Oh, God. Much like the crapfest Us Weekly story several weeks ago about Angelina “repressing” Shiloh by letting her dress like a tomboy, Life & Style’s cover story this week is a hysterical “WHY IS ANGELINA TURNING SHILOH INTO A BOY?”. Life & Style breathlessly proclaims: “Experts weigh in on Shiloh’s shocking new look and masculine behavior.” What is Shiloh’s new look? The little girl got a haircut. It’s a little bowl cut, like the classic “Shy Di” Princess Diana cut. And Shiloh’s “masculine behavior”? Why, Shiloh is wearing pants. And she likes to be called “John” because she loves Peter Pan. And you know what this is really all about? How Angelina is the devil. Can you believe it? It’s not “WHY IS BRAD…?” It’s about Angelina and how she just hates Shiloh and forces the little girl to dress like a boy, probably because of a vial of blood or something. That’s the rationale, I think.
When Brad Pitt was spotted in Paris on Feb. 23, it looked like he and Angelina Jolie had adopted a new child — an adorable blond boy. Instead, it was the couple’s 3-year-old daughter, Shiloh, sporting boys’ clothes and a new haircut so shockingly short it immediately ignited a firestorm of controversy.
“It’s a drastic change,” says an eyewitness. “The last time we’d seen her, her hair was longer and blonder, and she was more girlie. We were surprised Angelina dressed her so much like a little boy.”
Reaction on the Internet was far harsher and even some seen-it-all celebrity stylists were stunned by the transformation.
“Shiloh is pushing the boundaries of a tomboy look and crossing over to cross-dresser territory,” Alana Kelen, senior fashion stylist at VH1, tells Life & Style. Celebrity stylist Gili Rashal-Niv agrees. “I get that times are tough but does Angie really need to have Shiloh sharing clothes with her brothers? Hopefully we won’t be seeing Maddox in one of Shiloh’s dresses any time soon.”
It’s just the latest sign that Shiloh’s more comfortable doing traditionally boyish things. After all, Brad once said that his daughter responded only to boys’ names.
“We’ve got to call her John,” he told Oprah Winfrey, noting that when he started to ask, “Shi, do you want…” she would interrupt with “John. I’m John.” Then, Brad continued, “I’ll say, ‘John, would you like some orange juice?’ And she goes, ‘No!’”
Some parenting experts think that indulging Shiloh’s masculine behavior is a mistake.
“Little girls have never been women before,” Glenn Stanton, director of Family Formation Studies at the conservative organization Focus on the Family, tells Life & Style. “They need help, they need guidance of what that looks like. It’s important to teach our children that gender distinction is very healthy.”
But others think letting Shiloh wear what she wants is a vital part of learning to form her own identity. “Giving preschool-age children the freedom and flexibility to experiment with how they want to be seen in the world is a wonderful gift,” parenting coach Karen Deerwester, author of The Entitlement-Free Child, tells Life & Style.
[From Life & Style]
I’ll say the same thing I said with that ridiculous Us Weekly piece – just leave Shiloh alone. She’s a little tomboy, and loves her pants and her kicks and running around and being a kid. Personally, I prefer my kids like Shiloh – like, actual kids who play and run around and don’t care about getting dirty – as opposed to the Suri Cruises of the world, the perfect little anal-retentive princesses who never play and carry their own makeup bags at the age of 3.
But what this whole thing is really about is how Shiloh wearing pants and having short hair equals “lesbian”. I feel like I’m banging my head against the wall, but pants and short hair (at the age of 3 for God’s sake) don’t equal lesbian. They don’t equal lesbian at the age of 20, either. Or 40. And even if Shiloh was a little lesbian, what f-cking difference would it make? Are Brad and Angelina supposed to “force” Shiloh to grow her hair long and wear dresses just to “force” her to “act straight”? What f-cking century are we living in?
Here’s Shiloh with Brad last week:
Here are some new photos of Angelina, Brad & the twins in Venice today… I think Brad is carrying Viv and Angie’s got Knox:
Puh-LEEZE! My sister and I looked just like that at Shiloh’s age. And, we were cuter!
Who are you people to judge? We live in a society where mothers allow their children to be “exposed” in beauty pageants from infancy and where toddlers are actually encouraged to look like teenagers off to a club or 20 year-old women!, Furthermore, adding insult to injury, these parents are actually profiting from this! There is nothing wrong with a parent choosing their battles in this day and age with all the economic stress and world-wide chaos! If this child feels happy dressing or even looking as a boy, who cares? Who are you to judge another person’s happiness or someone else’s well being? Please, look in the mirror and judge yourselves. We are nowhere near perfect. Such ignorance! Disgusting Behavior! ~Sybilla -Miami
I went through a “not brushing my hair” phase as a kid, so Momma chopped it off. Maybe the same case? She’s still adorable.
ridic.
maybe SHE wants shorter hair…maybe SHE wants to wear her brother’s old clothes.
the whole “turning her into a boy” thing is really old.
“And even if Shiloh was a little lesbian, what f-cking difference would it make?”
agree 100%. Even if this is an early indication of her future sexual orientation, WHO GIVE’S A F***?!
“I prefer my kids like Shiloh – like, actual kids who play and run around and don’t care about getting dirty – as opposed to the Suri Cruises of the world, the perfect little anal-retentive princesses who never play and carry their own makeup bags at the age of 3.”
Totally agree on that one, too.
They should leave the poor child alone – these type of sensationalist tabloid stories are damaging to Shiloh, there should be a ban on stories such as these
I agree its just about hating AJ & I also love the fact that Shiloh appears to be a normal child, which is sadly lacking with a lot of celebrity offspring.
How cute are the twins & Shiloh – gorgeous kids
My mother kept my hair cut short until I was old enough to take care of it myself because I hated to have her mess with it. And I agree, little kids should want to run around and play and not be afraid to get dirty.
This bull makes me so angry that I am actually looking forward to the morons who will start commenting about this being true. (Consider yourselves warned, morons.)
I was thinking the way the bangs are in the front that maybe Shiloh found a pair of scissors and took a chunk out of her own hair and this hair cut is just damage control.
And I’m with Jess, I had long hair and went through a not brushing phase, and the next thing I know, I am coming home with the Dorothy Hamilton hair style.
“Little girls have never been women before,” Glenn Stanton, director of Family Formation Studies at the conservative organization Focus on the Family, tells Life & Style. “They need help, they need guidance of what that looks like. It’s important to teach our children that gender distinction is very healthy.”
Vomit.
I would like to punch Life & Style in the mouth.
Shiloh is ninja-awesome just as she is…*please* let’s not continue on with this gender roles bullcrap!
so now shiloh is cross dressing, who the fuck are these morons, i hope to God they are not raising children I. Hate. People.
this is absolutely ridiculous.
she’s THREE YEARS OLD, the article makes her out to be some butch lesbian. wtf? so many little girls are tomboys then grow out of it, and even if they don’t grow out of it SO WHAT?
these mags don’t say anything about gwen stefani/gavin rossdale bleaching their 3 yr olds hair and chopping it into a mohawk but make brangelina out to be devil when they cut their little girl’s.
i can’t even believe this has really been published in a mag.
