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The Canadian edition of Hello! magazine has a fantastic interview with Angelina Jolie about her children, her relationship with Brad – and those eating-disorder rumors.
How is your newest adopted son, Pax, adjusting to family life? He’s a great kid. When we first met him, we thought he was really shy and really quiet, but about two days at home, we discovered that he is the loudest member of the family! He is very athletic, very bold. Pax and Zee [Zahara] have really connected because they’re closer in age, and Madd and Pax – they’re brothers, so they have moments where they absolutely bond together against everybody else in the family. Then they have moments where they bug each other, but it’s quite normal. It’s nice. I’m really, really proud.
It’s rumored that you’re considering adopting a child from the Czech Republic. Is there any truth to this? No. We’re not considering any more adoptions at the moment. We’re trying to make sure that all of our kids are adjusted first and that they all have individual time. We will have more children, but not right now. We’re always
open to all countries, but there just isn’t any truth to the rumors. Just because [we] adopt and because we travel, people say Brad’s buying a house wherever he goes and I’m adopting a child wherever I go.
Do you and Brad have different parenting styles? We’re very similar and we support each other as parents, so there is no divide of “Daddy’s good with this but Mommy doesn’t like it,” or vice versa. Brad is just as affectionate and loving as I am, and I am just as playful.
Click inside to continue reading Angelina’s interview with Hello!…
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Do you cook? No. Brad would tell you that I am one of the worst cooks in the world, but my first husband said that I pretended to cook badly so I never had to.
How did Brad help you through the loss of your mother? God, it’s funny to give all his secrets away. He’s a really great friend. He really cares. When my mom passed, he sat with me in the [hospital] room and held her hand and helped me go through all the stages that you have to deal with when someone passes, from her ashes to everything. He was just wonderful to my brother [James] as well. [After her funeral] we all went back home and then he just spent the night asking us questions about our mom.
He got us to tell funny stories about her and focus on all the love and all the joy. Brad is extraordinary.
How’s your relationship with his parents? When I first met Brad’s parents, I came in with two adopted children from other countries and that was new for them and their family. I didn’t know how they were going to be, but they’re wonderful, wonderful people. They’re equally loving to all of the children. We’ve left the children with them quite a few times, but I don’t know if we’ll leave them with Pax at the moment [smiling].
Would you say you wear your emotions on your sleeve more than you used to? I suppose, in some way. It’s funny, because I feel like I’m this really emotional person but people have often said to me, about myself or the roles I play, that I seem strong. I’m often surprised that people don’t see me or think of me as an emotional person. Maybe they do more now, but for a long time in my life, it was that I was just tough or something, and that I lacked emotion.
There’s been a lot of speculation about your recent weight loss. The funny thing is when somebody says, “you’re thin,” people say, “thank you.” But to me, it is not a compliment. It’s not something I want to be. I have always been lean, and this year I lost my mom, I have four kids, I finished breastfeeding and it’s been hard to get my nutrition back on track and learn about my body after birth. The disturbing thing is that instead of somebody saying, “Oh, this looks like a person that’s actually dealing with something [emotional],” they say, “does she want to fit into skinny jeans?” When I [read] anything that says I’m too thin, I think “Good, good!” Let it be a criticism. I don’t want to encourage young girls to be too thin.
Where is the reckless Angelina of old, who dived into the hotel pool after winning her Golden Globe? [Laughing] I’m really the same person. I jumped in the pool because somebody dared me to. So it wasn’t anything punk. It was true happiness and fun. Hopefully, I do still have that [quality] and I’ll jump in many pools in the future.
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I like this part of Smith’s session:
Eagan, MN: Does Angelina Jolie feel remorse at all for her actions and choices she has made regarding Jennifer Aniston? When Brad and Jennifer were married they had planned on Jennifer playing the role. It seems like Jolie just keeps pushing the dagger deeper and deeper into Aniston’s heart and soul.
To do what she (Jolie) has done to another will return sometime to herself. How does she live daily with herself and all of the extreme exposure while hurting Jennifer?
