Angelina Jolie on tabloids and Mariane and Adam Pearl

Earlier today, Angelina Jolie discussed the difficulties of playing Mariane Pearl while pregnant in her new film, A Mighty Heart, comparing her pregnancy experience to Mariane's. In a two-part interview airing Wednesday (on Today, 7:30 am and Dateline, 10 pm), Angelina describes how the image of Mariane and Adam Pearl stayed with her, even after the birth of Shiloh Nouvel, now 11 months.

What [Danny's death] took away from this time in their life, this is the happiest time in their life.  And what that must be. I just can’t imagine. I thought about that when I was breastfeeding. I thought about that all through kind of the birth of...that haunted me and when I was sitting here quiet, I would think, 'God, just a few months after, what is that like? What is that like?'

Angelina also addressed the constant tabloid rumors about herself and her family, saying,

I know there's a cycle of certain things that they keep rewriting or whatever, but I can assume things are made up...There's nothing I have to hide or defend. You know, I'm gonna live my life. And there are gonna be times when people wanna try to attack me and I don't know why, but they will. And that's okay. There are other things I'm more concerned about. My kids are healthy. I have a lot I want to do in this world. Before I do, I wanna do a lot of things as a woman, as a mom, and that's my focus. At the end of the day, I'm gonna be dead...and what people say about me is gonna be what I accomplished and what I did in my life and how my children are.

I have always been honest about who I am, and I've always been very outspoken to press. I think people have heard a lot from me over the years. [laughs] People wanna believe negative things, they will. And I can't help that.

Source: MSNBC

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