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Does Angelina Jolie look any different to you? She does to me. To the untrained (i.e., non-parental) eye, Jolie may look simply a little older than she used to--and, well, she is. But, my husband has suggested in the past, and I agree with him completely -- as does Angie herself in an interview with Britain's You magazine -- that motherhood changes the way you look.
It certainly changed me. Many might not see it, but I swear to you I look totally different than I did before I was pregnant. OK, you say, well, that could be from the weight you gained that you didn't lose, or the weight you gained that you did lose that stretched out your face...or something. And that may be so. But, Angelina (and I) both propose that both a combo of age and becoming moms has indeed changed our features over time. Ange is still as beautiful as ever, but, frankly, when I look at her, she looks like a mom.
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Angelina Jolie
The actress and her partner Brad Pitt have three adopted children -- Maddox, 7, Pax, 4, and Zahara, 3 -- and three biological children -- Shiloh, 2, and baby twins Knox and Vivienne. "I know this is going to sound corny, but I first became happy with the way I look when I became a mother."
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Halle Berry
Berry and boyfriend French-Canadian model Gabriel Aubry have one child, Nahla Ariela, born on March 16, 2008. It was her role in the film, "Things We Lost in the Fire," that convinced her motherhood was for her. "I think it validated that I was meant to be a mother because every day I dealt with the character as a mother and thinking as a mother...It let me know that I must be a mother."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Has two children, Apple, 4, and Moses, 2, named after a song her husband Chris Martin. "It's like being the most in love you've ever been...but mixed with the worst heartbreak...because one day you're not going to be together anymore."
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Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts and her husband Danny Moder, have 4-year-old twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, and a boy Henry, 17 months. She told Vanity Fair: "At this point I'm having so much fun with them. You only have so much energy and you want to put so much energy into each child. I wouldn't know how to have five kids. And they're a really good trio, these three."
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Jennifer Lopez
her twins with husband Marc Anthony, Emme and Maximillian, were born 2008 by C-section. According to People, "Jennifer described it [motherhood] as the most magical time of her life. She said, 'You know what? You can win an Oscar, you can win a Golden Globe, and as an ambitious artist you strive for those things. But when you have a kid, all of that is irrelevant."
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Gwen Stefani
She says that Zuma Nesta Rock and Kingston have brought her closer to husband Gavin Rossdale. Also, "I've gotten a little more feminine over the last few years. "As the years go by, you get more comfortable with looking more like a woman."
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Uma Thurman
She's says she's open to the possibility of having more children. "If it's meant to happen, it will. I love and adore being a mother." Thurman has two children with ex-husband Ethan Hawke, Maya, 10, and Levon, 6.
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Thandie Newton
The British actress, most recently starring in "W" as Condoleezza Rice, has two daughters, Ripley, 8, and Nico, nearly 4. "So many people thought I was a really cold person, but I was just painfully shy. But having a kid made me explore how I was going to guide another beautiful being in this world. I was released -- it doesn't happen for everyone, but it happened for me."
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And it ain't just the endless over-exposure from the tabloids influencing me, either. The mother of six simply looks different, and I think she is truly a different person. Sure, the woman who used to french-kiss her brother and wear a vial of blood around her neck is still locked away in there somewhere, but having kids--being a parent and accepting the joy, love and responsibility of that--changes you inside, and you can see it on the outside.
Angelina goes on to say that she looks more like her mom as she ages. This makes total sense to me, too. Aside from the old adage that all women are destined to become their mothers, I think the way we look changes periodically over our lives and that we naturally resemble one or the other of our parents more and more as time goes on. After all, we ARE related to them. Ange still clearly is not over her mother's passing--Marcheline Betrand died last year from cancer--and is estranged from her dad, Jon Voight, so I doubt she'd be so free to admit it if she looked like her famous father.
Do you look different now that you have kids? I mean particularly in the face-not the bod! We all know that changes when you have a baby!
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11-24-2008 @ 3:51PM
Melissa said...I think I look a little different, definitely....my face is a little more mature then before I had my daughter, and not just because I am older, I mean, it had a certain maturity to it right after I had her! I'm still pretty, but I'm no longer "cute" (no that's my little girl now lol), I'm still "hot", but no longer "smokin" lol....you just change, inside and out. Even without your kids by your side, people just know you're a mom - oh, wait, maybe it's the carseat in my backseat lol....
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11-24-2008 @ 6:45PM
Jan Bay said...With the arrival of each child, my makeup and hair routine got simpler. My wardrobe morphed from tailored suits that called for trips to the dry cleaners into comfortable, easy care clothing. I did my best not to let go, but my look changed.
As for Angelina Jolie, I agree that she looks different. Is it just me or does she seem more open and approacable?
Jan from http://www.unique-baby-gear-ideas.com/
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11-24-2008 @ 8:38PM
c_rousseau05 said...I agree with the last poster, she looks more approachable, not so "i have issues" but now it's "i'm truly happy". She is remarkably beautiful, as was her mother, and yes, I think she looks a LOT like her mother even before the children. For someone who seemed so lost even within her own skin she now seems as if she's found herself and is finally at peace in herself. Sometimes when the rest of the world seems like it's foreign to you, becoming a mother changes that, it gives you a sense of peace, accomplishment and joy that is not found anywhere else. Children give mothers a love no one else can give them and mothers do the same for their children, it's mutual, it's something true and it really is unconditional. You never truly understand that until you become a mother (or father) and it really does make you glow both inside and out.
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11-25-2008 @ 8:29PM
GLA said...I think Angie is even more beautiful than ever; although I do not condone how she and Brad "got" together...Shameful and dishonest....how will she explain to her children later in life why they have hyphenated last names and don't look the same....will they ever marry???
