Angelina Jolie spoke to her nemesis on Friday… no, not Jennifer Aniston. Not Chelsea Handler, either, although that’s closer. No, she spoke to her nemesis Ryan Seacrest, the little diva who bashed her several years ago, and who Angelina and Brad have gone out of their way to ignore on several award show red carpets. Perhaps Angelina was just in “saleswoman” mode, and she just wanted to get The Tourist’s press tour over with. Perhaps Angelina and Dame Seacrest finally buried the hatchet. Whatever… the full radio interview can be heard here, and here are some of the highlights of their conversation:
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and their globetrotting family won’t be staying put for Christmas.
“We’re going to travel with the kids and go to a random part of the world,” Jolie told Ryan Seacrest on his KIISFM radio show Friday. “We’re going to travel and have an adventure because that’s what we love to do.”
It’s hard to image when the mother of six, who’s currently promoting her latest film The Tourist, has had time to shop for Christmas, but Jolie says she has all the kids’ gifts taken care of.
“I’ve got it all boxed and ready to go,” Jolie, 35, says. “I went through it today. I’m trying to get every stocking right and all the wrapping paper.”
And after the holidays? It’s back to work for Jolie, who just wrapped filming on her directorial debut in Hungary.
“I go into the editing room in January for a few months,” she said, adding that her animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 2 will be out in the spring.
“I’m a little schizophrenic,” she joked of her wide-ranging film choices, “but somehow it works out.”
I sent this story to CB on Friday, and we were chatting about it back and forth throughout the weekend, for some reason. CB thinks it would be nice if Angelina, Brad and the kids spent the holidays at home – or one of their homes. She doesn’t get why they always have to “travel” and “have adventures” for the holidays. I theorized that it was probably one of the few times during the year that the kids are out of school and no one has to work and they can travel as a family and do something all together. I don’t know, though. Perhaps Angelina is just trying to be “different”. I think it would nice if one year, their “exotic” holiday locale was just Missouri, you know? Spend the time with Brad’s family, have a Christmas tree, do a brunch. EXOTIC.
Photos courtesy of Fame.
*put on angelinaloonie hat on* they are planning on spending the new year in Missouri with the pitts… and they alternate Christmas with being in the states and traveling
OK the “loon” here to correct you 🙂 She has said in other interviews they rotate on holidays. One Christmas they spend with Brad’s family the next they spend travelling, I guess last year was Missouri.
I think its nice that they want to get away for a little adventure. They never go any where and what real adventure is there in getting shot at and chased through the canals of Venice. I mean God bless them for wanting to shake the cobwebs from their boring existence. (For those of you who live in Missouri, I’ll add this…*Giant sarcastic eye roll*).
They were in Missouri for Christmas last year.
She gave an interview to Ciné Revue, a french speraking magazine where she said that they intend to go to an exotic place this year (refering to the fact that usually they stay at home) for Christmas and then, get back in the US, to Missouri for New Year’s eve at Brad’s parents where they intend to spend the new year with relatives.
“I theorized that it was probably one of the few times during the year that the kids are out of school”
Do those kids even go to a school? Or are they home-schooled? They moved around so often it would suck to enroll them somewhere and let them make friends then a few months later move somewhere else.
Travel and adventure. How unique and unusual for them. Because Venice, Budapest and Paris weren’t enough.
Gosh, it seems to me these kids are constantly in transit. I would think the last thing they need is more traveling.
Haha, all of the Angeloonies! God bless us, everyone.
I was so hoping for a day without a tattoo clad, stylist needing, skeleton looking Jolie!
Who cares where they are spending Christmas! (not a question, a statement)
@mln76:”OK the “loon” here to correct you”
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So basically: same sh!t, different day for them, yeah?
@Jenna: The kids attend the Lycée Française which has branches in every major city in the US and Europe. They can enroll in any branch of the Lycée while they are traveling with their parents and pick up exactly where they left off.
“Who cares where they are spending Christmas! (not a question, a statement)”
We will see who cares or not by how many posts Probably more people who don’t care, still Mission Accomplished for Kaiser, lots a hits, those that don’t care may not be able to resist saying so 🙂
Yes, Cheyenne…..they can pick up where they left off however, they have to rely totally on their brothers and sisters for friendship! Sad and pathetic!
I imagine the idea is to throw people off so they won’t be found over the holidays.
lol at anon. So true. Everyone posting in here CARE one way or another lol.
love brad in the traditional non-leather pants!
For anyone who hates seeing Angie posts here is a hint the more you comment the more stories there will be. Which is why I do my best to avoid the Kardashians like the plague.
Travel and adventure is fun. But I do feel sorry for those kids. No real home, no real security or friends. Do they go to school at all? I mean we travel alot, but there are times when our kids say ” can’t we just stay home”?
There is an interview where she said they will be in missouri for new year
@cheyenne: it’s not exactly true. The lycée français is organised by academic year (from september to june) and each teacher is free to organize its clasroom the way he/she wants as long as the curriculum is accomplished at this end of the year (which means for example that all the teachers don’t use the same classbooks!).
Furthermore, those schools are primarly intended to French people living abroad. Which means that half of the teaching is in French while the other half is in the language of the resident country: French and English in LA, but French/Italian in Venice and of course French/Hungarian in Hungary…Must be great to make friends when you don’t speak any of the languages the others children speak…
Here’s an idea…why don’t you stay at home and let the kids have a normal life for 2 minutes!? God forbid maybe they’ll even make friends. Just because Flopalina has no friends and the inlaws hate her doesn’t mean the kids should have to do without friends and a normal life.
Ok seriously.
I would have loved it to travel around the world like Angie’s kids. It doesn’t matter where they go because they are each other’s best friends and they are together as a family.
