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You obviously know nothing about the Divine 9. |
Sorry, who are you? What a bizarre comment. |
If you look at her old pics and zoom in, you can see she used makeup to make the lips more full. So the critic and advice her mom gave her she used. If you look at her today, she doesn’t do that. And her lips are thin. |
True. All the more reason for Brad to get a life and to stop harassing Jolie. |
What does your post have to do with the fact that sorority rituals do indeed look strange to outsiders? |
So, you’ve no idea, and you’re making things up. Spelman and AKA are great choices. |
Not the OP but I’m certain she’s had a completely different experience being black than most because of who her parents were and the money they have available. Depending on what and where she goes after college she may have a few rude awakenings. |
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Daily Mail has an article about the second oldest boy, Pax, posting a rant against Pitt on his private Insta. Initially I assumed it was a fake account, but seems it might be true:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12744641/Angelina-Jolie-Brad-Pitt-adopted-son-Pax-dad-despicable.html#reader-comments Looks like all the adopted kids are alienated from Pitt. |
Angelina Jolie wanted to create the perfect family and shopped around the world for her kids. Too bad she rejected the "father" part of the family. Poor kids. |
| What do you make of these celebrity international adoptions? It seems like at one time they were viewed favorably but now not so much. International adoption in general seems more sketchy now than it did, say, 20 years ago. I've seen so many stories where it didn't go well or that the child had a lot of identity issues, understandably, but years ago this wasn't talked about. |
It's complicated. On the one hand, it's very white savior to me. Angelina swooping in because their home country is so poor or something. On the other hand I get that kids need homes. It's a similar problem here in the US with adoptions- like the "Girl Wash Your Face" woman Rachel whoever, adopted a black child, and wrote about how heartbreaking it was when she fostered her that she had to deal with the addict mom and it was horrible for the kid and she was thankful to adopt the kid...but then years later we found out Rachel was a struggling alcoholic herself for years, and her husband and the father of the adopted child also clearly struggled with addiction and severe mental health issues. I have sympathy for addicts, but seems like in that case, it's an example of different standards for white/wealthy people. |
Spelman has many studebts who may not be as wealthy as Zahara but come from upperclass, well educated Black families. |
"The number of children American parents adopt each year from abroad has declined rapidly too, from 23,000 in 2004 (an all-time high) to about 3,000 in 2019." |
Lots of sketchy children “brokers” around the time Angelina adopted. No reason to think she knew, but it is why there have been questions about some of them. At least two of her adopted kids had some health or emotional challenges, so fortunate she had the resources to support them. Much more awareness now about how difficult it is to adopt a healthy child internationally and, yes, adoptions have plummeted as a result. |