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| | Angelina Jolie stepped out for a super-obvious pap stroll which was beneath her | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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When Ben Affleck & Ana De Armas were first pap-strolling in the middle of the friggin? pandemic this spring, I was so annoyed with them. They *already* looked like giant dumbasses all on their own. Then something even more annoying happened: Ben?s ex-wife Jennifer Garner began organizing competing pap strolls with their children (and a cat in a stroller) as a way to remind everyone of her existence. Like, it was blatant celebrity ?counter-programming? to Afflarmas and it was such a ?don?t forget about meeeee? desperado move. I bring this up because, well, Angelina Jolie is pulling a Jennifer Garner. And it?s so painful. It?s painful for me to admit that, and it?s painful to see Angelina do this sh-t.
Angelina stepped out with her kids I think all of them? yesterday in LA, where they?ve all been locked down since March. They went to Nobu, an old-school celebrity hotspot and a place that (I assume) paparazzi still stake out on a regular basis. Angelina clearly knows the paparazzi are there and you can see her looking at them. She even got dressed up in a shiny copper-colored sack dress for the occasion. The point is that she wanted to be seen and photographed. She wanted these images out there, a single mother and her children, wearing masks and enjoying a dinner at Nobu.
It?s the timing. Because that?s what makes this a Garner move. Two days ago, we saw Brad Pitt begin to roll out his girlfriend, an ?Angelina Jolie look-alike? only German and 27 years old. Brad Pitt already looks like a sad douche in the throes of a nasty midlife crisis. Angelina didn?t need to underline the point. She didn?t need to do the glamorous-single-mother pap stroll. I?m so sad for her that she did this. I mean, I still love her. But damn, my girl makes some bad calls sometimes. All of the Jolie stans would have been fine with simply defending her and not seeing her at the moment.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt's four-year divorce hampered by the pandemic | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last week, People Magazine had a curious story about how Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have softened towards each other to the point where he can visit her house for hours and it doesn?t devolve into a murderous rampage. ?Sources? credited the fact that Angelina, Brad and the kids have all been in family therapy since late 2016, after the plane incident. We?re coming up on the four-year anniversary of the incident and Angelina?s divorce filing. Their divorce still isn?t completed, and the last I heard, the financial part of the divorce was the biggest sticking point, not the custodial issue of the younger kids. Again, it?s been four years so why are we hearing that the pandemic is the reason why Brad and Angelina haven?t finalized their divorce?
Pumping the brakes. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie?s ?legal matters? are being put on pause as courts grapple with the coronavirus pandemic.
?Brad is seeing the kids but everything involved in their process of resolving legal matters between Angelina and Brad, including the courts, is slowed down because of COVID,? a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. ?With the pandemic, it has been hard for everyone, including them. The legal process is slowed because of that. They are continuing regular visits but there has not been a lot of progress in terms of resolving anything.?
The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star, 56, has been spotted visiting his children at Jolie?s house twice in the past few weeks. Pitt stopped by her mansion in June and was seen leaving her home again on July 2.
A source told Us on Wednesday, July 8, that the former couple have been working on their coparenting relationship for the sake of their children. Pitt and Jolie, 45, are the parents of Maddox, 18, Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 12, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 11.
?Brad and Angelina have continued to navigate a path forward for their children,? the insider explained. ?There has been progress.?
[From Us Weekly]
I shared my thoughts about why it feels like Angelina has been slow-walking the divorce process it?s because the longer this takes, the older the kids are and the more likely the court will say that they can make their own decisions about whether to see Brad. I could be wrong! I definitely think there are lots of financial shenanigans happening too, in that Brad has been putting up a fight about a full financial disclosure to Angelina. Still, the larger point remains? it?s been almost four years. The pandemic can?t be blamed on all of this.
Here are some photos of Brad arriving to Angelina Jolie?s gated community. I mean, the photo agency claims that?s him and that must be the BMW bike we?ve heard so much about (the same one he was riding around the BLM protest a few weeks ago). The jeans? wow. The wash and a rolled-up cuff? I?m sure he rolled up the cuffs because of something to do with driving a motorcycle, but the effect is not very cool.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie: Women are 'nurturing by nature, community-building by nature' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie took part in another Zoom call about important issues. She?s been doing this throughout the lockdown, doing Zoom calls with charities and Zooming on behalf of Time Magazine (where she has a columnist gig). This week, she Zoomed with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in a conversation moderated by (sad clown noise) Mika Brzezinski. It was for the National Democratic Institute, and they spoke about women in power, women and girls understanding their political and social power and more:
During a discussion with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright moderated by Mika Brzezinski for the National Democratic Institute, Jolie said that there are many societal factors holding women back. During a portion of the conversation shared by NDI on Twitter Wednesday, Albright said a profound result of empowering women around that world is women that are able to make a political difference by running for office and being part of the decision-making mechanism.
