After a decade together, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt split in 2016, leading to a tumultuous divorce and subsequent custody battles over their six children: Maddox, Zahara, Pax, Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox. Although the public has always had an interest in the famous kids, they were thrust into the spotlight even more as their parents endured a years-long court battle.
Between the boys of the brood — Maddox, Pax, and Knox — are three girls: Zahara, who is adopted, and Shiloh and Vivienne, Angelina’s biological daughters. The girls have spent more time in the spotlight as of late; not just due to their mom’s messy court battles, but because they seem to love accompanying Angelina at Hollywood events and seemingly do not have a problem spending time in public with the possibility of being recognized. Moreover, in British Vogue‘s March 2021 issue, Angelina offered a rare glimpse into her life with her children through a series of intimate at-home photos amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I feel like I’m lacking in all the skills to be a traditional stay-at-home mom. I’m managing through it because the children are quite resilient, and they’re helping me, but I’m not good at it at all,” she shared. Adding that she and the kids are “a team,” the Academy Award winner said, “They’re pretty capable.”
Learn more about the Jolie-Pitt girls below.
Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt was adopted by the Salt actress from Ethiopia in 2005 at just 6 months old. Zahara is Angelina’s second oldest in her brood, behind older brother Maddox, who was born in Cambodia in 2001.
The 16-year-old helped inspired her parents’ charity work, including The Jolie-Pitt Foundation‘s creation of the Zahara Program and the Zahara Children’s Center, which were launched to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis and provide further research on the disease in Ethiopia (The foundation similarly created the Maddox Chivan Children’s Centre in their son’s name to help with families affected by HIV/AIDS in Phnom Penh). Like her older brother, Zahara has also made moves into Hollywood, having starred alongside her mom in Kung Fu Panda 3 as the voice of Meng Meng.
Angelina revealed she learned a lot from Zahara during a TIME 100 interview with activist Vanessa Nakate in July 2020 amid discussions of Black Lives Matter. “My daughter is from Ethiopia, one of my children,” she said. “And I have learned so much from her. She is my family, but she is an extraordinary African woman and her connection to her country, her continent, is very — it’s her own and it’s something I only stand back in awe of.”
