Angelina Jolie: “Focus on my weight loss is disturbing”
Angelina Jolie — who just nabbed a Screen Actors Guild nomination — admits she got too skinny this year but says she was bothered by all the negative scrutiny.
Jolie, 32 — who says she lost weight while grieving over her mother’s passing in January — opened up in the new issue of Grazia magazine.
“The thing that’s disturbing is that instead of people saying, ‘This looks like a person that’s actually dealing with something, probably from emotions,’ they say, ‘Does she fit into skinny jeans and look thin?’” Jolie said.
“I want people to understand who I am as a person is not somebody that’s trying to look thin, but just trying to work through a very difficult year,” she said. (For other stars who got too skinny, click here.)
Jolie said she got through her death of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, thanks to the support of her beau Brad Pitt (they were recently named Us’ Couple of the Year).
“He is just a great friend and when my mother passed, he was so great,” she said. “He sat with me and held [my mother’s] hand. After she passed away he spent the night asking me and my brother about our mother and got us to tell funny stories about her.
“He focused on all the love and joy we were fortunate enough to have had,” Jolie said. “He was extraordinary.”
See 12 adorable photos of the couple here.
Tell Us: Do you think Angelina got too skinny this year?
December 20th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Yes, she did get too skinny, but I don’t think it’s drug addiction, food issues or a bid for attention. I think she genuinely grieved for her mother and unfortunately she did it in the public eye. I am the exact opposite. I gain weight when I’m upset. We each have our burdens to bear…
December 20th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Isn’t this interview a few months old already and that mag is just reprinting it?
December 20th, 2007 at 9:34 am
i dont believe her, she’s just like every other actress out there. She knows she wouldn’t get the roles she does if she was at a normal weight.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:15 am
She has always been tall & thin…..grieving is a physical and emotional thing. If she lost 10 lbs.. it would show more on her, then the average person.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:18 am
I sure want to believe her and I’ll give her that. Say what want about this couple but hardly know one talks about the millions they give away for people here and around the world. Most people treat there freaking animals better than people. Just love the thought of giving millions to the plight of animals instead of helping the human condition.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Who gives a crap!! I hope she withers away and disappears for good!!
December 20th, 2007 at 10:24 am
I can’t believe, at the end of this article, you ask us if we think she got too skinny. CAN YOU READ??? Yes, of course she got too skinny, her mother died. If you haven’t gone through that emotion, you have no right to comment. I can forgive negativity about some things, but this is ridiculous. If she never worked another day, it probably wouldn’t matter to her. She has a life, people. Maybe some of you should get one.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Seems like Blondey forgot to change her name the second message. Huge contrast to her first message. LMAO
December 20th, 2007 at 11:45 am
My mother lost over 60 pounds when her father died. She was overweight, so it was a “good” weight loss in that sense, but it was just one of the side effects of grieving for him. It is a perfectly normal grieving response, albeit not the healthiest, and she was very close to her mother by all accounts. I think it is good that she is talking about it, and being honest.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
We wouldn’t focus so much on her weight loss if she didn’t look like a skeleton.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
I only wrote the second comment. Someone else used my id on the first one. Not the first time it has happened on this blog. Sometimes when I go to type a comment, someone else’s id is already there. Maybe I’ll start using yours, meow_town.
December 21st, 2007 at 3:07 am
I dont like the woman at all, but people deal with grief in different ways; some put on weight, some loose it. Im sure she hated the way she looked, but in situations like that there’s sometimes not much you can do about it
December 21st, 2007 at 5:02 am
Who gives a crap!! I hope she withers away and dies!!!
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:11 pm
When my husband died accidently at 26 I lost 20lbs in 3 weeks and it took me over a year to gain it back. Everyone kept telling me I looked too skinny, sick, etc. And they were all right, but deep sorrow crushes you even when there is love and joy still around you. “Emma” is right.
January 20th, 2008 at 12:46 am
MyGod! Pure angelina ((