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Jolie attributes weight loss to mother's death
Friday 15 June 2007
But she said observers were wrong to include her in the size zero trend. "Someone saying to me that I'm thin is not a compliment," Jolie told the Evening Standard.
"I've always been lean and this year I lost my mom and I've gone through a lot. I have four kids and I finished breastfeeding - it's been hard to get my nutrition back on track.
"Instead of people saying I look like a person dealing with something emotionally, they assume it's because I want to fit into skinny jeans."
Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died from cancer in January.
In the interview, Jolie also talked about her family life with Brad Pitt. The 32-year-old actress has three adopted children and a fourth by Pitt. She has not ruled out new additions to the family.
And she revealed that the couple are helping to support other disadvantaged children.
"There are certain kids on the periphery that we want to help through school, whose lives we are starting to be involved in as well," she said. "In our home it is all about how much we balance making sure that everybody has individual time, and right now four of them have very special individual time. We never want to have so many kids that we can't do that."
Jolie's latest film is 'A Mighty Heart', in which she plays the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
In one scene she is shown giving birth - and had to ask director Michael Winterbottom for advice because her own daughter, Shiloh, was delivered by Caesarean section.
"Michael had to try to explain labour to me because he was with his wife when she had children,"
Jolie revealed. "It was very funny having a bunch of men explaining how to scream at the top of my lungs in a quiet floor of a real hospital in India. We were all screaming back and forth at each other - it was bizarre."
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