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Busting bad dish!

CLAIM: Angelina Jolie “Ice-Queen Mom”

Truth rating: 0

(In Touch)

Like a dog with a bone, In Touch just will not let go.

In its latest attempt to paint an unfavorable picture of Angelina Jolie‘s parenting, the magazine reaches back – way back – and talks to Krisann Morel, who worked as Jolie’s nanny “during her formative years” and gave her story to author Andrew Morton.

Morel tells In Touch about Jolie’s difficult childhood after her dad Jon Voight left mom Marcheline Betrand. The magazine explains that Jolie was a “lonely toddler” whose isolation and tough family situation “did some damage.”

How does that relate to now?

“After she met [Brad Pitt] and settled down, changing her image from wild child to earth mother, Angelina’s ‘bizarre’ early upbringing seemed to affect her parenting skills,” notes In Touch, which alleges her image as an attentive mother is “all a facade.”

In Touch says she’s actually an “ice-queen mom who is distant” with her children, leading them to tantrums and bad behavior.

For evidence, a “close source” for the magazine speaks with horror about the time one of the kids spilled grape juice, and Jolie “forced a nanny, who was about to leave, to ‘stay and work overtime’ to clean it.” In another instance, Shiloh fell down and cried, and a nanny handled it.

Um, quick question for In Touch.

If the nannies aren’t supposed to help when there’s a juice spill or a kid tumbles, what exactly are they there to do?

More importantly, the premise makes no sense.

It’s no secret Jolie had an unstable childhood and a difficult relationship with Voight. It’s also no giant leap to conclude that her past affects her present, as is the case with anyone.

What is a leap into absurdity is to say that she entered into a stable partnership and chose to raise six children all for the sake of image control.

Jolie and Pitt’s kids seem happy and healthy, despite being under constant tabloid scrutiny. The couple has now been together for 6 years, despite In Touch‘s weekly cries about trouble beneath the surface.

In other words, they’ve won, and the tabloid has lost.

Now, in its desperation, In Touch is using old information from a decades-old source to tell readers they shouldn’t believe what they see.

As a source close to the family tells Gossip Cop, Jolie is extremely involved in her kids’ lives.

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  • Anonymous

    nice article

  • Yawnossoo

    yawn More of the same. Angelina = bad . brad = good. I’ve seen many photos of brad with the kids and a nanny hiding behind him but i guess angelina makes him do that even when she’s not there with him. it must really suck for Angelina always being the bad guy to brad’s goody two shoes image. he is america’s sweetheart. -rolling my eyes-

  • Tabloids lie everyweek

    In Touch magazine is disgusting! They have spent years LYING on Angelina Jolie. I guess she sells for them. Frankly, I don’t know how the people who write these lies (every week for the past 6+ years) look in the mirror.

  • Tabloids lie everyweek

    In Touch magazine attacks Angelina Jolie because women GET OFF on attacking other women. Look at Robert Downing Jr past. Do you see MEN online rehashing his past drug abuse and jail time? NO. How many women sit online rehashing things Angelina did 10+ years ago? PLENTY of them. These same women buy and read tabloids. So Brad is NOT to blame here. You need to be pointing the finger at the tabloid reading, hating,idiots who keep In Touch magazine in business.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FT3AEWDCOIECLXUDVIM375O7WA PATRICIA

    Stories about Angelina sell magazines. Especially negative stories sell maagazines.. That means higher revenues. It’s all about the money! The truth be damned.

  • Maajoo

    the people who still buying this shit is more insane than who writing it. i m starting to hate St. pitt, no funny the role of the good behind the b## wife, it’s ofensive for all the women

  • Jaded

    Clearly In Touch has a soft spot for Jennifer Aniston and will do anything possible to make Angelina look bad. Look at the corner shot of “pure, innocent, Jen” who is just trying to get pregnant and have one baby, while the “evil Angelina” can’t handle her 6 kids. Jennifer would have been so much better at raising babies than Angelina.
    Bullshit! I’m just curious how long it takes before the tabloids get over the breakup of Brad & Jen. Clearly the parties involved have.

