Angelina Jolie: Homewrecker or Saint???

I want to hate Angelina Jolie.  I really, really do.

There was no one who was a bigger fan of Bren or Jad or Braniston or whatever the heck Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were called when they were together.  I can still envision their wedding pictures and remember how incredibly happy they looked that day.  That day...heck, every time they were together.  She made that brooding guy seem more lighthearted and he just made her seem happy.

Then Mr. and Mrs. Smith rolled along and Brad met Angelina and Brangelina was born.  I don't spend an inordinate amount of time following celebrity lives, but this debacle made me furious.  Homewrecker.  Slut.  I stopped going to see her movies and refused to read any article about her and Brad and their newfound happiness.

However, in the event of a nuclear holocaust, the only two things to survive will be cockroaches and a worldwide fascination regarding Angelina and Brad.  They are everywhere.  So, despite my best efforts, I wound up hearing news about the couple.  He adopted her adopted son when they got together.  Then, they adopted another child together.  They send their kids to good schools.  They play with them.  They take care of them.  They don't go out and party like crazy.  They go to work and come home to the family.  Who can take issue with that?  Then, they had their own child, Shiloh.  Once again, they seemed to be putting their focus on their family and every time a photo was taken of the couple, at least one of the children was in tow.

Hurricane Katrina hits and the United States is shocked.  Celebrities gave good face time to the cause, but few actually got off their butts and did something about it.  Enter Brad and Angelina.  They donate money, they donate time, they start some sort of new foundation, they are (what seems like) single-handedly helping New Orleans recover from the hurricane.

Now, she's pregnant again.  With twins!  Seriously, could these two be any more fortunate???  They are, easily, two of the most beautiful people in the world.  They are successful movie stars.  They have a beautiful, ever-expanding family that they seriously love and care for.  They bring the causes of the little people to the attention of the world and don't just pay lip-service, but pay time and money and energy to these causes as well.

Why could he just have left Jennifer Aniston for Amy Winehouse?  It would have made my life so much easier.