They have always said that they’ll get married when gay marriage becomes legal in all states. However, it seems that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt weren’t able to hold out – the couple is officially engaged. The rumour has been confirmed after Angelina was spotted wearing a huge diamond ring on her left hand this week.
Brad’s manager said in a statement: “Yes, it’s confirmed. It is a promise for the future and their kids are very happy. There’s no date set at this time. Brad designed the ring.”
Brad and Angelina
From news.com.au:
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are engaged, the actor’s manager confirmed today.
Jolie, 36, was seen wearing a massive diamond ring on her left hand Wednesday night at a museum event in Los Angeles, sparking rumours that a wedding was on the horizon.
Beverly Hills jeweller Robert Procop revealed that he created the ring and said Pitt was “heavily” involved in the design process.
“Brad had a specific vision for this ring, which he realised over a yearlong collaboration,” Mr Procop told The Hollywood Reporter.
“He wanted every aspect of it to be perfect, so I was able to locate a diamond of the finest quality and cut it to an exact custom size and shape to suite [sic] Angelina’s hand,” added Mr Procop, who previously collaborated with the actress for “The Style of Jolie” jewellery collection, which she has worn at red carpet events and in the 2010 film The Tourist.
Earlier this year, Brad confessed that he couldn’t wait in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter: ‘We made this declaration some time ago that we weren’t going to do it till everyone can. But I don’t think we’ll be able to hold out.’
In the same interview, he said their six children were one of the significant factors behind his change of heart, saying: ‘It means so much to my kids, and they ask a lot. And it means something to me, too, to make that kind of commitment.’
Back in December, Jolie also told Nightline that the kids had been asking why she and their dad weren’t official because “people get married in the movies.”
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Brad also designed Jennifer’s ring, multi talented man.
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I’m pretty sure he also designed Gwyneth’s ring, so he has had some practice!
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It’d be interesting to see some years on those photos – Angelina has changed a lot in looks over the years.
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Hmmm, call me a cynic, but I actually believe Angelina is a master at her own publicity, how often does she blurt out something about their sex life when promoting a movie. And who could forget the ‘happy families’ photo shoot with Brad just after he’d left his marriage. I bet the wedding planning takes forever to maximize their media coverage.
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I must say I wondered too whether the timing was designed to take the focus off ‘leg-gate’! I am also predicting this will be a long engagement, and we’ll see lots of ‘the wedding’s off!’, ‘no, it’s back on again’ stories over the coming months…
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…they weren’t married?
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Dating sounds like the wrong word when 2 people are living together and have children.
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Agree Danlee! “Dating” Stupid American expression at best! They are partners!!
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‘Stupid American expression’? How rude.
Every time you’re tempted to America-bash, try replacing ‘American’ with ‘Asian’, ‘Black’ or ‘Jew’. Racism/bigotry/prejudice is all the same, ya know.
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How stuning is that yellow and black dress?
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It’s gorgeous. She wears dark so often but she looks beautiful in bright colors.
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Very excited for them. Just wrote a blog about this on our site imploring Ange to NOT lose any more weight for her wedding! I want to see Ange walking down the aisle like Lara Croft ready to kick ass and not like she’s ready to faint!
http://www.bridebody.com.au/guess-who-is-getting-married-bride-bodys-exercise-plan-for-angelina-jolie/
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I find it a bit odd that their kids apparently care so much. My parents never married, but I didn’t give it a second thought. Some of my friends parents were married, some weren’t, some were divorced…it was never a big deal.
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That was my first thought too. What kid really cares about that? I mean they make it sound like they harp on and on about it….. Odd.
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I’m divorced and my kids beg me to get a boyfriend from time to time. It does happen.
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But that’s a different thing. I just don’t get why young kids would be so hung up on their parents having a marriage certificate.
