and months after being adopted. Practically, though, do we allow and even create opportunities for newly adopted children to grieve their losses and their past? And throughout our children’s lives, do we acknowledge and assist them with their grief?
If we adopt babies, we may mistakenly assume that our childs life begins with us. If we adopt an older child, we may wrongly assume that their past is now their past. Adopted children, however, bring multiple issues of loss with them into their adopted families, no matter what age they were adopted.
Childhood grief is often based on different issues than those that impact adults. Donna O’Toole, grief counselor and author of Helping Children Grieve and Grow, writes, “Especially for children a loss may be based on safety, comfort, and familiarity, rather than on what adults speak of as love or affection.”
Helping Children Grieve and Grow lists six categories of childhood loss: relationship loss (usually people and animals); loss of objects that give comfort (toys, blankets, clothing); loss of a secure, familiar environment; loss of self (ways of being and doing that define us uniquely); loss of skills, abilities, and competencies; and loss of familiar habits and routine.
Adopted and foster children, no matter what their age, embark upon their newly changed lives facing most of these categories of loss. They’ve lost their caregivers, their clothes and bedding, their familiar smells, tastes, and sounds; the way they do things; their ability to feel comfortable with their lives and language, and their daily routines.
Theresa Anderson, family counselor specializing in issues of adoption, attachment, and grief says, “Grief is THE core issue that adopted children deal with grief and terror. Think about international adoption You can’t take a child from home, put them into an airplane, cross the world, surround them with 1000’s of people at the airport, have them met by strange people, smells, textures, foods, and voices, and not expect them to be traumatized.”
I have witnesses this type of grief first hand as I have a friend who has adopted from China. When after waiting for years, she finally brought home her daughter and she took 6 months leave as a highly respected Surgical Nurse thinking she would be back at work after that amount of time – she never went back to work.
I know this is just a gossip blog so people are going to vent, but still, at the end of the day, by whichever name you wish to call it, whether grief or shock or what have you, at the end of the day, the woman saves kids from orphanages.
And nobody knows the entire story until you’ve walked a mile in her shoes.
holla to mairead. I think she’s right. imho.
“..and then on the red carpet with BBT, giggling like a school girl when he told the world that they fuc-ed in the car on the way there…she couldn’t keep her hands off him, trashy, pure and simple”
Holy shit, she screwed her HUSBAND in a limo? Stone the bitch!
i dont think that anyone cares that they fu-ked in the limo on the away to the show….it was this old, kinda slimy geezer wearing some retarded vial of angelinas blood and vice versa making this really big TMI ammouncement to some dipshit reporter from entertainment tonight or some such. they were slimy.
you dont go to the oscars and tell everyone on the red carpet what your fetishes are. haha
I paraphrase – so fucking what? It was Thorton (a notorious self confessed whack job) who blabbed, not Jolie. She was young and suckered in to the dude – he was a phase of her life that she’s probably wishes never happened. We’ve all made mistakes in the past. To be judged on them the rest of your life is pretty unfair.
lol, zoincks. I was kind of cringed out on that too. I hope she carried air freshener with her …
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This one time, my mother-in-law (playfully) grabbed one of my boobs. Is that weird?
(Just thought I’d throw that in there. y’know for shits and giggles). :’)