All this week's BrAngelina drama.

Publications: Weekly Life & Style, National Enquirer

Date: 12 Dec. 2011

Two very different stories this week, mainly about Angelina Jolie, but Brad and daughter Shiloh get mentioned as well, so they count as BrAngelina.  Here are the headlines.

• Weekly Life & Style:  Angelina: Desperate to be skinny
  She's surviving on just 600 calories a day
  Brad begs a stressed and frail Angelina to stop starving herself
• National Enquirer: Brad rages at Angelina for raising Shiloh as a boy!
  All the details
  Put her in a dress! Brad orders Angie!

Rich people are rich: More stories of bad Hollywood parenting.

Publication: Weekly Life & Style
Date: 3 Oct. 2011

There are two sub-headlines to the Weekly Life & Style cover story about what a bad job of parenting Suri Cruise is getting about other celebrity kids being pampered or spoiled.

Shiloh took 15 flights in one year. That does seem excessive for a five year old, but it's doesn't necessarily scar her for life.

And the more egregious story if true, Mason Disick has been made to undergo plastic surgery at the age of 21 months.

Bad Mom alert and bad help alert:Nanny rats on Angelina.

Publication: In Touch
Date: 15 August 2011

Angelina Jolie gets three cover stories this week, two as part of the major gossip couple of our generation and one as a bad mom, according to an ex-nanny Krisann Morel. Here are the headlines.

• Angelina, "Ice queen" mom
• The nanny tells all!
  shocking book exclusive
• The incident that drove nanny Krisann Morel to tears!
  How Angelina stages photos and orders nannies to hide
• Ignores hurt Shiloh
• Chaos at home: Kids literally swinging on chandeliers!
  

On the rocks alert: BrAngelina fight over Shiloh!

Publication: In Touch
Date: 1 August 2011

Once again, there is trouble in the BrAngelina relationship, as they are fighting over Shiloh.

It's always something with these two, isn't it?

Bad mom alert: Chaz Bono offers Angelina help with Shiloh

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 2o June 2011

The low rent Examiner has a story about Angelina Jolie raising Shiloh as a boy and Chaz Bono says he can help. This is a complete re-hash of a story in OK! last month. Last year, there were a passel of stories about Shiloh's tomboy ways.

I just know what I read in these silly magazines and I don't believe half of that. If Angelina sticks to her decision to leave Chaz Bono the hell out of her parenting process, this is a move full of win, as the young people are fond of saying.

Fussin' and Feudin' Alert™: Angelina tells Chaz Bono to "leave Shiloh alone!"

Publication: OK!
Date: 30 May 2011

There's plenty of stuff about the Jolie-Pitt brood in the gossip rags this week. OK! has Angelina finally reacting to Chaz Bono's request to meet with little tomboy Shiloh, with the simple answer "not only no, but hell no".

My only comment is that Shiloh really looks like her daddy in that picture. Of course, whether she looked like dad or mom, she's in a win-win situation, right?

Bad mom alert:Angie's violent rages at Shiloh!

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 20 December 2010

Angelina Jolie has been the favorite topic of The Only Ten Magazines That Matter this year. While as a couple with Brad she is in third behind Sandra Bullock and Jennifer Aniston, she is also currently in the Top Ten as a solo act. Two months ago, the Globe told us she was jealous of her daughter Shiloh, now the Big Wicked Step Sister says she flies into rages, screaming at the child and slapping her.

Personally, I'll wait until one of the kids writes their Mommie Dearest.

Bad Help Alert:Nannies rat on Suri and Shiloh!

Publication: Star
Date: 29 November 2010

Previously, I have stated my wish that the gossip rags would leave little kids alone. I also dislike stories where the sources are disgruntled nannies. That said, I did read the headlines in the Star this week with some interest.


If we are to believe the sources the Star quotes, four year old Suri Cruise is quite the handful. She is treated like a princess and she makes the most of it. Among the details are:

• She is served breakfast in bed
• She tattles on her mom Katie to her dad
• She flushed diamonds down the potty
• She gets mani-peds at home

Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, also four, is a completely different handful. Many stories have already told us she's a tomboy. the details in the Star this week include:

• She collects dead animals
• She wears boxer shorts and has "tattoos", actually rub-ons that wash off
• She was playing Cowboys and Indians with her older sister's dolls and said the captives had to be scalped, so she cut the heads off the dolls. (Brad made her apologize.)
• She tells her mom to "call her John"

It sounds like a lot of work to be the parent of either of these little girls, but I have to say that given these stories, I have fonder feelings towards one of these tykes than I have towards the other. I'll let you guess which one.

Bad mom alert:Angelina jealous of Shiloh

Publication: Globe
Date: 25 October 2010

Both the Globe and the low rent Examiner tend to have stories that skew towards an older demographic, but this week they both entered territory usually covered by the younger, hipper supermarket rags. The Globe tells us Angelina Jolie, the Wicked Witch of all points of the compass, is jealous of her four year old daughter.

Shiloh torn away from Brad

Publication: In Touch
Date: 18 October 2010

The drama of the BrAngelina family is the story the supermarket rags just can't stay away from. Interest in Sandra Bullock has waned in the past few months and Jennifer Aniston comes and goes, but all things BrAngelina must go on and on. Now, Brad is torn from Shiloh.

I know Brad was up in Oakland shooting a movie recently, I don't know if it's wrapped or not. The best evidence is the stories come from Brad's family, who don't like Angie much and are happy to talk trash.

Angelina forcing tomboy stuff on unwitting Shiloh

Publication: Weekly Life & Style
Date: 4 October 2010

Yet another story about Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and her tomboy ways. This one says it's all Angelina's fault and that Shiloh would have no interest in it except for Angie's evil manipulations.

We've heard this take before. My guess is this comes from Brad's family, who hate Angelina with a white hot hate.

Bad Mom and Dad Alert™:BrAngelina fight over Shiloh yet again

Publication: Weekly Life & Style
Date: 13 September 2010

Yet again, the raising of Shiloh Jolie-Pitt makes it to the cover of the supermarket rags. BrAngelina cannot agree on how to deal with their little tomboy and much is the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments.

If you believe Weekly Life & Style.

Angie says Shiloh wants to be a boy.

Publication: Us Weekly
Date: 12 July 2010

Three stories in the tabs about the Pitt-Jolie clan. Us Weekly has a picture of Angelina Jolie on the cover with the statement "Shiloh wants to be a boy" in quotation marks.

After last week's OK! debacle about Jennifer Aniston and her alleged pregnancy, it's not just the statements in the tabloids that are questionable, it's the punctuation as well.

Bad Mom and Dad Alert™:BrAngelina fight over Shiloh

Publication: In Touch
Date: 31 May 2010

Cover stories about BrAngelina as a couple have slowed down to a trickle in recent months. After dozens in January and February, there were five in March, two in April and just one so far in May. This one says they disagree on the raising of daughter Shiloh.

Let me go on the record saying I agree with Keith Olbermann that you cannot call a little girl Shiloh Pitt. Do they think kids today can't figure out spoonerisms?

Good Dad Alert:Brad and Shiloh's play date

Publication: OK!
Date: 10 May 2010

There are a lot of stories about the Pitt-Jolie clan this week, though the focus is more on the kids or on Brad than on Angelina. OK!, which so far this year is easily the nicest of the tabloids with about 72% positive stories, just has the headline "Brad and Shiloh's Play Date".

Sounds like fun for both of them.