Angelina Jolie leaves Vietnam, officially introduces Pax Thien

Update:Mother and son left Vietnam this morning on their flight to the US.

In this week’s People Magazine, Angelina Jolie officially introduces her new son, Pax Thien, 3. The shoot, which took place in Vietnam earlier this week, also includes photos of Pax with his new siblings Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 2. Quotes from the interview have Angelina saying,

He is a very sweet little boy. We are slowly beginning to build his trust  and bond but it will feel complete only when we are all together. You can imagine what courage it takes to be in all new surroundings, with new people and a new language. He is very strong. It will take him a while to realize he has a family, and that his new life is permanent and that it won’t keep changing.

Many people have asked about Brad Pitt and Shiloh staying at home. Brad’s rep said,

He has specific days on the movie that couldn’t be changed or production would run over. Shiloh has been on the Button set everyday with her father.

Source: People

Thanks to CBB reader Nicole.

Comments

Adorable. I can’t wait for the pics with Mad and Z!

- Nicole on March 20th, 2007

awwww, sweet. Mother and son look very comfortable and relax. I’m very happy for Pax to have found a new family who going to love him very much. Thanks for the update. I’m looking forward to see the pics and read the article.

- ana on March 20th, 2007

Such a beautiful cover.

- Deena on March 20th, 2007

I thoguht that only Angelina and Maddox went to Vietnam. How did Zahara manage to get into the photo shoot??? I am so confused!

- angelbaby33 on March 20th, 2007

Was it really necessary to subject Pax to a photo shoot a few days after this adoption that he didn’t even know was going to take place? C’mon, really. And how did Z get into the photos?

Cute family, though.

- Jessie on March 20th, 2007

I think that it’s beautiful that she adopts these children… but seriously a big part of it seems to me to be the publicity and a lot of what she says seems hypocritical.
I mean I just read last week where she said she knew how much having the media frenzy around would negatively affect little Pax and that she apologized for that. Okay… so I understand she can’t completely get rid of all the paps… but seriously… to invite the media along to do a photo shoot? Can she not find a family member to take photos (where’s Brad?) or can’t she have a shoot after they’ve already bonded and his poor little life isn’t so chaotic and confusing anymore?
Just seems very “publicity” to me…

- Rachel on March 20th, 2007

Jessie: I think in their case it probably was necessary. If they don’t release a picture right away the price of the photos will go up which will only make the press go even crazier over Pax, and I can only imagine how scary that would be for him. The press is still going to take pictures, but at least this way they might not get quite as crazy trying to get an exclusive.

- Grace on March 20th, 2007

Angelina did this shoot, just as she did with Shiloh, to lessen the bounty on photos of Pax. Sadly she had to “subject” him to a photo shoot to satisfy the media.

If you want anyone to blame, blame the paparazzi who would glady surround their cars, jump out of bushes, or climb into trees to get their photos.

And she didn’t “invite the media” to take photos – she invited one photographer to do it, just as she did with Shiloh.

- Erin on March 20th, 2007

Supposedly, she flew Zahara (but not Shiloh) out specifically for the photo shoot. That seems kinda weird.

- ally on March 20th, 2007

They look great together on that cover. Pax is adorable, and I can’t wait to see the rest of the photos.

And what was said about her doing this soon, I agree that it was to take the sting out of hunting her down to get the first shot. I’d say it was her way of making the transition a little easier, not have Pax wondering what the san hell was going on with every photog following him and his new family around.

Back to the photo, it’s cute how they almost have the same facial expression/side profile.

- FC on March 20th, 2007

Rachel I totally agree with your post. I like her as an actress, but she seems like such like she wants and needs so much attention from the public. She bascially talks every single detail about her life lately, and did she really need to have a magazine shoot so quickly. The little boy just got adopted, just got a new name. Even if she releases his new picture, it’s not like there won’t be other pictures taken of him anytime they go out. And why are all three children, but not Shiloh included in the pictures. I can’t help think she just adopts just to continue getting attention, especially when you see how so many other celebrities through the years have adopted and not wanna grab so much attention.