Oy. Being home all the time stuck in one location isn’t as great as everyone seems to think it is. I don’t think its that great. I’m jealous of their ability to travel around the world and I wish I could do that for my children.
my personal preference these days (as an adult) is to stay home over the holidays because traveling during these times is brutal.
HOWEVER…when I was a kid, traveling was a blast, and these folks have the means to minimize (or completely avoid) the hassles of traveling. Plus, doing it on your own time, for your own needs is quite different from doing it for a movie.
unless one or more of the kids is actively complaining (and who would know for sure?) I don’t see what the big deal is.
@cheyenne, there’s a Lycee in almost every capital city in the world, not major cities in Europe (a couple in major US cities and in Geneva and the Hague), they are usually run by the French embassy or the Alliance francaise and follow the French public curriculum, also, most teachers are French teachers posted there for a few years at a time before they go back to France or on to another Lycee. I grew up at Lycees all over Europe and Africa and my daughter goes to one now, and will also when we move to China next year. About half the children (diplomats’ or other expats’) who attend are French, the rest are locals or children from foreign families.
Those poor kids, getting to travel all over the world with their parents, and having new and wonderful experiences that will educate and broaden their view not just of the world but of themselves.
It’s tragic. Someone should do something. 😥
so whose going to call child protective services
Quoted for truth.
“Those poor kids, getting to travel all over the world with their parents, and having new and wonderful experiences that will educate and broaden their view not just of the world but of themselves.
It’s tragic. Someone should do something.”
@Whamo: “Inlaws hate her”? Really, you need to cancel your lifetime subscription to In Touch. All it’s doing is feeding your already humongous ignorance.
@Whitenoise: Seriously. There oughta be a law. Somebody call CPS.
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@mavourneen: One of my co-workers sent his son to the Lycée in New York. He said the curriculum is very rigorous (based on the French public school system, as you said) and those kids were in school from 8 in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon. And they had to speak French all day long, including on their lunch hour. After a couple of years they were speaking it like natives.
@lio: Young children have an ability to pick up foreign languages very quickly. According to his parents, Maddox is already fluent in French.
kids like routine. i used to travel all the time before kids, with them, it is much harder and they like predictability. i dont feel either way about AJ but seems to me the kids fit her lifestyle not the other way around.
@WhiteNoise “Those poor kids, getting to travel all over the world with their parents, and having new and wonderful experiences that will educate and broaden their view not just of the world but of themselves.
It’s tragic. Someone should do something”
STAT 🙂
@bite me:”so whose going to call child protective services?”
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funny I never hear about the Poor Depp kids or the poor Smith kids, or the poor Jackman kids or the poor anyone else’s kids. just the JPs. but then their kids are the ONLY ones people seem to be concerned with.
Let’s see.. these kids go with their parents. They never have one of their parents gone for 2 or 3 months filming. And for the ones that don’t seem to use a brain cell. Angie and Brad work 2 or 3 months. Lots of kids have tutors. They have the most important thing; their family everyday. All this talk. some of you don’t have any idea how many children that live in a city change schools. Some kids move to 3 or 4 school in a year. They have a base home in LA. When they are not having an overseas film the kids go to school in LA. but lets keep the fake concern.
There are many celebs that travel all over the world with and without their children. Where is all the concern and worry for those kids. It’s not there because this is not about the kids. Just an undercover way to make a nasty comment about their parents.
That is more Pathetic then the children that are with their parents.
Those kids are going to be so screwed up when they are older. End of story. Yes, traveling abroad sounds fantastic when you’re in your 20s and 30s, not when you are little kids. What are they gaining from these “cultural experiences?” They won’t even remember.
funny I never hear about the Poor Depp kids or the poor Smith kids, or the poor Jackman kids or the poor anyone else’s kids. just the JPs. but then then their kids are the ONLY ones people seem to be concerned with.
Let’s see.. these kids go with their parents. They never have one of their parents gone for 2 or 3 months filming. And for the ones that don’t seem to use a brain cell. Angie and Brad work 2 or 3 months. Lots of kids have tutors. The have the most important thing. Their family everyday. All this talk. some of you don’t have any idea how many children that live in a city change schools. Some kids move to 3 or 4 school in a year. They have a base home in LA. When they are not having an overseas film the kids go to school in LA. but lets keep the fake concern.
There are many celebs that travel all over the world with and without their children. Where is all the concern and worry for those kids. It’s not there because this is not about the kids. Just an undercover way to make a nasty comment about their parents.
That is more Pathetic then the children that are with their parents.
Anyway they have spent Christmas in LA and Missouri.. there are pics of them even being in NOLA one year. Brad/Angie gave gift cards to people in MIR. So they have each said COUNTLESS times they alternate. But those facts seem to get lost in lies.
@flourpot going to use your quoted for truth line here go’s 🙂
Quoted for truth
@lisa “funny I never hear about the Poor Depp kids or the poor Smith kids, or the poor Jackman kids or the poor anyone else’s kids. just the JPs. but then their kids are the ONLY ones people seem to be concerned with.”
no more screwed up then kids that grow up in the suburbs , being raised by nannies, while mom pop pills and dad ignores the family
# 22
You are still able to become friend if you don’t share the same language. You either speak with your hands or to an alternative language both speak..
I am a former child who went to the European School which is the supra version of the Lycée français and even better than the International School , with every class replicated in its own european languages from the 15 or so spoken within the EU.
I was enroled in the belgo french class as my first language is french. It was uneven in terms of nationalities. there were french pupils, belgian, german mainly but also brittish, italian, spanish. 80 % of the pupils had dual citizenship or three passportS 5born and raised in one country from two parents with two different natuionality).
other than french which we used for literrature and math, the other courses were in chosen languages. We had courses (economics, computer sciences, geography, history, ect.) in english (my second language), dutch (my third) and spanish (my fourth)…all this with all the other fellow pupils who were not from belgo french class (italian, german, danish…ect) but who had those same languages as second, third and fourth language.
