Angelina Jolie’s daughter, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, once asked for a dead pet. This is a quote I somehow missed from the earlier coverage of Jolie’s Vogue cover. I was caught up in the weird choice of cover photo, shot by Mario Testino, and the cute quotes about Jolie’s children. There were also not-so-cute quotes from the interview, that weren’t as widely circulated. For example, Jolie’s retelling of an exchange between her and Shiloh, 4, where the child asks to keep a dead bird the pair discover in their yard. ‘She came in and said, ‘Can I have a dead pet?” Jolie recalls. ‘And I’m … ‘Uh-uh, I don’t think it’s healthy, honey. I think they have to put him in a box,’ and I had to run out to find, like, a taxidermy bird. I just worked it out for her.’ When asked whether Shiloh understood anything about taxidermy, Jolie responded, ‘No.’ However, ‘I figured that I couldn’t keep the actual dead bird from the yard, so I swayed her toward one that had been cleaned, at least.’ I can’t even decide the extent to which this freaks me out.
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Oh. My. God.
Wouldn’t this have been the perfect time to explain life and death and dying, and help your child understand the process? And if the child is upset, I can see, ummmm, taking her on a little outing to an aviary, perhaps?
You know, “sway her” towards some living birds, rather than “sway her” to go for a dead stuffed (but nice and clean!) bird, as a PET?!
I agree, I cannot even begin to count the levels of disturbing this story has left me with.
I was recently muttering that in every single interview with Jolie, all she does is talk about Brad and the kids, Brad and the kids, Brad and the kids. It has gotten so boring I hardly ever read or watch her interviews, anymore.
Now it has gone from just boring to really weird and icky.
Note to anyone out there who is planning on having children:
When your kid asks if they can have a dead pet, the answer is “No”, and it is probably time to start a savings account for therapy.
That was my response too.
Her whole interview left me scratching my head, a little…
She sounds great one minute, and a kook the next. A great mother, most of the time, then I’m thrown by quotes like this.
As a child development specialist, I grow more disgusted with “Brangelina” with every story I read about their parenting. They have a child who is obsessed with guns (likely a result of trauma, pre-adoption), none of the children have been allowed to have any kind of stable routine due to their parent’s traveling (which will impact their social skills AND ability to develop lasting relationships), and now THIS. Angelina Jolie’s heart may be in the right place when it comes to wanting to help children, but her parenting skills suck. Oh, and the Jolie-Pitts are helped by an army of nannies — don’t let the photos of them handling their children fool you. She wants her lifestyle AND children, and the two are incompatible.