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    Aug5th2008

    People & Hello Publishes First Photos of “Brangelina Twins”

    August 5th, 2008

    The world’s most glamorous twins - born three weeks ago to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie — made their media debut Monday with glossy spreads in People and Hello! magazines.

    Tiny sleeping beauties Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline were splashed across the covers of the two gossip mags, which reportedly paid millions of dollars for exclusive publication rights.

    Jolie, 33, told People magazine that family life at the Chateau Miraval in France’s southern Provence region, where the couple are with their four older children, was joyful “chaos.”

    “A cuckoo’s nest,” Pitt, 44, joked. So far, the tots, dressed all in white for the shoot, look much like other infants of their age. But their Hollywood heartthrob parents and early debut as magazine cover models promise a starry future. “Viv is proving to resemble Ange in spirit, attitude and physicality,” Pitt told People. “And Knox, a bit of me.” The proud couple, as famous for their toned physiques as their acting skills, admit to the challenges of coping with two hungry twins, on top of four other small children.

    Jolie said she was working on “getting better at holding them both for (breast) feeding at the same time.” Pitt said Jolie’s cesarean section operation at a French hospital on July 12 was “absolutely heroic.” The twins were not conceived through IVF treatment, Jolie underlined, following media speculation. Pitt, who starred in the violent 1999 film “Fight Club” and won plaudits in 2007 as the train-robbing outlaw Jesse James, joked he was coming to sound like his own parents when it came to disciplining his gang. “Using the phrase, ‘Because I said so,’ is extremely satisfying,” he admitted.

    Joining the twins for the photo session were siblings Maddox, seven, Pax, four, Zahara, three, and Shiloh, two. Maddox, sporting a spiky haircut with a dyed blue streak down the middle, is pictured cradling his new little sister, who merely yawns at all the attention. Ethiopian-born Zahara embraces both sleeping babies, while an attentive Pitt leans over them all. Shiloh, the couple’s first biological child, is keen to emulate her mother — she is already playing at “mommies,” says Jolie. A full-page picture shows Shiloh, who also appears to have been experimenting with nail varnish, holding Viv across her lap.

    “Shiloh calls them her babies,” Jolie was quoted as saying. The only bad news from the “Brangelina” clan, perhaps, will be for fans hoping to see more films featuring both superstars. In 2005 they appeared in the comedy “Mr and Mrs Smith” as a married hit-man and hit-woman. Asked if they would now be trying to divide their time, Pitt said: “Yes, we try to never work at the same time.” [Yahoo News via smh.com.au]



    Jul27th2008

    Halle Berry Anger over Baby Photographs

    July 27th, 2008

    Actress Halle Berry has accused a paparazzi photographer of trespassing onto her property to get shots of her with her four-month-old daughter.

    The pictures, which appear in two celebrity magazines, were supposedly taken “out and about in Los Angeles”.

    But the Oscar-winner says she was in her private back garden, and has complained to police. The agency which distributed the images, Fame Pictures, has not commented on Berry’s claims.

    In Touch Weekly and Life & Style Weekly, which both used the photographs, said they used them in good faith. “In Touch Weekly and Life & Style Weekly licensed the photograph of Halle Berry and her baby from an established photo agency. The magazines are not aware that there was anything improper in the taking of this image,” a spokesperson for Bauer Publications told the Associated Press. The photographs also appear on a number of websites.

    ‘Public figure’
    Berry’s lawyer, Evan Spiegel, said witnesses saw the photographer commit a “very blatant and invasive trespass” to obtain the pictures of the actress with baby Nahla Ariela Aubry.

    Trespassing is illegal under California law. Berry, 41, said in a statement to AP: “I have long since come to terms with the fact that choosing a career as an actress has made me a public figure, but my baby has made no such choice, and unless and until she does, I will do everything I can… to keep her out of the public eye.” [BBC NEWS]



    Jul26th2008

    Indian Baby Girl Born With ‘Two Faces’

    July 26th, 2008

    Baby Girl Born With Two Faces, Worshipped as Reincarnated God. A very special girl was born last March in a small suburb of Delhi, India.

    An Indian baby born with two faces is doing well one month after her birth, doctors have said.

    Lali was born with two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes - but only two ears.

    And while she may seem like an oddity to some, her proud parents think she is simply a God reincarnated.

    The baby girl was born in the rural Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, 50km north east of New Delhi. Her parents, Vinod and Susham Singh from a village called Saini, said their little girl was “a gift from God”. Excited villagers claim she is the reincarnation of the Indian God Ganesha and celebrated her arrival with clapping, cheering and offerings of gifts and money.

    She was born with 4 eyes, 2 noses, 2 mouths, 2 ears, and 1 dimple on a shared cheek. Similar to Lakshmi Tatma, a 2 year-old girl born with four arms and four legs, she is reverred as a reincarnated god by her local villagers, who sing and dance regularly for her.

    “I had never seen something like this in my life so naturally I was a little scared when I first saw her,” her father was quoted as saying. The young girl and her mother are both healthy and the family has no intentions of seeking surgery to correct the deformities.

    “The doctor said everything is normal when she was born. So where’s the need to get medical help?” said the child’s father. “She’s fed through one mouth and sucks her thumb with the other. We use whichever mouth is free to feed her.” [READ]