At the shool playgroud we mingle and it was not rare to learn another language just like that as we used to say every morning : Bonjour, hi, hola, guten tag, come stay ? ect.
And when you are enroled ther as young as you are 2, you learn quick and you learn many of those langauges that are all used by natives teachers, some of them not even able to speak the language of the home country where the European School is.
There are at least one european school in every european country that is in the EU and the cursus is done aroind the same schedule to fit the frequent move of those children whose parents are either international official or diplomats.
And children as well as adults do make friend even without sharing the same languages. They use a universal languages made of gestures, ect. Some couples even get married with one of the spouse barely speaking. I know two couples like this and it’s very weird but they understand each other nonetheless.
They can come spend Christmas and New Years with me, Kids and all, My house may not be as big as they are use to,, but it is accommdating.
@anneesezz that’s how i grew up and i loved every minute of it and i am eternally grateful for such a gift, that’s why i am raising my daughter that way now.
@cheyenne Yup, I’m in my 30s now and I have a cool job that allows to keep me and family travelling around the world, in great part thanks to that fantastic education and my experiences from around the globe. I speak a bunch of languages enough to get around and the French think I am French because of my accent and vocabulary and education…
@all the whiners about elitism: the Lycees are private schools outside of France but they are usually the cheapest of the private schools, and always on the top 10 best schools in the country.
“seems to me the kids fit her lifestyle not the other way around.”
Yeah – I have to agree with you on that. I did a little traveling with my parents when I was really young, but honestly I was too young to appreciate it! What I wanted was my home, my friends, my routine. I know kids survive this kind of upbringing no problem. But is it ideal? I honestly don’t think so. And that is my opinion.
btw @lio why did you invent that load of cr*p? you obviously have NO idea… the books are always the same, so much so that they can often be used the next year by a younger sibling in the next country, and only bilingual schools teach half-and-half. Some of those schools are affiliated with the Lycee system, but maybe you’re confusing the many languages they learn in that system with bilingual schools…
so I finally saw The Tourist last night……jaysus it was TERRIBLE. and not in a ‘this is so bad it’s good’ kind of way. just plain stupid.
but Paul Bettany was good! and Venice looked lovely….
I sometimes feel sorry for those kids too,being hauled all over the place. But in saying that just think where the three adopted children would be if they’d been left where she found them. Living hell or dead is my guess.
The kids have friends including their classmates. Zahara attended her classmates/friends(Chris Cornel’s daughter) bday party at American Girl at the Grove.By the pics on TMZ. There were only about 8 girls there so she was close enough of a friend to be invited. Kimora Lee Simmons say her girls have had playdates with the JP kids. There were pics of Kimora and Angie at a school fair in June. FYI Maddox has attended the same school in LA since he was 4 There was video of the kids with other kids and their parents at a mall in Budapest. A lady in NOLA who lives in a MIR home say the boys come by to play with her grandsons when they are in town.Brad talked about his kids playdates with the kids of his architcture friends in Berlin when he was making IB. So they have friends all over the world who come from different cultures , different religons,different languages, etc. I don’t feel sorry for them.Everyday they are with their family. Oh yeah there was a video of the JP’s in Missouri last Thanksgiving and video of Brad’s family with them in NYC after Christmas at Dave and Buster’s.Oh yeah in a interview with a Brazilian magazine Angie was asked if she did no. She said no she has never done yoga but she knows yoga is good for the body.So Jen gets to keep yoga(smile)Some tabloid claimed Brad and Angie did yoga and someone remarked yoga is Jen’s thing on another post.
@mavourneen:
At Budapest, the children are taught in French and in Hungarian. They only began to learn English around the age of 8 (=CE2). At Los Angeles, every body, included pre-schooler are taught in English and French. How can that make the two schools perfectly interchangeable?
I don’t deny that there exist bridges and that it’s probably a great academical environnement (given the proper family background). All I’m saying is the idea that you can leave one school on the 26 november and enroll in another school on the 29 of november and “pick up exactly where you left off” (like another poster said) is just a myth.
If they really want an “adventure” then I suggest they all travel on the local bus for the day in a big city.
@WhiteNoise, #27: “Those poor kids…” Hilarious!! 😀
@mavourneen: I envy you!! I lived abroad for 10 years but it was as an adult, I went by myself, not knowing the language at all when I first arrived… lots of difficulties. I wish I had had the experiences and opportunities you’ve had. What a wonderful way to raise your daughter. Kudos to you!
@48: “If they really want an “adventure” then I suggest they all travel on the local bus for the day in a big city.” Wheeeeee! Sounds like fun. But seriously, Brad & Angie seem pretty down to earth so I’m sure the kids have had local experiences like you suggest in some of the countries they’ve traveled in… I doubt they are shuttled around in SUVs 100% of the time.
In feel more sorry for the millions of inbred Americans in the ghetto who are dropping school left and right, have a gun in their hand instead of a pencil, are shot down in gang wars, doped through insane circualtion of drugs or experiencing tenage pregnancies…all the while the JP seems well eduacted bilingual kids, raised by two parents who are privilleged enough to enjoy the level of extensive freetime we will never enjoy between or 9 to 5 work.
Talk about getting screwed up kids. Just look in the backyard and you’ll have plenty of screwed up kids who don’t even know the color of a passport.
well, @lio, I did, for 13 years… and the schools you’re talking about are those bilingual schools I explained to you
Hmmm- Or the smelly subway.#47 The kids attended 2 different school in Budapest so maybe the other school was taught in English. I remember reading the girls attended a different school from Maddox. I’m not sure which school Pax attended. Also they travel with 2-3 multilingual teachers so maybe the teachers coordinate with the schools to ease the transition. Also from what I understand many of the students at the LA location travel with their parents who are either in show business or diplomats.I think this “adventure” will be like 2006 when they spent Christmas in Costa Rico meeting with Colombian refugees.
