Thursday, October 25, 2007

Sarah Jessica Parker admires Angelina Jolie for adopting



The 'Sex and the City' actress thinks it is incredible Angelina has opened her home to three underprivileged children - Maddox, 6, Pax, 3, and Zahara, 2, - and admits she can't even imagine doing the same.

Sarah - who has a five-year-old son, James, with husband Matthew Broderick - said, "It's too late for me to have a big family - I can't imagine it now. But I do think that what people like Angelina Jolie do is amazing. I love being a mother and I would be thrilled if my family were larger but I can't imagine having eight children."

The 42-year-old star admits she finds it hard to balance motherhood with being an actress because of all the attention it brings.

She added to Britain's OK! magazine, "The loss of privacy scares me, that's why you don't hear me complaining about that stuff and that is why you can't trap me into talking about the paparazzi.



"I don't know if I have found a happy balance with the cultural phenomenon of celebrity, especially what has happened over the last five years. I don't think I will ever understand or strike a balance with that."

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Poor Parents?


They may be the sexiest screen stars and the hottest humanitarians, but are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie forgetting that family comes first?

The comely couple and their ever-flourishing family of four kids have sojourned in several different states and cities over the last four months.

Brangelina and their babes have moved to and fro such places as New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Chicago and Prague on top of reports they are searching for Spanish stomping grounds.

But while Angie and Brad may be giving their guys and girls a global education, some say it may be doing more harm than good.

"It would appear that they are attempting to have the children fit into their lifestyle as opposed to them amending their lifestyle to meet the needs of their children," said marriage and family therapist Sloane Veshinski.

"Young children need structure and a routine; however, the constant movement can cause an inability to form attachment bonds to those around them, form relationships with other children and establish a peer group," Veshinski said.

"The lack of consistency in routine, languages spoken and the overall changes of environment may cause them to lack a level of trust and comfort in their environment if that environment continues to change.


"The children may have difficulties in forming relationships with their peers, other than their siblings. They may, in the future, be diagnosed with issues such as attachment disorders or ADHD as their world is moving faster than they are able to process."

And while the movie-star mom and dad certainly seem to have "Mighty Hearts," it appears they could benefit from some parental education a la Britney Spears.

"They are parents who are unaware of the developmental needs of their children," Veshinski added. "Brad and Angelina need education about what is needed for their children to develop appropriately from a developmental and psychological perspective."

However, Pop Tarts has been told that it isn't just the juniors who are suffering from the leaping lifestyle. Apparently, all the unsettlement is causing ruptures in the romance between the "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" sensations.

"Brad really wants to stay put in one place permanently and focus on building their family and the charities they are engaged in," our inside source said. "But Angelina's train of thought is much different. Her career is on fire at the moment, and she wants to travel and thinks the kids will be much better off seeing so much of the world.

"The differing views on top of the pressures of being as famous as they are is definitely putting a huge strain on their relationship."

And it seems that their sensational status already is affecting their eldest son's ability to be professionally educated, as Angie apparently was forced to withdraw Maddox from his swanky French school in the Big Apple due to the "big disruptions" the couple continuously caused.

"Parents were going crazy, the paparazzi were everywhere every time either Pitt or Jolie went to collect Maddox," an eyewitness said. "It was madness. I can't see any solution other than home-schooling their children."

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Team Up for TV Series


Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are teaming up to produce a new TV series based on the lives of aid workers.

The couple is working on a new small-screen project--their first together--for HBO, which will go behind the scenes of an international aid organization.

The series is being written by The Bourne Ultimatum co-writer Scott Burns, who also produced An Inconvenient Truth.

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie househunting in Europe


Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are looking for a house in Europe so that their four children and future offspring can have a "broad vision of the world," the actor said in a interview published Sunday.

"While we are very nomadic, we would like to have a base in Europe. More attention is paid here to what is going on in the world and it is easier to get to Africa and Asia from here," he told XL Semanal, the weekly magazine supplement of the ABC newspaper.

"We want our children to have a broad vision of the world. Spain, Italy and France have lots of quality of life and that is healthy," he added.

Pitt, 43, and Jolie, 32, are parents to adopted Cambodian son Maddox, six; three-year-old Vietnamese son Pax; two-year-old Ethiopian daughter Zahara and 16-month-old biological daughter Shiloh.

The couple, who starred in 2005 hit movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", would like to adopt more children, Pitt said.

"We still have not finished. We are very lucky to have the means to give someone an opportunity," he said.

"But it is more than that. I can't imagine my life without our children. If someone is thinking of adopting, I couldn't encourage them more," he added.

The Hollywood couple reportedly moved recently from New York, along with their four children, to Los Angeles where Jolie is shooting Clint Eastwood's new drama "The Changeling".