I freely admit it: I am one of those people who usually feels a teeny bit smug - I told you so! - when news of failing celebrity marriages hits the gossip wires. I mean, how many successful marriages are there in Hollywood, anyway? And aren't they all having affairs? Cue wagging finger.
So you would think that I'd be all schadenfreudey about the news - and you know that it's probably true - that Brad and Angelina are splitting up, but I'm not. They have all those kids. They're a family. Families breaking up sucks.
Anyway, that's the news: they're splitting, they've been in the process of splitting for a while, they've signed a bunch of splitting-up papers and everything is all, you know, splitsville. Not that we couldn't all have guessed that something like that was up when Brad grew that strange, creepy, dust-bunny-like crop of facial hair - no man who cares what his wife thinks does that, or should do that (honey, are you reading?) - but it sounds pretty official now.
Which, yeah: as I said above, it's kinda icky news because they have that big brood of kids that always seemed pretty happy to be riding Daddy's shoulders or clutching Mommy's hand, and even though that was probably a cultivated part of their image, it's still a family, and those are kids whose parents will no longer be together (they're apparently going to live with Jolie, although she's share custody with Brad), and no matter how you slice it that always, always sucks.
So. Yeah. Sucks for Brad and Angie, but my heart really does go out to those kids.
My heart goes out to them too! I was raised by a single parent and I know how difficult it can be to be moved from one home to another every other weekend. Not fun!
Great post!
Posted by: Andrea H | 01/24/2010 at 12:38 PM
Well, if they were serious about being a family, perhaps they should have made a real commitment and gotten married.
Posted by: Gunfighter | 01/24/2010 at 05:29 PM
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2626935/brad_and_angelina_break_up_divorce.html
Phew! Sounds like it was just a rumor....I don't care much about celebrity gossip but I would've been so sad for those children.
Posted by: Erin | 01/24/2010 at 09:23 PM