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I think that this week’s silly tabloid headline is even more hilarious than last week’s was. This time around, In Touch (out of touch is more like it!) is claiming that Angelina Jolie is pregnant again, so soon after giving birth to her twins.
Granted, it’s not impossible. Unlikely, but not impossible. Just ask Britney Spears who has two sons very close in age, born within the year. But it’s still very unlikely. And really, if I didn’t find it such a laughable claim I would be offended on Angelina’s behalf because although they state the news comes from “a friend”, a large part of the reason they’re saying she’s pregnant is because she has a so-called “baby bump”.
Really. My goodness, what must it be like to be a female celebrity where everyone constantly stares at your midsection, looking for the slightest hint of a bulge so that the pregnancy rumors can fly. Is there really any wonder that most of Hollywood is underweight? Who wouldn’t be, under so much scrutiny?
The reason the story makes me laugh is because they’re so predictably hypocritical. Because Angelina is not stick-thin, having just carried and birthed two babies, the lack of a completely flat stomach is supposedly because she’s pregnant. However, if her stomach was indeed perfectly flat, the tabloids would be ragging on how she’s too skinny. Maybe they’d even accuse her of being a bad mother for the weight loss because they could claim she’s an unhealthy example or that she’s spending too much time worrying about losing weight to care for her children.
It really is true that when you become a tabloid target, you just can’t win no matter what you do. If Angelina isn’t too skinny, then clearly she’s too big, and thus pregnant. It’s ridiculous.
Anyone else got a ridiculous or hilarious tabloid story to share this week?
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663 days ago
It could definitely be true in the sense that it’s not impossible. Even the smartest and best planner can end up with a surprise pregnancy. No birth control method is completely fool proof.
The reason the story is ridiculous to me is, as I mentioned, it all comes back down to Hollywood’s strange obsession with being as thin as possible and so if someone has even the slightest hint of a belly they jump on the pregnancy train.
And like I said, if she was back to the weight from this time last year, everyone would be screaming that she’s way too thin. Instead, she’s got a healthier weight going on and instead of mentioning that, they just start speculating that she’s pregnant.
I’m starting to think these people have absolutely no idea how the human body works when it comes to pregnancy and birth and the recovery from both.
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663 days ago
I’d still be over the moon if she was pregnant again :D More Jolie-Pitts please!
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663 days ago
just a heads-up. the envolope, the magazine in the L.A times, has a interview and a new photo-shoot of angelina, which will be published this wednesday 12th november. angelina is on the cover entitled ‘mother on a mission’.
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663 days ago
i know it’s possible but i doubt it.
Anyone else got a ridiculous or hilarious tabloid story to share this week?
i think i saw a magazine over the grocery that has angie and jen a. photos that claims angie apologizes to jen. i think it’s pretty l*a*m*e story. i mean, why would she apologize? for what? the tabs still can’t over the so called jolie/pitt/aniston triangle.
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663 days ago
Please can you tell me where did you read this, I went there and there is nothing about the cover!
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663 days ago
I can’t believe NYP is writing that BS toward JPs. They are very sad individuals.
Since when being apart for almost a week is gonna kill one relationship? Brad has been in Chicago and then in NYC for afew days. no one has seen him since friday morning. So maybe he has left the city for wherever family are.
I’m just so mad right now. After reading all those BU’s talks in JJ, seriously why can’t these people let other to live?
So what if Angie hasn’t been with Brad for 1 week? Is it the end of the world? New York Post is full of it. They have even called Brad’s rep to get an answer about their BS’s story. What are the thinking about themselves?
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662 days ago
Does anyone have any other sites that have good blogs to read?
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662 days ago
Angie went to KFP DVD release in LA today!
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662 days ago
i saw an ad on youtube for it. i think anne hathaway is on the front of the 5th of november cover right? angelina will be on the cover by the 12th of november.
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662 days ago
btw there are new pics of angelina at the DVD release of kung fu panda at the chinese gruamann theatre in hollywood from today at jjb.
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662 days ago
Please, I really don’t mean to sound peevish, but could people stop saying that Zahara needs an “African Sister, as Shiloh has the Twins and Maddox and Pax are brohters”. It makes it sound like they only relate to those that look like them and flys in the face of having a multi cultural family. They are “all brothers and sisters”, not just different ethnic groups living in the same house. Whenever I read this, it just sounds like they are adopting dolls for the children to play with.
Funny, it seems that Zahara relates better to Pax than Maddox and she has no problem seeing Brad and Angelina as her parents and they don’t look like her. Yes, they have said they want to balance the family, but they are not adopting just for one person, but for the entire family.
I agree about pregnacy not being impossible, but improbable. Accidents do happen and just because you say you want to adopt first does not rule out pregnancy. But again, as above, she is at a good weight and not rail thin, and the only thing the tabs can attribute this to is pregnancy, not common sense. Her most recent photos make her look good and her legs in the most recent photos are so much better than last year, so I hope she keeps this weight on, she looks great. Thanks and I hope this site remains positive and upbeat in reporting on this family.
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662 days ago
Sherry, I totally understand what you’re saying on the “bump obsession.” It’s just another way tabs are completely misogynistic. I mean, I would never go up to someone with a slight tummy and ask if they were pregnant (it’s like telling someone they’re fat, basically), so how come the tabs think they can speculate publicly? Angelina JUST GAVE BIRTH..to TWINS! There was some other story where it talked about Angie’s “curvy” body versus her formerly “thin” physique. It’s like: she’s not “curvy” or “chubby,” fools, she’s recovering from P-R-E-G-N-A-N-C-Y. The bump-watchers are so annoying. If I were a celebrity, it would piss me off: I don’t need anyone scrutinizing my belly day in and day out. Sometimes a tummy is just a tummy, and there ain’t nothing wrong with it!
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662 days ago
Sarita, I agree with you entirely! I also want to point out that if Angie were far enough along in a pregnancy to be showing, she’d have to be at least three months, which would mean she had gotten pregnant practically the minute she left the hospital with Knox and Viv!
Honestly, Out of Touch must have forgotten their “Reality check pills” the day they wrote that story!
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