  • Anonymous

    This lie is too ignorant and stupid to even get upset about. HO HUM!!

    As Gossip Cop points out, the Jolie-Pitt children are obviously healthy, happy, well cared for and well loved. There is no way small children like them can be “out of control” at home and well-mannered in public. It’s just not possible.

    These lies will continue as long as there are idiots out there who continue to pay for these rags.

  • Guest

    The entire media has a toxic dynamic favoring Jennifer Aniston because she helped the press sell their spin and get mileage over a made-up scandal and misportrayal that came from tabloid gossip. She milked it to no end and attacked them in a way that was just as damaging as these rags. She was not victimized because Pitt hooked up with Jolie several months after their breakup. I think Jolie had a minor impact on his mindset of life but she was not to blame for that marriage ending. That marriage had been dead for years and many others observed signs of Jennifer’s real personality and her real attitude towards Pitt. Talk about an insecure egomaniac who rode on his coattails.

    Jolie actually changed her personality, behavior, and ways by conquering her inner demons. She had a genuine transformation and it is about image. She worked hard to improve herself and became a humanitarian & mother way before Pitt and the ugly misportrayals. Jolie is inspiring to damaged outcasts who don’t fit and did not have the best home life. She turned into a woman that most Americans can respect and admire but….boom she gets mislabeled a homewrecker and she became the media’s favorite whipping girl to prop an utter phony like Jennifer.

    Also, the tabloids have fabricated sources and circulated misquotations from insiders. The media knows it can get away with most of its slander because most of the press in involved in it. They have even paid people off. It is pathetic. A lot of families use nannies or baby-sitters. Most acting families have a nanny for their young children. The nannies function as part-time babysitters when they are away. Pitt and Jolie are the primary caretakers of their children and they are the ones who are mainly raising them. They are great parents. I am worried about the psychological damage these stories and destructive attitude will cause their children. Also, the tabloids, media, and Jennifer’s Pr camp have been just as ugly to Brad Pitt so it is not just about women attacking each other. Angelina had a wild past and used to have a bad image so that is why they focus more on her. She changed so much over the years and it was authentic. It is so scary that that have to take their slander to the extreme to attack her as a mother and a humanitarian.

  • Guest

    Correction. She had a genuine transformation and it is not about image. Angelina and Brad don’t just walk the walk but they talk the talk. Pitt in many past interviews before Jolie and the tabloid drama: Expressed a healthy awareness of society, politics, and interests ouside of the industry and a desire to be a father. He even made a comment about wanting a big family back when he was dating Gwyneth. They clearly are very invested and involved with their children.

    Aniston on the other hand, used her friends to flat-out lie and claim that having kids was not a priority for Pitt. She made it seem as if she was the family-oriented one and Pitt was all about career or money. Just a paradox.
    She never showed a desire to have kids before and was uncomfortable when the topic was brought up during her marriage. She also struck me a shallow and self-involved to the max. Even worse, her friends lied and acted like Pitt was trying to ruin her reputation and act like the kids claim was the reason when the truth is that it was Jennifer and her crew being “diabolical and shady” and trying to ruin Pitt’s reputation so Aniston could come smelling like roses. Pitt also defended Aniston in two interviews by saying that the reports Aniston did not want kids was false and was very complimentary towards her. Her depiction of Pitt’s behavior as well as some her friends blatantly lying by acting Pitt just left her and was so hurtful just directly went against the evidence of his actual behavior. He would never cheat and did not dump or leave her. They had been discussing a breakup for months! They had separated in December and waited a full month to annouce it! Aniston has made inconsistent claims about children and that issue. Don’t you think she would have kids already via surrogacy or adoption if she was really aching to be a mom like she claimed in tons of interviews back in 2005?! She chose to date a string of younger guys who had no interest in kids at the time. I understand a women not wanting those things
    the fact is that she pretended she wanted those things. Then later on, she backtracks by going on a feminist
    spiel about marriage and children not being a necessity. That attitude is fine but not if you contradict yourself
    and lie about your ex who is actually living his life according to his image. Pitt also has told Aniston as well as the media every year that this relationship with Jolie began after the breakup but the media keeps pretending like they confessed in interviews. They have lied about Jolie and Pitt’s words….so it is no stretch to think they fabricate comments from nannies and other family members.

