Angelina Jolie Says She and Brad Pitt Are Ready to Adopt Again

I'll admit upfront that I'm not a fan of the way that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie came to be a couple. Call me prude or a hater if you'd like, but it's hard for me to celebrate adultery. No matter how you want to look at it, Brad Pitt was a married man and no matter how close he says he was to walking out on his wife, Jennifer Aniston, the fact is that he was married to her when he and Angelina Jolie hooked up. And, no, I don't buy the story that he and Angelina Jolie were "just friends" before he left his wife. I also don't buy that Angelina Jolie wasn't the reason why he left his wife in the first place. Sorry, but I just don't. I'm telling you this upfront with the full knowledge that some of you will now discredit everything I have to say about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie from here on out.

So what.

It's not like I'm a Jennifer Aniston fan either. I don't dislike her, mind you; I just don't have any major attachment to her. Pretty much, I think she's overrated in a lot of ways, but that's not what this article is about, so there's no need for me to further analyze her.

Today I'm wondering about Angelina Jolie and her sanity. I just read a People.com article where Angelina claims that she and Brad are already thinking about adopting...again. Now, adoption is a wonderful, loving, completely admirable thing to do and, contrary to my feelings about their relationship, I do commend Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie for their decision to adopt as many times as they have. And let me go on record as saying that I hope they aren't done yet. However, they now have six children, including a new set of twins who aren't even four months old yet. Their oldest child, Maddox, is six years old. Who, in their right mind, thinks about adopting with three-month-old twins and four other very young children at home? I mean, what's up with that?

I'm a mother and I know the attention, the energy and the commitment it takes to raise a child. While I've never wanted a huge brood of children, I do understand the want that some have to have a large family. I just don't get why in the world anyone would want so many children so close together if they have a choice in the matter. And, to be frank, considering Angelina's former (seemingly unstable) self, I wonder if she's not maybe collecting children out of some sort of obsession or fascination with babies.

I mean, we're talking about Angelina Jolie. Here's a woman who had her first live-in boyfriend at 14 years old, one who publicly shared a romantic kiss with her brother whom she claimed to be in love with at the time (but denied an incestuous relationship), a woman who has a history of cutting herself and inviting others to cut her as well, a woman who painted her first husband's name in blood on a t-shirt she wore as she married him, wore her next husband's blood in a vial around her neck (when that relationship ended in divorce, she admits that "overnight" they both just "changed"), a woman who once contemplated having a hit-man kill her (to spare her family the pain of suicide), who used to have a tattoo of the Chinese symbol for death on her body, who admits to being a fan of bondage and S & M, who openly admits to having a very "free" and sometimes overlapping love life with both men and at least one woman and a woman who says she doesn't plan to settle down and establish roots (i.e. a home) in any one place any time soon. While I'm not here to knock her wildly free-spirited, adventurous and often taboo approach to life, it's clear that Angelina Jolie has gone through a lot of "phases" and has battled her share of emotional issues. Could this new obsession with motherhood be another? Can anyone say with an honest level of certainty that I'm wrong to even suggest this about Angelina Jolie?

Sorry, I know people grow up and I know people change, but I'm not completely sold on the bad girl turned Goodwill Ambassador image. I know it's possible. I'm just not convinced that this is the whole story with Angelina Jolie.

So, maybe I'm being judgmental. Heck, I'll just go on and admit that I am. And maybe I'm looking for something that isn't there. Maybe I'm completely wrong about Angelina Jolie and she's a completely sane woman who just happens to have a huge heart and room in her life for so many who, otherwise, would languish in poor orphanages in second and third-world countries around the world. I'm prepared to accept this if this is, in fact, the case. However, can you honestly say that there's not at least a little room for the possibility that there's more to Angelina Jolie's rush to adopt, yet again?