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Well, we already saw Brad Pitt on his bike, riding around New Orleans. As it turns out, the rest of this family was not far behind. Angelina Jolie was spotted walking with three of their children, enjoying some nice warm weather in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
She was with Pax, Zahara, and Shiloh and they made a quick stop at a little store for their favorite treat, some Cheetos for the kids.
It is so great to see her walking around with her family again. Apparently they only had two security guards with them, something that isn’t possible in other places where they’re swarmed by cameras and screaming people. There’s something special about New Orleans that somehow seems to allow them to wander about like everyday people – no wonder they love it there so much!
Photos used with permission: Splash News Online
696 days ago
MaryAnn, there seems to be more wrong going on now because of easier and faster access to info (internet, global connection). The world is getting smaller, and so if something bad news happen, more will hear about it, even if it happens far away. News and rumors fly at a faster rate. The advantage is the more people know about such plights as the hurricane victims, the more will try to help. The disadvantage is the government thinks there is already help from the public for the victims and therefore is less likely to actively help. I don’t think there is more wrong in the world than in the past, just more misinformation and misunderstanding because of the easy access to information.
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695 days ago
Shi’s so cute. Hardly waiting to see twins.. Its good Angelina and Brad will have more kids, coz Ange should have another half-dozen of girls as beautiful as she is.
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695 days ago
Randi, you are not just imaging! I swear Pax is looking like Brad and Z like Angie! Mary Ann, I am just a year or two behind you and it seems to me that things are getting more chaotic. However I keep meeting people like you online and the rest of the crowd here at this site, and it gives me a lot of hope
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695 days ago
Thank you Sherry for the lovely photos! And to all you wonderful Pittwatchers for your wonderful comments. I sometimes I go to other sites mainly because of the pictures, but I can not believe how mean some people can be, especially when they direct their comments to the children! This site is like a breath of fresh air.
It is so lovely to see Mama Angie and the kids enjoying the “Big Easy”. What can I say, she looks gorgeous no matter what she’s wearing! You can put her in a sack with no make-up on and she would still look beautiful. And the children are so sweet. Shiloh is more like Brad, and how great it is to see Pax and Z holding hands! I also like that the kids are dressed simply.
Regards to all and God bless!
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695 days ago
Is it just me? I’m feeling kind of sad about Maddox, Pax and Zahara not getting as much love as Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox. Oh I know it’s unconscious and it’s not everybody, and the reasons biological children are favored over adopted children, and white over multiracial – there are genetic and social reasons. It’s hard because it seems preferences are ‘natural’ and people can’t help who they fall in love with. So it’s nothing to guilt trip about. But check it out, under Pittwatch’s popular searches: 1. Shiloh, 2. The JPs as a family, 3. Shiloh pics, 10. Shi again. We’re not paying as much attention to Mad, Pax and Zee – they don’t show up in the popular searches at all as individuals, just as part of the whole family – which Shi is in too. It’s not Shi’s fault. I think this is what Angelina meant when she felt she had to fight for her adopted children – she didn’t want to favor her biological child more than them. Of course she got a lot of flack for that because people misunderstood.
The tabs are malicious and consciously mean, and crop photos so only Shiloh shows and not her brothers and sister. Like how they tell a story about the Jolie Pitts and leave out the fact that Zahara was there too, for example, shopping in Cannes. I think Mary Ann and Kari saw examples of this. Actually, I’d prefer that the kids not be in the tabs – but if they are going to be shown, IMO they should all be treated equally. Maddox had one cover (before Shi was born), I think Shiloh has had 2 covers. Someone at another blog even commented how weird it was to put a baby on the cover. Shiloh had a multi-page spread celebrating her 2nd birthday. As far as I know, Maddox, Pax and Zahara haven’t gotten the same/equal treatment on their birthdays.
I wish everybody treated all the kids the way Angelina and Brad treat them – with equal love, no matter blood ties and color.