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Maybe because they’re always seeing newpapers and magazines with “exclusive” stories on “Brad and Ange breaking up”, the kids might feel that marriage is a more stable and public commitment that they will stay together… and yes, I know it’s just a piece of paper, but for some it’s a very significant piece of paper…
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My partner and I have been together for over 8 years (known each other for 30) and have a nearly 7 year old daughter. She asks quite frequently “When are you and Daddy getting married?”. Part of it is because she really wants to be a flower girl,LOL, but more importantly I think, once she started school she realised that Mummy has a different surname to her and her Daddy. It’s not something she gets upset about, but she would really like us to get married, so I can understand that Ang and Brad might be getting similar comments from their children.
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Yeah I’m a single mum and my son’s nagging me to move in with my boyfriend who he adores. It’s a bit embarrassing sometimes! Especially when he said it once to his Grandma (my mum).
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Maybe because of the nature of the family being mixed heritage etc they feel it would bond them beyond biological and adoptive ties?
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If it were any other celebrity marriage it wouldn’t really incite a comment from me. Personally speaking it doesn’t really matter whether they marry or not. What I do think though, is that it pretty clearly highlights the courage of their supposed moral convictions. It is completely their business, don’t get me wrong. But since they made such a song and dance about it so often, it makes them look pretty foolish and shows that their moralising was all an attention seeking excercise at the expese of people with a very real issue.
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no-one is perfect and everyone should be allowed to change their stance on a given situation if circumstances or perspective or knowledge of the situation changes. if their marriage really is a significant issue for their kids now, then they have every right to change their minds, and get married, and put their kids and their family first.
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Of course they have the right to change their minds and marry. I don’t suggest for a second they shouldn’t. My point is that they made such a to do of their great moral stance that it makes them seem foolish and hypocritical.
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Really? you’ve never once changed your mind on something, and know you never will? sounds very closed minded to me, but I guess it must be reassuring to live with such supreme certainty…
personally, never say never…
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I wish they hadn’t said they would wait for Gay marriage to be legal in all states first. its wonderful they are getting married- especially if their kids are longing for it but Its a shame they would go back on such a powerful protest.
It seems like a back stabbing situation for the gay community, as they are exercising their “right” to get married even though they initially stood as equally unmarried with people who cant. But like I said, its great for the children and they are obviously in love.
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If it is important to their kids that they get married, then I think it it’s great that they’re engaged, although they were one of my favourite unwed couples, and proof that you can be unmarried but in a very committed relationship!
I’m also disappointed that Angelina would wear a real diamond. Diamonds are so strongly associated with human rights abuses, and given Angelina’s work in countries like Sierra Leone, I wold love to have seen her promote lab-created diamonds, which these days can be structurally identical to mined diamonds. Despite the Kimberley Process, there’s no absolute way of ensuring that a mined diamond is conflict-free, and even if it comes from a conflict-free region, it will very likely have been cut and polished by a child in India or encountered other human rights abuses along the way to Angela’s ring finger!
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I am sorry but wearing lab diamonds will not solve the problems in Africa. How will those families survive if real diamonds are no longer wanted? I don’t agree with the process but sadly life is not that black and white!
Also you can guarantee (better) that you diamond in conflict free if you buy it from say Australia or Canada… maybe she did that.
But as a person who wears diamonds purchased in Africa (using the Kimberley process, so I have supported the communities as best I could because i have friends from there) I hope she did buy an African diamond and supported those countries in need.
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That sounds like pretty flawed logic to me. Do you also buy clothes made in sweatshops because you feel it’s better to support people earning a dollar a day than support companies who pay their workers a fair wage? Do you think child prostitution is okay in countries where children are only sent to work to help feed their families?
You mention Australian and Canadian diamonds, but they have their own issues. The Argyle Diamond Mine is built on sacred Indigenous land, which has been all but destroyed since Rio Tinto took up residence. Yes, in recent times, the mine has provided work for a large number of Indigenous people, but that doesn’t excuse the past treatment of the traditional land owners, and the fact that they’ve all but destroyed a very significant piece of sacred land. Likewise, in Canada, Indigenous people have been displaced and had their land destroyed by mining interests.