Brzezinski added that its amazing to see what can happen when women are told of their value ? something that inspired Jolie to chime in.
Women contribute so much, they are giving, are nurturing by nature, are community-building by nature, are strong, are intelligent, and yet what is it thats holding us back? the actress, 45, said. I think when you speak of value, thats something to really sit with. Why is it that so many women still dont know their own value? What is it thats been done to us, whether it be the rapes and the lack of accountability for the rape, whether it be domestic violence, whether it be this question where we still, we still are saying, Please stop hurting me, and Please hold someone to account if they hurt me.
[From People]
A minor quibble, but I loathe the stereotype that women are ?nurturing? by nature. I do feel like there are completely fair generalizations to be made about women being natural community-builders, and women being just as intelligent, strong and capable as men. Completely fair. But I think ?nurturing? is more of a societal norm, a gendered expectation that we teach girls, that we show girls that they have to care, to nurture, to empathize and we don?t teach boys the same thing. Im sure some will disagree! It?s an interesting debate to have and I enjoy the fact that Angelina and Maddy Albright are doing it.
How can we Change the Face of Politics with more #women in political leadership? Watch @NDI Chairman @Madeleine discuss risk-taking women & democracy w/ #AngelinaJolie & @morningmika. ???#PoliticalWomen ?? #GenderEquality pic.twitter.com/PGKVfDwYNr
National Democratic Institute (@NDI) July 8, 2020
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| | Angelina Jolie: Americans are 'not taught enough' to respect other cultures & histories | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie has written another Time Magazine column, because that?s what she does now! She?s still in lockdown in LA, and Angelina has had time (like never before) to write columns and letters, Zoom with editors and charities and generally try to keep her work going on refugees, women?s rights and children?s rights. In this week?s Time column, Angelina writes about how, even in this moment of a global conversation about racism, we need to think about refugees. Refugees are often the victims of racism, bigotry, sexism and persecution too. You can read her piece here. An excerpt:
As the burning injustice of discrimination and racism in America bursts to the forefront, we must also address persecution and oppression rising globally, depriving millions of their rights, their liberty and their physical safety. The U.N. Refugee Agency has published its latest annual report on the state of human displacement in the world and it is stark reading. Nearly 80 million people?the highest number since records began, according to available data?have been forced from their homes by extreme persecution and violence, and are living as refugees, asylum seekers or people displaced within their own countries. For the first time, forced displacement is affecting more than one percent of humanity, or 1 in every 97 people.
These are people fleeing attacks on schools and hospitals, mass sexual violence, the siege and starvation of whole cities, the murderous oppression of terrorist groups, and decades of institutionalized persecution based on religion, gender or sexuality.
It is not just the overall number of forcibly displaced people that is shocking. More people are being forced to leave their homes on a larger scale in more places and at one of the fastest rates in living memory. Global displacement has almost doubled since 2010. The number of refugees in sub-Saharan Africa has tripled in the same period. And the number of countries where the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is working to support internally-displaced people has gone from 15 in 2005 to 33 today. This is before the full economic devastation of COVID-19 strikes, threatening hunger and starvation and deeper insecurity for millions.
Several factors seem to be at play. This past decade began with a global recession that has fueled hardship and anger and discontent. Many countries and communities around the world have shown extraordinary generosity to refugees living in their midst. But even as, across the world, refugee medics, nurses and healthcare workers serve on the frontline of the COVID-19 response, refugees are often regarded as a burden, greeted with xenophobia and racism, and denigrated and dehumanized in politics and the media.
We are quick to criticize the human rights records of adversaries but silent when conflicts creating displacement and misery involve our allies. When we start to pick and choose which countries or peoples we help, from our humanitarian assistance to our asylum policies, we ourselves are discriminating: assigning different levels of importance to different peoples, races, religions and ethnicities, violating the fundamental principle that we are all born equal.
In our school years, we Americans are not taught enough to respect and admire the cultures and contributions of countries with histories far longer than our own. Or indeed to have a truly deep understanding of our own history, and the acts our country was built upon. That is one reason why, in my early twenties, I first wanted to work with UNHCR. What has become clear to me through my work is that the fight for human rights and equality is universal. It is one fight, wherever we live, and however different our circumstances might be.