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11-26-2008 @ 4:10AM
ninainindia said...I think the children already know that they have different colour skin. Why would that be a problem? And since when is ahving a hyphenated last name a shame?
I know many people that never got married but do have children and they have been together for years, some longer than married people.
11-27-2008 @ 1:31PM
crd said...A face that any brother would like to slap around? NICE! Your an idiot and leave the comments to the grown ups. And the way that Brad and Angelina got together is so 3 years ago and nobody is perfect. We have all done bad things in our lives and her life now should reflect on how she is a person. I don't see a lot of us going over to war-torn countries to help the poor and I think that probably inspired her to become a mother, which she looks beautifully doing.
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11-27-2008 @ 3:36AM
tese42s said...French kissing your brother will make you look older. That is what happened to Jolie. Her lips are to big for her face too.
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11-26-2008 @ 12:47AM
Larry said...I THINK MOST WOMEN WILL LOOK SEDUCTIIVE UNTIL AFTER THEY HAVE A BABY... THEN THEY JUST LOOK TIRED, WORN OUT AND BITCHY. AND JUST REALIZED THEY TRADED OFF FUN FOR HARD WORK, DIAPERS, BOTTLES OR BREAST FEEDINGS, TWICE THE LAUNDY, BABY BATHS, SHOPPING FOR BABY, AND COME TO THE REALIZATION IT'S 20 YEARS OF HARD LABOR AND SLAVERY, FOR WHAT? SO THEY CAN BE MEAN TO YOU AND RUN OFF WITH SOMEONE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.
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11-26-2008 @ 5:53AM
Tricia said...LARRY -
obviously you have the biblical "mote" in your eye! Yes, a woman is busy (and often tired) after having a baby, but you obviously missed seeing the joy and sparkle in a mother's eye and heart for her child! Once a woman is a "Mommy," the world becomes about her children, and the joy they bring her. You are looking at the caccon instead of the beautiful (physical, emotional, SPIRITUAL!) beauty that comes with motherhood and loving your child like no one else in the world!
11-26-2008 @ 1:31AM
beachgal said...If the one on the right is the "after kids" Angie, then I vote strongly for plastic surgery/Botox or whatever. Funny how after six kids, or whatever they have, the bags under her eyes are GONE. THAT doesn't happen-----something has been surgically done to her face.
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11-26-2008 @ 1:46AM
Dottie said...Angelina Jolie and her brother did NOT French kiss at that awards show. If you will look at pictures of 'the kiss', you will see that both of them HAVE THEIR MOUTHS CLOSED!!!!!
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11-26-2008 @ 3:24AM
Sandra said...Thanks Dottie - I don't normally comment on these things but when I read that french kissed her brother statement, I got irritated. I don't care about these people in a personal way, but if something's going to be written, at least make it accurate.
11-26-2008 @ 3:33AM
peggy said...She has great genes. but she looks so severe with very dark hair. When she is a softer brown with a few hi lites, and a few low lights, she is as close to perfect as she can be
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11-26-2008 @ 3:28AM
peggy said...wow charlie, seems like you are right on in this conversation with the 'girls' Charlie, do you buy all the latest magazines? come on, do you get all 'giddy' when your 'People Mag' comes in the mail? Just Checking...
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11-26-2008 @ 4:47AM
jane Donute' said...I think Angelina the husband theif, looks different, due to some work on here face by a needle at least. Where did her undereye circles go? They just don't vanish like her current pics........ and she also had a tummy tuck, so did she also have a face lift ? I think so. She will always be the woman who ruined Jen and Brads marriage. She has admitted same.
Actually, I don't care what she looks like in her face, but she strongly resembles her father.
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11-26-2008 @ 5:00AM
Bebe said...I used to get a kick out of A.J., and the way she didn't give a damn about what people thought of her . . . or at least she was good at pretending she didn't. Now she seems very near the edge and not in a good way. She and Brad released some soft-core porn pictures of her to W magazine, which she claims Brad took right after the twins' birth. That is so desperately exhibitionistic, and there is something pathetic about it, too. I don't care what adults do, but to bring innocent new lives into the picture gives me a touch of nausea. And just how much attention do the two of them need to get through the day? Lord! Normal people value privacy because it is a condition of real intimacy. There is something fake about all of this! (BTW, I've never seen a single of her movies -- or his! They never made a cent off of me. Now I'm glad.)
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11-26-2008 @ 5:55AM
Lucy said...Beachgal and Jane, it's called makeup- the pic on the right is obviously with no makeup and harsher lighting. A good makeup artist can cover just about anything, including undereye bags. And even celebrities have to wait six months after giving birth before getting a tummy tuck because of the risk of infection- they do not actually perform tummy tucks and C-sections at the same time, that's a myth.
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11-26-2008 @ 10:14PM
Glori said...To ninainindia for your response to me,
Perhaps I need to rephrase what I really wanted to convey about Angelina. My main concern is that she "messed" around with a married man, made a child with him, and continues to make children with him without any remorse about "how" she "got" him. They both should be embarrassed about how their so called relationship got off to such a nasty and immoral start. She and Brad can have or adopt 20 more kids,..I will never have respect for her or him. They need to stay away from hollywood and the public if they have any shred of dignity left!! GLA
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12-14-2008 @ 2:35AM
Vanessa said...Glori, you are so hard on this couple! Could they be any more humanitarian? They are the new definition of "it" couple. Being that I am the child of unmarried parents who have been together twenty plus years, I believe a stable relationship means more than any ceremony and license and obviously this holds true in Brad's case but I support him! I also hate Jen Aniston. If you were to study her character, you too might find her sweet personality to be fake.