I think Angelina Jolie has been an amazing champion of human rights in her position as a UN Goodwill Ambassador, and has helped to raise the profile of so many important human rights issues around the world. If she had made a big deal out of wearing a lab-created diamond, and gone on record as saying it was because she had grave concerns about the treatment of those involved in the process of mining, cutting and polishing diamonds, she could have a huge influence on the industry’s practices. It’s because of the greed of westerners and the manufactured (and completely false) idea that diamonds are a rare and valuable commodity that the diamond industry has been able to go unchecked for so long. It’s an issue that could do with a lot more publicity, and Angelina Jolie, who has spent a lot of time in countries like Sierra Leone and Liberia and seen first-hand the devastation that ‘diamond wars’ can have on a population, would be the perfect person to draw more attention to this issue.
You can justify your purchase all you like, but wearing a mined diamond is like wearing a big fat symbol of human rights abuse on your hand.
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Nope me buying a kimberley diamond is the same as me going to a legalised brothel. If the are legal and monitired and heald accounatble then myabe there will be less child protitution.
You have made a point Angelina though, HUGE ambassador and has spent a lot of time in the region and of looky here she bought a mined diamond.
But anyway as i said it is not as black or white as you make out. I never said it was right or wrong. the world is a screwed up place.
And those people who work in asian sweatshops have a lot more opportunities than people in africa who don’t have many other exports to offer. In comparison they are lucky. (but of course it is still terrible) But again what do african countries have if not for mined minerals/elements? At least they are trying to have some legislation, it is better than nothing and better than taking their livelyhoods away from them altogether.
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The trouble is the industry (which is largely a monopoly) is not being held accountable by enough people in the west who have the power to effect change. If more people questioned where their diamonds came from and how they got from A to B (or more like A to Z, as there are so many steps between a diamond being dug out of the ground and finding itself in a showroom at Tiffany’s), then the industry would be forced to change its practies. The Kimberely Process is a start, but not nearly good enough, and it addresses only one of a number of very concerning issues to do with the diamond industry, and doesn’t even do that well enough.
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I totally agree. But I don’t think buying lab diamonds is the answer.
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I have to disagree, there are many of us having the conversation these days.
I have been working in this industry for the past seven years and moved to ethical sourcing and work practices almost five years ago. When I started perhaps 2% of engagement ring consumers gave a second thought to sourcing and human rights issues (BTW conditions in cutting factories deserve as much of our attention as mines) , now the figures are much higher and interest and knowledge is growing all the time.
Australia is a bit of a late adaptor, however, there are quite a few of us working hard to ensure best practices.
When you work in the area of fair trade, you gain a slightly different perspective of what it is that people in the region actually want. It is very easy to say ‘don’t mine’ and leave it at that, but that just forces the industry underground (no pun intended) and takes it closer to the bad old days.
The global ethical jewellery movement is gaining ground all the time. It isn’t perfect but it is a heck of a lot better than it was even ten years ago.
Look at Fair Jewelry Action and the Jeweltree Foundation, check out the programmes supported by companies such as RubyFair.
As to the argument for lab diamonds, they are not without their cost from a resources/energy consumption point of view – but each to their own.
With everything, if you want change, then you have to do things differently. If it matters to you, become part of the conversation.
You are not going to stop people from wanting engagement rings, but you can work towards ensuring that rings are not created off the back of someone else’s suffering.
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“so I have supported the communities as best I could because i have friends from there”…
Erm, I’d say the best kind of support would be to not wear diamonds at all. Not only is it a massively questionable industry, regarding both human rights abuse and environmental degradation, it’s an outward show of wealth and status – something that most of the people involved in the diamond process can likely not even imagine. Tacky.
You make it sound as though you’re being forced to wear the things…
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And the headlines in the women’s magazines will read ‘Jen’s hearbreak’
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Yeah the poor woman will never be allowed to be over him.
All the “poor jen” headlines imply she’s pathetic without him, a damsel who will never be whole again because brad got with ange.
Maybe she is still heartbroken. But then again, maybe she’s totally over it. Maybe she doesn’t give a crap if they adopt eighteen more kids and get married four times.
But we all know what sells more magazines.
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I think this is great!! And yes I think their kids were a huge factor in getting engaged, which I think is beautiful.
A huge CONGRATULATIONS to them!
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I think it means more that they are doing it for their kids, their family, rather than waiting for the whole world to be able to wed.
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