Posted on 10/27/2006 12:49:21 AM PDT by Mrs Ivan
Angelina Jolie is adopting an Indian baby to add to her growing international brood, according to US reports.
Sources say the big-hearted actress and partner Brad Pitt have already applied to adopt a tot from an Indian orphanage. An insider said: "They hope to be able to bring the child home by Christmas.
"Brad would prefer a boy no older than 18 months to even out the sexes but Angie has told him she can't guarantee she won't fall in love with a little girl."
The source told US magazine Globe: "Whichever they end up with, they'd like to name the child India to honour its homeland." The pair are rumoured to have visited the Priva Darshini orphanage in the last month.
Angelina's first child, five-year-old Maddox, was adopted from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002. And last year she adopted an Ethiopian baby girl - Zahara Marley Jolie - orphaned by AIDS, now 22-months-old.
She and actor Brad Pitt, 42, had a daughter together, baby Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, in May 2006. Angelina, 31, has declared that she'd like kiddies from all over the world.
She has said: "I want to create a rainbow family. That's children of different religions and cultures from different countries."
"I believe I'm meant to find my children in the world and not necessarily have them genetically."
Miss Jolie and Pitt have been virtually inseparable since the actor split from Friends star Jennifer Aniston in January last year.
They grew close after appearing in the film Mr and Mrs Smith.
After the birth of their daughter Pitt described fatherhood as the greatest thing he had ever done.
"It's a true joy and a very profound love," he said.
However it was said that the couple were in disagreement over whether they should adopt again, with Pitt wanting to concentrate on the children they have.
Miss Jolie is currently in India with Pitt filming her latest movie A Mighty Heart, about the murder of U.S journalist Daniel Pearl.
She has been pictured with her skin darkened with makeup and her hair tightly curled to resemble Mr Pearls mixed race wife Mariane.
However the role has angered race campaigners who say a genuine mixed race or black actress should have been given the part.
Mr Pearl, a 38-year-old reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was beheaded by Islamic fanatics.
Last night a spokeswoman for Miss Jolie was unavailable for comment over claims she is set to adopt another child.
That comment alone is sporfle-worthy.
Unreal, Hollywood is now collecting these kids like bottle caps trying to impress one another..."Oh look what Madonna has, I must outdo her!" I read the father of this kid Moadonna hijacked use to walk 25 miles a day to visit his kid. Real nice, now he`s taken away to be raised by a slut.
Here's the story of a slutty actress
Who had adopted three very lovely kids.
None of them looked like their mother,
The youngest an African.
Here's the story, of a man named Bradley
Who was gettin' busy with Jennifer Anniston
They were beautiful, living together
They were all alone.
Till the one day when Angie met Bradley
And they knew it was much more than an affair,
That these two adulterers would somehow form a family.
That's the way we all became the Branjelina Bunch
The Branjelina Bunch,
That's the way we all became the Branjelina Bunch.
The Branjelina Bunch.
Who was the American Black woman caberet singer back decades ago that moved to France and adopted kids endlessly?
That is what Jolie is starting to remind me of.
Well I just hope, that all the kids she's adopted will have a good future socio-economically and make good use of the upward mobility that these celebs offer them.
I couldn't care less about what Pitt and Jolie do with each other so long as the kids are better off than they might otherwise have been.
Just to take preemptive action against anyone who'll start to tell me that there's more to raising children than social mobility, let me set the record straight.
I do agree that moral values are more important but keeping in mind the situation that these kids were in, I don't think there might have been too big a chance of them developing much of that. With Brangelina, lets hope they make the most of what can be realistically expected.
Adult Children adopting boutique orphans is revolting.
What is sad is there are so many older kids that need to be adopted. And with their money, they could really help save these kids in getting them the help they really need to adjust. Oh Wait, these are the all caring Hollywood stars what was I thinking, older kids would actually mean caring and dealing with them rather then pass them off to their nannies.
Forgive the memory Glitch
Bear :-)
This is exactly what I think every time I read about these celebrity adoptions and it is exactly what annoys me so much.
Josephine Baker?
"What is sad is there are so many older kids that need to be adopted ... older kids would actually mean caring and dealing with them rather then pass them off to their nannies."
"This is exactly what I think every time I read about these celebrity adoptions and it is exactly what annoys me so much."