@mavourneen: A little more elitism might do this country a lot of good. The US is sinking fast relative to developed countries in terms of reading, math and science skills, thanks to dumbed-down curriculums. The Lycée in NYC isn’t the cheapest of private schools by a long shot, but academically it is definitely one of the best.
@PrimeO: Living abroad is the best way to learn a foreign language, bar none. I had three years of Spanish in high school and two in college but it wasn’t until I did my junior year at the University of Puerto Rico that I really picked the language up — to the extent that I started dreaming in Spanish at night.
@Kim: I wouldn’t even bother, if I were you. Some people on here want to believe that Angie and the kids have no friends and Brad’s family hates Angie, in the face of all evidence to the contrary. Haters gon’ hate. Just igg it.
@ Hmmm and kim-LMOL! I taught in DC public schools for 3 years after teaching in the suburbs of MD to very privileged kids, I think something like that would be good for the J-P kids. I DO hope at some point they start introducing their kids to the appropriate version of social awareness that they are championing, if they haven’t already started. It’s great to pull/rescue them from harm but maybe even better to teach them to give back/help others.
As a teacher of young kids, I think the most important thing for young kids is something stable and normal. Some kids are in families where they move frequently for some reason (parents’ jobs or other). I agree with the poster that said the kids are fitting in their lifestyle not the other way around b/c they could have/stopped or changed when the kids came but have chosen to pursue the careers they have. Nonetheless I can’t force my values regarding this on them and they don’t really care what I think.
Family life/home is one of the biggest influences on kids academically and socially. Thankfully there are lots of awesome teachers/other adults out there who pour themselves into making their classrooms as safe and normal as possible and reach out to and help those kids who come from sad family environments and help them defeat the odds against them and become more than society or risk analysis say of their future, but I kid you not, it’s a LOT of work and sacrifice on their parts.
That being said, school changes. New grade, new teacher, new subjects, new classmates. I think Brad and Angelina are giving their kids the best kind of stability there is within the lifestyle they’ve chosen. A stable, happy, home environment where they feel loved.
The truth of the matter is, change in life is imminent. Everyone isn’t blessed to have solid, nourishing family ties and IF that’s what these kids have, then whatever other changes go on in their lives they can find comfort and support in the love and normalcy of their relationships with their parents and siblings which hopefully help them to value and learn to build meaningful relationships with others no matter what array or number of countries/schools they go through. Now if Brad and Angie split I sure hope it isn’t until the last kid has grown because I will be all KINDS of mad at the way they will be shaking and upturning so many little lives! For this reason, I root for them to make it.
I don’t understand why some people feel the need to defend this woman they’ve never met and will never meet – as if they are BFFs. She doesn’t care about you unless you are an orphan in a third world country and there is a camera nearby. I liked her in the early part of her career but she has become so smug, condescending and just generally full of crap. I love to read the comments on this site to see how psychotic people get when there is a negative comment about her. It’s good fun
The traveling and exploring sounds great. But I wouldn’t want to do it all the time, and I’d think changing schools so often, at least 2 or 3 times a year, would be difficult.
IMO, the difference between the JPs and the Depps/Jackmans/Smiths is that those families seem to have one main home base (France/NY?/LA), and I’d imagine their kids are steadily enrolled in school there as much as possible. (Though who knows with the Smiths these days since apparently once you hit 10 in that house you need a professional career.)
If it were me, I’d try to find more of a balance like that – still travel and do all that fun stuff, but have a little more consistency and routine too, especially as they get older and are interested in more than just family activities.
Lourdes Leon and Jodie Foster are/were all from the Lycée Français. Jody Foster did graduated from the Lycée Français in Los Angeles.
They both speak perfect french. Jodie at times has a little english tone but Lourdes is a perfect trilingual with no foreign accent involved.
I heard her speak some french at 7 years old on french TV as she was with Madonna translating everything her mother was asking her live in english.
Then Madonna admitted that her daughter was raised as a perfect trilingual, attends the Lycée Français and speak to her father in spanish. She added that she was proud and envious of her daughter skills with languages as she was still struggling in both spanish and french.
Hearing Lourdes speaks, is like hearing a parisian speaking : perfect. I think all of Madonna’s children are in the Lycée Français.
Lisa–
You are right on point about the thinly-veiled “concern” for the JoliePitt kids. This family is ALWAYS together. Each child will have a strong sense of self and family because of that fact.
What American classroom can better accomodate a multi-lingual, multi-racial, multi-cultural family? The JoliePitts are, obviously, quite sensitive to the social and cultural needs that must be fed within their family, and I cannot think of an American school system that can properly accommodate this unique family.
If anyone has been paying attention, the American School system still ranks low in addressing multi-cultural education in any efficient manner. Angie is a great mom for recognizing the unique needs of her children and addressing it.
I am glad that she maintains a global perspective and not just an American perspective on education. It is not just for the sake of herself but also for the sake of her kids and their future development as young, caring adults who will inclusively see life and issues from a global perspective. Everything in life cannot be learned or taught from a classroom filled with people looking just like you.
More people need to embrace, just like Brad and Angelina already have, the value of a multi-cultural social network of resources. Until then, people will continue to discount people that do not look like them or discredit those that do not share their cultural experiences.
@nnn: “Talk about getting screwed up kids. Just look in the backyard and you’ll have plenty of screwed up kids who don’t even know the color of a passport.”
Well – I hope you are not suggesting that knowing the color of a passport is the answer to the problem of the American public school system (which certainly does have a lot of problems). And that you would refer to poor people in America as ‘inbreed Americans from the ghetto’ just lost you a lot of points in my book.
