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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".
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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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633, lmao at you. You know good and well that AJP is none of that. Thats Aniston who you’re describing. Get your sh*t straight. You sound like you have no morals like Jen.
Honestly, I was really just going to read and not comment. I figure I did my "duty" earlier, but, # 520 | mickeyG | personifies the "Ugly American". The MORAL PUBLIC! Oh please! Go to your revivals, your insane Relevation prophecies, whatever floats your boat, just leave the rest of the country OUT of it. WHOSE morals? Yours? I don’t subscribe to them, and will NOT follow anyone who demands I do so. I’m sure you feel the same about mine. THAT my friend is what AMERICA is supposed to be about. It’s what gives 1/2 the idiots here today the RIGHT to post whatever stupid, vile thought is running through their supposed brains. Don’t you DARE to put your morals above any one else’s. GOD I hate people like you. You are the ones that condone the murder of Matthew Shepherd, because he’s gay and "that’s just not right". You make me SICK.# 526 | Moi Jade |God, After that crap, you were an especially fresh breath of air. thank you# 528 | UCantSaveDWorld Um, you ARE aware aren’t you, that the money WAS pledged by the US, but spent in Iraq instead? And, for further clarification, both Brad and Angie are WORLD WIDE stars, and therefore, their income COMES from the world. Besides, if you bothered to read/investigate even a little, you would know that compared to Africa, even the poorest of the poor has it better in the USA. GET EDUCATED before posting please.# 537 | HEAD SNOOP MCSNEAK THANK YOU Head Snoop McSneak! NEVER were your reports more needed!# 572 | ArmyWife |Thank you for coming to let us know how you feel. Now go away.# 588 | kidi |So it wasn’t Angieboobaphobia but Angieboobajealousy? ROFLMAO# 590 | African Girl |I wanna hang out with you - just one day - I won’t be a problem I promise! You lead a MUCH more interesting life than I do!!!! Poor you and the poor French woman! I never thought about what the "rest of the world" might think! ROFLMAO We just can’t do ANYTHING right as a country lately can we? OMG! She thought they did something REALLY bad! THANK YOU!!!!!! Laughs needed here lately.# 597 | Passing Through Now, THAT’s looking at the bright side! LOL# 609 | gitane Yes! I think Christmas with the whole family would be awesome. That will always be his first Christmas as a Dad. And Maddox was old enough to be really into it I would imagine.
# 647 | angelah |- lol, that person was just plain old nuts
# 627 | gitane | yes it is a shame we cant have more civil conversations..
# 651 | Original Curiousi’ll think on it some more. maybe if i decide to do the christmas story, it will just come…
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# 655 | BluMystiquewhere have you been? i’ve been paging you on every thread! i’m going to watch the vid now, but don’t go away!
I have tears rolling down my cheeks from this. I’m just heartsick that there life gets touched by this **** when they have a young family, are trying to raise them right, and help the world. (sob) # 598 | CLINIQUA+++++++++++++++++Cliniqua…consider this a cyber slap, girl….GET A ******* GRIP! Pull yourself together woman.
This site used to be much more civil. That is beginning to change. I have truly enjoyed meeting people from all around the world, but I probably won’t be posting much more until the tone changes a bit.Love all the BAMZS fans!
654 | gitane I love christmas time. Will Brad be dressed up as Santa? will madd be singing "i saw mommy kissing santa claus"? no chins or grinches lol
Looks like Angelina is winning here. Being JA only has 2 fans posting. They’re pathetic.Brad and Angie are natural parents. The children are so lucky.
# 656 | gitanelol girl. Work man. by the time i come home and shower.. I pass dead asleep and I’ve havent bothered to come on here to read the comments. Just look at the pics and leave. Way too many haters out there and I havent felt the need to feed into their need for attention. But thanks for thinking of ME :D
617 | rob enderle felt pretty neutral about them until they did the whole pick a country to be born shtick and then naming a child the New Messiah: that is REALLY f***ed up———–Neurtral ? BS ! I’ve seen your post several times,it’s full of shxt , very biased and anti Brad and Angie, and you are calling yourself neutral . please, what a lie !Baby’s name is given by the love of both parents. Shiloh means "God’s gift" to both Brad and Angie. Gwyneth had to right to name her kids Apple and Moses, Tom’s Surri, it’s their right none of your business. You are a typical Aniston fans in disquise who would pick on anything this couple do.
