Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography (60 page)

In order to honor Maddox’s presence in her life, Angie flew to Bangkok for a tattoo engraved by tattoo master Sompong Kanphai. In July 2004 she had a second engraving on her back, a tattoo of a roaring dragon in celebration of being made an honorary citizen of Cambodia, Maddox’s homeland.
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With his tongue out at photographers, Maddox seems to express how Angie feels inside. He was her surrogate, used to explain many of her actions and decisions. For example, before adopting Zahara, she said that Maddox had been “asking for an African brother or sister,” and she opened her heart to Brad Pitt only after Maddox, after giving him the once-over, called him “Dad.”
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With three-year-old Maddox in her arms, Angie, as the UN Goodwill Ambassador for refugees, meets a patient at the Children’s Cancer Center of Lebanon on Christmas Day 2004. Her work for the UN was inspired by the poverty she witnessed in Cambodia during the filming of
Lara Croft
, as well as by a subsequent visit to Africa.
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Angie takes a break from filming the second Lara Croft movie to attend a mines clearance and awareness day in northern England in October 2002. The year before, she had been asked to detonate a landmine with dynamite during a UN-sponsored visit to Cambodia. “It was a great feeling to destroy something that would have otherwise hurt or possibly killed another person,” she said.
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Angie has always envied what she calls “the other girl,” the wholesome blonde, the good girl, the girl next door, feeling that she was very different from these women. So her pleasure at being accepted by an august body like the United Nations and meeting with world leaders such as Secretary of State Colin Powell was all the sweeter. Here she is about to speak at the launch of World Refugee Day in Washington, D.C., in June 2004.
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Angie has earned wide respect not only for speaking out on difficult issues but also for putting her money where her mouth is, donating approximately a third of her income to deserving causes. At press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, in May 2005, she spoke passionately about the plight of Afghan refugees who had been forced to flee their homeland and were living in temporary camps in northern Pakistan.
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During a six-day visit to Tanzania in April 2003, Angie joined with children, orphaned by the fighting in neighboring Congo, who were traveling to a refugee camp for around 85,000 people. Saddened and visibly upset by what she saw and heard, she found time to play a game with youngsters under the Right to Play program. Later she donated $50,000 to a local orphanage. Abandoned and orphaned children touch her heart, striking a chord with the alienation she often feels about herself and her place in the world.
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The stance is awkward, the distance deliberate. Just two months after Brad Pitt announced his separation from Jennifer Aniston in January 2005, he and Angie, the woman believed to be the spoke in the marital wheel, appeared at a luncheon in Los Angeles to publicize
Mr. & Mrs. Smith,
the drama that first brought them together. They continued to give the impression that they were just good friends for some months afterward.
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Angie, pregnant with her first biological child, and Brad join the great and the good, including UN Secretary General Koft Annan, left, at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2006. During their relationship the couple has been able to straddle the gap between tabloid tittle-tattle and high-minded public policy.
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Relaxed and intimate, Angie and Brad enjoy a quiet drink in a Prague restaurant in May 2007 during a break in filming for the thriller
Wanted
, in which she played an assassin training the son of a fellow assassin in the profession’s deadly arts. It was a break, too, from their growing family–and the ever-present paparazzi.
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