Because everyone else is giving their two cents about the birth of Angelina and Brad’s baby, I thought I would take a different route from everyone else when I said my piece. I wouldn’t “ooh” and “ahhh” over the fact reports state Shiloh has “tufts of Angelina’s hair” or has a nose resembling Brad’s.
I’ll instead focus on two things showing up in the papers which are starting to annoy me. (It also happened when Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had their baby.)
1. Insensitive comments -
Jon Voight’s (Angelina’s dad) comment takes the cake.
“His spokesman told America’s New York Times newspaper that Voight is excited and “can’t wait to hold the baby in his arms and be a grandpa”.”
So Maddox and Zahara aren’t considered his grandchildren? And before you say, well… Shiloh is her first “real” child… please just move far away from me so I don’t have to sting you a look of death from my “runaway bride” eyes. Shiloh is Brad and Angelina’s youngest child. They have three children — Maddox, Zahara and Shiloh.
2. Boston Herald
The “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” co-stars holed up in Namibia with their two adopted children, Maddox, 4 and Zaharah, 1, before the birth of Shiloh to avoid being the center of media attention.
First… they couldn’t have been just staying in Namibia with their two other children? “Holed up” is the phrase to use because I guess a luxury resort usually dredges up “holed up” thoughts. Somehow I don’t think people who stay two months at the Four Seasons on South Doheny are said to be “holed up”.
And secondly, why do reporters have to constantly focus on the fact Angelina and Brad’s first two children are adopted? Most of the articles are mentioning that fact in the articles they are running about the birth of Baby Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.
Why make Maddox and Zahara feel different? As far as I know .. adopted children need to be picked up from soccer practice and want their parents to read them bedtimes stories, too. Couldn’t any of the papers just say they were staying at the resort with their other children for the past 2 months while they awaited the arrival of Shiloh? I can’t pick an adopted child out of a group of children playing at the playground so why must everyone constantly brand them “adopted” instead of just dropping the word and just saying children?
You really just have to laugh at society sometimes. It can be so warped and cruel. Welcome to our world Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, it sure is something.
