Saturday, July 12, 2008

So Did Angelina Jolie Give Birth Or What?


There are an onslaught of media reports out there saying that Angelina Jolie just gave birth to twins last Tuesday. But there are so many contradictory statements, the only reason I'm posting it here is that it's so darn confusing it's actually quite a good story to tell (the confusion part anyway). So let's get to it...

Late last month, rumors came out the Angelina Jolie already gave birth (Entertainment Today). They were mistaken as their fake source was unearthed and everybody saw Angelina Jolie still with her pregnant belly. And now again, the same news has been flying around.

According to In Touch, Angelina Jolie had a Caesarean section in French Riviera maternity clinic where she has been in bed rest the last couple of weeks, to the first baby- a girl was born at 6:45 p.m., French time; the second baby - another girl, came 15 minutes later. Although another version did say that Brangelina kids were not 2 girls but one boy and one girl. Nevertheless, both babies were said to be named Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

On a final and more credible note though, via AFP, quoting gynaecologist Michel Sussmann -- twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, were born shortly before 8:00 pm (1800 GMT) on Saturday. Knox Leon was reported to weigh 2.27 kilogrammes (five pounds) and Vivienne Marcheline 2.28 kilogrammes (5.02 pounds).

The babies' first photograph was sold to a US paper for 11 million dollars (6.9 million euros), Nice-Matin said, adding that the money would be given to a humanitarian cause.

I bet Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt must be laughing their pants off if this was some media frenzy error yet again. But I guess they're used to that by now. Celebrities like that don't really seem to care.

What do we do for now? We'll wait for the evidence or the announcement (whichever comes first) to come out, and then we'll know for sure what really happened.

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