Passing through,That has to be the most asinine story I have heard lately.What idiot would believe this? # 626 | The real lou +++++++++++++++++++++That’s a rhetorical question, right, Lou? We’ve had trolls on here all night calling Angie "ugly"! THOSE IDIOTS will believe it!
o.k. first, last post in this thread. To Moi Jade,I have scanned through several BP/AJ threads where you have posted the same thing. Many people have corrected you on this point but you fall back on it time and time again. Jen Aniston and Courteny Cox did not, in my opinion, say that absolutely that Brad did not cheat or that they knew for a fact that he did not cheat. They said that they chose to believe him when he SAID he did not cheat. And that does not in any way mean that Brad did not really cheat and if he did may have very likely preferred to lie about it.Big distinction between the two.
# 635 | cecil Ah yes…the Liz Taylor flub. Another recent Enquirer funny.
# 655 | BluMystique | - OMG Blu, this video is sexy and hot. I think I could sleep very well tonight or not after watching these two sexy and hot videos lol, courtesy of you and Ell. Thanks
# 661 | BluMystiquei understand. haven’t been overly interested in posting myself. i read the comments and i’m like, "come on people! we’ve been through this crap already!" anyway, i was paging you to find out when ea would open registration again. i missed the train! and…i’ve got another song suggestion for you (go ahead, tell me to learn to make my own damn videos)…romantic by goapele.
The modern meaning of Shiloh is peaceful one see below. JTA News reports that people in settlement of Shiloh in the West Bank are thrilled that the baby shares the same name as where they live.Brangelina baby blessed in West BankResidents of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh voiced pleasure at having a new namesake in the daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.“Residents of ancient and renewed Shiloh wish the new Shiloh good health and a productive life,” Yisrael Medad, a community official, said in a statement circulated this week.Shiloh means “peaceful one.”It was also the biblical site where Joshua first divided up the newly conquered Land of Israel among the 12 tribes descended from the patriarch Jacob.Today, it is a mostly modern Orthodox community of 1,500.
# 658 | Tijen |I have been lurking for a long time here today. I agree with you completely. I might lurk here once in a while and while I love the BAMZS family and the fans here, but I will not post here anymore till things improve hopefully. I love this site and appreciate all the work Jared puts into this place but its getting to be a bit too much now. Thanks Jared for all the new info and pics you provide us with and thanks to those BAMZS fans here who always have something fresh and insightful to post here. Keep posting and don’t get bogged down. I used to leave feeling happy after reading this blog, now I feel depressed and sickened by some of the people’s comments. Like Tijen, I’m going to wait to post till the tone changes here. Keep up the good work Jared. =)
# 663 | Passing Through | - true that
# 659 | Ivyhmmm…said i wouldn’t go there again, but you’ve got images of bamzs as the whos down in whoville and x and vv as the grinch and max (respectively) popping in my head. hmm…
The best way to respond to speculation is using facts. Here is some recent information I found about National Enquirer which might evidence that it’s circulation is falling. I think NE will continue to fall. I mean, how can you take this publication seriously when it also reported that Liz Taylor is confused an battling alzheimers and she shows up LIVE on Larry King?? Source: Wikipedia"The Enquirer’s circulation for a time fell below 1 million (from 6 million at its height), but AMI came up with only short-term solutions, including bringing in some 20 British journalists in early 2005, headed by editor, Paul Field, a former executive at the London tabloid The Sun. AMI relocated the editorial offices back to New York for an April 2005 relaunch. The move failed and Field, along with virtually all the British contingent, was replaced after just a year, when the company reappointed Perel, and announced the Enquirer offices would return to Florida in May 2006. During the period Field was editor of the Enquirer, circulation fell by 250,000 issues a week. For the second half of 2005, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation, the Enquirer sold an average 1.16 million copies a week, compared to 1.47 million for the same period of 2004. Advertising was down 14 percent the first quarter of 2006, according to the Media Industry Newsletter."
# 667 | gitaneWe’re not registering anymore but YOU can email me here everything_adult@hotmail.com and i’ll let you in. just sent me your username and dob. speaking of EA i seriously need to post my latest chapter of OLY. I’ll do it tomorrow
DAYUM!! Is there a full moon tonight? WTF?!!!Regarding the PEOPLE pics; I hope that the whole family is included.Now that Shiloh has been born, I wonder what their next move is going to be. It’s going to be a very interesting summer.NIGHT ALL. BE NICE TO ONE ANOTHER. NO NAME CALLING!KEEP ON ROCKIN BAMZS!
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