- gianna on March 20th, 2007

Not only does releasing these photos stop the paps from hunting them down but it also draws attention to adoption in Vietnam.

Very nice picture. Can’t wait to see the others.

- Lorus on March 20th, 2007

I dont understand why Zahara is in the pictures but not Shiloh……I can understand her taking Maddox but if she left Shiloh, she have left Zahara home too. This seems weird. I really dont understand her sometimes and I am a big fan of her mind you.

I love how much Pax and Angie lookalike in this picture. And I understand both sides of the argument as well. It is still too early to have a photoshoot with Pax. She could have waited and did a photshoot with the whole family including Shi and Brad but ya the media will go mad to get that first picture of Pax just like they did with Z.

- Posh_Fan on March 20th, 2007

This family is hounded night and day by the press. They even fled to another continent to try to have Shiloh in peace, and yet they’re still getting accused of having a desperate need for attention. The only time I have ever seen Angelina try to get attention is when it comes to the work that she does as a Goodwill Ambassador, and that’s because drawing attention to the causes that she’s trying to help is part of the job. That’s what a Goodwill Ambassador (not sure if I’m spelling that right or not) is supposed to do. She’s brought a lot of problems to the public’s attention that we might not have heard about otherwise, and I respect her for it.

- Grace on March 20th, 2007

Angelina didn’t do the photoshoot for attention. She doesn’t need attention right now. I agree with the others that she was trying to relieve the media pressure, and that one photographer is better than a mob. Also, she managed to adopt Maddox and Zahara with far less fanfare, but that was before she became Brad Pitt’s partner. Now she has been elevated to the upper stratosphere of celebrity. Everything she does now is under intense media scrutiny. Other celebrities would crack under the pressure. Look at Britney.

I think people need to get over the Shiloh vs. Maddox, Zahara & Pax attitude. These are two parents who love all their chidren equally and unconditionally. Just like other parents who have a multi-racial family.

Congratulations to Angelina & Brad!!

- Faye on March 21st, 2007

Are we sure that the photo’s with Zahara weren’t taken a few months ago when they visited the orphanage and new that Pax was going to be their son? I really have a hard time believing that that Angelina would have Zahara fly to Vietnam without Shiloh and without Brad.

- Heather on March 21st, 2007

Well, we know the payment for the Hello pix will now end up as the “donation” ($2 million?) to the Vietnamese Orphanage, who everyone claimed was not getting $$$ from Angelina. Clever dodge. Shiloh wasn’t in the pix because her father would not let her (a 10mth old baby) travel to Vietnam within that circus. This all seems odd. Brad has been very absent, silent and all alone with his baby daughter in LA. It’s also interesting that Angelina is going to “stay home to help her new 3.5 yr old son Sang (aka Pax) adjust to his new life.” However, she’s beginning a new film in Eastern Europe in eight weeks. Lots of lies. I also love that now A&B are “Activists.” Gee, I don’t think their Accountants think of them as that!

- Jesse on March 21st, 2007

I am very confused & maybe a little upset with Angelina these days.
First of all why isn’t Shiloh with her brothers and sister for the photos? It seems that Shiloh is left out A LOT when it comes to Angelina and her adopted children. It’s really sad there has been such a difference made between the children and if something doesn’t change Shiloh will grow up resenting her siblings until she is old enough to see that it was moms doing. I really hope Angelina can open her eyes to what is going on and stop it before its to late.

- Barbara on March 21st, 2007

What a beautiful boy! This pic is so peaceful, why must people slam them? This is one less little one going to sleep at night without someone to hold him and to love him..why all the negativity?
Ang wouldn’t do anything she thought he was not up for, she is looking out for his best interests and doing this to ‘calm’ the paps is terrific!
Way to go little one, I am so happy you found your forever family!
*many hugs to the rest of the clan*

- Liz on March 21st, 2007

She doesn’t want the limelight shining on herself, she wants to shine it on the desperate situation of little boys like Pax and the kids he grew up with.