So are you saying they shouldn't adopt babies? What is the deal here? These kids they adopted will have a profoundly better life. Would it be better if they adopted nobody?
This is like complaining about a rich person giving a million dollars to a charity and then saying "well why didn't he give 2 million ?!"
These kids that are being adopted by Hollywoodites are only going to be raised by nannies, anyway.
I'm not impressed.
I disagree.
Why the need to publicise the adoption? Why are older children less worthy of celebrity attention?
Is it because the only disadvantaged children are babies, or is it because they would be too much wotk for Hollywood attention whores to cope with, and have far less cutesy photogenic appeal than babies?
LOL! Sporfle? Please enlighten me, I have to know what this means. It's sounds like what happens if you laugh after a big sip of milk...
That being said, she'd got a child that matches the drapes, the tile in the living room, one for the kitchen and now she needs someone that will go with that new couch...
Truly I am happy for the children she is saving from abject poverty and a life of misery.
Now this thing about a "rainbow family", it's very nice sentiment. Americans as much as anyone are open minded towards race and religion. It's such a major misunderstanding that other societies think Americans are racists, it's a myth perpetuated by media and a reality practiced among Democrats.
When I went to Brasil one time, for example, my buddy Paulo introduced me to his buddy Carlao (big Carl.) Brasil has more names for people of different racial pursuasion and a name for every color between. Carlao was "preta" or black, really, really black. Carlao hears I'm from America and asks "So what do you Americans think when you see us here in Brasil, all different colors, getting along?" Like we're spending our time shooting minorities from the back of trucks while chewing "tobbacky" in our spare time up North.
How the hell does he think I learned Portuguese "intimately" anyways? I responded in my best "Paulista" dialect "O que e um arcoiris com so uma cor?" ("What is a rainbow with but one color?"). Abstract, but it nailed my point. Answered the question intellectually and touched his soul, which is how "gente real" communicate. Carlao took the time to ask questions and learned we Americans are not racist SOBs and are generally open minded to people based upon behavior, not color.
Yeah, if you start chopping off heads and calling us infidel, generally, we're going to "frown upon you" and cure you like some sorry@ss foot fungus. Make an effort to integrate and contribute to society and Americans will generally embrace you and say "Welcome, neighbor".
So it's nice to see Joley reach out and make an effort to put together her little "Rainbow" family. I hope she spends some true quality time in making them a family. Even if she sends them off with the army of nannies, it will be a far better fate than had they been left where they were. Talk about winning the lottery of life.
As far as the "rainbow family" comment, it kind of touches me. I've constantly embraced God's infinite diversity and appreciated his work. Judge each person for how they behave in your world, and don't judge them for how others treat them. It was how my father raised us. Seems genuinely typical of the American sentiment, where we historically received the tired, hungry and trod upon that most other nations abused who wanted to work to build a better life. We raised them up and gave any man or woman willing to work for the chance and become an American and integrate into society, to build a good life in this land.
So it's nice to see Hollywood types promote the same thinking. Of course it's some 40 years that this obvious lesson was impressed upon us by my parents. Still, it gives me hope that some day, even the Democrats may treat their constituents as real human beings and not as subjects to a socialist agenda.
I have a dream, yes? We should all hope that one day they will learn. Angelina Joley is in a very real way is contributing to that end.
'Nuff of my blather. More coffee, have a nice day. : )
"I disagree.
Why the need to publicise the adoption? Why are older children less worthy of celebrity attention?
Is it because the only disadvantaged children are babies, or is it because they would be too much wotk for Hollywood attention whores to cope with, and have far less cutesy photogenic appeal than babies?"
So you're saying it's better that they adopt nobody if they don't take the older kids?
That's crazy.
Ivan
Why dont they just adopt an adoption agency. With their money they could support a good adoption agency and do some genuine good. They could stop by once in a while and see the kids, just like they will do anyway since nannies will be raising them most of the time.
I am sometimes too cynical for my own good and do tend to home in on the negative and sporfle-worthy aspects of the situation.
Thank you for pointing out the positive.
Sporfle, of course, is a marvellous word, which as you rightly say sounds like what happens if you laugh after a big sip of milk, or indeed if you hide behind your hand trying desperately not to lol.
I have all sorts of similarly odd expressions that I hope to sprinkle throughout the internet as I go. :)
hell...I think she adopt enough to at least have a full basketball team!!!!!
hollywood people..."is there anything that they don't know?"
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