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Post by lozwinter on Jul 6, 2005 10:12:21 GMT
Angelina Jolie is adopting an Ethiopian girl made an orphan by AIDS, according to People magazine. Jolie told the magazine that she and three-year-old Cambodian adopted son Maddox were "very happy to have a new addition to our family," apparently to be named Zahara Marley Jolie. A friend of the actress told the magazine: "Angie's over the moon. It's a dream come true. She's always wanted to extend her family." The source added that Jolie was at pains to make it clear that she is adopting as a single mother, and this should not be seen as a joint venture with rumoured lover Brad Pitt, with whom she is supposedly pregnant.
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Post by lozwinter on Jul 6, 2005 10:16:59 GMT
Angelina Jolie is adopting her second child, a newborn Ethiopian baby orphaned by AIDS. “Her name is Zahara,” Jolie tells PEOPLE exclusively. Arrangements for the adoption are expected to be completed Wednesday.
The 30-year-old actress and U. N. activist says the girl's full name is Zahara Marley Jolie. Jolie won't divulge the child's age, weight or height, but she tells PEOPLE that she and Maddox, the 3-year-old son she adopted from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002, are "very happy to have a new addition to our family."
Jolie has often talked of adopting a second child. After a trip to Ethiopia earlier this year, Jolie said of Maddox: "My son is in love with Africa, so he has been asking for an African brother or sister."
"Angie's over the moon," a source close to the actress tells PEOPLE. "It's a dream come true. She's always wanted to extend her family."
As for rumors that Jolie and Brad Pitt are planning a family together, the source denies them. "This has nothing to do with her relationship with Brad Pitt. People are going to try to say it's about their relationship. But it's not. Angelina's adopting as a single mother, and she wants that emphasized."
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Post by Lisa-Marie on Jul 13, 2005 18:56:07 GMT
This is so great....... she seems like a brill mum xx
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Post by lozwinter on Jul 16, 2005 7:42:09 GMT
Angelina Jolie's newly adopted daughter, Zahara, was released Friday from a weeklong stay at a New York-area hospital after being treated for dehydration and malnutrition, PEOPLE has learned exclusively. "Jolie has been wonderful," says pediatrician Dr. Jane Aronson. "The baby is doing great. And most importantly they have bonded." Jolie, 30, who adopted 6-month-old Zahara in Ethiopia earlier this month, also wants to correct a recent tabloid report that showed a photograph of a woman identified as Zahara's grandmother. In a statement to PEOPLE, Wild Horizons For Children, the organization through which Jolie adopted the baby, says, "The photo is not the woman who they claim it is and the quotes are fabricated." Zahara has no living siblings, according to sources. Her father is unknown, and it is assumed that her mother died of AIDS a month after Zahara was born. "Due to devastation by war, drought and HIV, almost two million children are currently orphaned in Ethiopia," says a Wide Horizons spokesperson. "Many are being cared for by members of their extended family and community." www.people.com
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Post by lozwinter on Jul 22, 2005 8:25:20 GMT
A radiant Angelina Jolie was seen shopping with her 6-month-old daughter, Zahara Marley, in Calabasas, Calif., which is near the Malibu home of Brad Pitt – where the baby as well as Pitt have been recovering from recent hospital stays. As PEOPLE reports in its new issue, just a day after picking up her newly adopted daughter in Ethiopia, Jolie began to worry something was wrong. Zahara Marley Jolie, already underweight at just 9 lbs., wasn't drinking enough formula. Jolie took Zahara for a checkup, and wound up spending a week by her daughter's side in a New York City hospital as the baby battled a bacterial infection that, left untreated, could have been life-threatening. (Zahara's mother is believed to have died of AIDS a month after giving birth and her father is unknown.) "Like anybody else," Jolie "was a mom who was very concerned and afraid," says Dr. Jane Aronson, the pediatrician and expert in international adoption medicine who treated Zahara. Fortunately, after being treated with fluids for dehydration and antibiotics to combat what Aronson diagnosed as a salmonella infection, Zahara left the hospital "happy and gurgling" on July 15 with a clean bill of health. She also gained more than a pound. Angelina, Zahara and the actress' son, 3-year-old Maddox, then flew to L.A. July 16 to reunite with another recuperating friend: They stayed at Pitt's Malibu estate as he spent the week recovering from a bout of viral meningitis. Pitt had been with Jolie in Ethiopia when she adopted her daughter. (His malady likely has "nothing to do" with salmonella, says Aronson, who told PEOPLE that Jolie never mentioned Pitt to her.) Mother and daughter both appeared to be feeling much better this week, when they were spotted in Malibu at a supermarket and toy store and stopping in a Starbucks. Meanwhile, Pitt also seems to have shaken his illness: He showed up Wednesday at the Beverly Hills Hotel to accept a $250,000 check on behalf of the Film Foundation at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association luncheon.
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