Has anyone else read Angelina’s book about visiting refugees with UNHCR? It’s very moving.

Beautiful pic of mother and son Can’t wait to see the other pics from the shoot.

- Matilda on March 21st, 2007

I think they made the right decision to release these photos. Of course in an ideal world they wouldn’t need to – the poor kid has a lot to deal with at the moment and I’m sure Angie and Brad would rather focus on getting him settled in and forming attachments. However, if they didn’t release the photos the price of the first family photos would be driven up even higher (making the paps even crazier).

They’re not new to this game, they’ve been dealing with it for a couple of years now. With the arrival of their last two kids they used to approaches to the media issue.

With Zahara they tipped off the paps and allowed them to take photos of Angie and her new baby walking into a bookstore. Because the photo wouldn’t be an ‘exclusive’, the photographers wouldnt profit so much. The bonus is that they wouldn’t be seen to be “selling” their baby. On the downside, if you’ve ever seen a video from that day it was mayhem. Poor kid must have been terrified. Then when Shiloh was born they took the other tack and released posed photos to magazines and then gave the profits to charity.

To me, it seems sensible to take the second option with Pax for two reasons. Firstly, hopefully the money will be given to charity so it isn’t the paps who gain from it. But most importantly, it wouldn’t have been as scary for little Pax. So I don’t really see a problem.

Also, I have read quite a few reports which said that Angelina was in Vietnam with all four of her kids. I think it was just Brad who had to stay back in the US.

As for why Shi isn’t in the pics – maybe she was sleeping? Who knows, but I don’t think we need to worry about her not being as loved. To me, both parents seem like loving and compassionate people so I would be very surprised if they neglected one of their kids.

The photo is adorable anyway. He looks like such a sweet little boy and I love how they mimic one another in their poses. I hope he is not too scared and confused and is starting to feel secure. Poor little guy must have no idea what’s going on.

- Anna on March 21st, 2007

Why Zahara in the pics and not SHILOH? Hello, Shiloh will overshadow everyone. People tense to focus more of her and forget about her other children. I didn’t hear people ask about Maddox when we get Shiloh’s first debut or Zahara’s first Photo shoots in Africa. People don’t ask about Maddox and he wasn’t in both photo shoots. People only care about the biological child and damned the adopted ones.

- ana on March 21st, 2007

I can’t stop laughing when I read these blogs because they can be quite comical. I can’t imagine anyone adopting several children for a publicity stunt. After all the last time I checked you can’t send them back once you’ve gotten the press, it’s a lifetime commitment. And if one child can be removed from despair and given a shot at a decent life, I am all for it. Not only will be these children be well fed, cloth and educated but they will be treated like human beings instead pack sardines in those awful orphanages.

- Vera on March 21st, 2007

Excuse me but where is Brad?? Isn’t he supposed to be the father of this child??
I really don’t understand the way they act…adopting again and again, it’s not a game, so we should think about what her problem is more than to congratulate and to admire her because to me all this is not as good and wonderful as it seems to be!
They adopted this little boy together and Brad is not even here to see him, and don’t tell me he had to stay in the us to take care of Shiloh..they have enough money to take a babysitter!
Despite everything that was said i’m sure she decided to have shiloh only because brad wanted a biological child…but it’s obvious that what she wants is to adopt..again and again…and to be considered as a Saint..
I feel pretty bad about all this, especially this photoshoot..

- estherpanda on March 21st, 2007

I thought that after a child was adopted that they should be exclusively with the parents and siblings for something like six weeks – no visitors, not even outside family should be involved for a while so that the child understands who his family is and bonds with them. So, it does strike me as strange that she’s got him on the cover of a magazine, but then again I suppose they would really be hounded if he hid him. I guess we don’t really know the format or environment that the photos were taken in. Could have been very laid back and candid.

- alexp on March 21st, 2007

I suspect as parents, Brad and Angelina make their decisions the same way most of the rest of us do, i.e., they try to do what is best for their family. It may not make sense or seem reasonable to those of us looking in from the outside, but it doesn’t need to. How much of what we do would might baffle people who are making assumptions about what they see and hear about us. Angelina’s a mom, just like most of us. I think moms should give other moms the benefit of the doubt every time.

