Elizabeth Case
07-16-2005, 09:45 AM
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/Pf/0,1527,16954,00.html
Angelina's Baby Out of Hospital
by Marcus Errico
Jul 15, 2005, 2:55 PM PT
back to story
Angelina Jolie is finally bringing her daughter home.
The Oscar winner's newly adopted baby, Zahara, was released Friday
from an undisclosed New York hospital after spending a week there being
treated for dehydration and malnutrition, People magazine reports.
Zahara was admitted to facility shortly after Jolie returned from
Ethiopia to complete the adoption of the six-month-old child.
"The baby is doing great. And most importantly [mother and daughter]
have bonded," the child's pediatrician, Dr. Jane Aronson, tells People.
The adoption finalized July 6. Jolie, 30, accompanied by her adopted son
Maddox and their good buddy Brad Pitt, flew to Africa last week to get
Zahara.
The twice-divorced Girl, Interrupted star has released limited information
on the girl, other than to say she was an orphan and her parents died of
AIDS.
In a story on its Website Friday, People also took a potshot at
rival glossy Star, contradicting an article in the latter magazine
that quotes a woman described as Zaraha's maternal grandmother. The
Star report quotes the woman, identified as Almaz Blfnhe, saying she helped
deliver the girl, who was originally named Tena Adam, and spent cared for
her after the death of her mother. Almaz says that Zahara's mother died of
excessive blood loss three days after the birth, not AIDS. Almaz says she
and the baby shared a bed for four months before deciding she was too poor
to raise the child, who was malnourished and weighed less than five pounds
at that point, and put her up for adoption, a move that "broke my heart."
The article includes a photo ostensibly of Almaz.
But People says the story is bunk. In a statement to the magazine,
Wild Horizons for Children, the organization that sponsored the
adoption, says, "The photo is not the woman who they claim it is and
the quotes are fabricated."
The magazine goes on to report that Zahara has no living siblings, her
father is unknown and that her mother died, presumably of AIDS, about month
after the girl's birth. (Since Jolie is only cooperating with People, Star
and Us Weekly have been scrambling to get in on
the scoop; last week, in its haste to get a story out, Us mistakenly
reported that Zahara was (a) a boy and (b) jointly adopted by Jolie
and Pitt.)
In any case, Zahara wasn't the only member of Jolie's inner circle to
require hospital treatment following the African trip. Pitt was released
from Los Angeles's Cedars Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday after coming
down with viral meningitis. Like Zahara, he is expected to make a full
recovery.
Angelina's Baby Out of Hospital
by Marcus Errico
Jul 15, 2005, 2:55 PM PT
back to story
Angelina Jolie is finally bringing her daughter home.
The Oscar winner's newly adopted baby, Zahara, was released Friday
from an undisclosed New York hospital after spending a week there being
treated for dehydration and malnutrition, People magazine reports.
Zahara was admitted to facility shortly after Jolie returned from
Ethiopia to complete the adoption of the six-month-old child.
"The baby is doing great. And most importantly [mother and daughter]
have bonded," the child's pediatrician, Dr. Jane Aronson, tells People.
The adoption finalized July 6. Jolie, 30, accompanied by her adopted son
Maddox and their good buddy Brad Pitt, flew to Africa last week to get
Zahara.
The twice-divorced Girl, Interrupted star has released limited information
on the girl, other than to say she was an orphan and her parents died of
AIDS.
In a story on its Website Friday, People also took a potshot at
rival glossy Star, contradicting an article in the latter magazine
that quotes a woman described as Zaraha's maternal grandmother. The
Star report quotes the woman, identified as Almaz Blfnhe, saying she helped
deliver the girl, who was originally named Tena Adam, and spent cared for
her after the death of her mother. Almaz says that Zahara's mother died of
excessive blood loss three days after the birth, not AIDS. Almaz says she
and the baby shared a bed for four months before deciding she was too poor
to raise the child, who was malnourished and weighed less than five pounds
at that point, and put her up for adoption, a move that "broke my heart."
The article includes a photo ostensibly of Almaz.
But People says the story is bunk. In a statement to the magazine,
Wild Horizons for Children, the organization that sponsored the
adoption, says, "The photo is not the woman who they claim it is and
the quotes are fabricated."
The magazine goes on to report that Zahara has no living siblings, her
father is unknown and that her mother died, presumably of AIDS, about month
after the girl's birth. (Since Jolie is only cooperating with People, Star
and Us Weekly have been scrambling to get in on
the scoop; last week, in its haste to get a story out, Us mistakenly
reported that Zahara was (a) a boy and (b) jointly adopted by Jolie
and Pitt.)
In any case, Zahara wasn't the only member of Jolie's inner circle to
require hospital treatment following the African trip. Pitt was released
from Los Angeles's Cedars Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday after coming
down with viral meningitis. Like Zahara, he is expected to make a full
recovery.
