Angelina Tells Parade Magazine She And Brad Will Quit Working And “Just Live”
In the new edition of Parade Magazine, due out this weekend, Angelina Jolie talks about her life with Brad Pitt and their four children, Maddox, 6, Pax 3, Zahara 2, and Shiloh 1, as well as their future plans as a family, and her humanitarian efforts.
Angelina on being a working mom with four small children:
“Brad and I are very lucky that we’re in a situation where we can choose to take turns, and one of us can be home with the kids, and so we kind of have that plan of who is doing what. So I have been home, and now I am going to go to work for a little bit, then he is going to work, then I m going to work, then basically we’re going to try to take a year off and just be with the kids. So certainly, we’re trying to find a few projects that we love or that we think would be good to do for one reason or another. But mainly our focus is, ‘OK, let’s look at our schedule, and try to figure out when we’re going to have our family time.’”
She and Brad’s plans for their future, work and family:
“Brad and I have a lot of kids, and we want to have more kids. It’s fun, and we love it. But you can’t balance everything.I think both of us only plan to work for a few more years. We’ll try to stop sooner or later, so we can be home and travel, and just live.”
Are they abandoning the Hollywood lifestyle?
“Certainly we’re not running from all that. That’s not our motivation. We’re public people. We know that, and the world is what it is today, with press and media. But, yeah, I think it will be nice to, you know, just not be so – so out there.”
Angie’s mother died this past January after a long bout with ovarian cancer, she now opens up about how her mother influenced her own humanitarian efforts:
“I am my mother’s daughter. I mean, I hope but don’t think I’ll ever be as good as her.She was just such a pure, kind, unbelievably gracious mother. From a very young age, I saw my mother doing aid work. I saw how it made her life very happy and fulfilled. But really the biggest lesson she taught me was: It’s the little things. This was somebody who the world didn’t know about at all, but her simple acts of kindness left a huge impression.”
Angelina admits that her life hasn’t always been a model one and shares some insight on what intrinsically changed her outlook:
“I think that when I was in my early 20s, I knew, innately, that I wasn’t living an important life. I think that I didn’t so much lose my way, but I hadn’t found my way. I wasn’t giving very much. My life was not really benefiting anyone. That just doesn’t feel good.”
What does she think about her star-status and the impact this has had on her pet causes?
“There’s a part of me that understands that I can get people to pay attention to certain things. When that happens, there’s nothing that feels better. But my intention was never, ‘I need to go out there and teach other people something. Whether people’s thoughts about my family are positive or negative, at the end of the day, I get to come home to these four little people who are the greatest things in the world.”
Angie also gives some practical advice on how the average person can help those in need around the world:
“My advice for [those who want to help in the world]: People have the Internet, they have access to magazines, newspapers from other countries, they have access to human rights Web sites, U.N. Web sites, all kinds of discussions on many different things—justice, aid abroad, volunteer vacations. There are many things to explore.
I think the first step is to try to navigate your way through some of that and see where your heart goes. That’s a big part of it. I do think it has to be personal. It has to be strong for it to last and grow, and then it will be a pleasure to work hard to do it.
I know people who now work in Washington, very high-powered jobs, who simply started as young people who decided they would just GET to different countries, and say, ‘I’ve got a pair of hands, and I’ll help—does anybody need me?’ There is a lot to be said for that. If you investigate, there are a lot of volunteer organizations, a lot of NGOs [non-governmental organizations], a lot of religious groups. But first I do think that there is something to knowing who you are and where your heart goes and what you feel you can contribute.”
For more on Angelina Jolie, check out Sunday’s Parade Magazine. Also, she is making it really difficult to hate her. Her beauty is spellbinding. Witch!
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I don’t care if she adopts a million children, she is two-faced and a homewrecker! Granted, Jen and Brad had their problems, but Angie did not give them a chance to work out their problems. She put her claws into Brad and spun him around so fast he didn’t know what hit him. If Jen and Brad couldn’t have worked out their problems, then get divorced THEN start dating someone else. Angie wants to be remembered as a “good humanitarian”. Well, Angie, why weren’t you a good humanitarian to Jennifer? Why didn’t you consider her feelings? What goes around, comes around and I hope you get yours. You’re not a very good person. Period.
Comment by Waverly — June 6, 2007 @ 4:25 pm
Sounds like the credits scene of Spinal Tap. Maybe she could work as a haberdasher or in a chapeau shop.
Comment by Matt Sussman — June 7, 2007 @ 12:28 am