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I’m not sure why I didn’t predict this. I apologize, because this one caught me slightly off-guard – and now I think there might be something to it. Last week, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and their six kids went off on a little working holiday to Africa. While Brad and the kids stayed somewhere in Kenya, Angelina spent one day at a refugee camp on the Somalia-Kenya border. When she came back to her family, she picked up Zahara and Shiloh, and took them to Ethiopia to scout locations for an official Zahara Jolie-Pitt malaria and HIV/AIDS clinic. Or so the story played out last week.

This week, it seems like the whole “scouting clinic locales” was nothing but an excuse for a good ol’ fashioned baby-adoptin’. So Star Magazine says – they’re claiming that Angelina visited an orphanage in Ethiopia, and now she’s ready to add to the Jolie-Pitt clan:

“Angelina really bonded with this one little girl,” says an insider, explaining that Angelina first laid eyes on the 3-year-old during last week’s visit. “There were actually three kids who tugged at her heartstrings, but she absolutely fell in love with this child.”

Angelina’s not the only one smitten. “Shiloh and Zahara hugged the little girl as they were leaving… Angie said it was so sweet, and she’s determined to make her part of the family.”

Unfortunately, Brad Pitt is the major obstacle. “He’s dead set against another adoption right now and really flipped out on Angie when she told him… he thinks she isn’t being practical.”

But a second source tells Star, “Angelina isn’t asking Brad if they should adopt again, she’s telling him.”

The fight turned especially nasty when Brad accused her of being “like a kid in a pet store, wanting all the cute puppies… She screamed at him that these weren’t dogs that needed a place to live, they were children. She was livid!”

A few days later, when Brad was headed out to Spain, Angelina backed out of the trip to retaliate. “She flat-out refused to go along. Angie doesn’t want to support him if he won’t support her.”

“Brad is exhausted and just can’t handle it right now… he begged Angie to reconsider and revisit adopting in a year or so.”

“Angelina made it absolutely clear this is going to happen as soon as possible,” continues the insider. Why the rush? Angelina made a promise to Zahara that they would find her another sister from Africa, reveals the pal. “She intends to keep her word.”

“Angelina has already started the paperwork, and everything’s moving forward. She’s going to get this child, with or without Brad’s help.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 5 2009]

Obviously, I realize Star did this story a certain way because they wanted it to really be about “Brad and Angelina have been fighting non-stop for four-and-a-half years, why did they ever get together” stuff. But I think Star missed the point on something that may have a grain of truth – that Angelina probably wants to adopt again, and is probably already visiting orphanages. I think that may be true because it seems to be her (and Brad’s) m.o. About a year after adopting Zahara, she gave birth to Shiloh. A year after Shiloh, they adopted Pax. A year after Pax, Angelina had the twins. The twins are more than a year old – so it seems reasonable to me, time-wise, that they are considering it. She and Brad could have even visited orphanages while they were in Kenya, for all we know.

As for the idea that Brad’s the one holding back – he’s the one that spent the last year talking about how he wants even more kids. Also – for the alleged quote attributed to Brad saying Angelina wanted all of the “cute puppies” – all I could think about was “all of the cute gerbils”. In Star’s next story, they should have Brad screaming at Angelina, “No more babies – from now on, we’ll just adopt gerbils, you bitch!”

Here’s Angelina with the kids in New Orleans on October 6th, credit Bauer Griffin. Header with the kids visiting an art store on October 4th, 2008. Credit: Fame.
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