Pro-life video of the day: Brad Pitt loves his big family
by LauraLoo
CelebTV reports on actor Brad Pitt’s recent Esquire Magazine interview in which he “opens up about loving the life he’s living” with actress fiancée Angelina Jolie and their six children:
I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big…. There’s constant chatter in our house, whether it’s giggling or screaming or crying or banging. I love it….
I just haven’t known life to be any happier….
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Jun.07, 2013 12:00 pm |
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Leaving your wife for another woman and parenting with a full time staff of chefs, drivers, nannys, personal shoppers, and housekeepers has never looked SO wholesome and carefree!! /eyeroll.
I don’t like the fact that he left his wife for another woman…But there is nothing wrong with paying for help. He can afford it. Angelina can afford it. What matters is that these children grow up with loving parents. The children they adopted are in a better situation now than what they would be in if they werent adopted. The nannys, drivers, personal shoppers and housekeepers they pay to help them also have their own families to feed. This is a job for them.
I may not agree with everything Brad Pitt stands for, but I love that he tells the world that he is happy with his big family. Especially now where you are frowned upon if you have more than 2 children.
I just hope they get married soon.
Nobody but Brad and Jen and those close to them know exactly why their marriage failed, but even Jen has said in interviews it wasn’t because of Angelina. I hate that people think they know what celebrities get up to in their private lives and think it’s their business. And goodness that marriage ended like a decade ago.
I think Brad and Angelina seem like nice people, though all I know is their public personas.
“First comes love, second comes marriage..THEN comes a baby in a baby carriage.”
Guess they forgot the rhyme.
Good on ’em. I think they’re both wonderful. And Angelina’s dad is the best.
“Guess they forgot the rhyme.” – I guess most people don’t use nursery rhymes as a life guide beyond childhood.
Sleeping on a bed made of platinum Amex cards makes it a bit easier to have a large family I guess.
That is true, Reality, and that’s the only part of this story that I find upsetting. I don’t fault anyone for paying for domestic help any more than I fault someone for hiring a plumber. Sure, you COULD fix that sink yourself, but maybe that’s not the best use of your time. Their children are cared for and spend time with their parents and with each other; they’re well-behaved and are not neglected. Everything else is just a matter of figuring out what works best for the individual family.
I don’t think that everyone “deserves” that level of domestic help but I do think it’s a real shame that so many people feel compelled to limit their family size specifically because they have real, genuine financial concerns (and not, as is so often accused, concerns about how if they had another kid they wouldn’t be able to buy every generation of iPhone, or take fancy vacations every year, etc).
@ Alexandria: Would a family allowance help ensure everyone could afford another baby?
Would it turn the whole country into a nation of Nadya Sulemans and Michelle Duggars?
“Would it turn the whole country into a nation of Nadya Sulemans and Michelle Duggars?”
I think it is obvious that the answer is yes. 9_9
Beautiful family!!!
I love them together!
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Pitt and Aniston were already on the verge of divorce long before Jolie came along. Sadly Aniston suffered a miscarriage from Pitt but despite that she still wanted to put starting a family on hold for her career. Pitt was ready for a family after FRIENDS ended. Aniston wanted a big screen career. 2 People on 2 different pages. He had every right to move on although I believe he should have finalized his divorce first.
Aniston is a big supporter of abortion while Jolie and Pitt don’t pimp it. All of them are liberals but Aniston seems to be very self absorbed and image obsessed. At least Jolie and Pitt are sharing their love with their children as well as with one another. They seem deeply in love and I do hope marriage is in their future. They have both said they are the love of one another’s life. I am happy for them. So they pay for help? So what? It’s their money and their children. But nobody has a fit when a celebrity dumps cash on plastic surgery.
I never know how to feel about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. I get a bad taste about them but haven’t been able to pinpoint what exactly bothers me. Obviously, the dissolution of his marriage with Jennifer Aniston, but there’s something about them that screams “self-absorbed” to me, though again I can’t pinpoint it.
Regardless, I’m glad that they can speak well of their family.
I’m not a fan of JA but I don’t hate her. I’ve always felt that she’s still seething with jealousy over losing Brad. As someone pointed out this divorce was a decade ago. I hope when she gets married to Justin Theroux perhaps she will experience the joy of motherhood. Who wouldn’t be envious of Jolie? She’s a great actress flies her own airplane performs her own stunts. Anistons screen career has been one huge flop. However Aniston says she wants to be a mom. I do hope she finds some solace. Okay now please don’t kill me Aniston fans.
