Monday, June 15, 2009
Brad's brother, Doug, announced the generous contribution to St. John's Hospital in his hometown of Springfield, Missouri. The money will establish an endowment fund to pay children's cancer specialists.
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Angelina Jolie's twins have arrived - she gave birth by Caesarean section to a son and daughter yesterday evening.
'The babies are doing well. The operation went just perfectly,' Dr Michael Sussmann told People. 'Angelina is in very good spirits. Brad Pitt was at her side. He was there and all was well.
'The mother and father are very, very happy.'
Brad and Angelina have named their new son Knox Leon and their new daughter Vivienne Marcheline.
The newborns weighed in at 5lbs each.
Angelina was rushed to the Fondation Lenval hospital in Nice, France, on 1 July because she’d been suffering from increasingly frequent contractions.
‘Ange has had three doctors looking after her, as well as two pre-term neonatologists on standby 24-7,’ a source told Now at the time.
‘She’d already dilated to 3cm, even though she was only 34 weeks gone, and doctors were extremely concerned about her delivering too early, so she was rushed into hospital by private car.
‘Doctors wanted to keep the twins in the womb for another week at least, to give them a fighting chance at being born healthy.
‘If they’d been delivered, then they’d have encountered breathing problems, jaundice and been put on a ventilator.
‘She was given drugs to stop the contractions and stabilise the situation.'
Angelina, 33, and Brad, 44, are now parents to 6 kids - they are also mum and dad to Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 2. source
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
ANGELINA JOLIE is planning another addition to her rainbow family – this time an orphan boy from the Czech Republic.
Well, it’s always nice to take a souvenir back from your travels, isn’t it?
The Hollywood star, in Prague to film her latest movie Wanted, has been paying regular visits to a Catholic orphanage in the centre of the city.
And Angelina — who has already adopted nippers from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam — has fallen in love with one of the orphans.
Her partner BRAD PITT flew from Montreal, Canada, to Prague to meet the child at the weekend.
Now the couple are going through official channels to make their fourth adoption.
A source said: “Angelina celebrated her 32nd birthday yesterday and had told Brad she felt it was time to extend their family again.
“Her maternal instincts are in overdrive and she felt a bond with the kid straight away.
“She called Brad and said she had found a child who would fit in perfectly with the other kids.
“If everything goes smoothly, Angelina will have an Eastern European son to add to her brood.”
The couple’s family now includes Cambodian son MADDOX, five, Vietnamese son PAX THIEN, three, Ethiopian daughter ZAHARA, two, and their own daughter SHILOH, one.
And I have to say I am staggered she has time to cope with another child — as well as globetrotting as one half of an extremely successful movie star couple.
Angelina, determined to keep her visits to the orphanage under wraps, has been employing cunning operations with her security staff to throw photographers off the scent. A series of decoy cars are sent out from her hotel before she finally leaves to go and visit the kids.
Meanwhile Brad has been in Montreal sitting exams to earn his private pilot’s license.
But he made the long-haul journey to meet Angelina and Czech adoption officials to prove how serious their intentions to adopt are.
Brad had given Czech authorities plenty of notice about his arrival so he could skip through customs and security quickly.
But suspicious staff, uneasy with his short stay, delayed his entry as they demanded a thorough search.
The couple have now flown to New York for a three-week break while Czech authorities complete the adoption paperwork.
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