I really hope she sue them for this. They are going to far, publicly accusing her to maltreat her daughter physically and psychologically. This is not gossip anymore.
indeed the girl has a father, so why accuse only the mother?
Eh, her kid does look like a dude. haha.
Beyond that, who cares about gender roles. She’s 3. or He’s 3… It’s 3. Maybe the secret lie in Shiloh’s divinity Kaiser? Maybe she is an androgynous angel!
The only thing I dont like, is it looks as if her hair has been colored..
Shiloh looks SSSOOO CUTE with the short hair. I think the tabloids wants us to return to the 21 BC. Or they want us women to be more docile, i dunno.
Not cracking on Shi – I mean John – at all. I think she is adorable and should wear whatever she wants but does anyone else think it looks like she also had her hair dyed darker or did all of the light blonde just get cut out?
I know they will not be satisfied until Shiloh should up in low riders with a thong showing.
The complain about TomKat’s kid wearing the heels, now they are bashing Shiloh because she dresses in jeans and generic clothing?
I’m totally willing to believe that BP & AJ make for loving parents behind closed doors, but Angelina is never going to be seen as a “likeable” mother until it stops looking like she’s exploiting her kids for PR (*coughWmagazinecough*) everytime there’s a movie out or bad press to counter. Think of the celebrity parents that get good press – Jennifer Garner, Heidi Klum, Reese Witherspoon – it’s because their children look so cheerful and natural (even during Britney’s darker moments the boys still looked happy). Granted, having 6 probably makes for a military operation everytime you go out, but the Brangelina snaps always look so darn contrived and the kids so miserable.
Oh pu-leeeeze! My daughter, now 18, was the BIGGEST tomboy, wanted to be called ‘Fred’ at age 3 for about a month (at which time she switched to ‘Dorothy’ and then ‘Snow White’. She would only wear ‘cool boy clothes’ and backwards baseball caps until she was about 12 and it wasn’t until she was about 15 that she enjoyed wearing a dress. She knew her style and worked it! It’s normal for Chrissakes…leave the child alone. All kids should feel free in expressing themselves. Shiloh is super adorable regardless of her hair, and I find it hilarious, silly and fun.
“WHY IS ANGELINA TURNING SHILOH INTO A BOY?”
What, like not dressing in pink somehow erases your vagina?
The light blonde just got cut out. Blond people grow up, their hair becomes darker. It´s a fact.
I looked the same when I was a little girl, and then I would let my hair grow long, and then cut ir short, and then long again… Until today. I´m not masculine, my mother never tried to turn me into a boy, I am not a lesbian, though I wouldn´t mind if I was, I like a lot more to wear trousers than dresses, though I love dresses but they are less comfortable (to me), and I think I´m not the only woman like this in the world.
Now: Are we supposed to starve to be skinny and have round silicone boobs and long hair and dresses and be quiet and just smile and play with dolls until someday we become dolls ourselves?
Really, this society is starting to scare me. Much.
I just figured they cut it because of the supposed incident of her siblings taking scissors to her hair previously. Wasn’t there some article about how Zahara and Pax cut her bangs or something? I just thought this was them fixing that.
Her long hair looked really thin and easily tangled. I had the same problem as a kid, and the same short hairdo until my hair thickened up.
Me too Melanie! At least she doesn’t have the dreaded “perm” that many of us got in the 80s. My mom got me a perm after she went back to work and my dad had to get me ready for school. One day of a straggly ponytail and it was over. Of course, if she had been a good woman, she would have stayed home and made sure she set a good example as a docile housewife and mother. *gags*
@ escapee: Natural blondes tend to have slightly darker roots, so I think it’s just a matter of the light blonde sun-bleached portions being cut off. My dad was platinum blonde, and in the winter his roots were so dark it looked like a bad dye job. LOL
I feel sorry for the people who are so close-minded as to think it’s a problem for a little girl to wear pants and cut her hair short. I had short hair most of my life and lived in jeans. People who judge like that are missing out on some really great opportunities to expand their horizons and maybe even make some great new friends.
On my first day of 6th grade, I wore long boy shorts (the kind in style in 1996) with a chain and a t-shirt I picked out in the boy’s section of JC Penney. I thought it was a cool look, much to my mother’s chagrin, and I more or less dressed the same for most of 6th grade. Did that turn me into a lesbian? Uhh, no. Dressing a certain way does not automatically make you a certain sexuality (unless you were to wear a “Yes I am Really Gay” shirt or something…).
I think she looks much cuter with the short hair, it goes with her chubby baby cheeks. 🙂 And wanting to be called “John”? No big deal, she’s just playing. When I was little, I always wanted to be male characters when me and my friend would play pretend. I really don’t see any “damage” being done to this kid. I think she’s going to grow up into a really interesting person!
that’s disgraceful. i loathe brangelina but leave their kids alone.
WTF with calling a 3 year a crossdresser?!?! She probably asked for a short haircut. My sister did the pixie cut when she was about 8. She looked exactly like my little brother who was 7. This didn’t stop her from sporting copious amounts of make-up & wearing dresses when she got older.
Ha! Prettytarhee! My mom thought a perm would help too! Frizz ball city!
Again with the crap. I was a tomboy with a boy’s haircut. I’m not a lesian, a transgender, or a cross dresser. The”fasion stylists” and the “experts” weighing in on this ridiculous story need new day jobs.
I was actually going to agree kaiser, but then I saw the snarky comment about Suri Cruise. Why can’t people accept the fact that different kids have different personalities and style. Some girls are tomboys, while others are girlie-girls. You don’t need to bash the Cruises in order to defend the Jolie-Pitts.
Yeah…it looks to me like a fix-it haircut after Shiloh got to some scissors.
Seriously…who cares if she has short hair? Or wears pants?? WTF is this…the early 1900’s? Leave her alone…she is still as adorable as ever. 😉
The kid wants to be called John and wants to dress like a boy, etc.,.
That’s all well and fine but it does deserve watching -and I don’t mean by the paps.
I don’t get on with the idea here that being concerned for this child’s emotional well-being amounts to “homophobia” as it was put in the last part of this article by Kaiser, that’s a far bigger assumption and leap than anyone was making.
I don’t neccesarily agree with the pychologist about gender roles being needed to be reinforced. I’d be more concerned with what is or isn’t going on at home and why the child feels the need to be a different gender.
It could be “sympathy” issues or “abandonment” and/or “neglect” issues (as in “imaginary friend syndrome). Perhaps it is for the extra attention and assertion of self.
Who knows, but it is an aberration no matter how anyone tries to play it off as completely normal (it’s not) -you could very well be overlooking an issue that could be compounded if gone unchecked. Kids deserve better than indulgence, they are not capable of understanding and directing emotional crisis, adults are.
It’s beyond dress play, it’s gone into a name change as well. It (the behavior) deserves watching, it deserves care and attention paid.
Kids need it and deserve it.
Hear, hear, Kaiser. I’m so mad about this I could spit…oh wait, that would be unladylike…
L & S sure went to a weird source when they went to “Focus on the Family”. This is from their website:
“Christian consumers wield a lot of power when it comes to determining what Hollywood is going to “cook up” and “serve” its movie audiences. Knowing the damaging effects of contaminated film-entrees, the children of God might want to have a family night where they “dine in” and play games, at least until movie makers can provide something worth feasting upon.”
