Two weeks ago, Angelina dominated four tabloid covers with various stories about her “cruelty and spite” and that sort of thing. One of the tabloids, OK! Magazine, ran a story alleging that Angelina was planning to adopt from either Jordan or Syria… alone! Without Brad! You know, like how she adopted Maddox. And Zahara. And Pax. The basis for the story was two-fold: first, Angelina and Brad had recently traveled to Syria as part of a UNHCR goodwill trip and to Jordan to visit an SOS Children’s Village (picture above) and secondly, because some orphan director or publicist told some tabloid reporter somewhere that Angelina was planning to adopt. This was all regardless of the existing Jordanian and Syrian adoption laws, which from what I gather, would pretty much mean that Angelina couldn’t really adopt from those countries. So this comes as no surprise… now a Jordanian orphanage worker is saying that Brad and Angelina were just visiting, not baby shopping:
Bosses at an orphanage in Jordan have dismissed rumours ANGELINA JOLIE and BRAD PITT made plans to adopt another child during a recent visit there.
The Hollywood couple flew to the country last month (Oct09) and spent time at the SOS Children’s Village in the capital city Amman.
Jolie, who has supported the organisation for six years, was seen playing with youngsters in the kindergarten with her partner, sparking rumours she is planning to add a seventh child to her brood with Pitt.
But orphanage worker Aysha Shahin insists the couple was focused on meeting the children they’ve sponsored – and that there are no plans for an adoption.
She tells Britain’s Hello! magazine, “(Jolie) was giving them advice about life and school. The children asked about her movies and talked to Brad about The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. Then Angelina and Brad went to kindergarten, where they sang songs and danced with the children. They particularly liked singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.”
“We do not do adopting. I have not heard of any plans for her to adopt here in Jordan and in Syria it would be impossible.
“Angelina did not talk about adoption. She just wanted to play with the kids. She is a sweetheart – one of our greatest supporters.”
The actress has three adopted children, two little boys from Asia and a daughter from Africa, as well as three biological kids with Pitt.
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Once again, it would have been impossible to adopt from an SOS Children’s Village anyway, so there was no need for any of the reporting. Now, I will say this – I do think Brad and Angelina will adopt again. My guess is that they’ll adopt from an African country where there are existing adoption laws and they can do everything by the book. Seriously, every time they visit a country, everyone is like “oh my God, they’re going to buy all the fresh babies!”
Angelina at the SOS Children’s Village in Jordan, courtesy of SOS Children’s Village’s website. Additional photos of Brad at the airport on November 19, 2009 in Nice, France. Credit: Fame.
ouf! it’s not over with Pitt!
Whoa, Brad looks old. And Angie’s face is losing ground to her forehead.
IIRC, both of them said they would be adopting another kid from Africa eventually. Maddox has Pax, Shiloh has the twins and poor Zahara just has her shank that she’ll stick you with if you look at her wrong.
She seriously looks crabby all the time.
Dear Brad,
Please shave that Billy Goat Scruff on your chin; it’s completely obscuring your pretty!
Thank you,
LolaBella.
“…both of them said they would be adopting another kid from Africa eventually. Maddox has Pax, Shiloh has the twins…”
Right, because kids need to matched up like a pair of end tables from Pottery Barn.
*yawn*
Bill Hicks is God –
Those were St. Angie’s words. You could probably Google it, but she said when they adopted Pax that part of their reasoning (about where they adopted next) was that they wanted to adopt more than just one child from a region. I’m phrasing it very, very badly, but the essence was, they wanted each child to be able to look at the family and see a face that looked like them too.
Like I said, that’s a ham-handed paraphrasing of what St. Angie said after she had Shiloh. And she joked that she had these other children in shades of brown and Shiloh was a “fat white blob.”
Seriously. Are those hats Pitt wears, left overs from Billy-Bob Thornton when he exited Angelina’s bed, and Pitt crawled in it??
No, they don’t need to be matched up but one of them did say at one point that they felt it was important for the children to have another person in the family who looked like them.
Personally, I think they’ll adopt from Haiti.
Why do people trash Angelina Jolie when most of the REAL reports that come in regarding her activities are those of her helping people in need and/or spending time with her children?
I don’t really think people like Paris Hilton are off in Syria singing, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” to the motherless children who she sponsors.
Why not attack the people who actually deserve it due to vanity, stupidity, or whatever else it is that they do to be vapid and useless. Meanwhile, leave Angelina Jolie alone.
Snowball, Angelina never called Shiloh a “fat white blob”. She was talking about how different a newborn was from adopting. The adopted kids were older so they were active and engaging. While newborns don’t do much and were like blobs. It was actually the interviewer who said blob and Angelina said something like “yes, a blob”. Both Brad and Angelina said they would adopt again so it’s not exactly a bold prediction to say they will adopt. Everytime they go to some country for filming or charity the tabloids say they are adopting. I don’t know why people fall for it every time.
I hope they adopt a child of African ancestry from a Latin American country. I think it would be good for Zahara to have a sibling that looks similiar to her regardless of nationality
I really like Brad’s necklace, but can’t make out details. Anyone know what it is? If you’d photoshop out the beard and the hat, he’d look so much better.
Jesus please us, anybody with half a brain could have debunked that rumor as soon as it was launched. Jordan does not let non-Muslims adopt, and Muslim adoptive couples have to submit documentation that they are infertile. That rules out Brad and Angie on both counts.
BTW, Zahara does have two people in the extended Jolie-Pitt family who look like her. Julie Neal, Brad’s sister, adopted two little boys from Ethiopia last year.
No adoptions. Their relationship is done. Just for show now to save face. They realize they took on more kids than they can raise. They strike me as lazy parents who rely on help to get the basics done. I’m sure for the hired help it is like taking care of 8 kids.
I hope they do get another african little girl or boy for the sake of Zahara, she needs to relate to someone from her own race. Although it would be nice is she adopted a latin boy or girl too.
Whenever I see photos of AJ with normal looking people she looks absolutely freakish by comparison.
I don’t doubt you Snowball, no worries.
The thing is Africa is a multi-ethnic continent, it just so happens a lot of the people there are Black. So unless Jolie adopts from Ethiopia or Somalia, Zahara would have nothing in common with a child from oh, Cameroon for example. They certainly wouldn’t look “the same” except that they’re both Black.
Isn’t that oversimplifying, and frankly offensive to a lot of you? I mean if this is how Jolie actually thinks, f*ck me running, she’s an ignorant sack.
Yeah, it’s offensive to me at least. I get this mental image of Angie at least, spinning a globe and stopping it with her finger on a country to decide where she’s going to adopt next.
I’m sure there’s considerably more effort expended than that, but this, “one of this, one of that,” stuff makes me cringe. As does the declaration that they want to have a rainbow of children. Kids are kids and we have plenty of needy ones in this country in every color.
(I looove Bill Hicks, but I’ll raise you a Mitch Hedberg)
Brange cannot adopt from a country whose officials have any common sense. I bet they will go back to Ethiopia where any crazy can adopt or some where in Asia where child trafficking rules are lax. I wouldn’t let them adopt my pet pig. LOL
Ha, Sowball – nice!
Every time she or they set foot in another country, the adoption rumors start.
If they want to adopt more kids, great. But all of the kids are pretty young still, I think it would be a good idea to let them become a little more independent before adding more children to the family. And I still think they should settle down permanently somewhere so the kids can go to school and have some stability.