Angelina adds another
As it stands, the Jolie-Pitt clan may soon be able to play a decent game of three-on-three.
A top Vietnamese official said Friday that Jolie had filed papers through a U.S. adoption agency to adopt a child from the southeast Asian nation.
"She just filed the papers this week," Vu Duc Long, the director of Vietnam's International Adoption Agency, told the Associated Press. There was no official confirmation from the Jolie-Pitt camp.
Jolie, 31, reportedly listed herself as a single parent in her paperwork, a status that will presumably be updated at a later date to reflect Pitt's paternal role.
She and Pitt, 43, currently share parenting duties of five-year-old Maddox, adopted from Cambodia; two-year-old Zahara, adopted from Ethiopia; and 10-month-old Shiloh, their biological daughter.
The couple has been vocal about their plans to expand their brood, with Jolie telling Diane Sawyer in December that they planned to adopt the next time around.
"Yes, we have Shiloh and it's been a wonderful experience, but we want to find another brother or sister in the world for our family," Jolie said.
She acknowledged that the challenge lay in determining exactly where in the world to adopt in order to maintain a balance in her mixed-race family.
"You know, now the questions are more when you have a mixed-race family, do you balance the races so there's another African person in the house for Z?" she said. "So there's another Asian person in the house for Madd? Shiloh has Brad and me that she can look at."
Apparently, Asia won out this time around, leaving the ball in Africa's court for the next adoption.
Word that the couple was planning to adopt from Vietnam was first reported by Us Weekly last week, when the magazine claimed to have learned from unnamed sources that Jolie and Pitt had their sights set on a boy from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, a spot they visited in November.
Orphanage director Nguyen Van Trung declined to comment on the situation, telling the AP he was waiting for the paperwork from the International Adoption Agency.