@ mln 76… ditto the Lohan posts for me.
anneesezz: I don’t understand why some people feel the need to defend this woman they’ve never met and will never meet
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Let me turn that around for you: I don’t understand why some people feel the need to hate on this woman they’ve never met — to the extent of posting death wishes not only on her, but on her children as well. How psychotic does that sound to you?
@Cheyenne
I wouldn’t even bother, if I were you. Some people on here want to believe that Angie and the kids have no friends and Brad’s family hates Angie, in the face of all evidence to the contrary. Haters gon’ hate. Just igg it.
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all evidence to the contrary!!???
Would that be ALL the pictures we see of Flopolina hanging out with her friends and the kids with all their friends?
Which “friends” would these be?
They better clear their social calendar it might get to full with all these “friends” coming over at once.
Nobody likes her except loons that defend this whackjob.
I waws wondering that too…why don’t they just go to Brad’s family’s in Missouri for Christmas. It seems liek they never do. Very sad.
Anneesezz -That’s interesting you don’t understand why we, as fans, need to defend this woman who we have never met. Well ,I don’t understand why there are people who hate this woman who they have never met or who has never harmed them. I don’t understand the death threats and racist comments directed at her kids. I’m a fan of Angie’s primarily because of her humanitarian work and the fact that she transformed her life from selfish and destructive 25 y.o. to a person who uses her money and media spotlight to help others. Like her project Madoxx Jolie Center/Clinic in Cambodia which has saved lives. ABC Good Morning America just profiled it. FYI I was a crack addict/ prostitute who changed my life around but I had to go to prison to do it.So I guess I’m biased when it comes to transformation or resurrection of a person.Sorry for ranting on a gossip site(smile). Well gotta go.
I hope they go to someplace sooo remote, that they don’t have Paparazzi there, so we can all go a little while without pics of them…but knowing AJ and BP..they will make sure thier “adventure” is seen by all!
who fricking cares – they spawned those kids and can do what they like with them and who is to say they will be kooky adults – god knows, i know plenty of whack jobs that had a “normal” upbringing. I dont know about u, but if I could travel around the globe, and had a job that was not a typical day to day – u better believe I would – f***ing-A right bitches!
why cannt people just let them live the life they want ???? no one here knows them so let them be. there kids there life . let it be
When she says what WE love to do she means what I love to do! Guaranteed every single one of her children and Brad would rather be at his parents house or somewhere stable versus traveling at Christmastime.
I like Angelina but when you become a parent you should stop being selfish and she has not. Those kids need stability and a set household and friends. They need to settle somewhere and stop dragging those kids around on THEIR/HER adventures.
Traveling is great for kids if they have stable home most of the time which these kids do not. A child cant feel stable in an identity unless there is stabilty at home.
In Angelinas quest to make these kids global she is hurting them vs. benefitting them. They are very young and dont need to be dragged along on her humanitarian missions.
She could bring home pictures and books & talk to them about different cultures, of which the 3 adopted ones are highly aware there are many cultures. When they are older then take them traveling – if they want.
nnn- sadly u r right =(
Actually they do go to Missouri every other year . This is the year they are traveling . She said so on Larry King a couple of weeks ago. It’s on YouTube. Type in Angelina Jolie Larry King.
I’ve said this many times so I’ll just say it again: Stability for a child is being bathed, read a story and kissed goodnight by their parents (in person, not on Skype or by email). This gives a child a sense that they are wanted and loved and it doesn’t matter what city, state, country or continent you are in. The most important thing is to be there with your Mommy and Daddy.
So, please people, stop the faux concern for these children. To say they have no friends is ridiculous. With today’s techology they can keep in touch with friends around the world, 24/7, and visit them in person during their travels. Open your minds and stop criticizing what you don’t know or understand.
@anneesezz: I’m curious as to what you mean by smug and condescending. She seems content with her family and her activities. She does what she does and she’s not seeking anyone else’s approval. Why anyone would interpret that as smug and condescending is beyond my comprehension.
Haven’t read through the comments yet, but my first reaction to hearing this news… was complete gut-wrenching jealousy.
How amazing is it to get the travel like that? I mean, it’s like my life *dream* to experience other places and cultures. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with celebrating the holidays by experiencing new places and people.
Sorry AJ but you don’t have enough hair to do this again.
Please, let it go. Cut you hair into layers and just deal with it.
Cheyenne: Let me turn that around for you: I don’t understand why some people feel the need to hate on this woman they’ve never met — to the extent of posting death wishes not only on her, but on her children as well. How psychotic does that sound to you?
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I was going to say the same thing. I also get a laugh at people like Kim who never met the family but somehow knows that Brad and the kids can’t stand Angelina and their life. As mentioned they spend every other year with Brad’s family. Frankly I don’t know why people are going balistic over this. A lot of people don’t spend Christmas with their relatives. I will never understand that when it comes to Brad and Angelina people become so hypocritical.
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Ditto
Actually they are doing exactly what many Europeans do at this period of the year. Many go at some remote sunny place (when it’s not skying in France, switzerland or Austria) during those 2 weeks vacation and spent Christmas and/or New years where they spent their vacations.
People, especially during this typical winter vacation time go to Indonesia and/or Thailand (usually German, Brittish and Scandinanvians)…hence they were severely hit during the tsunami tragedy a few years ago.
The more i see the Jolie Pitt, the more i am aware that they are citizens of the world with children having adopted the typical travelling way, flexibility and high degree of adaptability we often see between europeans when they constantly move from one country to another one on a weekly basis or after a short term professional contract, either taking wifey and kids with them or going back and forth on week-end at home.
It’s amazing to me how people argue such major extremes over this family. They really appear to love their children, and do everything in their power (which is quite a bit) to make sure their emotional/physical/& mental needs are met.
