Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt plan to adopt another child
Actor-turned-activist, Angelina Jolie, says she was relieved last month when, after the birth of her biological daugher, Shiloh, she didn't feel a different kind of love. Jolie has two adopted children, Maddox from Cambodia and Zahara from Ethiopia, with her partner, Brad Pitt.
Jolie told CNN's Anderson Cooper this evening that she was "prepared to defend my other children. I was prepared to give them extra love and attention because something was going to be different about this new one." There was no difference. She added that she was terrified in the minutes before the birth that her child wouldn't breathe and, right after the C-Section, Jolie anxiously waited to hear the child's cry.
Jolie spoke to Cooper to draw attention to the United Nations' World Refugee Day. It was her first interview since giving birth last month. In a fitted black dress, and bold black eyeliner, the star of the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider films said that she and Pitt plan to adopt again. She says she's always known her "children are around the globe." The couple just doesn't know which country, what race, their fourth child will be. They're currently investigating possibilities.
Jolie acknowledged that she donates one-third of her income to charity. "I have a stupid income," she laughed. She also told Cooper that she'd been feeling tired and, just before appearing for the interview, which was taped in Los Angeles last week, she'd been breastfeeding her newborn. She pulled herself together because it was the least she could do for refugees and displaced persons she's seen in the last five years, from Sierra Leone to Pakistan, in her role as Goodwill Ambassador for the UN.
Naturally, Jolie is an ardent supporter of the UN and a subtle objector to the war in Iraq. When Cooper asked her if she supported the war, she deflected saying, "Our priorities are quite strange. We're missing a lot of opportunities to do a lot of good that America is used to doing and has a history of doing. We're not able to be as generous...." She was referring to the war budget.
Her eyes grew watery when she recalled the first child, a 13-year-old boy, she met in Sierra Leone who later died in a refugee camp. She still feels guilty that she didn't charter a helicopter to take him to hospital. "I still see his face and I always will."
