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Swakopmund, Namibia :: Angelina and Brad Pitt confirmed Wednesday that their newly-born daughter Shiloh Nouvel will have a Namibian passport.
"Shiloh will receive a Nambian passport, so we shall return," Pitt said at the couple’s first public appearance since the May 27 birth.
The Hollywood glamour pair spoke to local journalists at a press briefing at the four-star Hansa Hotel in Swakopmund at the edge of the Namib desert where Jolie gave birth by Caesarian Section.
"We couldn’t have picked a better place to have our child," said Jolie, looking healthy and relaxed in a black dress. Pitt agreed: "We are very proud that our daughter was born here".
(Continued after the jump, more pictures in the gallery)
Pitt said the couple had "done their homework" before deciding on Namibia as the birthplace of their first biological and third child.
"The health of our daughter and Angie’s was imperative. We’ve had absolute top-notch medical assistance," Pitt said.
The couple reiterated their gratitude to the people of the sparsely populated country, which has come under intense media interest since their arrival two-and-a-half months ago.
"We are eternally grateful to the Namibian people," Pitt said. "Namibia is one of Africa’s best kept secrets - until we came of course."
The couple had been "afforded a lifestyle here we could not have anywhere else" and that Namibia has been "a wonderful place to be with our kids."
The couple said they planned to remain in the country for just a few more days before returning to the United States. "Just a few more days. My mother is dying to see the baby," Jolie said.
On the tight security around the couple, Jolie said they had wished this had not been necessary but felt "the birth should be done in a way that was peaceful."
Pitt explained that having "a child with a bounty on its head" before its birth, had brought about the need for bodyguards to shield the family.
On future career plans, Pitt said he would begin work on the latest in the Ocean movie series in August while Jolie planned to concentrate on the needs of her three children - the newborn and four-year-old Maddox and one-year-old Zahara.
The couple were accompanied by Namibian first lady Penehupifo Pohamba (pictured above) regional governor Samuel Nuujoma and Child Welfare Minister Marlene Mungunda as they spoke to journalists for about 30 minutes, posed for photographs and signed autographs.
A day after their daughter was born, the couple announced they would provide 300,000 dollars for the refurbishment of hospitals in Namibia. Jolie, a United Nations goodwill ambassador, discovered Namibia some years ago while filming a movie there. [AP]
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What a beautiful post #27 (aka ‘The Real Hmmmm) - I’ve always wondered how die-hard Brad fans were fealing - and I think you are representative of his true fans that ‘GET’ him and all that he is. ….man, I cannot stop looking at them both….wowsa. Yeah, Braddy must be thinking he died and woke up in baby & Angie heaven. LOL
Jared, U R THE BEST…. Thank you
OMG did someone say Rica made a new fanfic? Where can I find it?? ps LOVE BAMZS!
I’m not being kinky but surely some FREAK will think otherwise, but as one mother to another, I’d love to see a photo of Angie breast feeding Shiloh. There is nothing more precious than those (what I call) eye locks with your child when you are nursing. You mommies know what I mean. Thanks millions Jared for this BANNER day. There have been some difficult days for we BAMZS lovers when news on them trickled in. I love all the wonderful pictures and you are the MOST! ABOVE AND BEYOND ALL OTHERS!!
About a wedding…SWAKOPMUND, Namibia -Angelina Jolie andBrad Pitt denied Wednesday that wedding bells are in the air, saying they want to concentrate for now on their newborn daughter and Jolie’s two adopted children."There is nothing in the air. The focus is the kids, and we are obviously extremely committed to the children and as parents together," Jolie told a news conference. "So that kind of says it for us, and to have a ceremony on top of it is nothing."
Do you guys know how hard it is for me to get back to work right now after looking and those pictures and reading what was said at the press conference lol. I can’t stop looking at these pictures "sigh"
Another pic:http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060607/capt.de7a43ab9e244c6e9c5d5b1c525aa686.pitt_jolie_namibia_xjd108.jpg?x=380&y=298&sig=6KQL8u87zMkfeg.jqVzQiA–Unidentified amibian journalists ask actress Angelina Jolie for autographs, following a press conference held exclusively for the Namibian press in a hotel in the Namibian city of Swakopmund.
Her boobs are HUGE! You know Brad AND Shiloh are digging those! They look so happy! Good for them!KEEP ON ROCKIN BAMZS!
hey, long time lurker, first time poster here…Brad and Angelina both look so happy and contented and they look great! Angie is one HOT mama! Congratulations to the Jolie-Pitts! I wish them all the best and more babies to come. Can we get a family picture next time, with all 3 kids?and Jared, thank you for all the BAMZS updates. You always make my day.
#27 |the real hmmmmm|-I completly agree with you.I’m a Brad fan first.And of cource BAMZS now.
