Well, at least they don’t sound so AGAINST the thought anymore. I suppose after 6 children, you would want to make it official? While being interviewed by Vanity Fair, Angelina Jolie admitted that once her children start to question why she isn’t married to Brad Pitt, she would probably consider tying the knot.
"Sooner or later it will be the kids who ask us [to get married]. You know, they see films and start asking questions. Such as, ‘Why are Shrek and Fiona married and you’re not?’"
"Usually people fall in love and everything revolves around the ritual of marriage, children are an afterthought. We did everything backwards."
The Daily Beast, Tina Brown’s new website, has a slightly snarky essay about Angelina Jolie titled, “She’s Actually Smart.” It’s based on Angelina’s comments at the Council on Foreign Relations on Friday to open a panel discussion that I was on.
Well, of course she’s smart. I find the snarkiness condescending, a reflection of the general snobbiness in the humanitarian community about celebrities trying to do good work. The assumption is that if the tabloids have an interest in who someone might be sleeping with, that person is an airhead. In fact, of course, there are smart celebrities and dumb ones; there are those who try to rehabilitate a sullied image by feigning an interest in AIDS or poverty, and there are those who genuinely care. There needn’t be any pejorative presumption about a celebrity’s intellect or commitment just because he or she is a great actor. And on the whole, the celebrity interest in Africa and global poverty has been a terrific thing, and there are lots of people alive today because of their involvement.
Some of them also really know what they’re talking about. Bono knows G-8 poverty policy issues better than I do. Mia Farrow beat the news media in getting good photographs of the Janjaweed in Darfur. Ashley Judd has been to rural Bihar, India, to learn about sex trafficking. Ben Affleck knows Congo and South Sudan inside out. George Clooney has done more for Darfur than the White House National Security Council. And Angelina Jolie has traveled and visited with refugees and desperate people all over, including three trips to the greater Darfur area, if I remember right. That’s two more trips than Condi Rice has made.
(Note to stars out there looking for good causes: one of the great issues that is sitting out there, unclaimed, is maternal mortality — the half million women each year who die in childbirth simply because they are poor, rural and female. Oprah Winfrey has tackled maternal health at the edges, in Ethiopia, but it’s a vast problem that never gets adequate attention. So grab it!)
One of the perennial problems for humanitarian crises is that no one pays attention, and so these crises never get resources. That’s partly a problem of the news media, especially television, and partly a problem of politicians who just aren’t interested in distant problems that don’t have quick-fix solutions. But celebrities carry a spotlight with them, and if they can use some of that glow to highlight the needs of Darfur, Congo or Chad, that saves lives.
Frankly, if a celebrity isn’t genuinely interested in poverty and is simply trying to get good press, there are better ways to do it. Traveling to Darfur or Congo is dangerous, expensive and uncomfortable, and the outhouses have bats, scorpions and camel spiders. But if a celebrity is willing to put up with such challenges, he or she can get public attention in a way that no one else can. I once was on a panel where Angelina’s eyes filled up as she spoke of Iraqi refugees she had met in Syria; for anybody who was there, that scene was worth 100 of my columns. And ditto for her speech on Friday at the Council on Foreign Relations.
So let’s lay off the snarkiness. Until we have an administration that cares about these issues, we have to accept moral leadership where we can find it — and that includes celebrities who care.
Speeches can be written. If she was really a humanitarian at heart she would talk about the issues that matter every chance she got but instead uses the time to brag about her life and choices and how great everything around them is. Being Humanitarian is not a part time job that you only do when the UN is the there.
i appreciate angie’s work as a humanitarian. she is very good at foreign relations and wonderful toward those that she doesn’t know. however, she is ignorant and acts like she is first person to “think” of having children. i deal with many people like this on a daily basis. they are boring, ignorant, and rude. how dare she share the wealth and “shed light” overseas while she is basically putting down our society saying that children are an “afterthought.” she is an elitist idiot!!!
go, papyrus, go…
Well, if that’s what makes them happy then good for them. Just shut up about it. We know you’re ”perfect” and all.
She has been making alot of stupid comments as of lately. Like the one were her kids playing with knives and guns. And all before her movie comes out.
We know you’re ”perfect” and all.
if they need to say, it probably isn’t true. it’s like when people brag about much money they have or how smart they are…usually not true. i don’t want to begin in on guy bragging about size…
if they need to say it…
yawn…she is so boring!
I have written a quote she can use next time she gives an interview: “We did everything backwards. Can you believe it? Aren’t we just so crazy and innovative? I invented the concept of having kids, adopting kids, as well as the idea of not getting married. I am such a trendsetter! And look I had twins and now it’s a fad. I am going to talk constantly about how my newborns, who are way too young to even have significant personalities yet, are acting just like me and Brad. The media will love that! God, I’m original!”
Why does the owner of this site care if Angelina isn’t married? Get a life of your own honey and quit judging everybody else.
She can trendset for me ANY DAY!!!!!!!
Or how about YOU get a life and just stop reading her site! Now that’s an idea! =)
Ofcourse she says the same thing all the time, because **gasp** she gets asked the same questions all the time! Why do people think that the way that she lives her life somehow diminishes their own choices!? It’s really not that big of a deal that they chose to have kids before they got married, this puritan american ideal of marriage then babies is outdated, if thats how YOU want to live, cool. but why let it ruin your day if others don’t choose to do the same!!?
stop hating on those who are airing their opinions. freedom of speech. it’s not just way. sheesh!
