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The Many Characters of mama me-time
Ms Jolie - the Actress, the
Ambassador, the Mummy the public eye, in the spotlight,
they can sometimes show the
You may not like her, you may adore her, world what women can do
but there is no denying that Angelina Jolie and achieve. Angelina Jolie,
because of her worldwide fame
truly is a woman with a busy life. Now and status, has become a very
let us forget about all the press, good or powerful and influential woman,
bad, which she receives.The reasons why who remains, before everything
else, a real family girl.
we should think of her as an amazing So we are talking about a
strength are that she is a woman, a woman who has made a career
mother, a successful actress, a very active as an actress, and not a bad
ambassador for the UN and a dedicated career either, as her Oscar for
Best Supporting Actress shows
humanitarian. (she won the award in 1999 for
her role in Girl, Interrupted).
B eing a mother is a be very demanding. Although She rose to fame through her mother, baby & child April 2011
full-time job, whether many women in the world are films, her physique and her
you have one or many in this situation, most of us do eccentricities. In the last few
children. Not only do we take not get the praise we deserve years however, she has not
care of our kids, but we also for our efforts. We live our lives, dedicated so much of herself in
run the house, take care of our working hard, and nobody her career as she has in raising
husband and ourselves. More needs to know how amazing her children and taking care of
and more women decide to we are. For celebrities, it is a her humanitarian activities. It is
take another full-time job, to completely different story. They very clear in her head that her
embrace a professional career, are not better than regular priority is her family. Although
and juggling between both can mums, but because they live in it might seem unreasonable
for most of us to grow a family
so quickly and with so many
children, and Jolie and partner
Brad Pitt are not willing to stop
at six, she takes great care in
fully incorporating every child
into the family before bringing
another one in. She inherited
strong familial values from her
late mother, actress Marcheline
Bertrand, who died in 2007 at
the age of fifty-six of ovarian
cancer. Bertrand gave up her
acting career in order to raise
Angelina and her brother as a
single mum and passed on to
her daughter the strength to
fight for her children. And these
values Jolie in turn passes on
to her six children, Maddox,
Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and
Vivienne (three adopted and
three biological), with the same
concerns every working mum
has.

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