Earlier this week we learned that actress/humanitarian/superwoman Angelina Jolie was making her way to Haiti in her role as UN Goodwill Ambassador to help lend aid to the affected people of the deadly earthquake that struck there a month ago. When asked by CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour if Angelina Jolie was considering adopting a child from Haiti to add to her family, Ange admitted that she and fauxhubby Brad Pitt are “open” to adopting from Haiti … tho, she went on to clarify that she is not focusing on adopting any children at all at this time:
Even CNN’s hard-nosed global reporter Christiane Amanpour is curious about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s family. In an interview with Jolie while she was still in Haiti, Amanpour asked the star if she plans to adopt a child in Haiti. “I’m always open to children around the world,” Jolie replied. “We’re that kind of family. Brad and I talk about that.” Not so fast, though: “But that’s not what we’re focusing on at this time, by any means,” she continued. “We’re not here for that. We’re here to see how we can help protect the children in country and scale up the needs here.” Late Thursday, X17 photographers snapped Jolie’s arrival back at LAX following her three-day trip to Haiti. She toured an SOS Villages camp for orphans, a Doctors Without Borders hospital near Port-au-Prince, a makeshift camp in the southern city of Jacmel and a Save the Children relief supply center. During her SOS Villages visit, Haitian kids were starstruck, yelling “Angie! Angie!” Jolie and Pitt, 46, donated $1 million to Doctors Without Border to provide medical assistance to earthquake survivors.
Personally, I think it’s high time that Brangelina add another child to their growing brood. The twins are almost 2 years old now … Brangelina is startin’ to slack off on the adopting, don’tcha think? While I agree that now is not the time for Angelina Jolie to be picking out children to adopt from Haiti, I think it would be very nice — at some point down the line — if Brangelina did save the life of an orphan from the region. A heroine’s work is never done.
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no matter how good the cause may seem…the last thing this girl needs is another kid.
@nicole — Why do you say that?
YAWN
Can’t stand her.
she is mentally deranged, there’s no other reason why anyone would want to adopt this many kids. Stupid woman.
I agree with nicole, the last thing this woman needs is another kid that she can leave behind when she goes out and films a dozen movies. I think it’s selfish how many kids she has, and realistically, how little time she can spend with all of them. By no means am I suggesting in order for a woman to be a good mother she needs to be at home all the time with her kids though, but I think she does need to spend a little less time making blockbusters and a little bit more time playing dolls. For the record, I feel the same way about Brad – it’s not just Angie hate. I just feel with six kids, maybe they should take a little time off and spend it just with their kids.
@Bee — I totally disagree, it’s extremely short-sighted to assume that Angelina Jolie cannot care for her children merely because she “makes blockbusters”. In the end, tho, it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks they should do … Brad and Ange will have as many children as they like and I’m pretty confident that they can care for them. Octomoms who live with their parents, no. Brangelina, yes.
i say wait until the kids get a bit older THEN maybe think about adopting again. the kids are young. they need attention. They have to realize that no matter how good of parents they are…theres gunna be jealousy issues surfacing soon. and they’ll need to focus on that before they bring in another child.
it’s hard for the public to judge how much time is spent with these children. how on earth can me or you know how much time they spend with their kids?? there are parents who spent every waking hour with their children, and it doesn’t make them better parents.
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at least these kids aren’t in the slums of third world countries, living in overcrowded orphanages in completely horrible conditions. ange and brad clearly can afford to support the children in a safe and healthy environment, that’s really all that matters. they seem to be happy, worldly, well-adjusted little kiddies.
If she does adopt another child I think it’d be smart to wait until all her kids that she has now are potty trained. Once she doesn’t have to worry about them as much in the poo department I think she’ll be ready for another baby. Twins are hard work! Of course, after they’re all potty trained maybe she’ll see that, “gee, it’s nice not having to do diapers, when was the last time that happened?” and then decide that she likes the 6 beautiful children she has now and that her family is complete.
Imagine coming into a family of 6 kids and being the 7th! Whether you’re Brad and Angelina or not, at some point I can imagine adoption agencies saying, “um, you have enough. We want our kid to get a little more attention by mom and dad.”
@ Trent, it’s not that I don’t think they can care for them, I just think about the kids. Obviously if anyone in the world could financially look after these kids, it’s Brad and Angie. I don’t think they go with out anything except quality time with their parents. And by no means am I suggesting they neglect their children. I just don’t think its fair to the kids, and that’s just my opinion. I certainly agree with the octomom comment though :)
I kind of agree that they have so many kids how do they give enough attention to them all? On the other hand…many of these children that she adopts would have a MUCH worse life without her adopting them. Zahara would have died with out being adopted. When you think of the orphaned children of Haiti, and the struggle for mere survivial that they are faced with, being in a large family doesn’t seem so bad. At least they will be well fed, safe, and clothed.
I think we should start placing bets now on what child she adopts in Haiti….cause you know it’s gonna happen!
oh boy this woman wants yet another child. Their material quality of their life will be great, but any mother, especially one with like 6 kids already, needs to do this as a full time job. It gets to be a bit unfair after for the other children when a new kid is coming in ever year, 6 months.
If they do adopt again, I would love them to adopt an American child. There are so many here who need a good home. Because it is so hard to adopt in the states, many children age out of the system before ever becoming adopted.
How do any of us know how much time they spend with their children? When one of them is filming (and they take turns), the whole family moves to the city where the movie is being made. In the months between films, they can spend all day every day with their children (like when they go to that country house in France). It is probably at least equivalent to most of us working 5 days a week. I would bet they actually have more time off than we do.
It’s always the same debate, and I always agree with Trent on this. We *don’t* know how much time they spend with their children, but I’m guessing it’s a lot, despite that fact that *sometimes* one of them is working on a film. But really, have NONE of you naysayers known a family with more than a couple of children?! My mother has 6 brothers and sisters. My best girlfriend is the youngest in a family of eleven (the oldest and second to youngest were adopted), and I have a couple of other friends from families with 7 kids each. I’ve known quite a few people in my life who come from large families, and none of them have said anything horrible about having that many siblings, or about being neglected (yeah, we’ve talked about our families, and no, none of them are mormons)
Poor Maddox, he’s probably like “You rescued me from a third world country, but now you take me to every other third world country in the world. B*tch when are we gunna get to Malibu?!” Thank you Chelsea Handler!
I hate how every website is acting like she wants to adopt from Haiti. It is obvious she was just answering the (very predictable) question from a journalist.
She just gave a polite answer that gives nothing away.
@Sarah
Yeah, Chelsea is the best at snotty and shallow comments- I’m sure even Maddox has better perspective on his life and a more mature outlook, despite his young age