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Angelina: Nesting and Loving It
Friday March 16, 2007

Jolie (left). New member of the family, Pax Thien Jolie (right).
From left: AP Photo; Getty Images

Angelina Jolie’s next role: stay-at-home mom! The A-list actress told a Vietnam newspaper on Friday that she is going to take some time to focus on her growing family and new son, Pax Thien Jolie.

“I will stay at home to help Pax adjust to his new life,” Jolie told the Ho Chi Minh City Law newspaper. “I have four children and caring for them is the most important thing for me at the moment. I’m very proud and happy to be their mother.”

Jolie adopted the 3-year-old Vietnamese boy on Thursday from the Tam Binh orphanage, during a ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh City Justice Department. She is expected to stay in Vietnam until next week.

Jolie said she regrets that her new son is the subject of a media frenzy and expressed concerned about how the attention will affect him.

“Photographs and press coverage will make him upset,” Jolie said in the interview, which was published in Vietnamese. “I’m very worried about that. I would like to say I’m sorry for bringing this into Pax’s life.”

Jolie’s oldest son, five-year-old Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia, accompanied her to the orphanage and was seen comforting his new little brother.

Her other children include 2-year-old Zahara, adopted from Ethiopia, and daughter, Shiloh, born to Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt last May.

Jolie has long been a proponent of adoption. “Everyone would agree that children need to have a family,” she told the paper. “I have the ability to help children fulfill that desire. Why should I say no?”

A nurse at the orphanage admitted that she didn’t realize Jolie and Pitt were famous when the couple visited last Thanksgiving.

“They looked very much like ordinary people,” said Bui Thi Bich Tuyen. “We thought that they were just an ordinary couple that wanted to play with the kids and give them presents. They brought lots of toys.”

Jolie shared crayons and drew pictures with the kids.

“We could already see that she had a heart for children,” said Tuyen, the nurse who had been in charge of raising Pax ever since he was brought to the orphanage as an infant in 2003.

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