Does Zahara's Birth Mother Want To Take Her Back From Angelina Jolie? - Page 4
She added she would like to meet Zahara one day.
"Once she is grown I will explain to my daughter why I gave her up for adoption, and I would never entertain Zahara leaving Angelina because she is more of her mother than I am. She raised her," she said.
So it would seem that when Angelina talked about adopting this little AIDS orphan from Ethiopia, she was telling what she believed was the truth, as she had been told. She didn't intentionally mislead anyone nor did she swoop in, steal Zahara from her family, and whisk her away to a life of fame, fortune, and money, as some have tried to say. While she has been accused of using questionable adoption tactics when she adopted Maddox from Cambodia, using an agency that was later declared guilty of visa fraud and money laundering relating to adoptions (and because of the scandal, Cambodia has closed its doors to international adoptions, even though it is possible Angelina didn't know about the fraud at the time), and while it would seem that she is drawn to adopting children who still have living mothers, she appears to not have known the true extent of the circumstances in this case.
And believe me, it pains me to say that, because Angelina Jolie is one of my most least-liked celebrities. No, wait, let me rephrase...I can't stand the woman. From her blood-wearing antics with husband Billy Bob Thornton, to disowning her father because he dared to think that she might need to have a mental checkup, to the questionable adoptions, to going after Brad Pitt (who is one of the most mealy-mouthed, p*ssy-whipped, wishy-washy, non-committal, beaten-with-the-ugly-stick men I've ever seen) when he was still married, the woman just pushes my irked button. She's so full of herself it's amazing she had any room for Shiloh when she was pregnant.
She trots all over the globe trying her best to convince us that only she holds the answers to life's problems, and if we'd just listen to Saint Angelina life would automagically be grand. In the meantime, she has spoken of adding more children to her brood, both bioligically and through adoption. She loves to show her good works.
Travelling the globe and never staying in one spot for very long, plus the pressures of having parents who are high-profile celebrities, must be very hard on the children. They really don't have any chance of having a "normal" life, but that's something that most celebs don't think of when they look to expand their family. On one hand, stars (including the Jolie-Pitts) cry for privacy, but on the other hand they must realize that without their fame they certainly can't live the sort of lifestyle they do. It is their children who often suffer, and Angelina, more than most, doesn't seem to grasp the concept of roots and a stable home and privacy. Already Maddox has been enrolled in one school only to be yanked out several weeks later.
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