  • neil

    I will tell you the REAL truth if you all can handle it….People hate Angie because she WENT OFF SCRIPT! Angie served a need by playing the role of a beautiful train wreck. What that need was depends on who you are but essentially it was the role of a beautiful Hollywood celebrity perceived as LOW STATUS and thus making us, the people, HIGH STATUS. Imagine Amy Whinehouse NOT dying and imagine her not just turning her life around but being a symbol of self-actualization and healthy living. Wanna bet there would millions deriding her and calling her a fraud? Or telling each other they preferred her when she was “wild and untamed”. Many people feel sorry for Lindsay Lohan right now but few people hate her. If she manages to clean up her act, wanna bet the hate comes out?.

  • neil

    I will tell you the REAL truth if you all can handle it….People hate Angie because she WENT OFF SCRIPT! Angie served a need by playing the role of a beautiful train wreck. What that need was depends on who you are but essentially it was the role of a beautiful Hollywood celebrity perceived as LOW STATUS and thus making us, the people, HIGH STATUS. Imagine Amy Whinehouse NOT dying and imagine her not just turning her life around but being a symbol of self-actualization and healthy living. Wanna bet there would millions deriding her and calling her a fraud? Or telling each other they preferred her when she was “wild and untamed”. Many people feel sorry for Lindsay Lohan right now but few people hate her. If she manages to clean up her act, wanna bet the hate comes out?.

  • Shannon

    You seem to know a lot of intimate details about these 3 people. Do you live with them? Do you talk to any of them on a daily basis? Or are you just surmising because what you have read which may or may not be true??

  • jae

    I don’t really care for Angelina Jolie, but I hardly doubt that someone that was as close to her mother as she was could ever be cold to her own children. This just seems to be another way the tabloids get the fans to click on their web sites to spread stupid and unsubtantiated bullshit.

  • Sjgvatech

    Sorry, but I think there is a bit of fire behind this smoke In Touch keeps blowing our way. Being damaged and still wanting the perfect family one never had? Check. Being unable to deal with it in reality, having no idea what said family would be like and how it would function? Check. Watch the way she holds the kids hands. Zero warmth there, except for Zahara who is clearly her favorite, along with Maddox. The rest were to keep Brad, I think. Angelina hates to hug, that’s on record. Brad gets kinky times with Hubbahubba, but no sweet cuddles, just knife play, which she thinks is fine for Maddox, as well. She’s the poster child for damaged, unstable mothers. Those kids are going to need a lifetime of therapy, but some of the media still insist that she’s Mother Earth in black leather. If I walked around with six kids all eating Cheetos and drinking sugary juices, You’d take a picture and nail me as an unfit redneck mom setting her kids up for a lifetime struggle with obesity. If I thought it was okay for a 9yo to play with real knives, with or without his younger siblings, you’d call child protective services. If I had a little girl who was missing teeth and sporting bruises all the time, you might start to question if her older male siblings weren’t being allowed to brutalize her, tomboy or not. If I stayed in your home and my children literally destroyed it, with damage to property you treasured, I doubt you’d laugh it off as just part of free and creative children growing and learning. Especially when none of those kids was receiving anything more than a piecemeal, fractured education, and was receiving no home instruction in basic social skills. You think it’s grand that those kids have no real friends aside from each other? Oh, and if my husband and I built a custom extra large bed just so the kids could pile in and join us, you might not say anything, but after awhile, I think you might raise an eyebrow.

