What happened to all the real orphans? As soon as they get scooped up by superstars, suddenly everyone's their parent (in related news, Meg Ryan, you have my daughter). In Touch interviewed a woman in Awassa, Ethiopia, who claims to be the mother of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's adopted daughter Zahara, who will be three in January. She says Z's grandmother, Almaz Elfneh, dropped the baby off at the orphanage and told the officials that the baby's mother was dead. But 24-year-old onion merchant Mentewab Lebiso says the real story went that she was worried her daughter would die, and so she ran away.
"We have to trust the documents we received from the local government," said Dr. Tsegaye Berhe, who's in charge of the Ethiopian branch of Horizons for Children, the organization Angelina adopted from. "[Almaz Elfneh]'s signed a document saying, 'My daughter had died and she left the child behind.'" Dr. T confirmed to In Touch that Almaz is Zahara's natural grandmother, as listed in the adoption records. Mentewab and her mom, Almaz, have considered filing a lawsuit to get Zahara back, but they have no money.
In the event that Mentewab is Zahara's birth mother, it's unlikely that Angelina will adopt the rest of the family. "I don't believe that somebody's family becomes their blood, because my son's adopted, and families are earned," she told Premiere in 2004. "Zahara was days away from death and Angelina saved that child," a source close to Angelina told In Touch. "As far as she is concerned, that bonded her to that little girl forever."
If Zahara somehow gets swept back to Africa, Angelina is not above cracking out the Tomb Raider moves, so you've been warned, babymama. Do you really want to mess with a woman who owns a riding crop?
What do you think?
source:msnbc
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