Angelina Jolie is one of the most admired celebrities of our time. Everyone, more or less, knows her works and follows her acting career and her humanitarian commitment.
But we are sure you don’t know a lot, interesting facts about her life. Here are 4 things you might not know about the beloved Hollywood star.
- She had a Plan B if she had failed as an actress
As a teenager, Angelina Jolie was considering becoming a model or…a funeral director. “ It may sound very strange and sinister, but in fact, at the time, I lost my grandfather and his funeral really upset me ,” she told 60 Minutes in 2011. “ We have to grieve and approach death differently in our societies. This would have been my path if I had failed as an actress”.
- She is a fan of acupuncture
Angelina once told Vanity Fair that she has Bell’s palsy, a nervous condition that causes weakness on one side of her face. Acupuncture would help the actress to heal this pathology.
- Her children speak different foreign languages
“All my children are learning different languages ,” she tells the BBC. “ They are the ones who chose which one to learn. Shiloh learns Khmer from Cambodia. Pax has started learning Vietnamese. Maddox has switched to German and Russian. Zahara speaks French. Vivienne focused on Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language”.
- She is not afraid of insects
In 2017 in Cambodia, Angelina Jolie was spotted frying crickets, scorpions and tarantulas for her children. “ They eat bags of crickets like packets of crisps. Shiloh, she especially loves the tarantula!”, She confides to Good Morning America .