Angelina Jolie Adopts Again

I was planning to do a nice full-length critique of something else, but unfortunately I got back too late from the game to write it tonight unless I did rush job, which is something I want to avoid. So you can look for it late tomorrow, hopefully, and in the meantime I’ll leave you with this tidbit.

A lot of celebrities get flak (some well-deserved and others not) for engaging in charitable ventures because they are seeking publicity themselves and to be, for lack of a better word, cool, while not truly being committed to the cause. Now, as I’m sure you probably have heard by now, Angelina Jolie adopted an Ethiopian girl earlier this week. The child will be named Zahara Marley Jolie and will join Jolie’s adopted Cambodian-born son Maddox.

In my opinion, Jolie is the perfect example of a celebrity who truly cares about what she is doing. Since 2001 she has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and she travels frequently to impoverish nations to raise awareness of the effects of poverty. In fact, Jolie has criticised other actors for not doing enough to help charities. Furthermore, Jolie reportedly donates 1/3^rd of her income to charitable organisations which, although it leaves her with a fortune, is head-and-shoulders above almost every other celebrity. Jolie has even said she’d quit acting and concentrate solely on her UN work if she didn’t need the money to help pay for her endeavours. And what how many other actresses have adopted two children from needy countries as a single mom? Angelina Jolie is the real deal, and there’s no denying that.

And she is now officially the hottest person ever to adopt a baby from Ethiopia.