Angelina Jolie Confirms It’s Twins After News “Accidentally” Spilled
Angelina Jolie had to confirm that yes, it’s twins, after co-star Jack Black “accidentally” spilled the organically grown beans…and then other co-star Dustin Hoffman “accidentally” let slip her due date:
First, Jolie’s Kung Fu Panda costar Jack Black spilled the beans and confirmed that Jolie and partner Brad Pitt are expecting twins. Now fellow costar Dustin Hoffman has revealed her due date!
The big day? Today show reporter Natalie Morales revealed on Thursday’s program that Hoffman told her the babies were due Aug. 19.
The new arrivals will be the fifth and sixth children for the Jolie and Pitt. The family currently consists of Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, who turns 2 this month.
Accidentally my foot. She probably promised to adopt both Dustin and Jack if they’d help “accidentally” leak the news.
Angelina says that she doesnt feel like “most women” when it comes to pregnancy…you know, because she’s so much better and more spiritually in tune with herself than us regular folk:
“I’m very happy,” said Jolie, 33, according to Today. “Unlike most women, I love being pregnant. [It makes] you feel like more like a woman than you’ve ever felt. You just feel like everything about your body is there for your baby.”
During the on-air interview, Jolie said that she would “possibly” stay in France for the births, and that she and Pitt preferred not to disclose the sex of the babies.
Hey, I didn’t mind being pregnant.  Pregnancy was actually very nice, despite being sick all the time. And getting that way was fun, but the baby-coming-out part…well, not so much. “Unlike most women”? You mean, like those of us who don’t have the money to travel to a new country every month and who are forced to keep their children in one place until they are grown, thus providing a sense of security and stability and continunity in their young lives?
I’ve taken a lot of stick from people who say I hate on Brangelina or that I’m jealous somehow of them and their life. Let me say…whatever. I’m not hating on them for having a bunch of kids or for having a bunch of money or for traveling the world. But she has shown time and again that she is a bit obsessive when it comes to this particular area of her life and that while she professes to love her kids, she has no idea what terms like “stability” mean. I know people with lots of kids (five or more) who totally make it work, and who had children for the right reasons, and I know people with lots of kids who are not making it work and who had kids for the wrong reasons, and I believe Angelina is adding to her family for the wrong reasons.
But despite saying after Shiloh was born that she would find a spot, stay home and raise the kids, she’s been off trotting the globe making movies. She’s dragged those kids all over the world, instead of keeping them in one place to give them structure and continuity in their lives. Poor little Maddox had to quit his school in NYC after Angelina decided to uproot the family once again. And even though she’s pregnant with what will make her fifth and sixth children, she’s not ruled out adding to the brood.
Look, I have no doubt that she loves her children. But much like animal hoarding, this obsessive preoccupation with “saving” children and hoarding as many as she can isn’t about care, but control. Angelina seems to have well-documented control issues, and this manifests itself in her everyday life and this need to adopt children. Once the children get older, I’ll be interested to see just how well they like their globetrotting lifestyle then. Her lifestyle is not child-centered, but adult-centered, and the children just happen to live in it.
I’m NOT against adoption, but if she’s that set on adopting then there are babies right here in the USA who need homes. Or would she not be able to swoop in and take them away as easily here?
Beautiful control freak. She may love her kids, but love alone isn’t enough.
Regardless, I wish her a safe pregnancy and healthy babies. I’m not a total jerk, y’know.
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It’s not clear to me how Angelina has any inkling of what life and/or pregnancy is like for “most women”, since she is, quite frankly, the least average woman on the planet, except possibly for that crazy rich woman who had plastic surgery to turn her into a cat.
Comment by Kati — May 15, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
“Unlike most women”? Who does she think she is? This from the woman who called Shiloh a “blob”, remarking that she didn’t bond with her as she did with the children she purchased.
Comment by Rachel — May 15, 2008 @ 6:33 pm
I go away and you just kick ass and take names.
Man does your ability to RAWK ever stop?!
Thanks for all the great reporting k!
Comment by D — May 16, 2008 @ 11:27 am