So if the Jolie-Pitts make their livelihood off “contaminated films” then they must be going to he** right, regardless of the length of Shiloh’s hair? Who can take the opinion of such a group seriously – check out their website for their counselling gems!
I didn’t have long hair until I was like seven because I kept chopping my pigtails off with scissors.
This is ridiculous.
OMFG. As if anybody’s gender identity or sexual orientation is set in stone at the ripe old age of three and a half.
And if for some reason she did decide to be gay when she reaches adulthood, SO FUCKING WHAT?!
Life and Style crossed a line this time.
Why is it Angelina’s fault when Brad is also the parent? He takes his daughters shopping and dressing them also, but for some reason it’s always blamed on Angelina. Really unfair to say the least. Next her haircut is worn my thousands of little girls who also like to were clothes identical to Shilohs.
When I was 3 I was such a filthy child, playing in mud, putting gum behind my ear, making a crown out of burdocks, etc. my mother just chopped my hair off to save herself the morning battle of her trying to brush the knots out of my hair while I screamed bloody murder and tried to run. Oh and I also dressed like a boy, even went through a phase where I insisted on wearing my brothers underwear, mainly because they had a cool ‘pocket’ up front. And guess what that didn’t ‘make me gay’, but that is because nothing can ‘make’ a person gay or straight for that matter, it is just the way we are born.
Shiloh looked like her hair was pretty thin and fine.My hair was the same way. My Mom got my hair cut nearly the same way til I could do it myself. A also hated it brushed.Kids go through things and I am with some of you with the fact, it hurts these celeb star’s chilren worse if they read the terrible things that are written about not only their parents but them! And why is everyone saying Angelina is making her? Nobody knows unless you live with them who makes who do what and if u lived there I’d still only believe half of what you say. What? Does all these girls have to be dressed up an ruffles and tiaras?My oldest, at around the same age dressed in “punky brewster” clothes. Nothing matched and always had a hat but I promised u now, she dresses fine. And if Shiloh chooses this yeah for Angelina and Brad for not giving her a hard time. Kids live through there parents too much in the celeb world! Let them be their own little people!
Did anyone stop to think that maybe she cut her own hair and they had to even it out somehow?
Oh sweet Christ. What child’s gender identity or sexual preference is set in stone at the age of three and a half? And if Shiloh should decide she is gay in adolescence or adulthood, SO DAMN WHAT?!
Bonfire,
Good point. My brother and I once ‘styled’ each others hair with pinking shears, much to my mothers chagrin she actually had to take us to a barber to attempt to fix it instead of her usual home haircut.
Just look at what they call ‘hot spring shoes’— they lose all validity right there.
This just makes me feel for Angelina even more. Poor Shiloh! But even worse poor Angelina. She will always be demonized by these mags. I cannot believe a group of hateful ignoramuses get to publish this crap in America. It’s an abuse of free speech. Preying on a child because she does not conform to the girlie stereotype is low. I hope they sue. It’s about time that they do it.
The Life & Style author quoted FOCUS ON THE FAMILY???!!!! That IS very strange.
Why are these gossip mags allowed to plaster pics of a three year old all over the cover?! That crap should be illegal!!! LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!!!!!
the kid does look like a boy, ugh! oh well.
hope its not AJ forcing this on her.
look at Viv, she’s very girlie- with earrings and bracelets. Weird.
she looks like a Chaz Bono in the making tho. only time will tell.
@maddie that made me laugh-so true! unfortunately toddler thongs and low-rise pants probably exist somewhere. L & S could devote a month of issues to “slutty mom, trashy tod” or something like that.
i too had a hot short cut (read: dutch boy/bowl cut) as when brushing was left to me i was fine with having a rats nest hairstyle. too busy playing-yep, in pants.
just saw @free’s comment- i’m going to hope you’re trying to stir the pot or something.
I’m not even going to comment on the Shiloh stuff because its so absurd… It says something that they quoted some conservative Christian family values guy who probably thinks that one choses to be gay. what-EVER. He’s wrong. He’s also probably gay himself and in denial or “counseling”.
Anyway, Vivienne with her little handful of pretzles and Knox with his little leather jacket are just too cute! They are melting my heart with their little accessories too!
Where did Shi get all that new hair? Weaves for a 3 year old?
I rarely comment but this is making me furious. The Life & Style article isn’t set up for comments, unfortunately, so I’ll chime in with the sane folk here.
I grew up in the eighties and looked exactly like that – short hair, boyish clothes. All my friends looked like that. Why? Because it’s more practical, both for kids and their parents. (I remember having to cut up my hair several times when chewing gum and playdoh got stuck in it)
I’m so glad I come from a country where the law requires that the faces of children be blurred in photos. Celebrities might be fair game but the kids should be left out of it.
@Vajayjay…RIGHT ON! It SHOULD be illegal for these magazines to continually put underage kids on the covers of magazines. It needs to stop.
oh my god – who gives a fig what she wears as long as she’s healthy & happy? what is the magazine afraid will happen – that shiloh will become gay? give me a break! when i was little i had short hair, wore overalls and pretty much lived in trees. in fact my nickname was “scout” after the tomboy in “to kill a mockingbird” and i didn’t grow up gay…not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Only time will tell if letting Shiloh answer only to the name of John and letting her wear only boys clothes will indeed transform her into a lesbian/transvestite. Guess we will have to wait and see the outcome. I do believe children need guidance and boundaries, I would’ve stopped going along with the Peter Pan game long time ago.
I can’t stand Angelina Jolie’s obvious media-whore self, but this shit isn’t right. Why is Angie the target here and not Brad, too?
TEAM TOMBOY!
Brad and Angie should sue their asses. Picking on a little girl. Disgusting.
You know, I am betting this is no more than a “Oh great! See what happens when you get gum in your hair!!” hair cut.
My point exactly Yseult. Playdoh and gum, a girls downfall!
my 6 wk old son gets bathed in a pink bathtub……does this mean hes going to want to wear dresses??? LOL, stupid people.
Typical misogyny from the gutter-press scumbags. If a girl dressed in boys clothing is bothering you that much, you must be young or have far too much time on your hands to think of things to be offended about.
The fixing a home cut sounds about right for the hair. As for the clothes, meh they’re clothes. She’ll likely grow up about as normal as normal gets, but IF there are some gender issues there in the future, hopefully the household will be accepting enough to help her through.
This conversation is getting so old. Shiloh/John is the cutest little thing and seemingly has two wonderful parents.
just saw @TaylorB’s comments (#38 esp.) AGREED. i went through a phase of begging my folks for boys swim trunks. once i learned shorts with built-in underwear that could ALSO GET WET existed and could be purchased this was the only suitable clothing for playing.
that Focus on the Family is involved in this tabloid trash does not surprise me. the subtext of the L & S article being that “Angelina Jolie, unmarried bisexual mom, is ensuring at least one child is gay by dressing her in boys clothing.”
what a load of crap.
what freaks me out is not the cut (who even knows what happened, maybe shiloh got gum in her hair), its that it looks like Shiloh’s hair has been dyed darker, to a sort of dishwater blonde….
