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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nQuestion: You've heard a lot about Angelina's estranged relationship with her dad, but who is her mom, and are they close?\n\nA: Marcheline Bertrand, now 54, gave up her actigin carreer to rasie Angelina and her older brother, James Haven, after their father, Oscar winner Jon Voight, left the family when Angelina was 6 months old.  The two divorced soon after, and Marcheline gained custody of the kids.  Angelina credits her mother, not her father, for nurturing her acting career.  Marcheline is often described as a French actress, but that is not the case.  Angelina has explained, \"Everyone thinks  because of her name, but she grew up in Chicago.Marcheline struggled to support her daughter and son.  They were never poor, but there was an expectation because of who Angelina's dad was that they had money\u2014but they didn't.  Because of their struggles, Angelina and her mother share an \"us against the world\" mentality.To this day, Angelina and Marcheline are very tight.  Marcheline frequently travels with Angelina and often babysits Angelina's son, Maddox.  It was also her mom, not a guy, who reportedly gave Angelina the ring she wears on her ring finger.  \"My mom is proud of me,\" Angelina has said.  \"She's got really strong heart, and she's taught me a lot about what it means to be a good person.\"Question: Angelina and Billy Bob seemed like soul mates when they were together.  How can a couple like that go south so quickly?A: Angelina and Billy Bob were never secretive about their strong feelings toward each other during their two-year marriage, from wearing viles around their necks to tattooing each other's name on their biceps (and on Angelina's pubic area).  \"We love each other obsessively. Madly\u2026It's all focused on each other, and we're going to explode,\" Angelina admitted at the time.  But sometimes, according to Rebecca Timlin-Scalera, PhD, who specializes in couples therapy, all that explosive energy can backfire.  \"Angelina strikes me as someone who's passionate and focused. And when she commits to something, she commits one-hundred percent, which is why she was so devoted to Billy Bob.  The problem was that she and Billy Bob are both incredibly intense people, and it can be hard to sustain a relationship when both people are this over-the-top.  They were so wrapped up in each other that it became difficult to strike a balance and devote energy to the other aspects of their lives, like their careers or a baby.  People this passionate tend to fall out of love as intensely as they fall into it.\"  Perhaps when they shifted their passion\u2014Billy Bob focused more on his band in March 2002, and Angelina adopted Maddox at the same time\u2014things seemed to unravel. Angelina filed for divorce in July 2002.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nQuestion: Ever since the famous Oscar kiss with her brother, James Haven, he seems to have disappeared.  What is he doing now, and do they ever see each other?A: After the controversial kiss, Angelina and James laid low, but that didn't diminish their relationship in the least.  In fact, she told Cosmo, \"We never lost our bond.   I went away and made a film in six months.  And we weren't in public together, so we didn't give anyone ammunition for some silly gossip.  It was more about not being all over the place together, because we knew  had eyes out for us.\"Today, they see each other all the time and are still very close.  James is continuing to act in small roles\u2014he played a hospital guard in Monster's Ball and had a guest-starring role on CSI last February.  According to a close friend of James, Angelina is always incredibly supportive of her big brother.  \"She's throwing James a party for the screening of his new film, Rent-A-Person,\" says the friend.  The 12-minute short film is a musical in which James stars.  The friend also reveals that \"James is very close to Maddox.  This spring, James celebrated his one-year anniversary with his girlfriend, Rachael Anderson, and they enjoy playing uncle and aunt to Maddox.\"  James recently said, \"Every time Maddox sees me, he gives me a big hug.\"\n\nQuestion: Angelina has said that she bought a house in Cambodia so that Maddox could be exposed to his homeland.  Hwat is the house like?A: Angelina set up a $5 million wildlife refuge in northern Cambodia, where Maddox is from.  Next door to the refuge is a plot of land where she has had their home built.  It's a very primative structure with only basic plumbing, and Angelina has described the house as \"three little wooden huts on stilts, with hammocks, and a hole in the ground to poop in.  We're in the jungle.  There are elephants and tigers.\"  It's also very difficult to get there as it involves transferring between plans, boats, and cars, so they typically helicopter in.  Angelina is currently studying to get her pilot's license so she can fly them on a small plane to their home.  They don't spend a ton of time there but plan to once Maddox gets a bit older.Question: What exactly is Angelina's job at the UN?A: According to Tina Ghelli, public information officer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), \"Angelina is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN's refugee agency.  Her position entails traveling to countries that have refugees and aiding them by distributing food and supplies and making visits to schools and health centers.  She makes about four or five of these trips a year and has ben to places like Tanzania, Russia, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ecuador, and Sierra Leone.\"  Equally important is the extensive media coverage of her trips, which raises awarness for the cause.  \"Thanks to Angelina's involvement, UNHCR is now getting tons of inquires from young people wanting to help the cuase.  She has also donated more than a million dollars, and she insists on paying for all of her own expenses on all of her trips,\" says Ghelli.Question: Angelina acted so erratically before she adopted Maddox.  Did she go through a screening process?  Does she plan to adopt more kids?\"A: Angelina herself has said that she was nervous when she and Billy Bob were evaluated by U.S. immigration officials back in 2002 to determine if they were fit parents.  \"It's weird,\" she said of the process.  \"You're being evaluated as to whether you can be a parent, and  say that you're nuts.\"  Arund that time Rolling Stone declared that the couple had \"America's Most Dangerous Marriage\": They wore each other's blood in vials on necklaces and had a pet rat, and Angelina had given Billy Bob hs-and-her cemetery plots for their anniversary.  But the couple eventually passed evaluations and likely paid around $13,000 in adoption fees.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nAngelina definitely wants to adopt more kids.  Now that Maddox is almost 3, she has begun the evaluation process again to find her next child.  She also has no interest of having children of her own, knowing there are so many children in the world without homes.  \"I feel there would be that one orphan who was left in an orphanage,\" Angelina has said.Question: Angelina admitted that she's attracted to women, but she obviously like men.  Is she bisexual or just experimental?A: While making the film Foxfire in 1996, Angelina had an affair with her female costar, Calvin Klein model turned actress Jenny Shimizu.  She has said of the fling, \"I realized that I was looking at her in a way that I had looked at men.  And it was great, and it was a discovery\u2026It was never something I was looking for.  I just happened to fall for a girl.\"  However, Angelina has also been married twice\u2014once in 1996 to actor Jonny Lee Miller, which lasted three years, and then to Billy Bob Thorton\u2014so she's clearly attracted to men.  According to sex therapist gina Ogden, PhD, \"Some people do go through experimental stage and then go on to have only heterosexual relationships.  Others, who are bi-curious and attracted to both men and women, may play with both heterosexual and homosexual relationships over the course of their lives.  Unless the person comes right out and says they are one thing or another, it's impossible to label them.\"As for what Angelina considers herself, she has said. \"I consider myself a very sexual person who loves who she loves, whatever sex they may be.  If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay?  Yeah.\"\n\nQuestion: Is Angelina dating anyone?A: She was rumored to be linked with her Alexander costar Colin Farrell when they were spotted globe-trotting in Egypt at Christmastime.  It turns out they're just friends, and he joined her to visit a Sudanese refugee camp, where they brought winter clothes and toys and donated $20,000.  Next came rumors that she was back together with her ex-husband Jonny Lee Miller when they were seen getting tattoos last winter.  Although in February she revealed, \"I love him,\" it seems they're just friends as well.\"Angelina still pines for that special someone.  \"There are certainly moments when you're up in the middle of the night  your kid and you wish there was that person sharing parenthood with you,\" she has said.  \"You wonder what that must be like, how beautiful that must be.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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