Angelina Jolie starred in the November issue of Vogue magazine in which, besides looking spectacular, she talked about her personal life and how being a single mother changed her life. On the cover, we can see her wearing a strapless white dress covered in pink spray paint while promoting her new fashion house, Atelier Jolie.
“I don’t want to be a big fashion designer; I want to build a house for other people to become that,” she explained about her new project. In addition, she said she hopes Atelier Jolie will inspire women to feel confident enough and vulnerable enough, something she struggled with in the past.
Being a Single Mother of Six
Having a child reshapes any individual’s life, no doubt. As a woman, evolution can be more confusing and chaotic because of what the world expects from you, and you are not even saved if you are someone like Angelina Jolie.
The actress admitted that her life was different from the arrival of her first child: “I was 26 when I became a mother. My whole life changed. Having children saved me and taught me to be in this world differently,” she told Vogue.
Children can be that light at the end of the tunnel, and it seems that was the case for Jolie, especially during her split from Brad Pitt: “Being a single mother has saved her from going to much darker places. I think I would have gone down in a much darker way if I hadn’t wanted to live for them.”
For Angelina Jolie, focusing on parenting amid her tumultuous divorce from Brad Pitt has literally kept her alive. Recall that Jolie and Pitt announced their divorce in 2016 after 12 years together, and share six children: Maddox (22), Pax (19), Zahara (18), Shiloh (17), and twins Vivienne and Knox (15).
Angelina Jolie told Vogue that she has felt “a little depressed“ in recent years: “I’m still trying to figure out who I am at 48. I guess I’m in transition as a person. I don’t feel like I’ve been myself for a decade.”
Without sharing too much, Jolie hinted that life has been hard for the whole family in recent years of the family breakup and changing dynamics. “We had a lot of healing to do, we’re still finding our balance,” she acknowledged.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie starred in the longest and most contentious divorce between two Hollywood stars which was finally finalized in 2021. Property and child custody issues strained and lengthened the process for a whole five years.
This story was originally published in Spanish in Cultura Colectiva