    Get your heads out of Angie’s posterior and see the situation for what it is: disturbing, and at a bare minimum unenviable for those children who have no choice in all the chaos and bear no fault of their own for their bad behavior and inability to simply stay in a home without causing serious damage.

    Final question. How often do you see pics of those kids joyously smiling when they are out with Mommy? Think about it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3W73HDZCB7PUJK4ILBMTZHWEEY CaliCat

    She was even closer to her Mom’s boyfriend!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3W73HDZCB7PUJK4ILBMTZHWEEY CaliCat

    I’m sure she’s a “Mommy Dearest” w/ Shiloh because she’s so beautiful & she was the baby Jolie had to spit out to keep her boy toy. I do think she favors the adopted ones because she can relate to the under privileged better. This Leopard hasn’t changed her spots, just accessorized them better.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3W73HDZCB7PUJK4ILBMTZHWEEY CaliCat

    I’m sure she’s a “Mommy Dearest” w/ Shiloh because she’s so beautiful & she was the baby Jolie had to spit out to keep her boy toy. I do think she favors the adopted ones because she can relate to the under privileged better. This Leopard hasn’t changed her spots, just accessorized them better.

  • poodle

    OMG
    the nanny had to stay and clean up juice??!!! that is completely nuts! how long did it take her? all of 45 seconds (assuming it wasn’t like, you know 85 gallons of grape juice on a white shaggy carpet which yeah, could take a little longer. but also brings up the question, why was the kid handling 85 gallons of grape juice on white shaggy carpet to begin with? anyway i digress).

    the horror!

    nobody i have ever known has ever had to deal with such atrocities!
    oh wait. i cleaned hotel rooms one summer. never mind.

  • FM

    I’ve always wanted to know why they dress Shiloh like a boy. She’s such a cute little girl. They should try some cute designer dresses on her.

  • FM

    Zahara always looks angry or unhappy.

  • jae

    Really? Why am I not surprised?

  • N Yordy

    Sorry Charlie…you’re kinda scary..to talk about those people like you have personal knowledge of their personal day to day life based on the same junk you are condeming is just way tooo much. Honestly, professionally I enjoy Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston, Jolee not so much, but that is personal taste. I could really care less about who Brad Pitt is married to, I stopped caring when the realization that I didn’t have a chance in hell kicked in. In my opinion, based on interviews and the garbage I’ve read and all the evidence I have acquired (none of which came 1st hand) I think like myself, many people don’t care for Jolee because she seems to be one really strange chic.

  • Anonymous

    Well stated.
    The phoney Anugston is always protrayed as the the good girl…..and boy does she ride on the Jolie-Pitt coat-tails of fame…Gee didn’t she just take someones elses man, and isn’t she over him 24/7 and poured on him like her past men, that never stay long because they are smothered..What happens when this woman decides to finally have a baby and she cannot conceive…….what goes around comes around.

    I would want to be Angelina Jolie if I had to choose a personality, motherhood and humanitarian efforts.
    Not to mention her high intellilectual level………………..

  • Anonymous

    you just never know whose really writing on these things……………so ……………………….

  • Melissa Muller

    My biggest gripe with both Angelina and Brad as parents is, they need to settle down. They may think it’s awesome that their kids have seen so much of the world but seriously what kid cares about different cultures and stuff at their age. They need to have friends and a consistent schedule. They have been to how many different schools now? It’s ridiculous. They need a real home and not this vagabond lifestyle, mark my words those kids will have serious issues someday.

  • cleo53

    I really doubt someone would have 6 children and not want them or be attentive. Also anyone with small children know they don’t always smile for the camera or are always well behaved. I think most people are jealous of them. Who the hell knows what goes on behind closed doors at their house. I did not have a great childhood either with distant parents but today in my 50s I am a loving generous person and have made a point of being so. Why do people automatically assume that when you were younger and made mistakes that your whole life will be fucked up. It’s called maturity and growth. I can’t imagine doing some of the stuff I did in my 20s or even 30s so why presume the Pitts stayed the same. Also, really now it is none of our busines even if we wished we had their lives. Let’s let them live it shall we?