- Fynn on March 21st, 2007

I actually understand the logic behind the shoot. SO what if others don’t agree. Hopefully this will cut down on the intrusive papparazi. This child was adopted by Movie Stars and people will go to extreme to get the first shot. HOpefully they can now back off or at least not be so overbearing in trying to take pictures.

- Hilari on March 21st, 2007

I’m usually pretty neutral on Jolie, don’t love her or hate her, but this kind of bothers me. Didn’t she just make a big to do about being concerned about the media circus going so far as to say publicly that she apologized to the little guy about the craziness? How exactly does plastering him all over the cover of a major magazine lessen the media frenzy? I understood the logic of publishing pictures with Shiloh otherwise they would’ve been hounded relentlessly for the first pictures. But pictures of Pax, both alone and with her, have been in circulation almost since the adoption was announced so this is hardly an exclusive. I know she’s stalked by the media, but she can fly under the radar when she chooses to as she did in the aftermath of her mother’s death. Seems to me like the wisest course would have been to quietly take her son back to the US and concentrate on helping him adjust. This way just seems like its adding extra scrutiny and unnecessary publicity for a child that already has a lot of major adjustments to make.

- LAILA on March 21st, 2007

hypocritical is the word for me. And contrary t what people may think I think her way to adopt does a diservice to adoption not the contrary.

- Mary on March 21st, 2007

It just hit me how powerful this whole thing really is and we all might be missing the real blessings behind it all. Bringing all these children together is quite amazing because in “their” normal worlds they might not have had an opportunity to encounter other cultures, let alone be siblings. I find it to be quite extraordinary and what a beautiful picture of him and his new sister. This displays that love can be colorless!

- Gigi on March 21st, 2007

Am I the only person thinking that when the inevitable split between Pitt and Jolie occurs(just think, Maddox is only five and has had three surnames so far) that the ‘blob’ will be remaining with Dad whilst the more interesting children stay with Jolie?

- Lisa B on March 21st, 2007

alexp: I’m curious, where did you get the information about the six week thing. I’ve been looking into adoption for awhile and have read a great deal about it and I have never come across that information. What was the name of the book or research study you got that information from, I would love to read it. Thanks.

- Grace on March 21st, 2007

I think they are a great family.

- Linda on March 21st, 2007

Maybe Shiloh is shooting in the film? Did anyone stop to think of that? Or could she be too young to go overseas not having all her baby shots could put her at greater risk to get a serious illness. Esp in a country like that where kids are not vaccinated. Who knows all the details right away also traveling with children is hard enough let alone having them so small. I would sensably not take the baby either. The older ones would require far less travel gear and then you have passports, and a million other rules for travel.

- JoyJoy on March 21st, 2007

I agree with the comment that even though the photos were to introduce Pax, the focus would have been on Shiloh if they had her in the photos. She’s the “golden child” of Hollywood’s most beautiful couple and the photogs go crazy over her, just like they do over Suri Cruise.

Besides, didn’t a previous story say Shiloh filled in on the set of Brad’s movie as the baby? Maybe she was shooting with him.

And also, maybe Angelina wanted to introduce the two older kids to Pax first so he wouldn’t be overwhelmed and therefore have someone on more equal footing (Maddox) than a baby who Angelina would be holding and needing to attend to more. This way, she could take the older kids swimming and let them get to know each other. Some kids are very threatened by the presence of a baby.

I don’t think it was a bad idea at all.

- editorjax on March 21st, 2007

Um-isn’t this the same woman who recently publcly apoligized to Pax for all the media attention he was going to suffer through? And now she thinks that shoving a camera in his face days after adopting him is a good idea when he is in the midst of numerous life changing events? Can you say hypocrite?

- Lauren on March 21st, 2007

All you haters amaze me. Angelina is doing what she feels is best for HER family and also to bring light to Vietnamese adoption.

