WORLD / Newsmaker

Angelina delivers due date
(E! Online)
Updated: 2006-04-27 09:38

The paparazzi detail on the Brangelina BabyWatch beat just got some bad news.

Contradicting reports 
 that 
 she's due to pop any day now, Angelina Jolie has delivered the news that she's not quite eight months pregnant.
Brangelina and Family Pose in the Namib Desert.  [Reuters]
 

Contradicting reports that she's due to pop any day now, Angelina Jolie has delivered the news that she's not quite eight months pregnant.

That means anxious shutterbugs can expect another full month of dodging Namibian officials, not to mention Jolie and Brad Pitt's aggressive security goons, if they want any chance of capturing the money shot of the most important and beautiful baby ever to be born, ever.

It's enough to make a paparazzo cry.

Jolie announced her devastating due date in an interview with NBC, scheduled to air Thursday on Today and Sunday on Dateline, during which she confirmed that she knows her baby's sex, but isn't telling.

The actress also spoke about her relationship with Pitt for the first time, calling it "one of those funny things that just happens," but stating that it isn't really something she discusses, even with her beau.

"I don't talk about our--my relationship in public," Jolie said, according to excerpts released to USA Today. "But we also don't talk about it at home."

The subject, she said, makes her "giggle."

It's "just kind of funny," she said. "If [Brad] saw this, he would probably understand why I was laughing. Because I just don't know how to address that kind of thing."

Jolie, the mother of one-year-old Zahara, whom she adopted from Ethiopia, and four-year-old Maddox, whom she adopted from Cambodia, said she agreed to the interview in order to raise awareness for her latest cause: the Global Campaign for Education.

"I just think, especially my daughter, there's no possible way she would have gone to school," Jolie told NBC. "She is so smart and so strong. And her potential as a woman one day is great.

"Hopefully, she will be active in her country and in her continent when she's older. And because she'll have a good education, she'll be able to do that much more."

Jolie also participated in a teleconference Wednesday with British finance minister Gordon Brown and and Gene Sperling, top White House economic adviser in the Clinton administration and currently the U.S. director of the Global Campaign for Education.

"I am really thrilled to have this opportunity...to bring this to the forefront of people's minds this week," she said. "On a rare occasion, I am really thanking the press because this is so important."

Brown recently announced that Britain would boost its spending on the project by an additional $15 billion over the next 10 years, and challenged the other nations in the Group of Seven, including the United States, to match that contribution.

Jolie said she became involved in the cause, because "[m]any things make it so personal to me."

Between her charity work, acting and raising two kids with another on the way, it's no wonder the Mr. and Mrs. Smith star calls her life "very full"--not that she's complaining.

"I'm very proud when I see my children--already Mad, just how he adjusts to different places in the world and different people and his views and the kind of man he's going to be," she said. "I'm very lucky."

 
 

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