Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrive at the Oscars at the Dolby
Theatre in Los Angeles. (Vince Bucci/Invision/AP, File)
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got married on Saturday. If it
was 2006, this would be very big news.
Yet here we are in 2014, and the headlines still flew
around the world when a spokesman for the superstar
couple
confirmed to the AP that Pitt and Jolie were married
at Chateau Miraval in France over the weekend. It was a
private ceremony with family and close friends only, with
their kids serving in the wedding party. (Maddox, 13, and
Pax, 10, walked Jolie down the aisle; Zahara, 9, and
Vivienne, 6, were flower girls; Shiloh, 8, and Knox, 6,
were the ring bearers, the AP reports.)
It’s anti-climactic, in a way, at least for all the tabloids
who have been reporting this was happening for
years — and then it never did. This low-key news,
released on a Thursday morning by a wire service,
is like a practical joke to all the magazines wishing
for an exclusive.
Okay, so it’s done — and that’s actually a relief.
Because even though the Pitt-Jolie relationship
is one of the more epic Hollywood stories in
recent decades, a marriage should conclude this
era of madness. To fully appreciate why this is
such a huge milestone in celebrity culture, let’s
take a brief journey back in time and remember
how the international sensation known as
Brangelina all began.
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It started in 2004, when “Friends” wrapped up its
final season starring Jennifer Aniston, who was
happily married to the world’s leading man, Pitt.
From the outside, it looked so perfect. It was just
a year after Jolie had split from husband Billy Bob
Thornton, a favorite couple among the tabloids
because they wore vials of of each other’s blood
around their necks. Anyway, 2004 was when Pitt
filmed “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” co-starring Jolie.
They met and fell in love, though they wouldn’t
confirm that until a few years later.
Aniston and Pitt divorced in spring 2005, and
shortly after, Jolie and Pitt were photographed
playing on the beach in Kenya with Jolie’s son,
Maddox. It’s not an exaggeration to say this
truly rocked the celebrity world, one incredibly
beautiful person leaving another incredibly
beautiful person for yet another incredibly
beautiful person. The possible infidelity angle
was irresistible. Neither of them ever
commented on their relationship, but that
didn’t stop the press from obsessing over
every time they were photographed together.
The “Brangelina” nickname took hold and
never let go — it upended Ben Affleck and
Jennifer Lopez’s “Bennifer” as the combined
celeb name of our time. Right around then,
though, support for #TeamAniston was
growing (even in a time before hashtags),
especially when Jolie and Pitt took part in
a W magazine photoshoot posing as a happy
family — before the Pitt-Aniston divorce was
even official. That led to Aniston’s
famous
quote to Vanity Fair about Pitt, saying,
“There’s a sensitivity chip that’s missing.”
That summer, Jolie denied any wrongdoing
during a “Today” show interview: “To be
intimate with a married man, when my own
father cheated on my mother, is not
something I could forgive,” she said. “I could
not look at myself in the morning if I did that.
I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would
cheat on his wife.”
Then in the winter of 2006, Pitt moved to
legally adopt Jolie’s children, Maddox and
Zahara. A month later, they finally confirmed
what everyone knew. Indeed, they were
dating, and oh, Jolie was pregnant with Pitt’s
baby. If the story was huge before that, it was
absolutely nothing compared to what happened
when little Shiloh Jolie-Pitt came into the world
in May. Jolie gave birth at a hospital in Namibia
to escape the press. Later, they sold the first
pictures of Shiloh for reportedly
$4.1 million to
People magazine, and another $3.5 million to
the British papers, donating it all to charity.
Fascination with the family only grew with their
number of children: In subsequent years, the
couple adopted Pax from Vietnam, and then
Jolie gave birth to twins, Knox and Vivienne,
in 2008. The Jolie-Pitts and their brood made
headlines as they traveled the world for various
film projects and charity work. There was an
endless supply of the group all boarding and
exiting planes together, which gave the media
lots of time to speculate on their
fashion choices.
The “love triangle” angle flared up again in 2008,
when Jolie told the New York Times that she was
looking forward to their kids seeing “Mr. and Mrs.
Smith,” explaining, “Not a lot of people get to see
a movie where their parents fell in love.” That was
considered a slap in the face to Aniston, and
contradicted everything they said about not getting
together until the Pitt-Aniston marriage was over.
Meanwhile, Jolie and Pitt continued to gain interest
in their relationship by simply never getting married.
Pitt said multiple times they wouldn’t tie the knot
until gay marriage was legal everywhere. Still, they
decided to get engaged in 2012, and kept the press
at bay by simply saying their wedding would be
“soon.”
And now, their actual marriage should really put
a cap on this crazy story — what’s left to say? Even
though Aniston still to this day can’t escape the
“poor scorned Jen” angle in every tabloid story
(though she’s engaged to Justin Theroux), it
seems like this is the natural conclusion.
They’re married. The mystery is gone. Put away
the “Team Jen” t-shirts. It’s time to wish the
Brangelina scandal era an official farewell and
let everyone (finally!) move on with their lives.
Source:- http://www.washingtonpost.com/
blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/08/28/brad-pitt
-angelina-jolie-get-married-why-this-is-a-
big-deal-and-how-its-time-to-move-on/
