Angelina Jolie Archives

Angelina Jolie’s adoption application is being processed quickly and she could pick up her new 3 1/2-year-old son within a few weeks, Vietnam’s top adoption official said Tuesday.

The adoption is being processed quickly because the boy is an older child, and his files were nearly complete before Angelina decided to adopt.

The boy was abandoned at a Ho Chi Minh City hospital as a baby and is currently at the Tam Binh orphanage on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City.

One orphanage official said of the boy, who likes to play soccer with the other children: “He is in good health. He is a little bit shy.” The Pitt soccer team is on its way!

Angelina has two adopted children — Maddox, 5, Zahara, 2 — and one daughter with Brad Pitt — Shiloh, almost 10 months.

“If I can draw you in a little because I’m familiar, then that’s great. As long as [you] end up looking at them, that’s the point.” — Angelina Jolie on the power of celebrity.

Here are some of the highlight’s from Angelina Jolie’s recent trip to a camp housing Darfur refugees in Chad via Newsweek:

…But you do have photographers following you now. It took me a while to agree to do it. I guess I saw that so many times the picture comes before the knowledge and the substance and I certainly didn’t want to do that to myself or the organization. And also, I really just was shy. I was shy about sitting on the floor and talking to a woman and having a camera take a picture because I thought it was making less of my conversation with her. But… I was changed by the faces of the people I saw. “It is something that I am incapable of describing…those faces and that place and those people. And so I think it’s just—let the people speak for themselves through the camera. And if I can draw you in a little because I’m familiar, then that’s great. Because I know that at the end you’re not looking at me, you’re looking at them.
Do you still go with so few people? I can’t believe you take no one with you… I take no one. I [go] by myself on a commercial plane and into the field with my backpack.
You still do that? Yes, I just did that on my last trip. I met the photographer there.
In the camp? No, in the airport. We didn’t even realize we were on the same flight. We landed at like midnight and got up at like 5 in the morning to catch the WFP [World Food Program] plane [to a town near the camp].
People will look at these pictures of you in Chad and ask, “What can I do?” What should they do? There are great NGOs like SOS [Austria's SOS Kinderdorp] and there are great NGOs inside and under the U.N. that you could send aid to. It’s important for the American people to know that a lot of people believe—I certainly believe—that it has been their outcry and their interest that has motivated our government. I think that the American people have paid attention to Darfur—a really amazing groundswell of people that really care, and are moved and emotional about the things they’ve seen when it is brought to their attention.

For the very first picture of Angelina Jolie from this trip in Chad, CLICK HERE!

For Angelina Jolie’s full interview with Newsweek, CLICK HERE!

For two videos of Angelina Jolie in action in Chad, CLICK HERE!

It’s a wrap!

It appears that Brad Pitt has finished filming his New Orleans scenes for upcoming movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. His motorcycle collection was spotted getting shipped back to Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon. (Brad will continue filming scenes for Button in L.A.)

Looks like we can expect Brad and partner Angelina Jolie to relocate their family back to Los Angeles very soon! Since January, the Jolie-Pitt family has settled into their $3.5 million mansion in New Orleans.

And included in this entry are more pictures never posted here of Brad and Angelina out for a Monday morning stroll in the French Quarter with daughters Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 9 months. The first set of pictures can be seen here.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are making the proper arrangements to adopt a child (probably a baby boy) from from Vietnam and find a sibling for Maddox, 5, Zahara, 2, and 10-month-old Shiloh. The superstar couple and their big news make their way onto the cover of this week’s Us Weekly and People Magazine.

Us Weekly first reported the news last month but the Associated Press didn’t officially report on Angelina filing adoption papers until last week.

Brad, Angelina, Zahara, and Shiloh were last spotted out on a Monday morning stroll in the French Quarter while Maddox was in school.

Since January, the Jolie-Pitt family has settled into their $3.5 million mansion in New Orleans, where Brad has been filming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (kissing another woman!). But soon they’ll return home to Los Angeles, where Brad will wrap up his Button filming.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie take their daughters, Zahara, 2 and Shiloh, 9 months, out for a Monday morning stroll in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The family made a quick Pitt stop at Croissant d’Or Patisserie where Angelina grabbed a hot beverage.

Noticeably missing from the happy family was 5-year-old son Maddox, who was probably in school. Zahara is seen here eating Krispy crackers (the kind you put in soups) and Cheerios. Shiloh looks so cute with her rosy cheeks and even cuter trying to touch her toes!

Angelina was last seen serving as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in Chad. Brad was spotted leaving his New Orleans mansion on Saturday.

The Associated Press just published that Angelina Jolie will be adopting her next child from Vietnam with her partner Brad Pitt. (It was reported by US Weekly last month.)

According to Vu Duc Long, the director of Vietnam’s International Adoption Agency, Angie has tfiled papers to adopt a Vietnamese child, the country’s top adoption official said Friday.

Said Long, “She just filed the papers this week.”

“We consider her like any other American who wants to adopt children from Vietnam. She is not yet married so the file was from her individually. It will take a few months for us to consider this,” he added.

A source close to Angie said, “The process began shortly after Shiloh was born. It has been a long process and she is now simply waiting for further information.”

Brad and Angie have three children — Maddox, 5, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 9 months.

Maddox was adopted from Cambodia, Zahara was born adopted from Ethiopia, and baby Shiloh was born to the couple in Namibia.

Brad and Angie spent Thanksgiving in Vietnam, where they visited the Tam Binh orphanage, on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City. Thanks, NM!

It’s Take Your Daughter To Work Day for the Pitts!

Brad Pitt took baby Shiloh, 10 months, to work with him on the set of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (inset) on Thursday morning. Shiloh rode on good dad Brad’s shoulders and met on tots on set! View pictures here.

Shiloh reallllllly looks like she wants a bite of that cookie here.

Baby Shiloh and Maddox enjoy a quaint carriage ride on Tuesday afternoon in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Babysitting Shiloh, 9 months, and Maddox, 5, were grandma Jane Pitt and Angelina’s assistant and friend, Holly Goline.

Noticeably missing was Zahara, 2, who went on a stroller ride with Shiloh just the other day accompanied by Grandma Pitt.

Brad Pitt was probably busy at work filming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie was recently seen at an Oure-Cassoni camp in eastern Chad.

And apparently, according to the carriage, call 943-8820 for a good time!