Angelina Jolie thinks her looks are getting better with age

November 24, 2008 � Celebrity, Pitt Watch

The Mail Online (in the UK) has a great article up about Angelina Jolie up, which I think is a must-read for any fan after last week’s snarky New York Times article.

I do have one minor issue with the article - I have a pet peeve when anyone refers to a father as “baby-sitting” his children, but aside from that minor annoyance in the first paragraph, it’s great and gives us a nice insight into Angelina Jolie without getting sarcastic.

Another one of the interviews she gave during her press run for Changeling in New York, they mention that Angelina looks completely pulled together despite her self-mockery over her attempt to get breakfast underway just hours before the interview began.

Considering the times I’ve heard negative comments about how much money was spent for People to get the rights to the first twins’ photos, I was glad to read that Angelina acknowledged it, that it doesn’t seem as though it was a small sum to her:

‘It was a crazy amount of money,’ she agrees, referring to the baby pictures deal. ‘But look, we’re using the money for our charitable foundation and in that way it does some good.’

Immediately after that, the article talks about just a small amount of the goodwill work Angie does for refugee children around the world, and it manages to do so without getting snotty, which would have helped the NYT article a great deal.

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She talks about her new perception of beauty too:

‘You know what is beautiful? My mom. [Her mother was the French actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died aged 56 last January from ovarian cancer.] She was beautiful to me, and I look more like my mom as I get older. Something else comes out of you when you become a parent and, as you get older, you start to see more character in your face.

‘Now, when I look at myself, I just see somebody at peace, and I see a mom, and I see my own relatives in my face – and that’s a kind of beauty that exists for everybody and doesn’t disappear.’

Considering the striking resemblance between Angelina and Marcheline, I can’t disagree with that!

She expanded on what it was like to shoot a movie with a disturbing topic like Changeling. Angelina has often mentioned how difficult it is, as a mother, to go into that dark place of having a missing child, but in this interview she also added that she was constantly paranoid about her own children, about where they were and what they were doing at all times. I can’t blame her, because when you have to be in that frame of mind all day on set, how could you not let it leak into your real life?

‘I remember one weekend I’d taken a nap and Shiloh was asleep in her cradle, and when I woke up she was gone. I was freaking out. And nothing had happened – Brad had taken her and the rest of the kids to the park.

‘But Walter’s story haunted me. Throughout filming I was hugging the kids and keeping them close to me.’

I think one of my favorite parts of the article is when the author says that although the tabloids run rampant about Angelina’s so-called post-partum depression and tell tales of alleged trouble in the Angelina and Brad relationship, she certainly seems to be a woman who is very happy with everything in her life right now. They also re-iterate the fact that Angelina doesn’t read the tabloids, that they’re silly.

Angelina admits she isn’t perfect, something people should be aware of, says she’s made mistakes and learned from them, and says, ‘I’d love to talk to other mothers about things I don’t know how to do.’ One of her less-than-perfect sides is that she isn’t as green as she’d like to be, but that Brad has taught her a lot about how to be better.

I was especially happy to hear her address the flights, since many people like to snark on the fact that they’re supposed to be an environmentally aware family and yet the Jolie-Pitt family flies privately so frequently (as though they could all sit in coach, SURE). She said, ‘And if we fly private, we buy carbon credits wherever we go.’

It was just so refreshing to read this after the two-faced article of last week. Please check out the full interview over here.

Image used with permission: Newscom

Angelina Jolie thinks her looks are getting better with age

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