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695 days ago
Fan from Vietnam. Yesterday I read an article in which Angelina said Maddox was being home schooled (maybe Pax and Zahara too?). I don’t remember the publication, but I’m pretty sure it was reliable. And either before or at Cannes, Angelina mentioned they had 3 people come to help – one taught arts and crafts, the Vietnamese person tutored Pax in Vietnamese, and there was a Congolese (I’m pretty sure) woman too. And before that, Angelina said that she wanted to make sure the kids learned about their birth countries, culture and language.
I think the rock solid source of the children’s stability is their intact family who are together all the time with both their parents, even if in different locations. (There are many professions where this kind of roaming lifestyle is the norm, including the military, diplomats, consultants, business people, performers. In fact, the children of the military who have an absent parent need extensive counseling – for which the JPs donated half a million dollars.) I just found out Clint Eastwood also takes his family with him on location shoots most of the time. Ewan McGregor, Dustin Hoffman and others do the same. Child actors are in and out of their regular schools all the time. To compensate, they have tutors on the set.
I think school is also an important source of stability. I think the reason Angelina and Brad are having the kids homeschooled is that the paps and starstruck onlookers made it impossible for the kids to go to school. They had a good plan choosing the Lycee Francais, which is the same throughout the world, for Maddox so that it would be familiar even if in different places. I think it worked in New Orleans, but remember the swarms of paps and people in New York and Prague? I also read that Maddox had enrolled in a local school near the Chateau Miraval and that he was whisked between home and school. But maybe after the pap invasion, the JPs decided to hunker down at the chateau.
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695 days ago
UNDER MOD: Fan from Vietnam, yesterday I read an article in which Angelina said Maddox was being home schooled . . .
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695 days ago
Thanks, Ligaya, for answering my question. I guessed so because I heard home schooling is allowed in the US. This is helpful for parents like Brad and Angie. In my country, it is not allowed and all kids from the age of 6 have to go to school.
Mary Ann, thanks for your post. I hope we will be OK. I understand your feelings and I guess you are right. My parents said exactly the same thing; they believe the world seems to have become more chaotic and there seems to have been more wrong doing and evils than the world they lived in a few decades ago.
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695 days ago
Considering the source, take this with a grain of salt – but for once it seems credible as a news report. (I read from another source that when Brad was spotted bicycling with the Obama-decorated notebook, he was heading for a private meeting (with MIR board members/staff?) at one of Antoine’s (oldest and arguably the best restaurant in NOLA, I highly recommend it) private rooms.
http://www.usmagazine.com/news/brad-pitt-six-more-houses-being-built-in-new-orleans
Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation has now raised enough money to build 90 homes in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans – nearing its goal of financing 150 homes – the actor announced at a charity reception Monday. As of late August, the foundation had funds to build 84 houses, but at Monday’s reception, Pitt and his board members announced six more new homes are now in the works. They also unveiled a donation from the American Idol Foundation.
After the reception, Pitt dined with board members at Delmonico’s — one of Emeril’s restaurants– which is about two blocks from the foundation’s new headquarters.
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695 days ago
Great pics of our 2 favorite little men!
http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/celebrities/hollywood/angelina-jolie-and-brad-pitt-visit-lower-ninth-ward-208227/
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Visit Lower Ninth Ward
Leaving most of their brood back home, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were spotted out and about with sons Pax, 4, and Maddox, 7, on Tuesday (October 7). The “Mr and Mrs Smith” co-star couple were paying a visit to the Lower Ninth Ward Housing project in New Orleans – making sure that everything’s going according to plan.
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695 days ago
Its so nice to see angelina again,thou its seems hard walking with 3 kids. but i salute her. I pray that they( angelina & brad) would stay forever. god bless for the whole family.
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695 days ago
Love this family…..angie is so beautiful so as brad…this couple have a very strong aura and make everybody crazy about them. Its so beautiful how brad change angie life so as angie change brad life. its their faith to be together and be a very beautiful couple and have a wonderful family. May god bless them all.
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695 days ago
If perfect life does exist, then Brad&Ange with kids have that perfection 100%- they have each other, health, love, beauty, money, popularity, true happieness that you can read off their faces… what else one need?
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694 days ago
Look at Shi’s pants, how much they’re folded up at the hem. Is it possible she’s wearing Z’s hand-me-downs? AWESOME. They really are just like the rest of us.
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651 days ago
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