Whew! Finally a REAL baby...

I don't mind Brad and Angelina and here's why.
1) Angelina started adopting foreign babies way before it was popular.
2) Brad cheated on Jen, yes. But he hasn't been flaunting it. They have tried hard to stay out of the light.
3) Come on, they are both hot...they should be together.
4) They went to Africa for no other reason than to get away from it all and have privacy and be left alone.

No, my issue is not with the Jolie-Pitts. It's with the media. First of all, a baby is a baby. That baby is cute...and the reason it is especially cute is not because of it's genetic make up but because of the circumstance of it's delivery. Cesarean babies are always cute because their heads didn't get squished into a cone shape on the way out. Magazines are claiming that the baby has her dad's eyes and her mom's lips. That may end up being true, but for now...she just looks like a baby.
What's eating me up though is the media using words like "real" and "first" and "biological". This is true of the other holy...I mean Hollywood baby Suri (with the fringe on top) Cruise. Between Suri and Shiloh (BFF!!) there are FOUR adopted siblings who are all getting the shaft.
I know that the Jolie Pitt adopted kids are from poverty ridden countries, but I don't tknow the circumstances of the non-suri Cruise kids. I sometimes wonder if their birthparents are aware that those are their birthchildren. How stressful and exhausting to see your kids show up in magazines and to know that they are living with such busy and absent people. And if I were the birthparents I would be upset by the amount of money they have. I found a letter today that my stepdad wrote to me for my 23rd birthday. It was a list of all the things he wishes for me and one of them is: "I want you to have enough money so that you can have everything you really want, but not so much that you are burdened by things you don't need." I suppose it's too late to share that sentiment with Cruises and Pitts.
Anyway, back on to the point here, the point is...the media is totally treating the first round of kids like a practice round. Like they are not real and don't count because they don't have the celebrity genes. Angelina and Brad have already been raising two other children and I certainly don't think $4 million was spent on their photos. This is how it's going to be for these kids forever.
Growing up we never had to wear the fact that we were adopted on our sleeves, or in the color of our skin. I'm curious about interracial families now or families with adopted children who are a different color or ethnicity. I look similar enough to my parents to look like a possible outcome of them. It's not something we ever thought much about as kids. In fact I usually forgot about it. But when Tate and I spent a year at the same high school there was a constant echo of, "Tate's your brother? you guys don't look alike at all!" "Yeah, we're adopted" "Oh, I'm sorry."

"Oh I'm sorry" is a common response which I've never really understood. It's generally said because people have no idea what else to say or because they have seen "Annie" one too many times. I never had to roll out of bed and start off my hard knock life with a dacing while cleaning number in some orphanage that I had to make shine like the top of the Chrysler Building. Although that would have been impressive at 1 and a half months old.

ANYWAY, my point is...adopted kids are no different thatn regular kids. However, once you start throwing in genetic kids things get a little tricky. I was never jealous of any of the genetic kids in my family...but I'm sure I would have been if their pictures has sold for $4 million dollars and pre-birth they were already dubbed "Sexiest Baby of 2006".

Frankly I think we should just leave them all alone. I'm sure their baby will be very attractive, so will many babies. But frankly in the last couple of weeks I've been way more interested in the tny story on the upper right hand corner of that people magazine. That is some messed up shit.