1) Shiloh isn’t in the pictures because it would draw attention away from Pax. Or perhaps it’s because a baby requires a lot more work/attention than the older children and right now she wants to focus on Pax.

2) Adopting babies as a publicity stunt?? Do you really think that they view these children as playtoys? That they can just toss them away when they are done? Angie & Brad have been nothing but loving with their children. There hasn’t been one case of neglect/abuse/CPS called.

3) Yes, she wants to shield Pax from the paps so she invited ONE photographer into their lives to take pictures. By doing this maybe she’ll cut down the number of paps chasing them to get a good shot of Pax.

This is a child who had a bleak future and is now a member of an amazing, loving family. His life has changed for the BETTER. Why can’t people just leave it at that?

- Lorus on March 21st, 2007

I think it is truly unfair to judge this mother. We all do things our own way and we don’t know the details, we only know what the media has shown and told us. This child had no family 2 weeks ago and now he will go to a loving home, with siblings to play with and he will be surrounded with love. He could still be in an orphanage and he was rescued by people who care about him…Stop all the negativity and be happy that this child will live a life he may never have know. This picture is so sweet…it took my breath away. It is nice to see that they have created a bond.

- Nicole on March 21st, 2007

Angelina should’ve kept to adoption and not had a child. I’ve never seen her hold Shiloh except for when she was a baby. She still holds all the other children, including her new son. I think she has some kind of guilt complex about bringing a biological child into the world. She said that she feels so much more for her adopted children because they’ve been through so much. Excuse me – they were adopted well before they were one. If you’re going to have a family – treat all the children kindly and include them all in activities.

- Suess on March 21st, 2007

Is it just me or does Zahara look like she’s the same size as Pax? That little girl is one big 2 year old!!!

I think the photos are adorable and I applaud Angelina for her efforts in not only adopting but bringing awareness of adoption to foreign countries.

Why do people care what children are in the photos? Shiloh is a baby. She doesn’t need to be in every photo. And everyone seems to only care about her and not the precious children adopted.

Pax, Maddox, and Zahara all share a connection together because they were brought into a different world to live different lives with different people. Shiloh was born to Brad and Angie and will always hold a stronger bond with them.

Angelina does these photoshoots to ease the transition for the children from the paparazzi hounding them! It’s not going to stop them from taking photos but the point is that no specific person is getting the “first” shots of these kids. They are all getting the same photo and nobody can make more money from their so called “exclusive” shots.

- J.M. on March 21st, 2007

All you haters amaze me. Angelina is doing what she feels is best for HER family and also to bring light to Vietnamese adoption.
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“All you haters amaze me.” Haters???? Oh boy. I understand that your adore Angelina but one of the purposes of this site is for all of us to express our differing opinions about the every aspect of celebrity parenting. “Differing” being the operative word. How nice to dimiss the opinions of your fellow posters and dismiss them as “haters” simply because they don’t fall to their knees in worship of every single move Angelina Jolie makes.

- LAILA on March 21st, 2007

Grace – I have a friend who recently adopted a child. She told all of us (her friends) that she really wanted to introduce the baby to us, but that in order for the baby to bond with her and her husband properly that they needed to have 1-2 months without outside contact, so we wouldn’t actually meet the baby until then. Apparently older children who have lived in orphanages have a tendency to bond with any and everyone because there are so many caretakers in their lives, so to overcome that tendency it’s important to establish who mom and dad are. Honestly, we thought it was a little excessive at first (2 months!), but I’ve heard from several other families that their agencies advised the same thing when they adopted.

- alexp on March 21st, 2007

Haters???? Oh boy. I understand that your adore Angelina but one of the purposes of this site is for all of us to express our differing opinions about the every aspect of celebrity parenting.
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Sorry, Laila – I think you are the one who has it wrong. This is a site for commentary on celebrity babies. You make it seem like you have the right or the information necessary to criticize parenting decisions and private family moments. You don’t. I certainly don’t “worship” Angelina, nor do I have to in order to appreciate her efforts to make the world a better place. I, like many here, find it difficult to believe that people are going to such great lengths to call her a bad mother and a publicity seeker.