Also her eyes always look sad and distrusting, guarded- just like momma. I have a 3 year old niece, children that age should not even have such expressions in their repertoire.
also concerning the impression that the tabloids want to make Ange out to seemingly hate her own child- remember it was Saint Angelina who told the press (France’s “Match” magazine)that she thought – at age 6 months- Shiloh was a lifeless expressions-less “blob” and that she felt closer to her adoptive children because they had suffered more. Honestly it was that interview that really did make me thing she is a vile, soulless See You Next Tuesday…. Absent some serious post partum, No truly compassionate, mature adult would ever say or think things like that about their own baby.
we all know this is ridiculus!! My mom kept my hair exactly like that when until I was 8 or 10 and did my hair myself. None issue here..
I had an identical haircut in 1955…it was called a “Pixie”.
This society is very judgmental! Very homophobe!It’s a free world, in case you didn’t know that. you all are pathetic!
Leave Brad, Angelina, and the children alone!
Lies and Style got that story about her wanting to be called John from Brad’s Oprah interview in Nov 2008. That may have been a temporary thing that lasted a few weeks but the idiots at the tabs latch onto it and bring it up 16 months after the fact.
Strange, I don’t read any features in trash publications about Suri Cruise wearing makeup and high heels at the age of 3. These same people hyper-sexualize young girls/ladies with silly garbage about princesses and beauty pagents. And then have the temerity to criticize when these same girls appear to “sexually available”. It’s all about setting up a rigged game so that women never feel ok with themselves.
I encourage girls to be tomboys! I was a tomboy and it was great.
I have two daughters. The oldest only wanted to wear her older brother’s clothes, never the dresses/cutesy clothes that she had. I hated pink…it seems to have rubbed off on her since she prefers every other color.
Does that mean she’s a “boy”? No. She’s normal. Call the moral police when she starts killing people…or buying stun guns online. Until then, leave this kid alone.
Well, to me the comment about Suri Cruise wasn’t any better than what they were saying about Shiloh. Both comments were basically picking on little kids and uncalled for. I didn’t really see the need to bring Suri’s “style” into the mix, neither “style” is better than the other, just different. Plus, they’re 3. They don’t even really have a style. Idk, I just thought the Suri comment was stooping down to their level as well and was equally in poor taste, considering her age. :\ I just wish everyone would leave ALL of the kids alone.
As for anyone who thinks having short hair makes you look like a boy/makes you a boy, I have two words for you:
Halle Berry.
There’s nothing wrong with her wanting to dress in boy clothes, and like others pointed out, she may have cut her own hair. Lots of kids do that! I remember asking my parents if I could buy boys pants and shoes when I was really little, and it freaked them out a bit. Sad. There’s nothing abnormal about it at all. Kid’s just want to be in control of what they wear, whether it’s faded tights and a tutu, or a tie and hat. These people are reading too much into it.
Life & Style is in cahoots with Focus on the Family?
Glad to see the two of them manning the helm of morality and gender archetypes. God forbid children ought to be allowed to express an opinion.
Seriously, Focus on the Family?!?
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
it’s always Angelina’s fault. LoL it’s been that way for 5 years because that’s what tabloid readers AKA brad pitt fans want to believe. Angelina needs to get rid of brad already since she is raising the kids on her own anyway. 😉
Indian people keep their little girls’ hair short like that as well. It helps it thicken up. Considering how much thicker her hair looks, that may be the reason. Or she may be one of those kids that screams when she sees the brush coming at her. or it could be a game of “beauty school” gone wrong.
Also, maybe Shiloh is just the super creative, imaginative one and is just expressing her self based on characters of her favorite books? I mean, the kid’s parents are A-list actors. Maybe she is just expressing those genes early.
Either way, who cares? Let the kid be a kid. It is pretty disgusting that a bunch of homophobic/transphobic dingdongs are projecting THEIR issues on a kid that is just trying to forge her own 3 year old identity.
@Dani –
I agree with you ultimately. I’m just pointing the disparity in reactions, as it shows just what attitudes are being promoted.
Yes, these are children and they should be left to their own devices as should we all!
I hate this tabloid. The homophobia is blatant.NE is disgusting also that are basically blaming Marie Osmond’s religion for her son’s suicide despite the fact that Marie has discussed her love for her lesbian daughter
This kind of crap really makes my blood boil. I hated dresses as a child and still do (my legs were never meant to be shown above the calf, but that’s *my* hang-up). I wish I had shorter hair as a child because it was the most annoying thing ever – but my Dad refused to let my Mum cut it short. Now I love my short hair. And I’m utterly straight and married. Life&Style – I won’t be buying your magazine ever again.
People – vote with your dollars. Don’t buy Life&Style if you’re upset with their “journalism” (and I use the term loosely).
I think they stepped over the line, plain and simple. I would encourage people to call Life and Style’s editor in chief and let them know its not acceptable to go after a little 3 year old to get to the mother or to satisfy the bloodlust of your readers.
Bauer Publishing
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Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
Main Phone: 201.569.6699
Dan Wakeford
Editor-in-Chief
This is why Tabloids nowadays make me sick. This whole story attacks Angelina and goes to far involving ones children’s in a BS tab story. It makes me so sick. F*ck Life&Style, douche bags.
Wow she really looks like Brad in these pictures. For so long I thought she looked more like her mom.
bros, I’m calling them after I calm down
VH1 should fire that stylist for her comments. What an asshole.
umm…it looks gaped up in the top pic. i bet she cut most of it herself. my 3 year old just did the same thing last month.
Please, my oldest daughter went through a phase for a couple of years where she only could be called Batman. She is a happy 15 year old now who actually gasps likes boys. I dont think letting your kids make some small decisions in their life and letting their imaginations go is that bad. This article is why I hate some people!
Pam I’m about to call Alana Kelen the VH1 stylist @ 917-538-0824, her website is alanakelen.com. email is alanakelen@yahoo.com. I’m going to see if she made the crossdresser comment about a toddler. I don’t trust anything printed in Lies and Style
I agree w/Kaiser. I know people have a grudge against the parents, but picking on Shiloh amounts to the public bullying of a child. OF COURSE, it’s ALL Angelina’s fault, which DOUBLES the misogyny here.
Leave the little kids alone. I wore the same clothes when I was kid because they were COMFORTABLE to play in, and for NO OTHER REASON. This tabloid is SICK to speculate about a child’s sexuality at 3! I think it should be illegal to make fun of little kids like this, because they aren’t adults who can defend themselves.
i always wonder what low life self serving creeps design and create magazines cover stories like the one above?
OH MY F*CKING GOD!
This is INSANE. I can’t even believe there are people talking/writing about this, much less EXPERTS! She is THREE and will go through MANY stages through her life that will change in minutes and won’t reflect on her sexuality.
I used to play with my brother’s matchbox cars and big wheel when I was young, instead of the Barbies/dolls that I was given. My favorite color was blue, not pink. I wore my brother’s Toughskins hand-me-downs pants/jeans. Am I a lesbian? NO (not that there’s anything wrong with that). But these are phases these kids are going through. I can’t believe people are picking apart these two little girls (Shiloh and Suri) and questioning their parents’ motives. Let them be kids and dress the way they want! WHO F*CKING CARES???
