The First Adoptions
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt started their family in an untraditional way, with Pitt adopting the two children, Maddox and Zahara, who Jolie had previously adopted as a single mother. The family started when Jolie ended her marriage to Billy Bob Thornton in 2002 in an unusual way: She adopted a six-month-old baby boy from Cambodia. He became her first child, Maddox.
Three years later, the single mother expanded her family again, this time when she adopted her daughter Zahara from Ethiopia. And although that news was exciting for all fans of the Jolie-Pitt partnership (lovingly called Brangelina), nothing was more exciting than the couple’s announcement that they were pregnant with their first child together.