Angelina Jolie's 45 years, from admired to evil
Since her split from Brad Pitt three years ago, the actress's image has been eroded by the endless legal battle.
When Angelina Jolie decided four years ago to put an end to her relationship with Brad Pitt, she not only divorced one of Hollywood's most admired actors, she also divorced her popular favor. This Thursday, the interpreter turns 45 in the process of rebuilding her professional career and her life.
With events in her favor, a fight on a plane with Pitt drunk and screaming with her eldest son, everything seemed to indicate that Jolie was going to win over the public during the divorce process, but it has not been like that. The actress has become in this long time of legal battle an unpleasant figure who has put all possible obstacles so that whoever her husband was could see their children and who has leaked to the media through third-party situations in which that this does not look very good.
In the campaign to win popular favor, Jolie has boasted of her six children whenever she has been able, parading through the red carpets of half the world. Pitt's strategy has been different. First silence, then confession of his mistakes and then his repentance. The statements about her children have been very few, the most resounding when she won the Oscar and she spoke of them as the reason for her life. For a few weeks now it has been known that the actor, after finally reaching an agreement on the custody of his children, maintains a regular relationship with them, except for the two oldest.
Hollywood never forgets its own and Pitt is one of them. Instead, Angelina Jolie has never quite fit into this particular universe of stars. She now presents herself as a woman obsessed with healthy living, but in her youth she admitted to taking all kinds of drugs, from heroin to ecstasy. She had a romantic relationship with the model Jenny Shimizu and before turning 30 she had already married twice: with the British Jonny Lee Miller, whom she met on the set of Hackers; and with Billy Bob Thornton. Then Brad Pitt came into her life when he was still with Jennifer Aniston.
“I never thought I would have children. I never thought that she would be in love. I never thought she would meet the right person. (...) After all these years we have a common history. And when you have a story with someone, you are a friend in such a real and deep way that there is a lot of comfort, tranquility and a deep love that comes from having spent so much time together, "he said about the family he formed with Pitt. But the heartbreak came Also. Since her third divorce, she has not been known as a partner and she is hardly seen in public except in some premiere or solidarity task. She works with UNHCR, which named her special envoy in 2012, after being a goodwill ambassador for 11 years.
Her parents, she says, marked her life. With her father Jon Voight, winner of an Oscar for The Return, she has had a two-way relationship. But for her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, she always felt admiration. She passed away in 2007 as a result of ovarian cancer. This disease led Jolie to make the decision to undergo surgery to avoid the possible appearance of this ailment. She discovered that she was a carrier of the BRCA1 gene, which increased her chances of developing cancer, which is why she first underwent a double mastectomy, in 2013, and two years later her ovaries and fallopian tubes were removed. Jolie also made it a flag for women in a similar situation.
Artistically, her career is stagnant, while Pitt's has achieved glory this year with an Oscar. The story continues.