[From Time Magazine]
?We are quick to criticize the human rights records of adversaries but silent when conflicts creating displacement and misery involve our allies.? This is very true, and I wish she would also say that we are quick to criticize other countries (even allies) even when our own human rights record in America is so appalling. ?When we start to pick and choose which countries or peoples we help, from our humanitarian assistance to our asylum policies, we ourselves are discriminating.? We always have, from immigration policies to which refugees we?ve helped, to which wars we fight and for what reasons we fight in those wars.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Backgrid and Avalon Red.
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| | Angelina Jolie: 'I separated for the wellbeing of my family. It was the right decision' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie has been giving excellent interviews while quarantined in LA. She?s been writing and doing Zoom calls too, but it?s been a while since we?ve had back-to-back magazine interviews from Angelina. A few weeks ago, we read her Harper?s Bazaar UK feature (which should have been a cover story), and now there?s a Vogue India interview. The point of this piece was to highlight the work of the UNHCR, of which Angelina serves as Special Envoy (a step up from goodwill ambassador, which she was for 11 years). The piece was published on Friday, ahead of World Refugee Day (June 20). While there?s a lot of information about the work of the UNHCR, she also spoke about her children, adoption, and splitting from Brad Pitt. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
How the pandemic will affect refugees: ?Sadly we are only at the beginning of the economic and social impact of the crisis, and what this will mean for displaced people when levels of humanitarian funding were already so low. It really is frightening to consider. It?s a time for solidarity and to understand that refugees are on the frontline of the struggle for survival and human rights.?
Who taught her the most about refugees: ?Many UNHCR colleagues, but really the refugees themselves have been my mentors. I remember one of my first field missions, in Sierra Leone, when at a certain point, after listening to people?s stories, I started to cry. There was an amazing grandmother there, looking after her orphaned grandkids, who pulled me up and told me not to cry but to help. That has always stayed with me.
Her love of Cambodia: ?Cambodia was the country that made me aware of refugees. It made me engage in foreign affairs in a way I never had, and join UNHCR. Above all, it made me a mom. In 2001, I was in a school programme in Samlout playing blocks on the floor with a little kid and as clear as day I thought: ?My son is here.? A few months later I met baby Mad at an orphanage. I can?t explain it and am not one to believe in messages or superstition. But it was just real and clear. Samlout was the first and last stronghold of the Khmer Rouge. It was where I first went with UNHCR because it is near the Thai border, where people were struggling to return. It was littered with landmines. I chose to invest and live there to try to help improve one of the most challenging areas of the country. We found 48 landmines on my property. My home is on a compound I share with the HQ for my foundation. It is 100 percent locally run, as it should be, and I work with a great team of people.?
A family full of adopted & biological kids: ?Each is a beautiful way of becoming family. What is important is to speak with openness about all of it and to share. ?Adoption? and ?orphanage? are positive words in our home. With my adopted children, I can?t speak of pregnancy, but I speak with much detail and love about the journey to find them and what it was like to look in their eyes for the first time. All adopted children come with a beautiful mystery of a world that is meeting yours. When they are from another race and foreign land, that mystery, that gift, is so full. For them, they must never lose touch with where they came from. They have roots that you do not. Honour them. Learn from them. It?s the most amazing journey to share. They are not entering your world, you are entering each other?s worlds.?
How she?s sustained a healthy environment for her kids after the separation: ?I separated for the wellbeing of my family. It was the right decision. I continue to focus on their healing. Some have taken advantage of my silence, and the children see lies about themselves in the media, but I remind them that they know their own truth and their own minds. In fact, they are six very brave, very strong young people.?
What she?s been working on in lockdown: ?I?ll be working with UNHCR on the global crisis and keeping connected and raising awareness of the realities on the ground. And continuing to work with the BBC World Service, on a media literacy initiative for young people. I?m also collaborating with Amnesty International on a book project for children?s rights. I went into lockdown thinking it would be a good time to learn to cook. Never happened. I know my limits.?
