Stars Leather pants instead of a wedding dress and 9 other facts about Angelina Jolie

Angie had to travel a long way from shooting in low-budget films to pictures that collect millions in the first weekend. From an eccentric and idiosyncratic nature, she turned into a mother of many children and a sought-after actress. And at the same time, she received an Oscar for best actress in the film Girl, Interrupted.

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We’ve compiled 10 amazing facts about Jolie into a full biography, also available on VOICE.

1. Angelina Jolie has been a UN Goodwill Ambassador for several years.

2. Jolie is the middle name of the popular actress. She dropped the Voight surname at a young age after her parents divorced.

3. As a teenager, Angelina often suffered from suicidal thoughts. She was depressed for a long time and sometimes cut herself with knives. According to her, it was such actions that allowed her to “feel alive”.

4. Jolie was even ready to pay a hired killer to take her own life, but she managed to overcome depression.

5. The childhood and youth of the future actress was not too difficult, but psychological problems led to the fact that at the age of fourteen she was already intimately familiar with almost all illegal substances available at that time.

6. Angelina was married three times. At her first wedding, she wore black leather pants and a white T-shirt with the groom’s name written in her own blood. In honor of her second marriage, Jolie made a couple tattoo with her husband.

7. Body ink painting is not the last place in Angela’s life. On the left shoulder are the birth coordinates of each of her children, an impressive section of the back is occupied by a prayer in Sanskrit.

8. Jolie does not like working through intermediaries. She runs her own business, works as a manager and advertising agent.

9. Brangelina came by sheer accident. As planned by the directors of the film “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”, the role of the main character was to be played by Nicole Kidman, who refused citing a busy work schedule. So Jolie got the spot.

10. The main motive for Angelina, who made her choose acting, was her mother.