Angelina’s brother worried about her weight.
Angelina Jolie’s brother, James Haven, says that his sister has lost her famous curves because she is still mourning the death of their mother, who passed away in January.
“Angie has become very thin because she’s grieving,” Haven told the British publication The Mail on Sunday. “It’s even difficult for her to eat. I keep saying to her, ‘Don’t forget to eat.’”
Marcheline Bertrand provided stability in her children’s lives after separating from Jon Voight in 1976, shortly after Jolie’s birth. For that reason, her death from cancer at the age of 56, has been devastating to Haven and Jolie, 31.
Last month, Usmagazine.com reported that emotional distress over Bertrand’s passing had caused the 5-foot-8 Mr. and Mrs. Smith actress to drop to 109 pounds.
“But you know she doesn’t pay much attention to food anyway and she’s been going through a process of grief like me,” Haven explained. “She has not wanted to eat, nor has she been able to.”
Part of the reason for Jolie’s loss of appetite may stem from the fact that she associates cooking with her mother’s memory.
“There was very much that home feeling when we came back from school,” Haven recalled to the Mail. “Angie and I would walk in and comment on how we could smell things cooking and baking in the kitchen.
He continued: “Or she’d be in the middle of cooking and pick up a carrot and teach us about the vegetable or the fruit so that it was visual as well. Angie is now the same with her kids.”
Haven, who famously shared a kiss with his sister following her Best Actress Oscar win in 2000 for Girl, Interrupted, says that Bertrand’s death has only deepened his connection with Jolie, as well as her bond with her adopted children.
“If Angelina understood something about missing parents before, she understands completely now,” he said. “Angelina and I are orphans too, in a way. When you see those kids in orphanages, they cling to each other. And that’s exactly what they have — they have each other.”
March 26th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Angelina and her brother give me the creeps. This guy needs to do something with his life instead of obsessing over ever aspect of his sisters life. His recent comments are so not normal.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
That’s funny. I was just getting ready to say the opposite. He sounds so nice and caring and genuine and I actually related to everything he had to say, having lost my mother, too. I think most of the people reading this blog are taking out their anger and frustration in their replies, because most of them are so darned hateful and ugly!
March 26th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
I just find it hard to see them as creepy. So much of what he said is how I’ve always believed they truly are as opposed to when she was thumbing her nose at the press as if to say, you know, if you all are so sick as to believe or imagine us this way, let’s give you just enough to feed your own sickness that you delight in creating. I always imagined her having a good laugh at people’s willingness to so hungrily latch onto something that MIGHT be scandalous as opposed to the idea of siblings who actually value and adore each other and couldn’t imagine their lives without the each other. No, hatred, feuding and possible incest is MUCH more fun.
March 26th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Angelina was rail thin long before her mother died. She has ISSUES! Her brother is grasping for an excuse. She gave up cutting herself and now not eating is a substitute in order to silence her inner demons. She needs to save herself before she tries to save the world one orphan at a time.
March 27th, 2007 at 11:12 am
its nice they are so nice and caring for each other. losing a parent is just plain hard, this will take time, I hope they find comfort in each others arms.
October 17th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
They have always found comfort in each others arms. That’s their problem.