Mary Rose I can meet you half way there. Women think I’m crazy because I don’t find Pitt that handsome. He’s just not my type.
X i love Jolies dad too!
Hi Jack..hope you’re doing okay. I’m up with a touch of insomnia so i must respectfully disagree with one thing you’ve said….about people getting into a celebritys business. The truth is that they choose to put themselves out there so it kinda becomes peoples business. There is a price to pay for being famous. I believe when the Osbournes had their show the oldest kid opted out of the limelight. The Kardashian family invites the camera crew into their home so we know all about them. Unfortunately they are only human so when a bad situation hits the rich and famous its all over the TV and the tabloids. I agree that the Aniston / Pitt divorce scandal is like beating a dead horse but I was just at the store the other day and the magazine rack was full of Jenns wedding and Kims pregnancy. No I do not buy them cuz by the time I get home the same stories are on TV….sigh. Their only hope is to move out of the country. I’m gonna be 80 and they will still be writing about Jen…lol
Hey Heather, I’m good. Hope you are doing well yourself! Insomnia sucks! That’s most of my nights lol.
What I mean by getting into celebrity’s business is that I think it’s weird that people act like they know these people because they read carefully scripted interviews/watch edited reality shows/read little tidbits in tabloids about them. I mean, there were like ten years of tabloids of pics of Jen anytime a paparazzi snapped a less-than-happy photo of her, or any time she had a break up, with headlines like “OMG is she depressed about Brangelina’s new baby!?!?!?!!” It’s just… over the top. I get that they put themselves in the limelight and it’s the price of fame, but really, people acting like they know stars, their families, why their marriages failed/succeeded, why they have a drinking problem, etc is just really out there for me. They are still people, and honestly if Brad cheated on his wife way back when I was a kid or Jen is still bitter I can’t imagine why it’s still interesting or relevant to anyone. Can’t people let that die? Why is that interesting to anyone?
There’s also a lascivious quality to a lot of the stories, especially about young women in the biz. It honestly creeps me out to see articles and blog posts about Anne Hathaway’s no underwear pic and speculating on the latest child-to-adult actress and her drug or mental problems (like, half the stuff I’ve randomly seen on Amanda Bynes seems to be mocking her for “losing her looks and becoming a crazy crack whore” <— direct quote I remember). It just creeps me out that people are like, avidly watching young women especially fall apart and speculating about their mental issues and sex lives, like constantly.
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Jack – the Amanda Bynes thing really is tragic. She is clearly alone in the world. Thats not entertainment… the fact that its being treated as such says more about “us” as a culture than it does about her. Did you read the piece that the actress who played the little girl in Mrs. Doubtfire wrote?
This one (warning, very mild pornography if I recall correctly): http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-reasons-child-stars-go-crazy-an-insiders-perspective/
Yeah, people are soulless about the child stars, I swear. I think it’s really disgusting. I just wonder how many little girls and boys we’re going to watch implode before we stop it as a culture.
When it comes to why marriages fail, we can only at best speculate. I never believe its as simplistic as some conniving female who wrecked an otherwise blissful marriage.
I have always been troubled by their Vietnamese child Pax. That child never seems happy and I have yet to see him smile. I was troubled how this child was selected at an orphanage like a puppy from a litter with no regard as to how a 3 y/o would feel about being wrenched from the only family he knows by complete strangers he can’t even communicate with and taken to a world totally foreign to him. He was adopted right after Shiloh’s birth and I thought it strange that AJ would leave a newborn infant at home while she flies halfway around the world to satisfy her compulsion to adopt an Asian sibling for Maddox.
I have no problem with foreign adoptions per se, but the mentality that the world’s chlldren are for our picking and choosing. Maybe Americans like Brad and Angie should check with their local social service agencies for American children in need before shopping the world’s orphanages.
they disturb me. I just can’t get over how they met and they are not married. I don’t admire them at all.
