Angelina Jolie on How Her Late Mother Influenced Her Own Parenting: ‘I Try to Lead by Example’
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- Published on Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:09
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Angelina Jolie opened up about her late mother, French-American actress Marcheline Bertrand, in a new French interview with journalist and longtime friend Marianne Pearl for Elle France.In the interview, which appears in the current issue of the magazine but took place in April, Jolie, 41, spoke candidly with Pearl about how she strives to be an example for her six children just as Bertrand had done before she died from cancer in January 2007 at age 56.“She would have thrived as a grandmother,” Jolie said when asked what she tells her kids about Bertrand. Jolie shares her children with estranged husband Brad Pitt — Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10, and 8-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.The legacy Bertrand bequeathed to her daughter lives on in full force both in Jolie’s life and in the lives of her kids.“I know how much she would have contributed to their lives and I am sad they will miss out on that,” she said. “I would give anything for her to be with me at this time. I’ve needed her. I talk to her often in my mind and try to think what she might say and how she might guide me.” Bertrand, who had small roles in movies — including 1983’s The Man Who Loved Women — raised Jolie and brother Haven by herself after divorcing their father, Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight, when Jolie was a toddler.“It is the greatest gift and responsibility,” Jolie said about being a mother of six. “It means doing everything that you can to live by your values and try to be an example to your children.” Jolie has previously opened up about how she keeps her mother’s memory alive, including her decision to be the face of new perfume from Guerlain, her mother’s favorite perfume house. “It spoke to her, as it does to me, of beauty, history, and quality; one of the oldest perfume houses in the world, from France, a country I love and feel connected to,” Jolie explained to Marie Claire in April about her first international beauty campaign in a decade.But for Jolie, the campaign isn’t only about fragrance. A longtime humanitarian, Jolie serves as Special Envoy for the UN Refugee Agency, and she has made sure her partnership with Guerlain is just as charitable as it is beautiful. In January, a Guerlain representative confirmed to PeopleStyle that on top of being the face of the product, she would donate her entire salary from the campaign to one of her own charities.“I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible. And to help them have a broader view of the world,” Jolie also told French Elle about how she shares her passion of being very involved politically with her kids.“But really the only way I know to raise them is to really listen. It’s perhaps the most important thing any parent can do. They are resilient children but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life they also need what we all need – protection and love,” she said.This year for Mother’s Day in the U.S., Jolie celebrated the holiday with her second oldest son Pax at Los Angeles hotspot TAO Asian Bistro. Pax was able to enjoy some quality time with his mom on her special day as they enjoyed dinner without his other siblings.
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Angelina Jolie Celebrates Daughter Shiloh's Birthday at Disneyland with Cambodian Friends: 'She Wants to Show Them America
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- Published on Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:49
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Angelina Jolie took her family and friends to the happiest place on earth for her daughter Shiloh’s birthday.Jolie, 41, and her kids, along with some of their friends from Cambodia, went to Disneyland on Friday to celebrate Shiloh’s 11th birthday. Their Cambodian friends are some of the same child actors who appeared in Jolie’s film First They Killed My Father, which airs on Netflix this fall.“All [Shiloh] wanted for her birthday was to see her friends from Cambodia,” says a source close to the family. “She wants to show them America.” And what better introduction to America than Disneyland? The group was spotted around the park by ecstatic fans on social media throughout the day. At one point, Jolie and the kids were photographed inside the Ridemakerz store in Downtown Disney, which is like a Build-a-Bear for toy race cars.The outing was a fun reunion for her kids and their friends from Cambodia. Speaking to reporters at the Cambodian premiere of First They Killed My Father in February, Jolie said, “[My] children have close ties to the children here, many of them are their best friends.” Filming the movie was a family affair for the actress, who has had a close connection to the country dating back to when she filmed Tomb Raider there on location 17 years ago. She adopted her oldest child, Maddox, 15, from Cambodia two years later.When she returned to film First They Killed My Father, which depicts the devastation inflicted on Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge communist party in the 1970s, she enlisted Maddox and Pax, 13, to work on production, and the rest of the kids — Zahara, 12, Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne, 8 — joined the family in country during filming.At the premiere, Shiloh told the crowd in the Cambodian language of Khmer: “My name is Shiloh and I love Cambodia.”
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Here's What Jen Aniston BFF Chelsea Handler Would Say To Angelina Jolie In An Elevator
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- Published on Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:46
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Today's reminder that stars are just like us (well, sort of, sometimes) comes courtesy of sharp-tongued comedian Chelsea Handler, who appeared on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen on Thursday night. An audience member asked Handler a very pointed question: "Chelsea, if you were stuck in an elevator with Angelina Jolie, what would you say?" Handler answered, "I would just, I would just look up. Exactly what people do in elevators. You know when you, like, fake look at the number because you just don't want to make eye contact?" She pantomimed somebody looking up, feigning interest in the floor number. "That would be exactly the elevator ride. And then I'd go, 'Heyyy!' as I walked out. 'Hey you!'" Well, it's good to know that celebs do their best to avoid awkward elevator interactions, too. But Handler's imagined reaction is actually remarkably civil, given the less-than-kind things she's had to say over the years about Jolie, who played a role in the split between Brad Pitt and Handler's best friend, Jennifer Aniston. During a Watch What Happens Live appearance back in 2013, Handler said, "She seems like a demon." She added, "It has nothing to do with Jennifer. As a woman, I know when you see somebody walking across the room that's a bad girl. I just don't like Angelina Jolie." In September 2016, following the news of Brangelina's breakup, Handler made a savage dig at the actress on her Netflix talk show, Chelsea, calling her a "fucking lunatic" and implying she was the reason for the divorce. "There are rumors that part of the problem was that Brad was allegedly drinking and smoking too much weed. I wonder why he would need to self-medicate,” she said. “Maybe because he could have been spending the last 12 years at Lake Como hanging out with George Clooney and Matt Damon, instead of being stuck in a house with 85 kids speaking 15 different languages. Oh, yeah, because he married a fucking lunatic, that’s why." Yikes. We're glad Handler's hypothetical elevator behavior is markedly more tame.”
