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mama me-time | food for the soul
She first became a celebrities use their power activities, as she did while
mother when she adopted for the benefit of people and filming “Beyond Borders” in
a Cambodian baby in 2002. children in need, I definitely Namibia, where she met with
From the wild reputation that do not have a problem with it. Angolan refugees. During a
she had acquired through the Not ready to stop growing her private stay in Jordan, she also
years with her eccentric and family, Jolie adopted a little went to Lebanon and met with
provocative behaviour, she boy from Vietnam in 2007. The refugees in Beirut. Beyond her
suddenly became a mum. The latest additions to the Jolie-Pitt missions abroad, she actively
person she was before did not family came in 2008 with twins. works to lobby for humanitarian
disappear, and she will always Again, the pictures of the new affairs in the United States,
be the wild, tattooed punk kid babies were sold for a record with the US Congress and
we knew a few years ago, but sum, which also was donated to Washington DC’s Council on
motherhood did change her. the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. Foreign Affairs, and she uses
This change happened after her celebrity status to raise
she visited Cambodia while Her visits to Cambodia awareness of the conditions
working on the set of a film. changed her life, as this is when and plights of refugees and
The experience opened her she decided to start a family, promote humanitarian causes.
eyes to the many humanitarian but it also opened her eyes She funded the National Centre
crises of the world, and started to the extreme difficulties and for Refugee and Immigrant
her new life as one of the most needs of the population. She Children in 2005, and founded,
generous celebrity mummy. In contacted the UNHCR (United together with partner Brad
2005, she adopted her second Nation High Commissioner Pitt, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation,
child, an Ethiopian-born baby for Refugees) and began an organisation through which
girl. Angelina was deeply visiting refugee camps around donations are made to various
affected when her daughter was the world in 2001. After a charities. Doctors Without
admitted in hospital soon after few months, she was named Borders, Global Action for
arriving in the United States for Goodwill Ambassador to the Children and the Education
dehydration and malnutrition, UNHCR at the headquarters Partnership for Children in
again raising awareness about in Geneva. From Sierra Leone Conflict are organisation that
the living conditions of the to Tanzania, Angelina Jolie benefit from the generosity –
region. She and Pitt eventually visited camps for refugees and and she is extremely generous
decided to have biological displaced populations in more – of Angelina Jolie.
children in 2006, and than 20 countries over the years
as the press started a battle during her missions with the
for the first pictures, they took UN (other countries include
their fame to their advantage, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Kosovo,
cashing a remarkable amount Russia, Egypt, India, Kenya).
from magazines in the United Even when she is working,
States and Great Britain, giving she keeps her humanitarian
all of the proceeds to charity.
mother, baby & child April 2011 This is a good example of what The person she was before did
makes the difference between a not disappear, and she will
celebrity mum and all the other always be the wild, tattooed
mums in the world. I am afraid
to say that we could probably punk kid we knew a few years
not sell the pictures of our ago, but motherhood did change
newborn children for something
worth mentioning… So you her.
might think it is all business,
all part of the act, but when
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