I think the posters who say to boycott this/these mag(s) are right on the money. But I actually don’t understand why anyone buys this shit anymore anyway. With all the stuff online, by the time it goes to print, it’s old news anyway. Seriously – there’s another $2-4 down the drain (depending on the mag) and you’ve helped kill a tree in the process.
OMG could it possibly be that she wants to be just like her two older brothers and Dad? Could it be that’s she’s going through the phase (like I did with my two bros) when she wants to be just like them? Anyone notice she seems to favour hats just like Daddy’s?
People are so ignorant. Way to beat up on a three year old. Thanks for the contact info – both of ’em are hearing from me.
shiloh is a lot cuter than suri cruise with all those expensive dresses and lipsticks.
“VH1 should fire that stylist for her comments. What an asshole.”
Totally agree! Wow, I can’t believe I’m even wrapped up in this story but it bugs me SO much. I find it refreshing that there are so many open-minded and INTELLIGENT people on this site. I was reading another site the other day and all of these scary people were so scared that Shiloh is being forced to be gay and be a tomboy and not discover her true identity. I thought this comment was especially funny (posted by one of my fave goss bloggers):
“Obviously you can’t see what’s going on because you are too busy worshiping Brangelina but they are abusing the white child in favor of the adopted ones, classic neglect. Angelina hates Shiloh and she feels guilty that she gave birth when she could have bought more of the multi race ones. She is doing this on purpose to make the African American one feel better about herself. But Lainey what is the cost? Shiloh has no identity now. Her parents won’t allow her to have one because they are forcing her to be a lesbian to represent the minority groups. It’s important that she has a voice. There are a lot of people in the US who are tired of the whites getting shafted. Oh and save your breath if you call me a racist. I’m just calling it like it is. I respect different cultures so why can’t they respect us?”
LOLOLOLOL.
Please people get a grip – it’s a hair cut and an outfit it’s not gender reassignment surgery
The fact that the dumb-asses at Life&Style went to the rapid wing nuts at Focus On The Family for a qoute speaks volumes.
Shame on you Life & Style!!
Any parent of a child with the same type of hair as Shiloh already knows the answer for the cut–tangles, tears and pain. As for the manner of dress, not all children fit the ‘cookie cutter’ mold, some got a sense of their own style.
“Alana Kelen, senior fashion stylist at VH1, tells Life & Style. Celebrity stylist Gili Rashal-Niv agrees. “I get that times are tough…” uh yeah, your sales are down and so you have to pick on a child and her family to sell copies as usual. No wonder the tabloids continue to lose business.
I had to write to L&S on this. How dare they attack a little kid. Not only is it pathetic to be mean to Shiloh but talk about Tranphobia! Sooooo pisses me off. What is wrong with kids wanting to dress how they want? Is she hurting someone? And I’ve known plenty of grown ups that dressed as “boys” when they were kids to grow up to be trans & not trans…SO WHAT!? Its none of their buisness & because of this alone I will NEVER buy one of their mags!
Good grief, I’m glad I live in a country and society where we don’t turn our little girls into pink easter eggs, tie pink bows around their heads when they don’t even have hair yet, and think it’s cute when they squeak in the hightest possible voices. Or turn them into expensive dress-up dolls. She’s a child, she has her own preferences, and her parents seem to have the good sense to allow her to develop into her own personality.
This is just plain sick. I can’t believe Life and Style has resorted to beating up on an innocent little girl. OTOH, this is the same tabloid that said on its over a couple of years ago “Brad asks Angie: Why don’t you love Shiloh?”, so maybe one shouldn’t be all that surprised.
Just called & complained…thanks for the phone number.
Fyi- If she did grow up to be trans or gay that’s ok. Dressing like a boy isn’t always a phase
Well, years ago when I was a kid, there were the dolls and the tomboys. And those were times when kids were left to be kids. Today, I would much prefer my daugter to look like a boy rather than like a magnet for paedophiles. Angelina is neither stupid nor brainwashed, hence the obvious difference between Shiloh and Suri.
I think it is also about time to accuse Angelina (not Brad, of course) of not raising a proud American citizen. Can you believe that in the photos of the last outing Shiloh spots a shirt with “ITALIA” written on it? How dare she?
This entire article/cover reeks of homophobia. Life & Style should be ashamed of themselves for pandering to the ignorant masses. What century are we living in, indeed?! As if wearing pants and having short hair is something to be concerned over! Ridiculous. This is really about the fear that Shiloh might be — gasp — a lesbian one day! It’s ridiculous to even think that, and even more ridiculous to think she could be changed if she were. WHO CARES?! It’s healthy to let kids be themselves.
Is this just an American thing or something, because outside the US, cutting a girl’s hair and her wearing something other than a pink tutu is just considered sort of normal.
Im really surprised that the American media is still this openly retrograde, apparently without the least bit of self consciousness or awareness that they sound like some crazy 1950s housewife who can’t find her valium ANYWHERE.
Im also very surprised by the number of (almost exclusively) women who are reacting the same way. Ladies, feminism might make you uncomfortable but the it’s the reason youre allowed to wear jeans and get divorced and go to university, so please, a little respect for yourselves and those countless chicks who fought and suffered for your rights. Please stop acting like the brainless twats men are always accusing us of being.
How about some solidarity around gender freedoms?
As girls, we’re never too far from burqas at gunpoint to worry what about someone else allowing their child to enjoy the freedom that we currently enjoy.
Come on, now.
@CB: People like the racist,homophobic nitwit who wrote that letter to Lainey are the kind of people who buy Life & Style. They are simply pandering to their subscriber base.
This is ridiculous. She is a KID, she has the right to run around in whatever’s comfortable and get dirty. I agree about Suri “anal retentive” Cruz. How is that girl even a kid? You’re three, go eat some dirt or something.
Little kids get haircuts all the time, especially when they butcher their own hair with craft scissors. Shiloh still looks ADORABLE!
Judging a toddler based on looks. Inferring real gender meanings based on haircuts and clothes. I’m grossed out on so many levels. And for the record, I think that whoever is making a statement that a little girl doesn’t necessarily have to wear pink and ruffles and curls, for whatever cause and to whatever end, is fabulous.
@Kelly: I don’t think it’s an American thing. I live in the midwest, and the people I know wouldn’t really think much of Shiloh’s clothing/hair. I had a friend in high school. Her younger sister insisted on being called “Carl” for like four months when she was in elementary school. Her hair was short; she wore jeans.
People who are familiar with children recognize that kids go through phases where they experiment with different looks and identities. My cousin’s goal at Shiloh’s age was to grow up to be a boy turtle. She’s only in middle school, and now she wants to be one of the Beatles.
I’m planning on writing Life and Style a letter. This entire article is completely inappropriate, and I’m going to let them know that I won’t be buying their magazine (now or in the future) because of it. It’s one thing for them to make up ridiculous stories about adults, but Shiloh hasn’t chosen to be in the spotlight. Not to mention that the transphobia/homophobia that is pretty evident in the story is unacceptable to me.
Kelly @102 is my hero of the day!!
