Various Hollywood insiders and media outlets are reporting — and reps are categorically denying — that Brangelina has officially decided to call it quits and have met with lawyers to discuss custody of the kids and separation of assets. They never married, but they’ve been together for five WEALTHY years and have collected, in various ways, six kids. Make room, Mariah and Nick, the Brangelina doomsday clock is now officially ticking, too.
The two film stars connected under questionable circumstances, with Jolie allegedy snatching Pitt right from under Jennifer Aniston’s nose while they were working together on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2005. It seems that being married on screen wasn’t enough for the hottest male and female actors in the biz.
Now, it’s certain that the notoriously unlucky in love Aniston will be jumping up and doing the happy feet clap upon hearing this possible news … she just may finally get her “last laugh.” The losers, though, would be the children.
Along with spawning their own little Brangelinas; Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne, the couple also adopted three children from other countries and completely filled their happy — or maybe not so happy — home with scampering little multicultural feet. In fact, their adoptive practices sparked somewhat of a trend in Hollywood that saw starlets and musicians alike trying to secure their designer international child. The trend has even been parodied by Niecy Nash (’08 BET awards) and Sasha Cohen in Bruno, where he retrieved an African child from a box at baggage claim that he had checked as luggage. Humor aside, have we completely lost sight of the importance of two-parent homes — especially when they’re manufactured in the name of goodwill, and then the superficial union goes bust?
So, now, not only do the children face the possible loss of their identity due to the circumstances of their adoption, they also may be dealing with the possibility of separation anxiety due to losing the two-parent structure they were adopted or born into. Some would say it doesn’t matter much today, but doesn’t it? –gerald radford
