Angelina Jolie-In the media

"Angelina Jolie-In the media"

She appeared in the media from an early age due to Angelina Jolie's famous father Jon Voight. At 7 Angelina Jolie had a small part in Lookin' to Get Out, a movie co-written by and starring Angelina Jolie's father, and in 1986 and 1988 Angelina Jolie attended the Academy Awards as a teenager with him. However, when Angelina Jolie started her acting career, she decided not to use "Voight" as a stage name, because Angelina Jolie wished to establish her own identity as an actress. She was never shy about controversy and integrated her teenage "wild girl" image into Angelina Jolie public persona in the 1st years of Angelina Jolie's career. During her acceptance speech at the 2000 Academy Awards, she declared, "I'm so in love with my brother right now", which, combined with her affectionate behavior towards him that night, sparked speculation in the tabloid media of an incestuous relationship with her brother James Haven. Angelina Jolie has denied those rumors vehemently, and she and Haven later explained in interviews that after their parents' divorce they relied on one another and because of that they hold on to each other as a means of emotional support.

She does not employ a publicist or an agent. Angelina Jolie quickly became a tabloid's favorite, since Angelina Jolie presented herself as very outspoken in interviews, discussing Angelina Jolie's love life and her interest in BDSM openly, and once claiming to be "most likely to sleep with a female fan". As one of her most distinctive physical features, her lips have attracted notable media attention and Angelina Jolie has been described as "the current gold standard of beauty in the West" among women seeking cosmetic surgery. Angelina Jolie also created headlines with her much publicized marriage to Billy Bob Thornton and her subsequent change into an advocate for global humanitarian problems. As Angelina Jolie took on the role of UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie started to use her celebrity to highlight humanitarian causes worldwide. She has been taking flying lessons since 2004 and Angelina Jolie has a private pilot license (with an instrument rating) and owns a Cirrus SR22 airplane. The media speculated that She is a Buddhist, but Angelina Jolie said that she teaches Buddhism to her son Maddox because Angelina Jolie considers it part of his culture. She has not stated definitively whether or not Angelina Jolie believes in God. When asked in 2000 if there was a God, Angelina Jolie said, "For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn't need to be a God for me."

Starting in 2005, her relationship with Brad Pitt became one of the most reported celebrity stories worldwide. After she confirmed her pregnancy in early 2006, the unprecedented media hype surrounding them "reached the point of insanity" as Reuters described it in their story "The Brangelina fever". Trying to avoid the media attention, the couple went to Namibia for the birth of Shiloh, "the most anticipated baby since Jesus Christ", as it had been described. 2 years later, her 2nd pregnancy again fueled a media frenzy. For the 2 weeks Angelina Jolie spent in a seaside hospital in Nice, reporters and photographers camped outside on the promenade to report on the birth.

Today, she is one of the best known celebrities around the world. According to the Q Score, in 2000, subsequent to her Oscar win, 31% of respondents in the United States said she was familiar to them, by 2006 Angelina Jolie was familiar to 81% of Americans. In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets her, together with Brad Pitt, was found to be the favorite celebrity endorser for brands and products worldwide. She was among the Time 100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2006 and 2008. Angelina Jolie was described as the world's most beautiful woman in the 2006 "100 Most Beautiful" issue of People, and Angelina Jolie was voted the greatest s*x symbol of all time in the British Channel 4 television show The 100 Greatest S*x Symbols in 2007. The Hollywood Reporter named her the highest-paid actress of 2008, earning $15 million per film. Angelina Jolie also topped Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list in 2009; Angelina Jolie had previously be ranked No. 14 in 2007, and No. 3 in 2008.

Source: wikipedia