It is quite terrifying how conservative and misogynistic American media and society in general has become over the last two decades. It’s very telling that a national publication would have the balls to publish such a story and quote the hate-filled fanatics at Focus on the Family.
My friend’s daughter would only wear boys clothes when she was 3 and 4 and wanted to be called Jake. My friend went along with this. Now the daughter is 10, a perfectly normal and feminine girl (not to the point of wearing pink all the time, but definitely girly). Another friend had a son who would only wear pirate clothes the entire two years that he was 3 and 4. The he grew out of it. It’s an age where kids start to have their first strong opinions on who they want to be or what they want to wear. You can’t make predictions on how they’ll turn out based on this.
What’s funny is this inappropriate, homophobic outrage is all likely from the desperate Mini-Van majority that buy their kids slutty Bratz Dolls and are fine with their kids watching Miley Cyrus on a stripper pole. The Mini-Van thinks it’s better to teach our daughters to use sex to get attention than let them develop personalities that might make them intersting – Guys want BJ’s, not a buddy! Because a girls’ life isn’t complete without a man… except Jennifer Aniston. She’s fabulous at any age! Let’s all go see Valentine’s Day again!
Ugh.
My adorable niece draws a moustache on her face almost daily because she thinks they are cool. And she’s pretty much my favorite person, ever.
This is such bullshit. So the kid’s a tomboy-so what? I have lesbian friends who were incredibly girly-pink everything, makeup etc- as kids, and then lesbians like me who were tomboys. You can’t look at how a kid dresses and accurately predict their sexuality because, hello, 3 year olds aren’t thinking about sex!!
That said, gender identity tends to become apparent at this age. My two trans friends both said they realised something was different about them when they were quite young.
I’m not saying that Shiloh is or isn’t anything. But the only way to let her grow up healthily is to let her find out for herself who she is, without having some antiquated gender stereotype shoved down her throat by a hysterical media.
Nope, nada, the assessment has no foundation in reality. When I was a little girl, I loved pink, played with Barbies, and wore dresses..I still wear dresses, heels, make-up, don’t love pink anymore and I’m gay..my partner the same, our parent’s choices did not determain our sexual preferences.
I am glad I am not Brangies kid. My hair went through some terrible times. I just don’t understand the suit and ties that Shilo sometimes sports. Little boys don’t even like to wear ties.
This nonsense is getting really really old. Who do these sites keep harping on it? It’s a non-issue. It’s a cute pixie style. Shiloh plays with her active siblings, three of whom are boys. Do you really want her to look like Suri Cruise? Enough.
I have a friend whose daughter does this because her mother is very masculine and wont let her play w Barbies etc. She encouraged her acting like a boy and thought it was funny she only wanted to be called a boys name. The little girl learned these actions got her mothers attention and did it for this reason not because she really wanted to be a boy. Its usually the parents issue why the child wants to act like opp sex. If Brangelina favor the boys esp the oldest one (Maddox) Shiloh is prob trying to act like him in order to get their attention like he does. Typically the stage passes. It doesnt mean she is going to want to trans gender or be gay as adult. It really means nothing unless Shiloh herself is saying she feel more like a boy than a girl and that she would rather be a boy than a girl.
I sent an e-mail to Alana Kelen to ask her if she really made those comments to Life & Style and had a response five minutes later. This is what she said:
I hope she demands, and receives, an apology from the magazine.
Its Life & Style people not the New Yorker. Why be offended by it.
Her female role models are Angelina and hostile Zahara. When not working, I am so sure AJ is sleeping and strung out all day. This kid is looking to Brad and brothers for a role model. Angie is a dyed-in-the-wool dirtbag and shouldn’t be a mother. Sorry, just calling it as I see it.
Sumodo, same here and I was way cuter, too.
Not cool, don’t encourage it. Societies agenda and attack on the traditional family, boy, girl, man, woman.
Not saying don’t be gay, but ladies if you are, why do you have to look like a man. Same goes for men, is Chris Crocker a healthy specimen. Still be proud of your gender. You think Chastity Bono will have a full filling life, after they trun her vag into a peen, are transexuals happier after the op? They have the highest rates of suicide compared to any group you compare to. Does an innocent little boy/girl have a hope in hell being straight, when he/she is adopted by two gay men/women. The chances are slim to none. We are being screwed with, by being told it’s ok, when it is not!
I don’t get the angry comments. I really don’t. Isn’t this site and celebrity gossip about commenting on celebrities, sometimes making fun of them, sometimes praising them. They make so much money off people like us paying to see their movies and so forth. They’re millionaires and it all comes from the public. It makes them public figures and I think it gives us a right to comment on them. When people comment on the way they’re dressing Shiloh, it’s not about Shiloh, it’s about the parents. Why is it ok to comment on the way Suri dresses, all dolled up 24/7, and talk about her parents and why they’re dressing her like that, but not Shiloh? Why do people become defensive and make it a gay/homophobic thing? It’s fun harmless, yes sometimes snarky celebrity gossip. People need to lighten up. But I get the feeling it’s not people, just posters on boards like this, people with too much time and a lot of anger and negativity that they take out anonymously over the internet…I made this same harmless humorous comment about shiloh 2 days ago and received such rude angry responses it made me wonder about what kind of people are on these boards. Well, that’s all I’m going to say. I like the news on this site but I’m definitely not scrolling down to read the comments anymore!
I think Shiloh/”John” looks super cute in short hair and a collared shirt and a sweater. I’m a huge fan of snappy menswear for girls, by the way I am a straight seventeen year old girl and I dress “like a boy” occasionally too… and I think it looks really great on her. I hope she continues to show creativity in her dressing when she gets older.
“They have the highest rates of suicide compared to any group you compare to.”
Yeah, and I’m sure that has absolutely NOTHING to do with people who deny who they are, who try to tell them who they are, how they should dress, act, who they should love etc. Queer people in general have much higher rates of depression, suicide, drug abuse etc, and when you see shit like this being said, there’s no mystery as to what causes it.
Oh, and not all lesbians look like men, just as not all gay guys are effeminate. Ever heard of femme girls, or bears? Or, you know, people being allowed to dress however the hell they want to?
As a hair stylist… my opinion is that her hair is so thin and uneven that they cut it to make it to make it look fuller as it grows out! Pixie cuts use to be very popular! She’s still so cute!
Looks like we’re getting close to a record number of comments – who knew this subject would be so controversial?
One reason I like Jennifer Garner is that from pictures at least, she dresses Violet just like any “normal” parent.
What is it with these celebrities like Katie Holmes who have no clue how to choose age (and or gender)-appropriate clothing? I swear they have stylists just for their children, and must spend more on their kid’s clothes than I make in a decade. It’s ridiculous.
Madonna did this with Lourdes when she was little too. I wonder if she started it.
This is Fuck up in so many levels i hope they sue the hell of their asses and one more thing this concept of Freedom of press where they have the RIGHT to say LIES is the main problem.
WTF you all should be ashamed to have a culture of trash journalism that are corrupting all the media in your country. This is not Freedom of Press but Freedom to Lie and said disgusting things about a child.
My sis and I rocked our pixie haircuts until we approached our teens. I hated skirts and dresses, preferring to wear pants.
