All About Angelina
Don't hate me because I'm most beautiful. (Photo courtesy People magazine)Unlike some other celebs that seem to be making nothing but all the wrong moves lately (ahem), thus far 2006 seems to be the year of Angelina Jolie. The woman has been busy and, between you and me, I think it's time for a little maternity leave.
Not only was Jolie named People's Most Beautiful Person (and along with Brad, Maddox and Zahara, one-fourth of People's "Most Beautiful Family"), she's now also made the Forbes Magazine list of 10 most generous celebrities (a publicist denies Jolie and Pitt pre-sold photos of her as-yet-unborn child to People for a $3.6 million donation to UNICEF).
This isn't really an unexpected honor considering the actress has made a second career out of globe-trotting humanitarian work (she's been a United Nations Goodwill ambassador since 2001). But for this celebritologist, all the do-gooding makes it harder to whisper knowingly about vials of Billy Bob's blood, titter about lip locks with her brother, wonder about unseen tattoos and, of course, side with Jen.
Who can help but feel anything but admiration for a woman who adopts two children and works pretty tirelessly to bring help to refugees the world over? As detailed in People, "Hollywood's most dedicated humanitarian stays gorgeous inside and out."
Blech.
Maybe, though, we feel the same way we did about that girl in high school who not only led the cheerleading squad, but also dug Nirvana and took every opportunity to volunteer and was actually cool to everyone -- from jocks to rockers?
Just like Angelina, she was all things to all people. We didn't really like her. Or maybe we did. Maybe we're just jealous. Maybe we should get another tattoo, donate to a charity of our choice and shut up.