[From Vogue India]
A book could be written about these sentences: ?I separated for the wellbeing of my family. It was the right decision. I continue to focus on their healing. Some have taken advantage of my silence, and the children see lies about themselves in the media, but I remind them that they know their own truth and their own minds.? Wow, Angelina really ended Brad and his PR team, huh? They thought they could spread all of those sugary stories about Brad and fatherhood and such and Angelina?s like ?that motherfker is lying.? Just another reminder that the sh-t that went down on the plane forever changed Angelina and she went into ?protect the kids? mode and she never looked back.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie: 'Listen to those who are being oppressed & never assume to know' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie has an interesting interview in the latest issue of Harper?s Bazaar UK. Honestly, it should have been the cover! Her son Knox Jolie-Pitt photographed Angelina for the magazine, and you can see those sweet photos here. She spoke with Bazaar about the pandemic, refugees and racism. She?s been in lockdown in LA for months, and as we?ve already seen, she?s been using this time to write and use the media to draw attention to the issues she cares about. Some highlights from her interview:
Whether the lockdown changed her perspective on what matters: ?I was fortunate years ago to travel with the UN to frontlines around the world and put into perspective what really matters. Having six children, I am reminded daily of what matters. But after almost two decades of international work, this pandemic and this moment in America has made me rethink the needs and suffering within my own country. I am focusing both globally and domestically; they are of course linked. There are over 70 million people who?ve had to flee their homes worldwide because of war and persecution and there is racism and discrimination in America. A system that protects me but might not protect my daughter ? or any other child, woman or man in our country based on skin colour ? is intolerable. We need to progress beyond sympathy and good intentions to laws and policies that actually address structural racism and impunity. Ending abuses in policing is just the start. It goes far beyond that, to all aspects of society, from our education system to our politics.
Advice for talking about racism: ?To listen to those who are being oppressed and never assume to know.?
The most faith-restoring things she?s witnessed: ?The way people are rising. Saying that they are tired with the excuses and half-measures, and showing solidarity with each other in the face of inadequate responses by those in power. It feels like the world is waking up, and people are forcing a deeper reckoning within their societies. It is time to make changes in our laws and our institutions ? listening to those who?ve been most affected and whose voices have been excluded.
The most horrifying impacts of lockdown, other than the plight of refugees: ?The other horror is domestic violence. The reality before lockdown was that the most dangerous place for a woman to be was in her home. During lockdown, the abuse and level of violence has risen. Above all my concern is for the children. The number of children we know at this very moment are being abused keeps me up at night. There is a global health crisis for children from abuse, neglect and the effects of that trauma. And not nearly enough done to protect them?.We still turn a blind eye to domestic violence. We often don?t believe survivors, we don?t put the rights of children first or take their trauma seriously. Our child protection services are not adequately resourced and funded. They lack proper training. So do judges. In America, there isn?t even a nationwide register of child abuse deaths or an agreed definition of death caused by maltreatment, meaning we can?t even track the scale of the problem effectively. It is my belief that not only those who commit the abuse but those who cover and dismiss it, must be held accountable. Everyone says that they are against domestic violence, but it is these kinds of very specific things we need to change and the protection of children should be at the heart of it.
What she?s been reading & watching in isolation: ?I am in listening mode most hours of the day. I follow TIME magazine, the New York Times, the BBC World Service and BLM activists online. Most recently, I?ve watched the documentary I Am Not Your Negro, about James Baldwin and the Civil Rights movement in America. Before bed, I?ve been reading Unreasonable Behavior by Don McCullin and reflecting on how journalism has changed in the last half a century.
The kids adopted disabled bunnies: ?Like most parents, I focus on staying calm so my children don?t feel anxiety from me on top of all they are worrying about. I put all my energy into them. During the lockdown, Vivienne lost a bunny during a surgery, and we adopted two sweet little ones who are disabled. They need to be in pairs. They are so gentle and it has helped to focus on their care with her at this time. And on the dogs, and snake and lizard?
[From Harper?s Bazaar UK]
While this is not the biggest headline from this interview, I friggin? love that Angelina?s kids are obsessed with animals and that Vivienne has disabled bunnies and they all live in a Hollywood mansion with bunnies, lizards, snakes and dogs. The Jolie-Pitt kids are amazing. As for the rest of it? I love her but my God she?s a Debbie Downer. I get it though she talked about not being able to sleep because she was thinking about all of the abused kids who don?t have a safe place and I felt that. She also talked about how she?s doing a kids? book in association with Amnesty International about how kids across the world can stand up for their rights.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie is 'disgusted that we have gotten to this point as a country' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie has been isolating in LA with her children during the pandemic. She?s got all six kids home with her, although the younger kids are likely keeping up with their visits to Brad Pitt. This is the first time in a long time where Angelina is just HOME, with no far-flung refugee camp to visit or some movie to film. Which might explain why Angelina has been doing a lot of Time Magazine op-eds, Time Magazine videos, and just general awareness-raising around many issues involving the children of the pandemic. Angelina donated $1 million to No Kid Hungry, and now she?s writing letters to advocate for an increase in SNAP benefits:
Actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie is lobbying Congress to increase food assistance to families across the U.S. as the coronavirus pandemic keeps millions in their homes and children out of schools, where many receive free meals. The Academy Award winner, who is well-known for her work internationally with refugees and conservation and human rights groups, wrote a letter to top congressional leaders, shared exclusively with USA TODAY, asking that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits be increased to help children who she says are going hungry because schools are closed and parents are out of work.