So Brad loves his big chaotic family. Good. But he gets the FUN part of parenting, and can enjoy his children after someone else or several someone elses have done most of the hard/dirty work. My husband always loved to have another baby or another pet, but he got to enjoy them more than I did because he saw them for like 2-3 hours a day and didn’t get up at night with them, or potty train them, or let the dog out at 5 am, or clean up if he forgot to let the dog out. I would venture to say that a lot of men like having more kids, but the fact is that caring for children is WORK, and usually it is WORK that the Dads aren’t doing much of. Nevermind a rich family who can afford all the help. Children may be a gift from God, but there are a lot of people whose parenting experiences are not just a big bunch of happy chattering at the dinner table.
Did you notice how the CelebTV video refers to Angelina as Brad’s wife? LL
Jeez, in my last comment PROFANITY, not pornography. Don’t ask me what happened there. No more late night posting for me.
Mary I couldn’t agree more with you about Pax although I believe AJ adopted him while she was still with BB Thorton. I believe that’s why they broke up. He wanted her undivided attention . But INDEED USA children should be adopted first. And yes Jack the way people love to exploite stars drug problems seems to really trip their triggers. It’s tragic but these rag mags make so much $ off of scandal and tragedy. Do you really believe Lindsay Lohan is going to get sober under the constant pressure? Her best bet would be to get out of Hollywood at this point. Stars going to jail? What a joke. For 2 hours? Too many enablers and they do their drug treatment their way. Weekends only or Charlie Sheen at home? Yeah. The latest was the Culkin guy from Home Alone. Can’t spell his first name. And Amanda Bines? How tragic.
But just to sum up the Pitt/Jolie mess…who knows if Brad cheated or not. It’s now a moot point because he and JA are finished either way. I am sick and tired of looking at Aniston on every mag cover I see. IDK if she’s enjoying the attention or not. All I know is she didn’t want kids and Brad did and reports surfaced that he had grown bored with her and her constant focus on her career. That’s pretty much where I finished reading about what went wrong between them. I wish them all the best on that note.
Now if the Kardashians would just go away.. nah. Soon it will be Kim Konyay and the West teens…lol face it Jack no escape. BTW I KNOW i didn’t spell his name right.
Yeah Jack 8:37PM,
….now you tell us, after we all checked out the link! :)
Hi Heather,
She adopted Maddox first when he was an infant. That’s who you’re thinking of.
Yes Mary Im pretty sure Pax wasn’t adopted after Shiloh. I think AJ adopted him while she was single and before she got with Pitt.
I think it is wonderful that Jolie and Pitt take the money they earned and adopt into their family. I applaud them. Yes, maybe they have a lot of help, but all of us would have to have Help with careers like theirs. It is their careers that allow them to have a big family. Yes, money does make a difference; but I know folks who have large families who don’t have money and they say the same thing as Brad Pitt — they have never been more happy. If happiness is wringing through the halls of their home that is because Angelina and Brad made it happen.
Hi Heather,
Pax was adopted immediately after Shiloh’s birth. I remember being taken aback by the fact she would leave her newborn infant daughter to travel halfway around the world to adopt a child in Vietnam. In fact it struck me as very strange and convinced me she was only satisfying some compulsion of hers. Her millions can make it very easy to do so.
As I said, have you ever seen this child smile or look happy?
If all you people thought more about your own lives as much as you do Brad and Angelina’s we would all be better for it!
Hi Heather,
I did some checking and AJ adopted Pax when Shiloh was 10 montha old. Not quite a newborn but certainly still an infant. The adoption process started immediately after Shiloh’s birth and that is the trip I mentioned.
A few years ago they took a trip to Vietnam and it was very difficult for Pax. He had to be persauded to leave, as if he had a choice. What else can you expect when you wrench a child from the only home and family they knew then make a return visit? I saw that adoption as a child being treated like a puppy in a litter and this only confirms it.
Mary duh you’re correct i was mixing him up with Maddox ….whoever said for us to worry about our own lives…we do but this is Jills blog and this is the topic!!!!
It’s awesome that having a big family is something that brings joy to Brad Pitt’s life. It’s a little bit easier to make that work if you’re Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. To say that they’re happy doesn’t imply that everyone would be happy this way, or that this is even feasible for most people. Many people are unable to afford care for even one or two kids. So I guess I’m not really sure where the “pro-life” angle comes in. It’s not like this is a family that has to choose between feeding the kids and paying the rent.