At last! The suspense is broken! The golden couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, last night became the proud parents of a boy, Knox Leon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline.
Why report on this in the Chateau Lalinde Blog? Well, it has to be acknowledged that these two, Brad and Angelina, have become the past masters of manipulation of the press. Even Madonna can come learn a thing or two from them, and I am quite sure that in time to come -- if it is not already happening -- students of sociology and psychology will be writing their doctoral theses on the subject of media manipulation -- using Pitt and Jolie as their single case study.
I may sound a little cynical on this beautiful Monday morning in July - in France - but --- Have you noticed the date? 14 July! Yes! The storming of the Bastille is being celebrated throughout France today with dances, bands, flags and pennants, fireworks and jubilation.
Have you noticed in which country these babies were born? France, of course -- the country where Bastille Day is celebrated most notably!
Have you noticed how these twins were born? By caesarean procedure -- where the mother and the doctor can pretty much decide the day and time -- within reason, of course.
Have you noticed the comment? "The twins were born slightly earlier than scheduled", gynaecologist Michel Sussmann commented.......
Anyway -- we congratulate the couple and the siblings on the new additions to the family -- and we wish the new-born babies everything of the best that the world can offer them. Welcome to the World, little ones -- stay sane, stay grounded and be happy!
From AFP this morning:
Jolie, 33, gave birth to the twins last evening during a half-hour caesarean operation at a maternity clinic in Nice on the French Riviera.
"Everything went smoothly. The children are doing very well, the mother is doing very well and the father is doing very well," told AFP.
Knox Leon weighed 2.27 kg and Vivienne Marcheline 2.28 kg.
Pitt, who had attended the birth by caesarean of their daughter Shiloh, "was very calm and was not at all disturbed" by the operation, said Sussman.
"When the babies arrived he was very euphoric" and Jolie had a "blinding smile".
Jolie is set to stay several more days at the Fondation Lenval clinic to recover.
The first photograph of the baby celebrities was sold to a US paper for $US11 million ($A11.5 million), the regional Nice-Matin newspaper said, adding that the money would be given to a humanitarian cause.
The twins brought the number of Jolie's children with 44-year-old Pitt to six.
Dubbed "Brangelina" in the press, the couple have adopted three children: Maddox, six, born in Cambodia; four-year-old Pax, born in Vietnam; and Zahara, three, born in Ethiopia. Their biological child, Shiloh, was born May 2006 in Namibia.
The pair, who frequently top magazine lists of the world's most beautiful people, set up home in May in a chateau they rented from an American acquaintance in France's Provence region. In addition to her movie career and founding a family with Pitt, she works as a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
The Before and After? Let's hope not!
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