One of my biggest peeves about tabloid journalism is the habit of seemingly-professional medical doctors to go “on the record” with a tabloid about a celebrity that the doctor is not treating, nor will ever treat. These doctors don’t know the real medical issues of a certain celebrity, and yet they will pontificate as if lecturing a class of residents. So it is with OK! Magazine’s cover story this week, “Doctors Warn Angie, No More Babies!”

There are several factual inaccuracies in the reporting – first, the assumption that the “next” Jolie-Pitt will be adopted from Ethiopia. Next, the lie that Angelina’s c-sections were “emergency”. Third, that Angelina had gestational diabetes while pregnant with Knox and Vivienne. All in all, it seems like a wholly manufactured controversy.

They are reportedly heading to Ethiopa to add another orphan to their well-loved brood, but as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt await this seventh child, they’re struggling with the news that they may never have another biological baby, sources say.

OK! has learned that because Angie’s last two pregnancies were so fraught with complications, she has been advised to wait a long time before getting pregnant again – or not to get pregnant at all.
“Her previous pregnancies ended with emergency caesarian sections,” an insider tells OK!. “She’s been told that, at the least, she should not get pregnant for a year after her last deliver, and it would be safer if she did not get pregnant, ever.”

The health complications this time around could pose a direct danger to the Changeling star, Dr. Larrian Gillespie, who has not treated Angie, tells OK!.

“Angelina is at risk of having a stroke or heart attack, and because she developed gestational diabetes, there is a high risk she’ll have it again, with the child being at risk for diabetes.”

Not being a biological mom again might be hard for Angelina, as she revealed to Vanity Fair last year that she loves being pregnant.

“It makes me feel like a woman,” she said. “Also, I happen to be with someone who finds pregnancy very sexy.”

[From OK! Magazine]

How “emergency” can Angelina’s c-sections be if she flew in her Los Angeles doctor to Namibia, like, a week in advance of Shiloh’s birth? She’s stated in the past that Shiloh was breech, and the doctor advised a c-section. It’s not a ZOMG emergency, it’s just something that happens. As far as her pregnancy this year, she’s never made any statements about gestational diabetes, and I find this arm-chair diagnosis unsettling in any medical professional. So Dr. Larrian Gillespie is on notice! They only solid medical advice I could see any doctor issuing to Angelina is the fact that a woman’s body needs time to heal after a c-section (or after vaginal birth, for that matter), so she shouldn’t get knocked up right away. But it doesn’t seem like Angelina’s going to get pregnant right now anyway, considering she starts filming on Salt in about a month. Just more drama from OK!

Picture note by JayBird: Here’s Angelina when she was pregnant with the twins this past spring.