Why Angelina Jolie feels more for her adopted kids
Articles have been popping up everywhere overnight where Angelina Jolie explains why she has always said that she feels more for her adopted kids than for Shiloh - it’s apparently because they are survivors, whereas her biological daughter got to start life off privileged in a way that the others didn’t and never could have imagined. She said as a result, she is more inclined to lavish attention on Pax, Maddox, and Zahara.
According to OK! Magazine she said:
I think I feel so much more for Mad and Zee because they’re survivors, they came through so much. Shiloh seemed privileged from the moment she was born. I have less inclination to feel for her. I met my other kids when they were six months old, they came with personality.
She also said, in regards to the comment she once made about Shiloh being a blob with no personality:
“A newborn really is this - yes, a blob! But now she’s starting to have a personality. I’m conscious that I have to make sure I don’t ignore her needs because I think the others are more vulnerable.”
For what it’s worth, I think the blob comment just came out wrong. A lot of newborns just sleep, cry, go to the bathroom, and drink milk and don’t do much else. If you’ve only ever known your children from the age of six months or more, they definitely do have more personality than a newborn baby; that’s often the age when they start showing who they really are. I think she’s probably seeing much more personality in Shiloh these days as she gets closer to a year old.
Also, it’s important to note that she never said she LOVED Shiloh less, just that she never had to go through the hardships the others did and had no trauma to overcome.
Interesting.
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22 opinions for Why Angelina Jolie feels more for her adopted kids
Andrea
Mar 28, 2007 at 10:59 am
Also, in the original interview she was stumbling to describe how newborns are, and the *reporter* was the one who said “blob”, so she just repeated it.
HOTTEST COUPLE EVER
Mar 28, 2007 at 11:44 am
Angies’s adoptive children are special because she chose them. She chose to give these children an advataged and priviledged life. Of course Shiloh is special because she is Brad and Angie’s. She was born to parents who can give her the same. She would have had this life anyway. They are all truly blessed children.
anamanzana
Mar 28, 2007 at 11:51 am
As a mother of 2, the “Blob” is a common reference to babies under 3 months, because it is not the most interactive time…it’s a time of complete giving from the mother and caregivers. Giving of breast milk every 2 hours, sleep deprivation is at an all time high, and lots of diaper changing. Many a mother in a group exclaims “I can’t wait until the baby is out of the blob stage” and everyone laughs because we know exactly what is referred. The media is such a machine…taken out of context…thank Goddess there are people who think for themselves and don’t swallow everything the media would like us to believe.
checkers
Mar 28, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Hello everyone!!
I don’t know if you all read the Elle magazine whis was published like in January… she didn’t say that word “blob” out right, the interviewer suggested the word “blob”, she has said also in an interview with CNN in june 2006 that, she didn’t feel indifferent about the Shiloh, however she was ready to defend her adopted kids,but didn’t have to… people are very selective.. they pick on anything to defame this family!!!
sophie
Mar 28, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Yup, it’s not like she gave a new interview to OK!, those quotes are just “remakes” from her Elle interview.
Truly wish these issues (blob comment and feel more for adoptive kids comment) would just dissappear…as checkers said, if you read the full Elle interview, you’ll get an acurate picture of what AJ said and meant
checkers
Mar 28, 2007 at 1:28 pm
this kind of things are annoying!!!
there was also an interview with Gwen Stefani and referred to her child as a “blob”, we all know that her family and BAMPZS are close friends, but noone took it out of context when she said this, but since it’s the famous family in question, they have to get it out of proportion!!! whatever defamers do, they can’t shake off this solid family!!
dark faith
Mar 28, 2007 at 1:32 pm
yeah this is old stuff that rag mag is just resicling, they just want to take more juise out of something that became a big deal for no reason.
checkers
Mar 28, 2007 at 1:35 pm
#3 Anamanza.. thanks for clarifying this to us, I myself would not understand since I have no kids.
checkers
Mar 28, 2007 at 1:39 pm
omg!! dark faith!! where have you been? haven’t seen you post!
dark faith
Mar 28, 2007 at 1:56 pm
i have been orund but i dont post alot eather untill i see something enteresting
yaya
Mar 28, 2007 at 2:46 pm
checkers u read my mind, I recall Gwen Stefani callin both of ‘em little blobs when they were playin, I wonder why nobody jumped at her, sum people try to find the worst thing to say about this family becuz they know dat all da haters want to jump at them for no reason
BlessBrangelina
Mar 28, 2007 at 5:33 pm
:lol: They didn’t even try hard to rewrite the article in their own words…Shame on you, OK mag!
When are they going to fold anyway? Star mag is firing staff ‘cos of loss of revenue. Hopefully they should fold soon, if that doesn’t work. It’s a shame though, because ‘photoshopping’ is a great talent that will surely be missed in this ‘business’. ;)
Lucy
Mar 28, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Thank you everybody for clearing this up. I was out of the country when Elle came out and was not able to get a copy. OK is considered a tabloid too.
Lucy
Mar 28, 2007 at 7:16 pm
I read on Laineygossip.com that US Weekly is trashing Angie and Brad again on the upcoming issue. Brad and Angie made Janice Min mad because Angie gave the exclusive scoop to People Magazine last two weeks.
Gena
Mar 28, 2007 at 8:55 pm
This is old. This is from an interview in “British Elle” magazine. The interviewer said the word “blog” and Angelina said “yea,blog”. I am sure she loves Shiloh. Look how earlier the haters were complaining because she was keeping Shilod covered when she was a baby to keep all the intrusion from the “papraz” out of her face. Give me a break! She said she has 4 children and she was proud to be their mother and that she loved all her kids.
yaya
Mar 29, 2007 at 7:37 pm
um I have nothing to say!! so hello everyone
BlessBrangelina
Mar 30, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Hello yaya :)
LUCY: I believe that is probably the case, but what US weekly and Janice Min are doing is constantly shooting themselves in the foot.
If someone out there was trashing me all the time, am hardly likely to invite them into my home. That would be like asking for them to shoot me point blank. And that’s just stupid, and am definately sure that neither Brad or Angie are stupid.
yaya
Mar 30, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Hello BlessBrangelina, checkers, and everyone
ITA… Gena & BlessBrangelina
checkers
Mar 30, 2007 at 9:56 pm
hey yaya… i was just laughing at the other thread about US weekly that Sherry posted the other day, there are some funny people there! and I mean this in sarcastic way!
eyeluvmikyds
Apr 1, 2007 at 2:50 pm
again another celebrity being bombarded simply because she is a celebrity. I have 3 children (one just coming out of his “blob” stage) my middle child was in the hospital for a long time at that time she needed me the most therefore i felt more for her I didn’t love her anymore or less then my other children but she needed me more Angelina’s adopted kids are the same way they have a life to overcome so they need a little more
Sue Sanderson
Apr 4, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Angelina’s is very insightful. Yes, she is right on this one. Shiloh will be showered with attention from her parents, grandparents and other loving biological family members, and will never have known lack of need. Brad’s family seems very loving and Papa Voight will enjoy his cutie pie too.
Angelina will love her just as much as her other children. But what do their adopted kids have? Them. Only. And they came from such abandoned backgrounds. Go Angelina and Brad!!
Katarina
Apr 16, 2007 at 7:00 am
i love angelina aswell. and i know shes defending her adoptive children.
but shiloh didn’t choose too be born advantaged, she didn’t choose too be angelina and brad pitts baby, its not her fault shes angelinas biological baby and not adoptive one.
and the way she lavishes attention on her other children and the way she speaks so much higher of them pisses me off, its like shiloh is some devil
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