They spend (precious) time with their children, even with a challenging schedule. From what I, who doesn’t know this family AT ALL, can tell… they appear happy and healthy.
I know other celebrity children don’t even attend classes, like Willow Smith admitted to. More people seem eager to jump on the Jolie-Pitts than the Smiths, even with major admitted wrongs in regards to their children’s educations being confirmed.
@louise: I think it’s a case of over-identification. Jolie seems to remind a lot of scorned women of the woman they got dumped for. The weird part is when they pretend all this fake concern for the welfare of the children, when actually they don’t give a damn about the kids. Really silly, when you think about it.
@whamo: When you develop sufficient emotional maturity to refer to her by her name and not by stupid middle-school soubriquets such as Flopalina, Skankalina, etc., then you can post to me. Until then, forget it.
I’m beginning to think that this duo is a major ‘brand’ that rivals the Beckhams, in that they act like they’re normal parents, but really, they’re barely in the same country for one month straight. It’s not that I hate them or anything, but I do question the image they sell, and they’re obviously selling it big time. They head out to every major A list event, then fly off to war torn countries and still manage to sell the ‘we are a normal family’ to the gullible media.
I’m not buying that story. In the beginning it was balance, but now it has become ridiculous. She is directing a film, then she is attending premieres for The Tourist. Jolie courts drama, and then Brad Pitt rides on that attention as well. They work well together and earn millions in the process while their kids probably call their nannies ‘Mom’. In twenty years time, their children will be up to all sorts of mischief.
@Cheyenne: “Let me turn that around for you: I don’t understand why some people feel the need to hate on this woman they’ve never met — to the extent of posting death wishes not only on her, but on her children as well. How psychotic does that sound to you?”
Oh yeah, that happens all the time here on Celebitchy. Would you PLEASE stop dragging what happens on those other crazy ass boards you hang out on, back here? THAT is what doesn’t make any sense. AND we know you identify with this couple, so don’t pretend it’s a phenomenon exclusive to ‘haters’ to coin a high school phrase. Pot – meet kettle.
@Shay why not wait to judge them as parents in 20 years time when their kids grow up? You may not choose to raise your kids the same way but that doesn’t mean they aren’t happy and loved whatever you think of each of their prospective movie careers.
Flopolina… sounds like a kindergarten playground with the stupid name calling. I am so sick of Skankolina, Holie, Maniston, Chestica, Chinnifer. It’s ridiculous.
@Crash: I don’t “hang” on those boards because of the hateful messages people are allowed to post. But plenty of hateful messages get posted on here. If you’re so obtuse you can’t recognize them, that’s your problem. Check yourself.
What are the chances these two and their frequent-flier brood might go away to the aforementioned random location and stay there so we don’t have to hear @ them ever again? More or less as good as the chance Angie might eat a sandwich or three and Brad will let go of his fondness for unflattering, cheeseball leather pants? Or equal to the chance Angie will make out with her brother again and/or wear her beau’s blood in a vial around her neck? Hmmmm.
And as far as I can tell (granted, I don’t know her) she is smugness personified. But, after seeing an aging Brad in those unattractive leather pants a couple times now, I’d say she won’t be smug About her relationship with him too much longer.
I wish I could travel like that, but I’d spend more time in one place because jet lag is a killer for me.
And for those saying they won’t remember, so it’s lost on them. I remember family trips we took when I was a kid, and they were fond memories. So what’s the difference?
Although as a shy kid I would’ve had a problem with walking into a new classroom several times a year or maybe that would’ve solved the problem.
@crash – true I rarely read a racist or death threat comment on this board. There are nuts on every thread about every subject, this site has good moderators that those crazy comments rarely get posted. It is tiring to hear this dragged in all the time like this family are the only celebrities to experience this phenomena.
Not saying it’s right, just saying that it exists in all subjects, such is the nature of anonymous posting. Chey, Suri needs just as much defending as these kids… I’ve seen some nasty stuff posted on OTHER boards. God knows what Willow is getting now with all the exposure she’s getting.
@Cheyenne: Really? Death wishes for her and her children get posted here and stay up? Really?
I don’t think so.
LOL @ Crashie! As usual, you missed the bus by a country mile.
I like this couple, I admire them and I respect them. Since we live completely different lifestyles, however, I don’t identify with them. Their life wouldn’t work for me. But it seems to work fine for them, and it’s really weird how many people resent them for that.
@Crash: I couldn’t agree more about nnn’s ignorant “inbred Americans in the ghetto” comment. My guess is that she’s lived a financially privileged life, so it doesn’t even occur to her that many wonderful, loving parents simply don’t have the means to travel the world with their children. It doesn’t make them lesser beings, of course, but nnn is apparently too arrogant to comprehend this very simple fact.
She looks really old, bony and harsh in the shot where her lips are so blood red. I hope it’s just bad lighting because ‘news flash’ she’s got 6 kids to raise. I think she needs to slow it down, personally.
I don’t understand why so many people dislike Angelina. I am not a huge fan of hers – I’ve never seen her in a movie – but I do keep up with all celebrity news and she seems pretty solid compared to all the other celebrity idiots out there. Especially where her kids are concerned. She seems to really love them and try very hard to be a good mother. I respect her for that. I hope they have a wonderful Christmas where ever they are.
@mln76,
Love is defined differently by celebrities,especially those who spend more than 80 percent of their time in the spotlight and require an army of nannies to look after their children.
What? People actually think that the choreographed parent pictures are real? They have an army of nannies on standby, who walk further behind and never make it into the paparazzi shots.
I doubt their children will be well adjusted. First and foremost, their schooling is always disturbed and while I realise and appreciate that home schooling is all the rage, and is logical for those living in remote locations, it has unfortunately become an option for dysfunctional families as well, who use it to shield their children from society at large, such that they will have difficulty later on. Then again the Jolie-Pitt brood will have enough money in their trust funds to hire the right people as assistants right?