JJ-MANY THANKS. Your site is the best. This couple is just too beautiful for words. They look happy and in love. Oh Angie had me ready to cry-"my mother is dying to see the baby". Angie is just radiant and glowing, she is just meant to be a mother (she’s sporting a black nursing bra in the pix)! Brad will do all necessary to protect his family, good for him. This two plus however many children they end up with are in it for the long haul. Thanks to Namibia for providing them with a peaceful place to nest for a while.
CNN. com has a poll on whether you would pay to see a picture of Shiloh or not. Go vote.
JJ YOU ARE THE BEST!!! sorry for shouting..but, yeah the FBI got nothing compare to you…she is so beautiful and my goodness, she got her shape back…ok people, I am sure most of us or all of us have seen the new version of MAMS already…now for my part, I saw the unrated version last night and I don’t know about everyone else, but I think DL still hold out on us regarding the steamy sex scene thing…the editing was minimal at best…especially on the scene where BP was running his hand over her body…so she was totally naked right? and the nex scene he was totally naked and she only topless, still has her black dress on at the waist…now what is up with that?…a blooper?…come one…I think IMHOP they should have another unratedunrated version…LOL…oh well..*sighed*…if AG was here she would agrees…Ok…regarding her beautiful enormous full of milk momma boobs…lucky Shiloh and Brad…LOL
Okay, as REVENGE for the NOW TRAITOROUS *LAINEY GOSSIP* - I submit to you, this WONDERFUL MACLEANS REVIEW of Maniston and HER MANIPULATIONS. In case you didn’t know it - MACLEANS is Canada’s PREMIER news magazine - it’s like our TIME, read and enjoy BAMZS, fans, and try to forget the online HACK that is Lainey — she is a true turncoat:June 07, 2006Breaking up is hard to watchAs she strikes out, yet again, Jennifer Aniston proves she’s the victim of another Hollywood mismatchBRIAN D. JOHNSONAfter Cannes, it’s sobering to be back in the popcorn mills. Cannes is a parallel universe where art trumps commerce — and where we saw more powerful female performances in two weeks than in six months at the multiplex. One movie alone, Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, boasted three generations of remarkable women, led by Penélope Cruz dividing and conquering with her cleavage like a latter-day Sophia Loren. What a grim awakening to come home to poor, sad Jennifer Aniston, an actress who seems diminished by her own celebrity. Aniston is a movie star everywhere except where it counts: onscreen.Her own story keeps eclipsing her work. By now, we know it all too well. After being ditched by Brad Pitt in the most famous Hollywood breakup since Liz and ****, she received a massive sympathy card from the media. Jen was the decent girl next door, with fine bones and modest features. Angelina was the coarse, pillow-lipped vixen with a taste for knives and tattoos. The morality tale was set in motion, and Jen was cast as the survivor who would pull herself together with the whole world watching. We’re still waiting. After striking out with starring roles in three abysmal movies — Derailed, Rumor Has It, and now The Break-Up, she has pushed our sympathies to the limit. You might say she’s just the victim of bad scripts. But that only makes it worse, as her victim roles on- and off-screen converge.Miscast as a femme fatale in Derailed, Aniston struggled for credibility in a role Angelina Jolie could have played in her sleep. In Rumor Has It, a misbegotten sequel to The Graduate, she humiliated herself as a woman who cheats on the perfect guy (Mark Ruffalo) by falling for a rich cad who could be her father (Kevin Costner). An indie detour, Friends With Money, offered a smarter script, but Aniston sounded the one sour note in the ensemble — as a jilted lover slumming as a housemaid who surrenders to cheeseball men while mooning over her ex.In The Break-Up, art and life align with fearful symmetry. Aniston shot the movie in the aftermath of her own breakup. And, mimicking the way Brad and Angelina sparked their romance by playing warring spouses in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Aniston became linked to Vince Vaughn, her onscreen antagonist. But in their breakup movie, Pitt and Jolie were evenly matched. In this lopsided romantic comedy, Aniston lets Vaughn steamroll her into weepy submission. He also hogs all the wittiest dialogue, leaving her the sentimental dregs of a ridiculous script that sends sexual politics back to the Stone Age.But then, it’s his movie. Vaughn helped produce the film, and its screenwriters spent months skimming dialogue from his improvisations. One of them, Jay Lavender, says, "There isn’t a part of this movie that Vince hasn’t put his stamp on." No kidding. Vaughn is a funny guy, and an amiable actor. He was a riot in Wedding Crashers. But unchecked, his charm curdles from sheer vanity.Vaughn plays Gary, a blue-collar bozo with a heart of gold. After a hard day of performing schtick as a Chicago tour-bus guide, he just wants to crack a beer, watch sports and play video games. Aniston plays Brooke, his humourless spouse, who works at a posh art gallery. Losing her patience, she turns into a whining nag who begs him to do the dishes, take her to the ballet and know what she wants without asking. Worse still, she has a family of fruity in-laws who sing a cappella over dinner. The breakup is her idea: she hopes it will jolt him into loving her. She’s the Cosmo cliché of the pre-feminist wife.You watch this movie, shake your head and think unfair thoughts: if art is indeed imitating life, no wonder Brad ditched her. Aniston and Vaughn seem so completely mismatched you wonder how they could ever begin a relationship, never mind end one.Movie stars are born, not made. They’re larger-than-life creatures who light up under the lens. Pitt is one; so is Vaughn, on a lesser scale. They always play the same person. Aniston is a character actor miscast as a movie star. She found a comfort zone in Friends. But on the big screen, she has an extraordinary talent for acting like she’s not there. You try to find a way into those narrow eyes, and they seem to be off somewhere else. Perhaps dreaming of the day when she and Vince can retreat from the paparazzi fray and find a pocket of calm in some gated African country. A movie they can call their own. _________________________________________
Angie looks GREAT she has the mommy glow. I bet she’s tired though. Her boobs…WOW!I guess they are coming home to California soon.
