Angelina Jolie Learned How to Cook in Australia: Jolie-Pitt Kids Are the "Worst Eaters"
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- Published on Sunday, 02 March 2014 21:55
- Written by US Magazine
Chef Jolie! Angelina Jolie learned how to cook from her personal chef while in Australia directing Unbroken, a source tells Us Weekly in the Mar. 10 issue.The gorgeous movie star mom, 38, recently overcame her kitchen-phobia, after learning a few healthy tips and culinary tricks from the pro, the insider tells Us. This will be a big lifestyle swap for the children, who are the "worst eaters," according to the source. And feeding six kids with different food preferences is no simple task: The Jolie-Pitt kids "want to eat different things at different times," the source adds.Jolie, who once famously admitted that son Pax, 10, was a better cook than her, decided it was time to take control. The source tells Us that the mom is "very proud" of her new skill. (Back in 2011, Jolie boasted that she and fiance Brad Pitt cooked their own Thanksgiving turkey. "We were very successful and very proud of ourselves," she joked to Anderson Cooper in an interview.)Learning how to cook, however, was not the toughest task tacked by the star.Jolie confessed Tuesday, Feb. 25 that it was a challenge getting producers to sign on for her upcoming movie Unbroken, which tells the true story of World War II hero and Olympic runner Louis Zamperini. "This has been the hardest thing I've ever done," she told Tom Brokaw on Tuesday's Today show episode. "I pitched my butt off." Jolie, who up until early February had been filming Unbroken since late 2013, was joined by her six kids on the Gold Coast.Pitt, 50, who was busy filming upcoming movie Fury in London, oftentimes flew over to spend time with his beautiful brood. But after months apart, the family has reunited in full and returned back to the West Coast ahead of the Oscars. "Since Sydney, everyone is in sync," another insider told Us of the Jolie-Pitts.
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Whitsundays abuzz after Jolie and Pitt spotted at airport
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- Published on Monday, 03 February 2014 05:13
- Written by Daily Mercury
THE Whitsundays are abuzz with excitement as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been spotted arriving at the Proserpine Airport.The pair is reportedly in the region for a new movie Jolie is directing.Jolie and Pitt were seen disembarking their private jet at about 3pm this afternoon. This comes after the famous couple were rumoured to have spent Christmas Day on Hamilton Island last year.It was reported the couple were spending time with their brood of six children - Maddox, Pax, Shiloh, Zahara, Vivienne and Knox - at a private villa on the island, rumoured to be Qualia where Oprah Winfrey stayed when she also visited Australia.
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Will Angelina Jolie have bulging veins in her arm zapped before she marries Brad?
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- Published on Monday, 27 January 2014 04:45
- Written by Daily Mail
Magazine claims actress doesn't want to 'look like a freak' in sleeveless gown.Every bride wants to look perfect on their wedding day and it seems Angelina Jolie is no exception. But will she really go as far as to have surgery to remove bulging veins in her arms?That's the claim made by U.S. magazine National Enquirer who report that the actress 'wants to look as beautiful as possible when she walks down the aisle this summer' to tie the knot with long-term partner Brad Pitt.Angelina is regularly voted one of the most beautiful women in the world but an 'insider' told the magazine the Oscar-winner 'has always had a complex about how her veins jut out'. They said: 'She never had an incentive to do anything about it until now. She's chosen a sleeveless gown for her wedding day, and the last thing she wants is to be looking like a freak in the photographs.'It's is unlikely there will be much chance of that when the 38 year old marries Brad, 50, with whom she has six children.But the magazine claim she's so keen to 'tidy up' her appearance for the big day she will consider surgery.The other option would be for the slim star to gain weight so the protruding veins were less obvious but the source said 'that’s not an option to her.' 'If she took the time to bulk up, everything in her life – including the toll all the weight loss has taken on her body – would fall into place. But Angie's just too busy to eat. She’s also convinced that she needs to stay super-skinny to maintain her sex appeal. That leaves her no option but surgery to tidy up those veins,' they said.Endovenous laser treatment is frequently used to reduce the appearance of unsightly varicose veins.