Many of the most vulnerable children in America have missed nearly 740 million meals at school, due to closure resulting from the rapid spread of coronavirus. With parents facing lost jobs and wages, many of these children are going hungry, she wrote in the April 20 letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
While strengthening SNAP will not alleviate all of the challenges low-income families are facing during the public health emergency, it will help ensure that fewer children go to bed hungry in our country, she said.
Congress has increased food assistance benefits by more than $15 billion amid the pandemic but Jolie and advocates argue more is needed, a proposal that Democrats have similarly demanded but failed to pass muster with Republicans in the last round of stimulus funding approved late last month. About half of all U.S. public schoolchildren rely on free or reduced-price meals. And while schools across the country have tried to continue providing grab-and-go lunches to those in need, some have halted such programs or limited them as workers have contracted COVID-19.
[From USA Today]
Yeah, Moscow Mitch won?t do sh-t about it. I doubt many Republicans will care, even though many of them come from districts or states which rely heavily on SNAP benefits. USA Today also says that before Angelina sent the letter, she did a video conference call with local food banks and No Kid Hungry, and they all discussed the very real cuts to food-assistance programs under the Trump administration, and many of those cuts were already in motion before millions of children lost their one meal a day at public school. During the call, Angelina apparently grew more and more upset with the realities of so many American children going hungry. She reportedly said, ?I knew that there were problems in America. I knew that there was poverty. I could not believe when I realized how many schoolchildren in America were dependent on a meal to not go hungry. I was so disgusted that we have gotten to this point as a country. Me too.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid and WENN.
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| | Angelina Jolie: For many kids, the quarantine means the end of their education | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Is Angelina Jolie already a little bit stir-crazy? Perhaps. Over the past three years, she?s gotten used to spending time in one place for months at a time, although as we?ve seen, she gets itchy to travel and explore and visit far-flung places, often with her kids. She?s been in LA with her children for months though, and now Maddox is home from South Korea, and so the Jolie Seven are together again for the quarantine. Which explains why Angelina agreed to speak to a South Korean reporter at DongA Daily about coronavirus, quarantines, Maddox?s studies and lots more. Some highlights:
On Maddox choosing Yonsei University: ?I could not be happier about Mad?s choice of university. It is, of course, closed at the moment because of the pandemic. But he?s not transferring school, he?ll be back as soon as things settle. We are all so happy, as a family, that we will have the opportunity to get to know South Korea even better through Maddox, and with him, during his studies.?
She?s homeschooling her kids, but she?s worried about access to education for kids around the world: ?Being suddenly out of school and cut off from friends is hard for anyone, but in some countries, if a young person?s education is interrupted in this way, they may never be able to go back, because they have to go to work or face other pressures. So there?s an urgent need to help young people to continue their education, through distance learning for example, to ensure they are able to get their qualifications and that they get the other kinds of support they need. This is my major focus, and something that I?m working on with UNESCO and a Global Education Coalition.?
She hopes governments care about refugees even in the pandemic: ?The most important thing to understand is that even before the virus, the situation for refugees globally was dire, with chronic shortfalls in basic humanitarian assistance including, for instance, a lack of basic healthcare. So while of course it is right that governments are moving quickly to protect their own citizens, it is urgent that we help more vulnerable societies and communities that could be devastated by this disease.?
She?s providing more content for the BBC show My World, which she executive-produces, and she released this statement about it: ?Children have not been out of school on this scale since the Second World War. This is something that throughout their lifetimes, they will remember. It is something that older generations, for all their other reference points, have not experienced. The way children go through this time ? from the tools and information they can access to the ways they can communicate to and help each other ? will be unique to their generation. We want to help kids to have access to trusted content and tools that will be useful to them during the pandemic: including helping them to seek out fact-based and reliable news, question the information they receive, and learn from each other?s experiences.?
