Jolie Says Birth Was “Scary”
Posted June 17, 2006 12:00 pm.
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Nearly a month after giving birth to Brad Pitt’s baby, the 31-year-old actress said the delivery was scary.
“You know, because you’re there for the birth, which I wasn’t for my first two kids, you’re just suddenly terrified that they’re not gonna take a first breath,” she said in an upcoming TV interview.
“That was my whole focus. I just wanted to hear her cry.”
Brangelina’s baby, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, was born on May 27 at a private clinic in the resort town of Walvis Bay in Namibia. The little girl was delivered by Caesarean section.
Jolie said Pitt, 42, was in the delivery room when their bundle of joy came into the world.
“He was in the operating room, yeah, yeah,” she said. “And we had amazing doctors. And everybody was so lovely.”
The couple has since left the African nation with their newborn daughter and two adopted children: toddler Zahara was adopted from Ethiopia and four-year-old Maddox was adopted from Cambodia.
Jolie, who’s dedicated much of her time to raising awareness about the plight of refugees around the world, admitted in the interview that she donates a third of her salary to charity.
“Yeah, well, I had a stupid income for what I do,” she joked.
The actress was named a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in 2001.
Meanwhile, Britney Spears is denying reports that she’s planning the have her second baby in Namibia.
She has a nine-month-old son, Sean Preston, with husband Kevin Federline.
