He has formally stated it for the record. As have the police.
Just so I’m clear on this, there isn’t a single person here who doubts the accuracy of her statement as she made it in 2003, right?
It’s hard to tell with the lack of crow-eating and whatnot.
Yep. Check out my post #54 here.
If the other two men are Timothy Hutton and her high school BF, then I can believe it’s true. I still think her active role in breaking up BBT’s relationship with Laura Dern and Brad Pitt/Jennifer Aniston indicates that she’s lacking in some integrity WRT other people’s relationships.
She also spends more time talking about her sexual antics than other serious actors. Dustin Hoffman’s Inside The Actor’s Studio utterly lacked any discussion of his sex life, for instance. Certainly his kinky proclivities were never discussed, as hers were. Doesn’t bother me that she’s into knives, and that doesn’t make me think differently of her, but why would you discuss that in a nationally broadcast TV interview if you didn’t want to titillate and shock people? And then, when they are titillated and shocked, wonder why they think you’ve a wild sex life?
Her expression of surprise in the cited interview that people think she has an outrageous sex life seems a bit disingenuous to me. As WhyNot said, she trades on that impression and makes lots of money on it… so don’t bite the hand that feeds you, Angie. Cut it with a knife and then lick off the blood. I hear some people dig that.
Oh, absolutely! I hope I didn’t give the impression that I thought her *persona *was anything but a sex kitten. A quick perusal of her Google pics make it pretty clear that she was (or her publicist was) encouraging us to think of her having sex. I mean, what else would any rational person with a sex drive think of when seeing this picture? Making fruit preserves? In bed? Or this one? Or hellooooooo, nurse! (All links safe for work, at least as safe for work as these things go. All flesh is covered.) And there are plenty of more blatantly racy NSFW pictures than that out there.
I think it’s simultaneously a shame that someone as talented as she is felt that the best way to make it in Hollywood was to tart herself up*, and at the same time saddened that she was probably right. But I do think it’s entirely possible that someone who acts like other people for a living could wear that persona flawlessly through interviews and photo shoots and not actually be that person in private.
And then I look at her birthdate and realize she’s about my age…which means she’s getting pretty old by Hollywood sex kitten standards. She’s going to have to convince us now to get past the image she herself created if she wants to keep getting roles, and that’s a hard tactical position to maneuver.
And yes, the fact that the quote in question actually came from 2003 makes me more likely to believe her - people change, and it’s possible that she underwent her own private sexual revolution somewhere in 2004 or 5 - the late 20’s are a common time for women to, uh, “empower” themselves sexually. So we could all be right here - she chose few sexual partners until she shifted in her choices and had more sexual partners.
*Note: I have no problem with people wanting to appear sexy. I am saddened if, as it now seems based on this quote, she was appearing sexy not out of a sense of her own sexiness, but for some other reason.
In your post you seemed to be saying that Jolie was putting forth a false persona about her sex life - pretending to be a sexually aggressive woman when in fact she actually had only a small number of lovers in her lifetime. Obviously, this may possibly be true. But if we accept the necessary premise that she’s willing to misrepresent her sex life, then what basis do we have for assuming her current statements about her sex life are true? I figured we both were saying she’s told lies; we were just disputed the minor point of when she told them.
As I wrote before, she’s either lying about her past or she’s been lying in the past. And that’s true even if Jolie told the truth in the Clintonesque sense and encouraged people to believe she had a wide sexual history without ever explicitly saying so. Because people who parse their words like that can say anything without telling what they admit to being a lie - maybe next week Jolie will “clarify” this week’s statement by saying she only had four lovers but she also had a few dozen other sexual partners that she didn’t love.
This week’s statement? You mean the one from four years ago?
I’m not sure where the 2003 thing got started. I’m talking about her statement “It was never true. I had only slept with four men in my life - and I married two of them!” which was published in the current issue of British Cosmopolitan. I found no cite earlier than September 18. This quote couldn’t have been made in 2003; Jolie names Pitt as one of her lovers and she didn’t meet him until 2005. And the same article has another quote referring to her four children and her fourth child was adopted in March 2007.
Which has still not been cited in this thread. For all we know, the British Cosmopoltian article quoted the older interview.
I’m certain I remember Angelina Jolie mentioning lesbian affairs in high school during one interview, but I cannot give you a cite for it.
She may be trying to clean up her image. On the one hand, just as it used to be hip to be on the dole but isn’t any longer, the bad-girl persona has taken a hit, thanks to Paris, Lindsay and Britney. Added to that, she’s now into being portrayed as a baby-recuer and UN goodwill ambassador, so I don’t blame her for wanting to clean up.
As for Jolie’s looks, they’ve taken quite a hit in the past five years. She looks diseased these days. I’ve noticed this happening to a lot of women after about 10 years from when they first became big in the news.
My offer to fly to England and buy an issue if you’ll pay the airfare is still open. Otherwise requesting a cite for an article which isn’t available online because it was just published this week is disingenuous.