[From People]
Quarantine kids are like ?yay no school, I?m going play outside? and Angelina is the mom who is like ?there are kids quarantined in Pakistan who would love to have your access to remote learning tools. Those kids would love access to education past the ninth grade.? And that sh-t works too, at least it did on me when I was a kid. Anyway, of course I believe her, Maddox will go back to South Korea, probably in the fall, one would hope.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Backgrid and Avalon Red.
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| | E!: Angelina Jolie & her six kids are social distancing at home in LA | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Maddox Jolie-Pitt apparently returned home to LA last week, after his South Korean university suspended classes for the coronavirus pandemic. Angelina now has all six kids back at home with her during a pandemic. I wouldn?t imagine that their daily LA life is all that different they were already an insular group, but I bet the kids miss hanging out with friends and having playdates and such. So how are the Jolie Seven managing their time during the quarantine?
The Jolie-Pitt kids are back together. In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolies children Maddox, 18, Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 13, and 11-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne have been social distancing together.
All the kids are home with Angelina but they have continued seeing Brad and go over for their regular visits, a source close to the family tells E! News. On March 20, Yonsei University, the college where the couples oldest son Maddox has been studying, announced that it will be extending online classes until mid-April due to coronavirus concerns. Like the college freshman, his younger siblings are also continuing their schooling and extracurriculars online.
They are keeping up with their schoolwork, practicing their languages, playing instruments, board games and helping cook dinner, the insider shares, later noting, It hasnt been too much of an adjustment since they are used to doing their schoolwork at home.
The source also added that Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne love spending time with their parents and getting to be home. They are having a lot of family time and just hanging out together watching movies.
[From E! News]
I bet the kids are helping out in the kitchen, because Angelina is not much of a cook. I think Pax loves to cook or bake or something? I would guess that a few of the Jolie-Pitt kids have learned how to make simple dishes like spaghetti or mac ?n cheese. As for the kids still seeing Brad? there haven?t been any paparazzi photos of Brad out and about since early March, so I would assume he?s social distancing too. Maybe he?s still sculpting or something. The Daily Mirror claimed that Angelina was ?keeping the kids away from Brad? during the quarantine, but I doubt (??) the quarantine affects visitation, right? It?s probably the same as it was two months ago, which is that the younger kids see Brad and the older kids opt out.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie's son Maddox is back home after his South Korea college closed down | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The coronavirus originated in China, as far as anyone knows. It quickly spread to surrounding Asian countries, because that?s the nature of this highly contagious virus. The first confirmed cases in South Korea happened in February, but the virus had already been on Korea?s radar for a full month, and they had already prepared testing protocols and they were prepared to order quarantines. While South Korea?s outbreak has been bad 9000 confirmed cases their testing, quarantine and isolation efforts have been a model for the rest of Asia, and they have successfully flattened the curve.
I was thinking about all of this in relation to Maddox Jolie-Pitt, who enrolled in a South Korean university last year. Angelina Jolie dropped him off at the university last fall, and by most accounts, Maddox was enjoying his freshman year. But with South Korea in a virtual lockdown, his classes were first suspended and then like so many schools around the world everything closed down. His uni is closed for the school year. And I guess Korea has flattened the curve to the point where they?re letting people travel again, so Maddox is apparently home in LA.
Angelina Jolie received an early homecoming from her oldest son! The actress? son, Maddox, returned home early from his studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea after his semester was canceled due to the novel coronavirus, PEOPLE confirms.
The 18-year-old college student is using the downtime to focus on his Korean and Russian studies while he stays at home with his mother and five younger siblings: Pax, 16; Zahara, 15; Shiloh, 13; and twins Knox and Vivienne, 11.
Jolie is also aiming to help other kids in need. The Oscar-winner donated $1 million to No Kid Hungry, an organization distributing meals to children who relied on school lunches.
?As of this week, over a billion children are out of school worldwide because of closures linked to coronavirus,? Jolie said in a statement. ?Many children depend on the care and nutrition they receive during school hours, including nearly 22 million children in America who rely on food support. No Kid Hungry is making resolute efforts to reach as many of those children as possible.?
[From People]
To all of the parents out there who now have boomerang college kids at home: are you happy about it or annoyed? Personally, I hope there are more college kids going home to their parents rather than not taking any of this seriously and, like, using the quarantine to go party and have extended spring breaks. Maddox doesn?t seem like that type. I bet he?s happy to see his brothers and sisters and he?s listening to his mom about isolating.
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