As for the Shiloh thing that is apparently such a big deal, no one knows why Shiloh wasn’t there. Who cares? This wasn’t about her. This was about Pax. Not to mention traveling with a child that young can be dangerous and difficult.

- ISABELLE on March 21st, 2007

first calling shiloh a blob and saying she feels more for her adopted kids! well people take a good hard look at the pics do you see shiloh anywerer? its all adopted kids aint it?

point proven.. angelina u turned on ur dad and the way ur going shiloh will turn on u ( hopefully)

- ace on March 21st, 2007

i don’t care for angelina don’t like her, don’t hate her. but the reason i think shiloh is not in this photoshoot is because she is too young. she only 10 months. kids that go over to vietnam need vaccines for typhoid, hepatatis and other diseases( i should know i had to get them) i think she is personally too young to get these shots. as for the photoshoot i don’t think she did it for publicity i think she did it to get the paparazzi to lay off. all celeb babies have to have photoshoot taken or else the paparazzi goes after them why do you think most celebrites have photoshoot taken of their kids in the first few months of thier life.

- Christine on March 21st, 2007

Does anyone else find it strange that Angelina is never caught holding or even really talking about Shiloh?

- Shelley on March 21st, 2007

Grace,
what Alex is saying is what I was trying to explain yesterday. Without that time exclusively with family, without one parent leaving to travel or something of that nature, bonding can be critically compromised. It’s not necessarily that you have to exclude yourselves and your family from the outside world, but that you really have to devote yourself to forming that bond with an older child to prevent attachment issues or disorders.
Social workers should really discuss this with you if you’re considering adoption and if you look up studies on adoption and attachment you should be able to find a lot of information. It seems to be focused on more in international adoption, I feel mainly because of the situation of completely changing a child’s entire background (language, scenery, lifestyle, everything).
For my aunt and uncle who adopted my cousin from Korea at six months they were told that for about a month they should be the only ones to provide her with her most essential care (feeding, changing, cuddling, cleaning, bathing, etc…) so that she bonded with them as her primary caregivers, as her parents. Everyone else could show her love and attention, but only to a certain extent, so that she became most attached to them, as was said, children who’ve lived in orphanages tend to be willing to form strong bonds with anyone and get confused easily.
For older children, that time is suggested to be longer, sometimes months, depending on the child.
The other thing I was trying to point out is, if any of us, as average individuals were to set out to adopt and were to tell our social workers that we planned to adopt a 3 year old and 6 weeks later leave the country (with or without) that child to work, return a month or so later, and continue that lifestyle for the first year the child was in our lives, the social worker would turn us down and say that it wouldn’t be in the child’s best interest.

So hopefully they will take the critical bonding time seriously and everything will turn out okay. I have faith in them.

- Rachel on March 21st, 2007

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Sorry, Laila – I think you are the one who has it wrong. This is a site for commentary on celebrity babies.
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And we can discuss celebrity babies without discussing their parents and how those parents choose to rear them? C’mon. The reason they are celebrity babies is because their parents are famous. If Shiloh, Suri and the rest were the children of Jane and John from down the street we wouldn’t be discussing them on this site.
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You make it seem like you have the right or the information necessary to criticize parenting decisions and private family moments. You don’t.
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What “private family moments”? How is it private when it winds up on the cover of People magazine and when you’re discussing it publicly?

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I certainly don’t “worship” Angelina, nor do I have to in order to appreciate her efforts to make the world a better place. I, like many here, find it difficult to believe that people are going to such great lengths to call her a bad mother and a publicity seeker.
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Brad and Angelina have invited the public into their family life (lots of celebs choose not to discuss their families publicly or supply the media with photos) and having done that open themselves to both the criticisms and praise that come with putting your life out there.

- LAILA on March 21st, 2007

to Shelley, no I do not find it strange because Angie did talked about Shiloh in the first spread of Shiloh’s debut in People’s magazine. There are plenty of pics of Angie holding Shiloh in LA, NO, India, and the recent pics of her feeding Shiloh with cheerios in NO when going for a stroll with Pappa Pitt and Zee. Do you not see the same pics I’m seeing?

