Angelina Jolie says her daughter Shiloh is an "outcast".
The "Beowulf" actress, who has three adopted children and biological daughter Shiloh with partner Brad Pitt, says Shiloh looks very different from her other multi-cultural children.
Angelina said, "She looks like Brad. It's funny because she's almost going to be the outcast in the family because she's blonde and blue-eyed."
The 32-year-old actress also revealed she feels "more" of a connection to her adopted children Maddox, six, Pax, three, and two-year-old Zahara, than she does to "privileged" 18-month-old Shiloh.
Angelina explained to Look magazine, "I felt so much more for Madd, Zahara and Pax because they were survivors. Shiloh seemed so privileged from the moment she was born. But I'm conscious that I have to make sure I don't ignore her needs, just because I think the others are more vulnerable."
Earlier this year, Angelina revealed she felt nothing when she gave birth to Shiloh and described her newborn daughter as a "blob".
Meanwhile, Angelina wouldn't have adopted Zahara is she had known the child's mother was still alive, her brother James Haven has claimed.
James told Grazia magazine, "Angelina has a rule that she adopts children only when they are orphans. I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive."
Zahara's biological mother Mentewab Dawit Lebiso recently came forward and said she hadn't signed any adoption papers and was misled by local officials who promised she could see her baby again.
December 15, 2007 - 12:57PM - Sa
Why is coloring so important to Angelina? Who cares if your child has blond hair and blue eyes, and if coloring is so important why would Shiloh be the outcast? Both parents are white. Both have blue eyes. One has blond hair. If you want to go by looks if anything , Zahara would be the outcast as she's the only black child in the family, and her other two children are asian and Shiloh and her two parents are white. But Angelina seems to say that 'Shiloh' is the 'outcast'. Is it that in her mind and her heart that's how she feels about her? Why is she 'going to be the outcast'. It sounds like Angelina is casting her into a role. Or perhaps she's using her to express her own feelings about how she felt growing up, as she said she felt like an outcast next to her 'priveledged' peers. It's too bad that Shiloh was born into 'priveldge' because it's as if she lost a mother. As she grows up she's going to see the difference in her mother's apparent feelings for her compared to her adopted children whom Angelina sees as vulnerable. If her mother really did see a legitimate threat to her daughter in the fact that she could be an outcast, why not try to take steps to ensure that is not the case by adopting another child with blond hair and blue eyes from Russia or somewhere? Then there would be nothing to worry about and no need to even bring this up, and if Shiloh is 'going to be' the out cast because of her blond hair and blue eyes does this mean Angelina has no intention of adopting another needy child because it has blond hair and blue eyes. Why is coloring important and why does there even have to be an 'outcast' in the first place?