  • Maryann Vondervor

    YOU ALWAYS HEAR OF POOR JENNIFER, WHAT IS SO POOR ABOUT HER ANYWAY???? SHE PROBABLY DID NOT WANT CHILDREN AS IT MIGHT HAVE INTERFERED WITH HER WORK OUTS, PRIVATE FOOD BEING MADE FOR HER AND ALL SHE DOES TO GET EVERYONE FEELING SORRY FOR HER SO WHY IS IT THAT SHE CANNOT HOLD ON TO ANYONE THEN AND NOW ESPECIALLY? ALL SHE SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT IS HER BODY IMAGE AND WHAT THE PUBLIC WILL THINK OF HER AS SHE IS GETTING OLDER BUT CAN NOT FACE THAT FACT. WHY NOT GROWN UP LITTLE GIRL?

  • Maryann Vondervor

    YOU ALWAYS HEAR OF POOR JENNIFER, WHAT IS SO POOR ABOUT HER ANYWAY???? SHE PROBABLY DID NOT WANT CHILDREN AS IT MIGHT HAVE INTERFERED WITH HER WORK OUTS, PRIVATE FOOD BEING MADE FOR HER AND ALL SHE DOES TO GET EVERYONE FEELING SORRY FOR HER SO WHY IS IT THAT SHE CANNOT HOLD ON TO ANYONE THEN AND NOW ESPECIALLY? ALL SHE SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT IS HER BODY IMAGE AND WHAT THE PUBLIC WILL THINK OF HER AS SHE IS GETTING OLDER BUT CAN NOT FACE THAT FACT. WHY NOT GROWN UP LITTLE GIRL?

  • Jazzydhoney

    wow your easily fooled JAE lmfao.. “she was even closer to her Mom’s Boyfriend!” lmfaooooooooo if that was soo true why haven’t the press ran with that in national stand point? None of these tabloids besides People magazine are credible. People magazine is the sister mag to TIME magazine and they have a lot to loose when they put dumb shit like this on their cover. damn. people fall for anything. Oh angelina molested her kids..JK but i bet you believed that if i said i had an inside source. *roll eyes*

  • Shannon

    You are WAY too obsessed with these people. This must be your only interest in life. Sad.

  • jae

    Actually, I am not “fooled”, I was totally unaware of those rumors, hence the question “Really?” As for the “why am I not surprised?” She has a tendency to go after other women’s men, so no, if she was close to her mother’s boyfriend, it would not surprise me. Learn how to read. I generally don’t believe what the tabloids print, I don’t read People either so I cannot really comprehend their reliability over tabloids or gossip sites either. If you read my post prior to the one you are commenting on, you will read that while I don’t particularly like her, given the close relationship that she had with her mother, I doubt that she could ever be cold to her children. That it is just another way for these sites to get people, apparently like yourself, to click on their sites. Think intelligently before you say anything and you won’t, imfao, come across looking somewhat ignorant.

  • Jazzydhoney

    so yess you are fooled. hence you would react to “really”? clearly that was a fabricated statement so therefore you are easily fooled. I did read your post, that’s why i was completely shocked that that was your response, instead of laughing at that girls ridiculous statement you wen’t on intrigued because “why am i not surprised?” Like you know Angelina. That chick who made that statement has been trolling all over this site on Angie. Delusional

  • Angie

    está diciendo la verdad, pero parece que tu no la quieres escuchar, ya que eres ciego y sordo

  • PastaFarly

    Wah Wah Wah Women suck. Next platitude?