- ana on March 21st, 2007

Rachel: I understand what alexp was trying to say. I was merely asking her where she got that information from. A lot of people come out with blanket statements of “children need…..” and then they fill in the blank with whatever they believe. It’s fine to have their opinion, but to announce it as a fact with nothing to back it up makes it lose a bit of credibility. Alexp was unable to give me any book or research study to back her opinion up, so I’m still skeptical. And I still do not agree that Pax needs months on end with Angelina not working to be okay. Angelina and Brad trade off on doing movies so that someone is always with the kids, so Pax will still have that stability. As for your statement that a regular person would get turned down if they were planning to do what Angelina was doing: I don’t agree with that either. Maybe some agencies would refuse to work with a person like that. But I travel for my work and intend to do so even after I adopt and I was told by the agency that they advise parents to take time off of work for several months but they don’t require it. Some people can’t take months off from work and there are agencies (not all) that are understanding of that. I know in Angelina’s case she can take off work if she wants to, but just because she can doesn’t mean the responsibility should fall all on her – there’s nothing wrong with Brad spending time with the kids while she works.

- Grace on March 21st, 2007

Laila,
I understand and agree with your points commentary regarding the celebs featured on this site, but you have to understand that if you say anything even slightly negative about Angelina, you will be attacked on the grounds of being a nasty hater who has no business criticizing a celebrity who puts their life out for the world to see and judge for better or for worse. They don’t want to hear your reasons for disliking her, valid as they may be. All they care about is censoring all comments that disfavor Angelina in any way. Ridiculous, but that’s the way it is.

- Lauren on March 21st, 2007

How is ONE photographer taking pictures “a media storm”? Better one doing it calmly than hundreds desperate for the “money shot.”

I think Angelina’s learned her lesson about photo shoots with Shiloh from the one in Cambodia. She tried to bring attention to an important issue, and what was everyone saying? “Oh, look at SHILOH, she’s so gorgeous.” Half the people had no idea WHERE the shoot even took place.

And in Shiloh’s debut (WHICH WAS A FEW DAYS AFTER HER BIRTH, by the way), only Zahara was pictured with Shiloh, and no one was asking, “Where’s Maddox?”

Besides, I think part of the reason Shiloh wasn’t there was because Angelina wanted the world to see that you don’t have to be blood to be a family. Anyone seeing those pictures knows that those kids are siblings, even this early. They are from completely different countries, completely different cultures, but they’re family.

- ryo_girl on March 21st, 2007

No Ana,

I guess I have not seen those because all the ones I see, Shiloh is in a stroller or being held by her father. I have hardly seen her physically holding Shiloh except for the first pictures of her. This is my personal opinion and I thought some other people might agree and obviously you do not and that is fine.

- Shelley on March 21st, 2007

ryo_girl: Great post. I especially like the last paragraph.

- Grace on March 21st, 2007

ryo_girl,
I love the sentiment in your last paragraph the way I think you meant it, but honestly if you think about it, the way you put it makes it seem like you’re saying if they had brought Shiloh along she would have messed up the whole vibe… like she’s less important because she IS their blood. The thing is, she proves the point they’re trying to make even more. She is just as much a sister to Pax and Maddox as Zahara is and none of them are blood relatives. Just because she’s Brangelina’s biological child shouldn’t mar the picture of what they’re trying to get across. They can all be siblings even if none of them have the same blood. As we say in our family, from the G. Brooks song, blood is thicker than water, but love is thicker than blood.

Again though, I’m sure that’s not what you meant. I don’t know why they didn’t bring her along… perhaps she’s just still too much of a ‘blob’

- Rachel on March 22nd, 2007

You people are demented! Shiloh was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and she will always have things go her way. Why? Because she is white, beautiful, rich, and from the sounds of it she will also be well traveled. Worry about your own lives. This little girl would be LUCKY if only she has some problems in her life.

- neil on March 23rd, 2007