Sean Smith: I got a lot of questions on this topic about this, too. I don’t know why Pitt and Aniston broke up. Frankly, I can’t tell you why MY last relationship ended. The only two people who really know what happened in relationship are the two people in it. Neither Jennifer, Brad or Angelina has ever said that Angelina “stole” him. She may have. She may not. I don’t know. But neither does anyone else, and I’m perplexed by this need for us, as the American public, to cast something as complicated as a romantic relationship into a simple soap-opera narrative, with a good girl and a bad girl. I do know this in general: when a relationship is happy and healthy, neither partner can be stolen by anyone.
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This is what this thread is turning to. Sadly, it will always be soap opera in everybody’s eyes.
Without Brad, there would be no A Mighty Heart.
congrats Brad on the good reviews on your first film produced only by you and not 100 other people with you.
The Departed, now A Mighty Heart. Excellent.
If Angelina gets any type of award, she better thank Brad because without him she would not have been in this film.
It’s gonna be the most gliittering night for The Independent Spirit Awards show because I’m sure Angelina will be nominated for that award
as well as the film. That awards show is always more cool and more laid back with the hippest films more than the Oscars. Can’t wait.
Can someone give me an email address for Sean Smith from Newsweek? I want to let him know I appreciate his interviews with Angelina and Mariane and his Q&A.
ANGELINA DOES NOT NEED BRAD.
Please ignore the haters. They are trying to ruin premeire day of AMH. Ignore them and they will fail. I’m off to the movie now.
Brad the ZEN master!
DO SOMETHING YOU LITTLE *****
247 Just Wait | 06/22/2007 at 1:39 pm
197 BRAD DEFENDING JEN | 06/22/2007 at 1:15 pm
JEN: 2 INTERVIEWS POST DIVORCE
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Isn’t that funny now Feb/Mar 2005 is post divorce. Used to be these haters said Brad was still married when they decided to get pregnant.
Brad did those interviews early 2005. Before Jennifer go her friends to lie about him.
Zero kind words about Jennifer after the GQ magazine. If fact NO Words about Jennifer.
But many words about how intellegent,caring, a great mother and a person who has inspired him Angelina Jolie is. JUST WAIT HATERS. First the kissing then butt touching, then makeout in the back of the car. Brad will be doing more talking about this lovely lady. Just wait…..
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I think he will, too. Most of us will find it sweet, as we have the things he has already said, but the bitter, sour-pusses of the world will still get on his case. Thankfully, there’s only a few of them. Angie and Brad are much-loved everywhere.
These fake Angie fans that are here are just socked payroll trolls trying yet another tactic…well the divide and conquer thing isn’t going to work.
Angelina does not do drugs - Check her MC interview. She said “I don’t do drugs.” Please take the blind item somewhere else.
Brad and Angelina laugh daily:> jen promotes pizzwater-brad and angie laugh
-jen promotes self hate book- brad and angie
laugh-
jen tricks poor jane pitt- brad and angie laugh-
jen attends police concert hoping brad will notice and come back to her- brad and angie laugh and take their children to school-
jen dates coke gaybee’s- they laugh-
jen has 3 nose jobs and lip implants and laser surgery- their still laughing even harder cause she still fugly-
jen wants brad back- now their rotflao
result -brad and angelina are taking a bath together loving each other> pizz water forgotten..boo hoo hoo..now IM laughing haha
Angelina has more balls than Brad.
THAT’S A FACT.
229 observation | 06/22/2007 at 1:26 pm
Angelina draws weak pathetic women for fans who constantly think that women need men to defend them, and blame the Man for everything.
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Actually those who are constantly saying that is hard core Fanistons palying games and trying to turn the one against the other. Very poorly done though.
But there are a few Angie’s fans who do not like Brad for whatever reason. In fact they do not like Angie much either. They prefer her back in her self destractive and self searching years. (I won’t say wild because as she have said that she is more wild now than ever).They think that Brad is the reason for the “softer Angie” and they can not even realize how much Angie has mature ever since she adopted Maddox. She have said many times how drastic his presense was and is in her life.