“puritan american ideal”??? Are you delusional? It’s neither puritanical nor simply an American ideal that people get married then start a family. I personally don’t judge people who have not been lucky enough or have chosen to not do it that way, but don’t be ridiculous. I would guess that you are barely college age.
I am mid 20′s and I don’t apologize for it, I was simply stating that it is truly ridiculous that to be “normal” and acceptable in society today (especially when there are children involved) that it has become this requirement to be married. Having children and being in love and nurturing said love is a major commitment, that commitment does not change simply because the state sanctions it with a peice of paper and a different tax braket.
STFU Brangeloonie. Ok, Angelina is making me sick.
Yeah, we did everything so backwards that we started by breaking daddy’s marriage!
Yeah! lol……
They are starting to look like wax figures.
LMAO!!!!!! I agree.
Um, actually it does. It gives you legal rights to property and, ahem, children if either is involved. That’s an important issue that you seem to be overlooking. Hopefully their relationship IS strong enough that it doesn’t end, because there could be a huge sh*tstorm for those kids if it were to. Just because they aren’t married. Just to make a point.
I agree with you, Ha. It also gives rights such as health care decisions if your spouse is unconscious or deemed incapacitated.
But to Brianne, I don’t agree at all. I’m in my mid 20s as well and I see such a wide range of choices. Many people choose not to get married, or not to have kids, or not to do either one. Nobody says marriage is a “must do” just because it’s something that a majority of people in the U.S. do. Especially not in this day and age! It’s just that once you get serious with someone, you tend to want to live with them. Once you live with them, you have to make some tough decisions on finances AND it is also smart (although not necessary) to be cognizant of your state/country’s laws on domestic partnership/common law marriage/etc. rights. In sharing a life with someone, you want rights to what you’ve built together, and the best way to assure those rights is through marriage. On the flip side, if there is no interest in marriage, one has to protect their own interests as well. It’s never as easy as people make it out to be – especially Ms. Everything-Is-Sunshine-And-Roses Jolie!
AJ is not at all perfect, and neither is her life. She (and BP) have made decisions that they will definitely need to be honest about when their little afterthoughts get curious. It’s weird how she and BP talk so much about gay marriage and family, but had no regard for BP’s marriage when they first got together. If they want to continue to contribute to how society is redefining family, that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they are faultless and perfect.
Children are an afterthought for married people? Not one of the brightest things she’s ever said.
I wish I were one of their kids……I have great admiration for both of them. Whatever they choose, its their decision.
It is sad that how you are with this woman. All stars talk about thier personal life when they have something to promote. Why don’t you complain it recently when j.lo, Victoria beckahams, Haile Berrry etc. talk about hier personal life. I think it is the usual jealousy when it come to this woman and even when there is nothing to speculate and to twist they will find a something to bash her about. lay off her people. Let all of them live their life.
to : anonymous
are you angie or her publicist. go away you lost your way to just jared.
wow, that was conceided. It’s not like they are the first couple in the world having kids & not being married.
Her recent comments “some day our children will see the movie that their mom and dad fell in love on”… referring to Mr. and Mrs. Smith. That pretty much says everything that everyone already knew, although the denials were high and mighty that “there was NOTHING going on”. She knew what she was doing, what she wanted, sought it out and broke inocent hearts to get it. I have tried to like her but it just isn’t working… so I’m gonna stop trying. As for Brad, I used to like him too. It’s not about jealousy either… it’s about watching a master of manipulation leading their pet around with a diamond collar on. Anyone have thoughts on who wears the pants in that family?
ha@ Comments like “It just goes to show how self-absorbed she was prior to having children. Hopefully that has changed, but I’m going out on a limb and guessing now. A leopard can’t change their spots. ” make me sick. You do live a completely different life when you don’t have children, so why is that self-absorbed. People change, they grow up and they change their priorities with age ( and once they have children). And another thing, it really depends on where you live what rights you have when you are married or unmarried. And “legal rights to property” … what the heck? How material can you be?
what a horrid ugly family! angie is a fat tramp! look at her fat sagging pig titts and her kangaroo loose tummy!
Well, that was a lame response. Let’s try again tomorrow.
Haters hate because they are unhappy with the events of their own lives. Heres hoping that they can all find some peace in the chaos of their own days so that maybe soon they’ll put some focus on something positive.
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I will believe it when I see it.
What a nasty witch! no one cares if these 2 sluts get married. i hope brad cheats on her with a costar once they get married. nice nose job angie! also what a fing hypocrite to diss her dad like that for the SAME reasons she did to jennifer aniston. aniston is hot and in shape unlike angies kangaroo stratched out somach…haha
“Children are an afterthought?”
What a &%$#@ idiot.
And here I was really starting to like her.
I agree with Lara Jane. “Children are an afterthought?”
She is one of those obnoxious parents who thinks that they are the ONLY ones who have ever thought of having children. Only THEY put their children first.
She is too much. By the way, they are children, not collectibles. Maybe someone should tell her that, instead of asking her about marriage.
for the love of god will this woman never STFU about her perfect life? stop believing your own hype, mangie. you aren’t a modern day mother teresa.
Will these two just give it a rest and GO AWAY?!?losethatgirl blog
Why does this story resurface every time Angelina has a new movie out?
Oh, Angie. *shakes head*
I find that statement to be very obnoxious… usually I like Angelina.
not a fan…even tho i think she’s absolutely gorgeous…but maybe she meant to use “afterward” instead of “afterthought”…
It just goes to show how self-absorbed she was prior to having children. Hopefully that has changed, but I’m going out on a limb and guessing now. A leopard can’t change their spots.