Puhlease!
Normal actors or reasonably normal actors who are parents include Cate Blanchett, who doesn’t have a burly entourage everywhere she goes. And while I understand the necessity for bodyguards, one cannot help but also think that the Jolie-Pitt kind of person courts that kind of attention. Even Johnny Depp was recently quoted in the media about the ridiculousness of the paparazzi following Jolie.
One thing is certain. Jolie has engineered her career very well.She went from punk-goth, brother kissing perv to ‘family oriented UN ambassador within five years’. She must have a good advisor/manager and all the spiel about her not having a manager/agent are laughable at best. She is as much of a control freak as Madonna is in order to organise every social event with the precision she does and good luck to her, but to say that she is conventional? She is no way conventional and I’d wish she’d STFU about it.
As far as I can tell, her films have taken a downturn. It’s obvious to see that she makes them for profit only. Salt and the Tourist? Meh? Panned around the world, not for her being a ‘homewrecker’, who cares about that? She has nothing on Elizabeth Taylor in the homewrecker stakes, but her films are money vehicles for her holidays and that’s fine, but insulting viewer intelligence is annoying. Hopefully her directorial debut will have balls.
@Crash, @Cheyenne: “Let me turn that around for you: I don’t understand why some people feel the need to hate on this woman they’ve never met — to the extent of posting death wishes not only on her, but on her children as well. How psychotic does that sound to you?”
“Oh yeah, that happens all the time here on Celebitchy. Would you PLEASE stop dragging what happens on those other crazy ass boards you hang out on, back here? THAT is what doesn’t make any sense. AND we know you identify with this couple, so don’t pretend it’s a phenomenon exclusive to ‘haters’ to coin a high school phrase. Pot – meet kettle.”
Unfortunately, there are plenty of crazy hateful comments on THIS board as well, luckily, this site is closely moderated so we don’t often see them, but the few who slip through do sound pretty psychotic.
I didn’t find her comment irrelevant, or out of place either, maybe there’s something I’m missing, I’m puzzled why it seemed to make you so upset.
@MSlewis:”I’ve said this many times so I’ll just say it again: Stability for a child is being bathed, read a story and kissed goodnight by their parents (in person, not on Skype or by email). This gives a child a sense that they are wanted and loved and it doesn’t matter what city, state, country or continent you are in. The most important thing is to be there with your Mommy and Daddy.”
I agree, these kids seem loved and happy and healthy. The family seems very close. They’re going to have some great stories to tell of all their adventures together.
” I didn”‘t know that the Beckham were a brand for good parenting. As far as i know, in the UK and in Europe, they brand themselves as poseurs fashonistas.
Don’t get the “normal’ parenting thing.
Though i beleive “normal” if there is such thing as normal is : loving your child and being there for them. working to give them the best education as you see fit. Giving them the balance between discipline and supporting their individuality. Being present when they sleep, when they wake up in the morning, when they are sick.
That’s normal parenting as opposed to for example, Beating them, being absent of their life because you just don’t care.
My God, she’s nuts and Brad is p***y whipped
Shay: “They head out to every major A list event”.
This is a really dumb comment. They rarely go to any events. That’s why I never understood the loving publicity claims when they rarely go anyplace to get photographed. When they do go it’s for a friend. They went to a Clint Eastwood premier and didn’t walk the redcarpet or do press. They went to an award ceremony to honor a producer/friend of Brad’s. They don’t showup at random premiers and openings.
Also obvious death threats aren’t posted but people do keep saying things like they wish they would disappear, go away forever, etc. Attacks on the kids are posted on this board all of the time: how disturbed, ugly they are, they are mentally retarded, what a brat Zahara is, etc. Attacks are not as bad as other boards but saying cruel things aren’t said is laughable. Look at Whamo’s and others posts.
@Shay again I say wait until they grow up. You choose to believe what you read fine. You don’t have to like Brad/Angie etc. but your judgement is based on your own perceptions possibly influenced by innacurate tabloid articles and biographies written by a felon and a fraud respectively . I like the actors you mentioned but to state they are better or worse parents than the Jolie-Pitts just isn’t fair. If you read Johnny’s interview he said yes the paps are interested in everything Angie does(as are the commenters on this board obviously) but she and her children are surprisingly normal and she is a great mom. Celebrities lives are obviously different than ours but it doesn’t make them automatically heartless or bad parents.
As for the rest of your comments about her past. Are you the same person you were 12 years ago? Is Johnny Depp still trashing hotel rooms, or Robert Downey Jr still getting arrested or is Angelina Jolie the only person who isn’t allowed to grow up?
Jeez, the self-entitlement displayed by some posters here is so ignorant and stupid! “Well, I know that these kids will be messed up….”
UHHH, NO YOU DON’T. That’s a personal opinion based on no factual evidence.
I’m gonna make this personal and say that I switched schools and moved around a lot (Middle East, Europe, North America) and I loved my childhood, especially with four siblings (these kids seem to get along well). If anything, being in the same place for so long in my undergrad degree and looking for work in the same city has made me restless and discontent.
So please, don’t say baseless things like ‘how pathetic’ and ‘I feel sorry for them’. I wouldn’t want your pity in my personal experience which was appreciated and really enriching (and privileged I admit, I realize not all people are as fortunate to travel like my family did). My guess is: neither would they want your pity. Give them some credit and the right to personal experience and hold back on your baseless and silly judgements. Or Empress Zahara will strike back.
@Yasmine you rock!
As far as I can tell, her films have taken a downturn. It’s obvious to see that she makes them for profit only.
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Yeah, only Angelina Jolie wants to make a profit with her movies. No other actor in the world wants to make money working at their profession. Good for you to notice. You must be really smart!!