D I love this staement"There is nothing in the air. The focus is the kids, and we are obviously extremely committed to the children and as parents together," Jolie told a news conference. "So that kind of says it for us, and to have a ceremony on top of it is nothing."how lovely..Oh and Lainey … jesus what a *****, what the hell? Jared clearly we love you! You are a star.cheers.
Wow, I wish I were there at this press conference. How rapid these pictures were posted! Am I the only one who thinks that Jared is on location? Either that or he has a friend on the front lines. What channel can I watch this press confrence? I am so relieved that Angie and Brad found a safe, wonderful nation like Namibia to settle into having their beautiful angel baby.
#30Do I have to hear Lainey’s tired ass again? She’s gonna harp about that damn conspiracy theory til she’s blue in the face. Who the hell cares? If anything it’s Aniston and Vaughn trying to hog Brad and Angie’s birth news. I don’t care what Lainey says, it’s much easier to change a movie premiere than it is a birth. I’m just glad they went ahead with the C-section on the 27th otherwise if the kid was born on June 2nd Lainey would be yapping her mouth once again. As for the pics, they had to negotiate soon, they can’t stay in Africa forever. The paps would have made them miserable trying to get the first photos if they hadn’t done the deal. I say the conspiracy is in the Aniston/Vaughn’s camp. They’re the ones riding B&A’s coattail.
Brad and Angelina look so relax and happy. I’m so happy for both of them. Thanks JJ you made my day. LUV THE BAMZS FAMILY. Can’t wait the PEOPLE magazine with Shiloh on the cover.
Lainey needs to get over the fact that she lost her Jolie-Pitt source! I wonder if Lainey’s parents were both stunners and lainey got the ugly stick so she hopes for the worse with the jolie pitt kid.She is like In touch magazine. No matter what she says I will not feel sorry for you know who! Next…
I think IMHOP they should have another unratedunrated version…LOL…# 44 | Estelle LOL I know huh?? what was up with the skirt? But i have to admit BP’s ass is cute..lmao way better than that X’s photoshopped cover.
#30|The Truth Prevail|-Maybe it’s your first time you’re reading Laineys articles about BAMZS.She basicaly believes that everything is planed and manipulative.She have said similar things about B/A in the past.That does not mean she is right.Personaly i’d never put a lot of gredit in Laineys words.It’s just another gossip blog which sometimes happened to be right and sometimes not.Actualy her site is called Lainey gossip.It’s all about GOSSIP after all.
ATTN all ‘MARRIAGE TRAIN’ passengers - LOL!Hey — does anyone else think it’s odd that Brad & Angie, addressed the marriage thing by speaking ONLY of a ceremony,’ when they denied ‘wedding’ talk??Yet again, no one asked if they were ALREADY married. :-DThey’s hitched y’all - I can feel it….I just wanna know when they’re going to come out with it.
# 47 | julia | - ITA with that statement as well. Right now the kids are the most important things. I think they will eventually get marry but not right now. I am glad they are coming back home soon
# 30 | The Truth Prevailyeah i didn’t know if it was just me, but i can recall in months before, Lainey was a huge brangie fan/supporter and couldn’t help but gush about them…..envying their wild sex and so forth. But now she rarely says anything affirmative about them and recently she has been looking more like a faniston, from saying "nice" things about her, to supporting her movie. Wtf is that about?!(umpteenth posting attempt!)
***********MERCI*************Everyone looks fabulous. Angelina is just GLOWING!!!!!!!!!! She looks every bit the Ambassador that she is.
I love this Statement:The couple said they planned to remain in the country for just a few more days before returning to the United States. "Just a few more days. My mother is dying to see the baby," Jolie said.————————————————–Angie’s mom is probaby over the moon right now, just to think that in a couple days she will be able to hold her newest granddaughter, that is sweet
they’re weird.
Just saw a commercial for Access Hollywood, where its said "Brangelina speaks…" so I believe thats where we can see the press conference, and I think other people can confrim this.JARED you rock the casbah!!! keepin’ us updated on BAMZs…… "I come to this site ’bout fittyleven times"
Ok…just for fun…on the 6 small pictures…pic. #3-did Angie looked like she was thinking…" ok, please wrap it up…I need to pump" LOL>….
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