U.S. actress Angelina Jolie (right) and U.S. actor Brad Pitt leave a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January. Jolie gave birth to a daughter fathered by Pitt, People magazine said late on Saturday. A representative for the couple said Jolie, 30, gave birth to their daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, in Namibia, Africa. - REUTERS
WALVIS BAY, Namibia, (Reuters):
HOLLYWOOD HEAVYWEIGHTS Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt -- described as the 'World's Most Beautiful Family' by People -- have had a baby daughter in one of the most anticipated celebrity stories of the year, the magazine said yesterday.
A representative for the couple said Jolie, 30, had given birth to Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt on Saturday in Namibia, a sparsely-populated desert country in southwest Africa. There were no further details available, People reported.
The couple, dubbed 'Brangelina' by the tabloids, have been closely followed by the paparazzi in Namibia since arriving there weeks ago to have their baby.
FREQUENT VISITOR TO AFRICA
Jolie reportedly took a shine to Namibia, better known for dunes and diamonds, while filming the movie Beyond Borders. She is a frequent visitor to Africa and is a Goodwill Ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
The couple have been staying in a sealed off beach resort in the tiny village of Langstrand and it was unclear if the child had been delivered there or at one of the private hospitals in the nearby towns of Walvis Bay and Swakopmund.
Pitt, 42, met Jolie in 2004 while they were working together on the film Mr and Mrs Smith, in which they played married assassins ordered to kill each other. The movie ends with them still alive and happily married.
Representatives for Jolie and Pitt could not be immediately reached for comment.
Jolie already has two adopted children son Maddox, 4, and daughter Zahara, who is about 15 months old.
The couple's stay in Namibia spurred a local media frenzy with increasingly wild and unconfirmed stories, including suggestions that the new baby would be named by an African chief or delivered underwater in a 'water birth'.
Green cloth screens mask the beach resort where they are staying and bodyguards and Namibian security have kept a tight cordon around them, hounding some journalists out of town.
Jolie, who won an Academy Award as best supporting actress for playing a psychiatric patient in Girl, Interrupted, was divorced from actor Billy Bob Thornton in 2003. Before that she was married to actor Jonny Lee Miller.
Pitt, a heart-throb famed for his looks and roles in movies such as Fight Club and A River Runs Through It, divorced from Friends star Jennifer Aniston last year.