Seriously, what’s the big deal here? Shiloh’s adorable!
@118. Aussie Mama
You’re right. Shiloh having short hair is proof of “Societies agenda and attack on the traditional family, boy, girl, man, woman.”
So, take off your jeans, get back in the kitchen and stop voting… be that traditional woman you’re meant to be!
If “short hair + pants = lesbian”, then 90% of women over 40 in the Midwest are lesbians.
@nonymo, that percentage applies to older women everywhere, I think. Cause there’s that whole “older women look better with short hair” thing that’s been around for ever.
Aussie Mama: Does an innocent little boy/girl have a hope in hell being straight, when he/she is adopted by two gay men/women. The chances are slim to none.
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Says who? You have an expert source on this? If so, put up or shut up.
I work for a child welfare agency — a Roman Catholic one at that — and we have placed children with gay couples in foster and adoptive homes. We have found they provide excellent, caring homes for hard-to-place children. A gay couple — two guys — living in my co-op adopted a baby girl that no straight couple wanted to be bothered with because she had a severe blood disorder. She’s ten years old now and thriving. And she is a very “feminine” little girl.
My sister-in-law, who was raised in an intact family by a two straight parents, is gay. Nobody knows why and none of us cares especially. She’s part of the family and is loved as such. She and her partner have adopted a child together.
Aren’t 3-year-olds way too young to have opinions about their hair and clothing styles?
I think most kids start to think about that around age 8, not 3, and even at 8 most kids are wearing whatever their parents pick out for them. They don’t really start to care about their looks until junior high, when it becomes all consuming!
I will not buy life&style because of this article. The comments provide great insight into the situation. I commend Brangelina. When I was 11 my grandmother took me shopping for school clothes and I only wanted black. And no dresses, which Grandma wanted to dress me up in. We came back empty handed because I wasn’t satisfied with her patience. She wasn’t mad. When I was 17 grandma took me to chinatown and bought me a churn sung. It should be more acceptable for guys to wear girls clothes as well; I have had many a male friend tell me that they try on womens clothes because they are more exciting. I can go to work as a laborer in men’s clothing easily but my male friend can’t go to work in a dress if he wants to?
“And if for some reason she did decide to be gay when she reaches adulthood”
*EYEROLL* It’s not a decision, genius.
When I was three I wore a yellow princess costume practically everywhere I went. It was so floaty and shiny. I’d like the experts to evaluate that one for me.
@CB Rawks: you wanted to be Belle from the Disney Beauty and the Beast? 😛
I used to be a major tomboy, but loved my little kiddie makeup kit, playing dress ups, and had about 20 barbies. Does that mean I should be bi?
I’ll do a checklist for myself and compare with others on here.
1. Child of the 60’s = pixie cut. Check.
2. Cut my own hair with pinking shears. Check.
3. Play Doh, gum, buzzies(burdochs), Elmer’s glue, modelling cement and window putty stuck in hair. Check.
4. Dressed like older brother because I idolized him. Check.
5. Feminine mother who did her hair and wore nail polish and make-up every day, but let me dress and act like said older brother because she loved me and wanted me to be different and independent. Check.
6. Now a straight, married mother with grown children of my own. Check.
7. Still like wearing men’s clothes (better tailored and less expensive) and yes, I still idolize my brother.
Sound familiar, anyone?
Could be, Emily. The dress was also covered in playground shmutz. Did Belle like to get down and dirty? 😀
And the real question is, how did your Barbies attire themselves?
Dressed like older brother because I idolized him. Check
Check for the tears that welled up in my eyes since my brother is gone. Thanks
“Shiloh is pushing the boundaries of a tomboy look and crossing over to cross-dresser territory,” Alana Kelen, senior fashion stylist at VH1, tells Life & Style. Celebrity stylist Gili Rashal-Niv agrees”
Are you f*cking kidding me?? A 3 year old girl is being called a cross dresser because she has short hair and wear pants. *bangs head off wall*.
why are some posters attacking american women like we are agreeing with this load of crap? i don’t think i’ve read any of the posters on here that actually agree with this. i’m sick to death about how women’s self worth is so tied up in sexuality. oh, and 3 year olds do have an opinion in what they wear. my 3 year old little girl is a gun toting cowgirl fairy princess. suck on that!!
@CB Rawks, well, she fell in love with a man/lion thing (I can’t remember if they ever specify), so I’d say she was pretty dirty.
My barbies used to be either the typically slutty girly barbie look, or mannish. One of my friends didn’t have a ken doll, so she gave one of her barbies a buzzcut and called her a guy!
i agree with most comments here….damn sleazy tabloids….and nasty people who comment about a three-year-old. whats with coments like shiloh looks unhappy and has a dazed expression…doesn’t even make sense…
What about boys who dress in fairy costumes? Shall we burn them at the stake too?
I was a girlie girl as a child, an apparently in the minority on this board. I loved dresses (I had a Belle costume too CB Rawks!) and shiny shoes. I loved going to church on Easter Sunday because we got to wear new dresses and shiny mary janes with the one-inch heel and those frilly socks. My mum even let me carry a purse with my stickers in it (I’m not kidding).
My older sister, on the other hand, was always tomboyish. She’s getting married to a lovely man in a few months time.
I find this story disturbing and beyond inappropriate. You don’t talk about a three old’s style. Children wear what is comfortable and what they like. It makes me sick to think that there are “experts” weighing in the sexuality of a THREE YEAR OLD. It’s disgusting.
I also have to say that it is equally rude to bash Suri Cruise. I was just like her when I was a little girl and I was perfectly comfortable in my little dresses and headbands and purses. My dresses were generally of the sundress variety and my mum always made me wear bike shorts underneath. But I wore little sandals and hated sneakers. They made my feet hot.
I love wearing dresses to this day; pants to me are like leg socks (I hate socks as well)-tubes of fabric designed to make your legs uncomfortably hot.
@noonoo, no, I think you’re supposed to force them to wear pants, teach them about the evils of pink and glitter and slowly crush any individuality they have.
Or give them a fairy wand!
Sorry to comment again so quickly but I had a brain wave.
I remember getting into an argument with a professor at university about whether or not I was wearing a dress that day because it was a societal norm that I had been forced into based on the hetero-normative structures that are prevalent in most western societies because of the patriarchal need to turn all women into simpering beautiful dolls…or because it was the best thing to wear on a hot day as it was made of cotton, supported my bust without need for a hot, pinchy, sweaty bra, and purely because I liked it.
She insisted that had I not grown up in a patriarchal society I would have thought wearing pants was a better choice. Erm, no. I prefer dresses to pants all the time. Even in cold weather, I have a few wool dresses and a lovely winter dress coat. Oh, and heeled Wellies (totally adorable).
My point in saying this is that everyone has their own personal style and all children have differing opinions on what is comfy to play in. Some children like tomboyish looks and others like girly girl clothes. It is only in the eyes of a predator that a child would look like a sexual being, be they in tomboy clothes or not.
It is irresponsible to erroneously label girlie girl children as “perfect little anal-retentive princesses who never play and carry their own makeup bags at the age of 3.”