A catheter is inserted into the troublesome vein and a laser is passed through that which then delivers short bursts of energy that heat up the vein and seal it closed. Blood no longer pumps through it and so it disappears.Spire Healthcare offer the treatment in the UK on varicose veins in the leg for a 'guide price' of £1,765. They state the loss of the treated vein is not damaging because 'after treatment the blood in the faulty veins will be diverted to other normal veins in order to make its way back to the heart.'Keith Rose a venous specialist at cosmetics surgery provider MYA.co.uk and Courthouse Clinics told MailOnline: 'Endovenous Laser Therapy is an established minimally invasive technique for the treatment of varicose veins in the lower limbs.'Long term studies have shown that the results are as good as, or better than open surgery and the technique is recommended by NICE as the first choice for varicose veins in the leg.'EVLA for veins in the arm is a novel use for this technology and there are very few clinicians offering this procedure in the UK.'Numerous celebrity websites have been quick to dismiss the report that Angelina would consider such treatment on her arms.Gossipcop.com points out that the National Enquirer 'regularly publishes and spreads outrageous and false stories about Jolie's health' and it's 'ridiculous' to believe the actress has a complex about her arms when she 'frequently makes major public appearances in arm-baring outfits'.Meanwhile celebdirtylaundry.com states that while Angelina has a track record of having surgery for medical reasons after she had a mastectomy last year to prevent breast cancer, they believe she wouldn't have cosmetic surgery because it's 'fraught with risks, and I doubt she's willing to take them'.
Angelina Jolie's mastectomy raised awareness, not knowledge
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- Published on Thursday, 19 December 2013 12:03
- Written by UPI
Widespread awareness of Angelina Jolie's preventive double mastectomy did not translate into increased knowledge of breast cancer risk, U.S. researchers say. Jolie heightened awareness about breast cancer when she announced in a New York Times op-ed she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy, but researchers at the University of Maryland School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health revealed widespread awareness of Jolie's story did not translate into increased understanding of breast cancer risk. The survey of more than 2,500 U.S. adults found three-quarters were aware of Jolie's story, but fewer than 10 percent could correctly answer questions about the BRCA gene mutation that Jolie carries and the typical person's risk of developing breast cancer. Though very rare, women with harmful mutations in either of two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, have a risk of breast cancer that is about five times the normal risk, and a risk of ovarian cancer that is about 10 to 30 times normal. The average woman's risk of getting breast cancer over her lifetime if she does not have a BRCA mutation is between 5 percent and 15 percent. "Ms. Jolie's health story was prominently featured throughout the media and was a chance to mobilize health communicators and educators to teach about the nuanced issues around genetic testing, risk, and prophylactic surgery," lead author Dina Borzekowski of the University of Maryland School of Public Health's Department of Behavior and Community Health.
"It feels like it was a missed opportunity to educate the public about a complex but rare health situation." Additionally, exposure to Jolie's story was associated with greater confusion, rather than clarity, about the relationship between a family history of cancer and increased cancer risk. About half incorrectly thought that a lack of family history of cancer was associated with a lower than average personal risk of cancer, and among respondents who had at least one close relative affected by cancer, those who were aware of Jolie's story were less likely than those who were unaware of her story to estimate their own cancer risk as higher than average -- 39 percent vs. 59 percent. "Since many more women without a family history develop breast cancer each year than those with, it is important that women don't feel falsely reassured by a negative family history," study co-author Dr. Debra Roter, director of the Center for Genomic Literacy and Communication at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said.
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Angelina Jolie 'Potential' Witness In Phone Hacking Lawsuit
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- Published on Monday, 16 December 2013 04:42
- Written by Huffington post
Angelina Jolie could be the newest witness in Britain's ongoing phone hacking trial.Jolie's stunt double, Eunice Huthart, sued News Corp. in June claiming that the newspaper had hacked her phone and intercepted her voice mail messages. Among those messages were confidential conversations with Jolie, Huthart alleged.She listed Jolie among her "potential witnesses" in the lawsuit, according to the Hollywood Reporter on Friday.Huthart told THR that she believes the newspaper's interest in her "derived entirely from her personal and professional relationships to celebrities, such as Jolie and Brad Pitt, which are a product of her Hollywood-based career." Jolie could potentially testify to defend Huthart's claim that her "discretion and trustworthiness were compromised" by the hacking, THR said on Friday.Jolie's name first emerged in trial in July 2012, when she and actor Brad Pitt were identified by prosecutors as victims in the phone hacking scheme. Huthart cited two stories that she alleged used information from her private talks with Jolie.Huthart was Jolie's stunt double in movies such as "Beyond Borders" and "Tomb Raider 2." She said she lived with Jolie earlier in 2004, 2005 while the film, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" was in production, around the same time she noticed that she was not receiving all of her phone messages.
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