Really? Death wishes for her and her children get posted here and stay up? Really? I don’t think so.
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Really, Crashie, I think you have a reading comprehension problem. I did not say they are posted HERE and stay up. But they are posted on many other websites and stay up for all the world to see. And as Louise noted upthread, Whamo and others manage to get in plenty of ugly comments about the kids on THIS web site. Capisce?
@Shay: “Salt” made $294 million, $175 of that overseas. “Panned around the world”? I don’t think so.
i’m grossed out by her seemingly ‘needy/clingy’ body language. 🙁
@Cheyenne
Whamo and others manage to get in plenty of ugly comments about the kids on THIS web site. Capisce?
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If you’re going to accuse me of something you might want to get it right.
I have NEVER EVER said anything bad about the kids other than I feel sorry for the fact they have a nutbar for a mother! but I will say this. You are a loser with NO LIFE that sits on these sites day after day going after anyone that DARES say anything bad about this couple. What are they your relatives or something? Get a fing life and if you want to accuse me of something you can accuse me of calling her a heroin junkie whore and Brad a pathetic mid life crisis has been.
Put that in your pipe and suck on it!
So holding your partner’s hand is needy/ clingy. Then call me Mrs Needy/clingy.
As long as they are together:
Location doesn’t matter.
I agree with Crash2go2,
I have never read racist remarks or any death wishes on this site to anyone. I don’t think that Kiser or CB would allow that. This site is very different from others. I agree Cheyenne needs to STOP dragging this tired argument she brings when her favorite couple is being criticized. The last time I checked we live in a country were we are allowed free speech, and just because it differs to yours does not mean you are a “hater” or you are “crazy”, that really is high school. I am aloud to express my feeling in regards to any topic, whether you agree with it or not.
@Yasmine: Or Empress Zahara will strike back.
You were credible until you said that. Sorry but the Empress Zahara thing is so silly to me.
Angelina herself has said that she moved around a lot as a child and that sometimes she wished she had an attic where she could go and look at all of her belongings.
I lived a similar childhood and I didnt like being taken out of my classroom in the middle of the year and put into another a week later with total strangers. Maybe some kids it doesnt bother them, others it does. But it does create restlessness when you are an adult. Sounds as though you are a living example of that yourself.
Whatever we may think of AJ or BP I’m sure they love their children. Christmas morning at their house must be a blast!!!
Heavenbound, there are TONS of racist comments and disgusting hate-filled rants on this site, they just get taken down quickly (thankfully).
It is a FACT that this couple does get death threats and that their children are called terrible racist and homophobic names all the time (Handler, for one).
I think mentioning it annoys some posters because it points out how evil Jolie’s detractors can be and maybe they don’t want to be guilty by association or something. Or maybe it highlights too clearly how incredibly unfair people who don’t like her can be, who knows.
The attacks on these people are common place, whether they’re removed from this site or not, it’s relevant.
The fact is, it is stupid and irrelevant to transfer our own experience and feelings of a living style to anyone and induce that anything different that what we know is BAD and will have severe effects…like there is no messed up people living our lifestyle.
No lifestyle is the perfect one and fit for one for anyone.
The assumption many people are doing here is this :
Moving always induces AUTOMATCALLY messed up future adults.
implying in the process that :
NOT MOVING always induces PERFECTLY balanced adults.
Please, look around yourself, they are plenty of messed up adults, even some coming in here using names to insult another fellow poster because for another opinion in a gossip site !. Now if this kind of personal attack coming from adults for an entertaiment stuff disagreement is not a sign of mild messed up behaviour I don’t know what it is.
And I doubt that the other sites wih the recurrent vile are done by messed up adults who are messed up and show at tomes some real psychotic signs because they were raised all over the world. No, most are inbred adults, totally messed up too.
There are no data whatsoever available that verify that cause and effect correlation.
However we all know that there are higher statistics of messed up kids who didn’t have proper education, who haven’t been raised by both parents, who are raised without a father who is prematuraly dead or in prison or doesn’t care, who are living in the fourth world (those underdevelopped zones in every western country full of jobless folks who have a sense of a society advancing aroung two different rythm), who experience child pregnancies, hence may be exposed to HIV in a country (the US) where the last data i had from my sister who was in the annual AIDS convention 3 years ago amount to 1 millions + of HIV positives, some of them ignoring that they have the virus, a MESSED UP society that glorifiles teen pregancies through reality shw and the media, a society full of guns circulation, the inherent violence of the society, the street culture and rapper culture with its verbal violence, abuses of women, ect….It still in the US more than in any other western society that you have dramas and tragedies like messed up adults taking a gun killing anyone around them in a public place, an office, ect.
THIS IS MESSED UP adults inbred at home through ad through, including a messed up society where the media put a 4 year old on its page to discuss her gender orientation, hile other mùessed up unbalaned adults do the same. And it’ the JP’s who are pinned as MESSED IP ??? Please look in the mirror and around yurself. there are plenty of people who find Cheleas insults towards Jolie nd children, ok. Isn’t that a sign of being mlessed up if you as representative of a society find it ok to lynch three kids in the public place or are ok with the nasty rants towards their mother and then act all concern about their future messing up as if insulting their mother was good for their health and lbalance you are so prone to protect 8
Now THESE are the problems here right at home that affect millions of youngsters and older people to the point they become messed-up not some privilleged kids who are lucky enough to have both parents at their side, being with them more time than the we will be ble to enjoy with ours, who are lucky to move all over the world, who are exposed to different cultures, different languages and who probably have already seen how others with few live happier and value more the value of life instead of acting like those spoiled kids at home who drop out of school cause they prefer watching reality show on TV, because it’s easier to sell drugs to other kids AT HOME and are among the more messed up kids around though they have at their disposal much more material goods than others all around the world…
Some people on here want to believe that Angie and the kids have no friends