I had princess parties. We played at my princess parties. Just because we didn’t get down in the mud doesn’t mean we didn’t have fun. We “made tea” (mum pouring apple juice for us), ran around in our dresses playing hide-and-seek, traded tiaras, showed off our latest Jellie shoes, made sticker collages, created epic soap-opera like story-lines with dolls.
THIS IS THE REASON WHY CELEBS DON’T WANT THERE KIDS PHOTOGRAPHED.
THEY DON’T WANT THE WHOLE WORLD TO SCRUTINIZE OR TALK TRASH ABOUT THEM.
POOR KIDS, THEY ARE BEING TREATED SO UNFAIRLY BY THE MEDIA.
I WOULD HATE TO BE BORN FAMOUS LIKE THEM..
@Chana, your professer sounds like a complete moron. Wear your dresses with pride! I have this 50s style dress (black with white polka dots, very cute!), and every time I wear it I feel like a princess. And I’m 22.
And omg where the hell did you find heeled Wellies?! WANT!!
Emily, check out WedgeWelly, they have super cute Wellies with wedge heels, practical and adorable. Oh! And they have a wide variety of cute patterns. My wee sis has the giraffe pattern ones.
Mine were ridiculously expensive-Burberry Check pattern but my mum got them for me for Christmas. I could never afford them on my own 🙂
Life & Style are not only ridiculous, they are blatantly being HARMFUL to the Jolie-Pitts! I say we boycott that mag, that someone sue them, and the mag needs to be “put out to pasture.” How SICKENING!
ThunderC*nt: When not working, I am so sure AJ is sleeping and strung out all day.
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What makes you so sure? Oh right, you read it in a tabloid. 🙄
Cheyenne why respond to a person who uses that vulgar word as part of his or her name.Someone on CBB says Maggie Gyllenhall’s daughter had a similar haircut at some point but I guess discussing her doesn’t equal web hits and tabloid sales. BTW CBS Early Show had a lady from Lies and Style on this morning discussing this sh**. Fortunately the therapist on the other side was pro Angie and Shiloh
As a kid, I was a gangly tomboy with short hair who was forced to wear dresses on special occasions. Thus, I ended up bisexual!
I don’t know any boys with hair that long. These days many boys seem to have their hair either buzzed or growing out from their last buzz.
I feel sorry for this whole family. What they put up with is just wrong.
Wonderfully said.
There are some really ignorant people on here.
Viva the folks who push the boundries of the norm!
Nichole; I am and bloody proud of it.
My mans the man, I am the woman, it’s worked for all of my family and it works for me, no divorce, happy family get togethers, it’s worked for us and we are very lucky. No one wants strong families, they are a threat. Break them up, support that through welfare etc and you create many groups of weak people, easily controlled. Who do you think bankrolled and financed the feminist movement? The Rockerfellers. What do you think the main goal of that was? Girlpower? To give you rights? It was to tax the other 50% of the population. To get mothers out working, not looking after children. The government then becomes the mother, from childcare, kindergarden, school etc The rules, the norm, the education and life skills come from the school. It’s all an agenda. I can see the brainwashing and TV influence has worked just nicely on you as it set out to do. Have a look at any jail, 90% of the people in jail are from single parent families, 90%. Backup on information, statistics, I work in a Library, I have spent a life time reading and I am disgusted on the blatant attack on us, all of us! Some people haven’t a hope in hell, from the time they are born, it breaks my heart and trust me, it is not their fault. I am not a hater, of any minority at all, I am just telling you what I see, why it is the way it is.
What’s really sad is the excessive outrage over this. And calling the editor to complain? Leave that to her parents and get a life. I don’t think the poor kid is too upset over her recent cover story, you see, she’s THREE. And for the record, no, I don’t think the kid’s a freak for looking as she does. Apparently, when she was very little my older sister tried to pee standing up the way the little boys do. I never had hair that short but I did rock a mean bob etc etc who cares.
I agree that the whole “calling her John” thing was a little disturbing at first when Brad said it, but then I thought, kids pretend to be other people when they’re little all the time! Who cares? I think it’s healthy to let your kids pick out thier own clothes/style from an early age. As long as Brad and Angelina let Shilooh KNOW that she IS a girl (like it or not) and that it’s ok to celebrate that too, I think she’ll be fine. Besides, Angelina has always (publicly) celebrated and encouraged Zahara’s “extreme girliness”, so I think they just let their kids be thieir own people : )I like it.
Once again: articles like this are why Kaiser is my favorite! I mean, seriously, the ABSURDITY of fashion/parenting experts being called to weigh in on a three-year-old’s sense of style? Please — when my sister was that age, she went through a phase of wearing nothing but underroos and exclaiming, “When I grow up, I want to be a boy!” She’s now married and has a son of her own — and is quite feminine, thank you. Finally, I totally agree with Kaiser’s final sentiment — if the “worst” IS true, and this little girl DOES want to cross-dress and be a boy — well, why the hell not? It’s about time we relaxed on these stupid gender distinctions. Rock on, John!
This whole “Shiloh wants to be called John” thing is reminding me of when Matthew Broderick was on Conan o Briens show talking about how his son James insisted on being called Dave for about a year until he grew out of it.
Kids do that sometimes. It’s not a big deal, if this is true [which it very well might not be, I don’t trust tabloids] 99% of the reason she wants to be called John is because she just likes the sound of that name.
Well, I’m not an expert on this subject, but in my humble opinion, I really think that a three-year old person doesn’t have a definite sexual option. I think dressing her like a boy will only make her feel confused, because her sisters and probably all her girl friends dress like the girls they are. I think it is harming her… About that part:”She likes to be called John because she likes Peter Pan”, why doesn’t she like to be called Wendy?! It wonders…
They need to get over it. Maybe Shiloh *likes* wearing clothes that don’t require panty-hose, heels, and other uncomfortable things. And the reason her hair looks darker is because it’s closer to her skull so it appears thicker and the lighting was bad.
i dont have an issue with what shiloh wears ofcourse as long as she is healthy and a happy little girl and it is not my business but i saw her in a magazine for the first time the other day(shows you how much i read those magazines) but anyway i dont know it just made me kind of sad because she looked like a pretty litle angel before not that she still doesnt have a beautiful face but she looked rugged and her hair was cut kind of crooked and choppy i dont know anyway my son is almost three and he never even cares or has a preference with his clothes it seems odd that she picks out her own clothes but hey i dont know maybe my kid is behind or something
You actually make it seem really easy along with your presentation however I to find this topic to be really one thing which I feel I would never understand. It kind of feels too complicated and extremely wide for me. I am taking a look forward to your next submit, I will try to get the cling of it!
Who are you people to judge? We live in a society where mothers allow their children to be “exposed” in beauty pageants from infancy and where toddlers are actually encouraged to look like teenagers off to a club or 20 year-old women!, Furthermore, adding insult to injury, these parents are actually profiting from this! There is nothing wrong with a parent choosing their battles in this day and age with all the economic stress and world-wide chaos! If this child feels happy dressing or even looking as a boy, who cares? Who are you to judge another person’s happiness or someone else’s well being? Please, look in the mirror and judge yourselves. We are nowhere near perfect. Such ignorance! Disgusting Behavior! ~Sybilla -Miami