Janet Jackson To Follow In Angelina Jolie's Footsteps?
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 October 2013 04:17
- Written by Vibe
Janet Jackson may be living in the lap of luxury after marrying Qatari billionaire Wissim Al Mana but there's still one thing left on the pop legend's checklist that money can't buy. Reports have surfaced that the singer slash actress is looking to mimic Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's parenthood model, and adopt two children from Third World countries.According to Page Six, Janet may take in two kids from possibly Jordan and Syria.“It’s going to happen, and real soon,” a family member said. Younger brother Randy has also gone on-record to hail Janet as “someone who’d make a perfect mom.”Like Jolie, the "All For You" singer reportedly reached out to Queen Rania of Jordan to facilitate an adoption, though the attempts were reportedly unsuccessful.This doesn't mean the NutriSystem spokeswoman wouldn't consider getting pregnant. “She’s kept herself in great shape,” another source said of the 47-year-old.Janet married Al Mana in February.
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Angelina Jolie: Circus Fun with the Kids!
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- Published on Monday, 30 September 2013 03:52
- Written by Just Jared
Angelina Jolie keeps it stylish in a sheer top as she leaves the Great Moscow Circus at Rose Bay on Saturday (September 28) in Sydney, Australia.The 38-year-old actress brought along three of her adorable children – Pax, 9, Zahara, 8, and Shiloh, 7. Earlier that day, they stopped to do a little shopping at a surf shop in Bondi Junction.Angelina is in town prepping for her upcoming film Unbroken, which she is set to direct.The day before, her beau Brad Pitt enjoyed some quality time with their twins Knox and Vivienne as they explored Legoland in Berkshire, England.
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Angelina Jolie Has Shopping Outing with Daughter Zahara!
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- Published on Friday, 30 May 2014 06:19
- Written by Just Jared
Angelina Jolie steps out looking gorgeous after shopping at the David Jones department store on Thursday afternoon (September 26) in Sydney, Australia.The 38-year-old actress was joined for the shopping excursion by her daughter Zahara, 8, who were both escorted to their car after leaving the store.In case you missed the news, Angelina‘s film Maleficent had its release date pushed forward! The film will hit theaters on May 30, 2014 as opposed to July 2, 2014, as originally planned.FYI: Angelina is carrying a Saint Laurent bag.Angelina and her kids are currently in Sydney to prep for her upcoming film Unbroken, which she will direct.
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Alex Russell cast in Angelina Jolie movie
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- Published on Thursday, 26 September 2013 17:47
- Written by IF
Alex Russell will join Jack O’Connell and Domhnall Gleeson in Unbroken, the Angelina-Jolie directed movie which starts shooting in Sydney on October 21.Russell will play Pete, the older brother of Louis Zamperini (O’Connell), who was a member of the US athletics team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.Serving with the US Air Force in WWII, Louis survived a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean and after 47 days on a life raft was interned in a Japanese prison camp. Louis was a troubled kid at school but found his niche as a track star with Pete’s encouragement.Gleeson, who played Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1&2, will play a fellow survivor of the plane crash in the Universal-financed film.Unbroken is Jolie’s second directing effort following The Land Of Blood And Honey, a romantic drama set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War.The screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen and Richard LaGravenese is based on the Laura Hillenbrand novel Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption.Russell will segue to Unbroken after shooting Cut Snake, Matchbox Pictures’ crime thriller directed by Tony Ayres, which shoots in Melbourne next month, co-starring Sullivan Stapleton.Russell is cast as Sparra Farrell, a young guy who, after serving a prison term, moves to a new city intending to start a new life and hooks up with the beautiful Paula (Jessica De Gouw). Stapleton is brutal ex-crim Pommie who tracks down Sparra and tries to lure him back into a life of crime.United Management’s Natasha Harrison represents Russell in Australia; he's repped by UTA in the US. He stars in the upcoming Carrie remake after roles in The Host, Bait and Chronicle.
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The Jolie effect: Number of women asking about mastectomies quadruples
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- Published on Thursday, 26 September 2013 04:36
- Written by Daily Mail
The Jolie effect: Number of women asking about mastectomies quadruples since actress revealed she had her breasts removed to reduce cancer risk.Breast cancer charities have reported a four-fold surge in women enquiring about having their breasts removed since Angelina Jolie announced she’d had the operation to lessen her risk of developing the disease.Figures from Cancer Research UK show the numbers of calls to its helpline have increased four-fold while there has been a similar rise in visits to its website.The actress revealed she’d had a double mastectomy in May after learning she carried a faulty gene that gave her an 87 per cent chance of developing breast cancer.Miss Jolie, 37, said she’d made the decision for the sake of her eight children having witnessed her own mother Marcheline Betrand lose a six-year battle against the illness.Figures compiled by Cancer Research UK show the number of calls to its helpline regarding a family history to breast cancer rose from 13 in April to 88 for May.And a total of 15,920 people went on pages of its website containing information about breast cancer the day of Miss Jolie’s announcement, the 14th of May.On the same day the previous month just 3,659 people looked at those pages - a four-fold rise - and just 4,796 visited them the day before.Dr Kat Arney, from Cancer Research UK said: ‘We now know about these genes, we know how to test for them and we can give women options for what to do.‘In some cases women will decide to have the surgery and that will reduce the risk by a very significant amount.‘There are other options too, there’s screening, there are drugs they can take to reduce their risk.’Fewer than 1 per cent of women carry the faulty BRCA1 gene - like Miss Jolie - or BRCA2 gene, which is very similar.These genes increase the risk of developing breast cancer to between 40 and 90 per cent and they are also linked to ovarian cancer.Women with a family history of breast cancer are advised to undergo genetic screening which is done via a blood test.Depending on the result and their risk, women may decide to have both breasts removed and their ovaries which will leave them infertile.They can also take drugs to lessen the risk including Tamoxifen which works by suppressing oestrogen, a hormone that triggers tumour growth, or by undergoing very regular checks.Teresa Hoskins, a breast cancer nurse at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospital said: ‘It’s a very big decision. It can affect relationships, how you feel about your body image.Miss Jolie, who is married to Brad Pitt, 49, is expected to undergo a oophorectomy and hysterectomy to remove her ovaries and womb to lessen the risk of ovarian cancer.Her mother died from this illness and Miss Jolie’s risk is believed to be about 50 per cent.She is believed to have had the double mastectomy in February after a test in December showed she had the faulty gene.But writing in the New York Times in May, she said the health crisis had brought her closer to her husband.She said: ‘We knew that this was the right thing to do for our family and that it would bring us closer. And it has.’
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