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Angelina Jolie Does NOT Hate Brad Pitt Dating Other Women, Despite Report
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- Published on Thursday, 25 May 2017 11:07
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A new report alleges that Angelina Jolie “hates” the idea of Brad Pitt starting to date other women again following their split, but Gossip Cop can exclusively debunk this fake news.According to HollywoodLife, which repeatedly makes up stories about the estranged spouses, the actress “doesn’t want [Pitt] to meet anyone new,” despite her having no intention of getting back together with him. A supposed “insider” tells the site that Jolie is an inherently jealous person who “can’t bear the thought of Brad moving on with someone else.”The seemingly phony source adds, “She may have broken up with him, but that doesn’t mean she wants anyone else to have him,” and further purports that Jolie “would hate it for the kids to be around another woman.” Despite the inordinate amount of times we’ve called out HollywoodLife for publishing lies about the exes, we still checked in with a reliable source close to Jolie, who assures us this latest report is simply “not true.”This latest story is yet another example of the webloid pretending to have insiders connected to Jolie, even though we’ve repeatedly been told that no one in the actress’s trusted inner circle is speaking to HollywoodLife. In fact, Gossip Cop already busted the site’s similarly wrong report about Jolie being “terrified” of Pitt dating again. The outlet also seems to have forgotten about falsely claiming earlier this month that Jolie and Pitt were back together. This newest article from the unreliable outlet is equally bogus.
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Angelina Jolie “Wedding In Cambodia” Is Made-Up Tabloid Cover Story
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- Published on Thursday, 25 May 2017 11:10
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Angelina Jolie is not having a “wedding in Cambodia,” contrary to a new tabloid cover story. Gossip Cop can debunk this report, which was completely made up.As Gossip Cop reported, last month In Touch falsely claimed Jolie was “getting married already” to a “wealthy Brit.” Though the tabloid could not identify this supposed groom-to-be, the gossip magazine insisted the actress was fast-tracking her divorce from Brad Pitt in order to tie the knot again. Gossip Cop correctly busted that cover story at the time, but now the outlet is foolishly doubling down with a new one.The latest cover blares, “Angelina’s Shocking Surprise: Wedding In Cambodia! Marriage No. 4 Just 8 Months After Split With Brad.” The front of the issue was designed to give consumers the impression this supposed wedding already took place, but the actual story inside the edition is only about Jolie’s alleged plans to wed. In either case, the publication is dead wrong.The article repeats the tabloid’s previous untrue assertions that Jolie has “quietly fallen for a wealthy 40-something British philanthropist and businessman, and she’s eager to marry for the fourth time as soon as her divorce from Brad is finalized.” But to advance its recycled claims, the magazine quotes a so-called “family friend,” who contends, “All systems are go for the wedding to take place on her new property” in Battambang. This supposed source goes on to contend Jolie was able to “clear the decks for marriage” after allegedly giving in to Pitt’s custody and financial demands.As Gossip Cop previously noted, In Touch had also fabricated a cover story that claimed Pitt had “stopped” the wedding and was dragging his feet with the divorce because he did not want Jolie to wed again. This new piece gets out of that by conveniently asserting Pitt has changed his mind and isn’t “standing in her way anymore.” And so the outlet’s “family friend” goes on to spill purported details about Jolie’s wedding plans, like how it will be a “small outdoor” ceremony this summer and how the actress’ dress, food and decorations will all reflect Cambodian culture. Naturally, the alleged tipster also maintains Jolie and Pitt’s kids will have roles in the wedding, too.But isn’t it odd that the publication knows all the specifics about the nuptials but not the name of Jolie’s “new man”? Or his exact age? Or where he actually works? A skeptic would say that’s because this “wealthy 40-something British philanthropist and businessman” doesn’t exist, at least not in Jolie’s life. In fact, Gossip Cop was told more than a month ago that rumors of Jolie having a British boyfriend were “untrue.”In Touch has simply created a soap opera-worthy, but false, narrative. Angelina Jolie getting married again! Brad Pitt stops the wedding! Brad Pitt caves and Angelina Jolie plans Cambodian wedding! The tabloid is stepping in it further and further, as the only thing that stinks around here is the magazine’s dreadful reporting. Actually, it isn’t even reporting, since the outlet likely didn’t just get bad information from a “family friend.” Rather, the publication, Gossip Cop is told, has simply been making it all up. For shame.
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