There are some “fans” who wants the people they are a fan of to be who they want to be. But if you are a real fan you like and admire this person of who he/she really is.JMO.
Can anyone post AMH reviews please that is why the haters are here,They don’t want people to see them.
OMG,TROLLS,TROLLS
Regarding Ted Casablanca’s Blind Vice item: The description doesn’t seem to fit Angelina, actually. Another celebrity comes to mind *right away*, though… ;-)
(In response to those who think Ted’s always out to put AJ down, he does say good things about her).
And thanks, Neela, for posting the Smith Q&A from Newsweek. We all have strengths & flaws, but some people hope to see the only the negative, whether it’s the truth or not. It’s sad, when it can deeply affect people’s reputations, feelings, as well as their families. I’m convinced that some people will only see what they want, though, inspite of facts or evidence to the contrary. But that’s a burden they bear…
Finally, thanks, Jared. Your site is a daily source of fun.
172 from other thread | 06/22/2007 at 1:05 pm
275 wondering | 06/22/2007 at 11:13 am
I don’t understand what kind of man can stay silent while the mother of his kids is dragged through the mud for 2+ years for something HE did. I am not even a man (or a lesbian) but if I was in his situation you best believe I would have cleared her name long ago. If not for her the children. I dont understand how Angelina of all people could stay with a man that is so weak and then pimp him as a great man who she loves. I cant be a fan of a couple like this… because of Brad.
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Angelina has put herself on the line for that basta.rd . Her charity work is questioned and that has to be the worst. She deserves so much better imo. I really cant wait for them to breakup so Angelina can be on her own. I feel she will be better without the weakest man in the world known as Brad Pitt. He has dragged her down and left her DROWNING in media negativity while saving himself. How can Angelina and her friends not see this?
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I do dragonfly. I am obviously an Angie fan and I just hate all the negativity that has been left at Angie’s feet. Nobody ever questions brad charity work and he really didn’t get involved until 2004(according to vanity fair Africa issue) which just happens to be the year he met Angie. she had already been doing her thing for 3-4 years before that.
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So true. all. of .it.
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Totally agree.
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I agree. I hate hearing about false negative gossip about Angelina Jolie everyday from the tabloids. i.e. Her doing that lapdance in NYC when there was NO EVIDENCE, etc.. Every week, the tabloids ALL have a new FALSE and NEGATIVE headline that attacks Angie. The reports are always proved to be wrong, such as the multiple weddings and breakups.. Yet ignorant people look at a tabloid cover and take the information in as if its an encyclopeida or dictionary.
Brad has said, Angie doesn’t have a boss. I think that’s what I like about the two of them. He intimates that they are in love and they are united, but at the same time, they are accepting of each other’s traits. I think they are accepting of each ones sense of independent thinking.
NEW THREAD
MANISTON THE MAN HAS A MAN?SHE IS GAY
SORRY,HE IS GAY,MANISTON
274 hope | 06/22/2007 at 1:49 pm
NEW THREAD
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There is no new thread.
Poor fanistons are still clinging to the past because they don’t see a future for their idol. Bring Angelina down so Brad will leave her and go back to the ex. Do you think he will now? Or ever?
You poor deluded schmucks. Even if he left Angie, it would be because there will be a new woman in his life (if ever). Why would he go back to an old and wrinkled prune when he could have a much more beautiful, biddable and younger woman for the asking? And do you think Angie won’t have suitors if they ever split? She’ll go for a political bigwig and then you’ll see more of her instead of her receding into the background.
In the meanwhile, your Jen would still be dating younger and sh*tty men as she waits for Brad to come back to her, which would be never!
Angelina is wasting away.
What does he do abot it? Nothing.
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I’m not worried about angie’s reputation, 10 years from now the world will know who was the real victim here and will know who brad pitt really is. You can’t keep and act forever bradley.
when a relationship is happy and healthy, neither partner can be stolen by anyone.
Why is this so hard to understand?
I loved they newsweek article, and the writer’s response to those ignorant people who wrote in.
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