  • icepack

    who gunna read all this junk you say and who care. you dum to talk for to hours about these stupid hollowood peoples. what make you so knowable any way. you dum you jus guest at all this stupid words you talk jus like you name. you from the canada land no way

  • Winphuong

    not everybody.I d’ont buy those In touch magazine ,that is all.

  • icepack

    if it were the jenani she wont of beat her childrens with ice like the branjolie do. jenani a kind lady who love the childrens. she jus cant a ford to buy so many of them cuba or hatey babys like the branjolie do. it so sad to see the jenani so sad. the pitts boy really recked her live when he dumped her like a led banana and not give her no babys before he cheat with the branjolie. he should a least give the jenani a baby that she so despritt to buy.

  • Winphuong

    The people are making money in the bad way are realy sick :In Touch magazine ….

  • Winphuong

    Look at what people did ,not at what on they talk…

  • jae

    @Jazzydhoney: Once again, Think intelligently before you say anything and you won’t, imfao, come across looking somewhat ignorant

  • Ronnie24

    yes, and people like yourself keep the fanning the flames..

  • Julykitten99

    Use English!!!! This article is in English, the comments are in English, why is your comment in another language that isn’t English? If you want to comment in an another language then comment in an article with the same language that you’re commenting on.
    So sick of people who comment in an another language when the article is in English.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UOGFK7RWEJPAAFXO5UGQZYGHZY KMBA

    you make no sense.

  • guest

    This is an english article you are replying to…………so answer in english! You are NEVER going to learn english if everything is catered to you in spanish! If you love spanish so much, then live in a spanish speaking country!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandi-Hartman/100000499782186 Brandi Hartman

    You are whacked out of your mind. Get help! Sicko.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandi-Hartman/100000499782186 Brandi Hartman

    Maybe because artistic people with open minds do not force their kids to wear what they want them to wear. Shiloh dresses herself and is a tomboy….not such a bad thing. Get over it. She is not a spoiled little toddler in tiaras brat all dolled up for your weirdo entertainment. Maybe you can find one of those stupid online dress up or make over Shiloh games. Jeez.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandi-Hartman/100000499782186 Brandi Hartman

    Actually she always looks like a sweetheart but I’m sure she gets annoyed with the cameras in her face.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandi-Hartman/100000499782186 Brandi Hartman

    They have tudors and probably more useful life experience than you had at that age and I’m sure will be very well rounded and not as narrow minded and moronic as most people commenting here. Kids having consistency is good but it doesn’t have to be the same as what may be convenient for most people. I’m sure they have their own family rituals if you will.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandi-Hartman/100000499782186 Brandi Hartman

    Another insane person commenting like a crazy person on this family…check!!

  • SAMI

    SO YOU SAING THAT IF JA HAD KIDS BRAD WOULD STILL BE WITH HER ???AJ SAING YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE FAITHFUL,DO YOU KNOW THEM???

  • guest

    Feck. That was spot on. Thank you. I can’t believe how people do not see. Angie changed her life and pursued peace and happiness without giving a damn to the press or public perception. She just did, just lived her life. So people are skeptical and some will never understand/believe her.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7J7P44NFCSK4UO3VTSPGJJ57OI jessk

    something just isn’t right with this family. Angelina was asked in a people article what she did that morning at an (evening) awards ceremony she was attending. Her reply was “make pancakes with the kids.” If you ask a regular parent what they did this morning, they won’t mention making pancakes, because they have breakfast with their kids EVERY morning. Parents don’t mention everyday occurrences involving their kids. They mention things out of the ordinary.That leads me to believe that she really doesn’t spend much time with her kids. Also, I think that this couple have opted for “designer” kids….I think that they picked how they wanted the kids to look, what genes they wanted, and implanted the eggs. Don’t you remember the blood necklaces with Billy Bob??? She’s a freakin weirdo at heart. I think that these kids have a very strange life….

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7J7P44NFCSK4UO3VTSPGJJ57OI jessk

    Brandi: Brangelina should hire you as their publicist.

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