Angelina Jolie, award-winning actress, humanitarian, and doting mother to six children, has opened up about becoming a mother for the first time, saying that she in her twenties, she had never considered it.
Speaking to CTV News in the same country, she said:
“It’s strange, I never wanted to have a baby. I never wanted to be pregnant. I never babysat. I never thought of myself as a mother.”
It was a trip to Cambodia 16 years ago for her film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider that changed everything for her.
Zahara and Shiloh
“When I first came to Cambodia, it changed me. It changed my perspective,” she recalled.
“I realised there was so much about history that I had not been taught in school, and so much about life that I needed to understand, and I was very humbled by it,” she continued.
L-R: Zahara, Knox, Maddox, Shiloh, Pax and Vivienne
It was there that she contacted the UN and went back to the country with them as a Goodwill Ambassador. The 40-year-old said that an overwhelming feeling struck her while she was playing with school children.
“It was suddenly very clear to me that my son was in the country, somewhere.” She there adopted her first child from a Cambodian orphanage, Maddox, in 2002. Then came her other five beautiful children, Zahara, Shiloh, Pax, Knox and Vivienne.
Angelina is currently back in Cambodia to film First They Killed My Father, a memoir about the country’s genocide in the ‘70s.
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