Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Reportedly Wants To Be Called ‘John’ — Should Anyone Care?
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt has been in the spotlight since she was born to famous parents Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in 2006, and now the public may know a little too much about the growing girl.
A report from the celebrity gossip site Perez Hilton claims that Shiloh Jolie-Pitt wants to be a boy, and is requesting that her parents call her “John” all the time.
This may be nothing new for Shiloh. Back in 2010, Angelina told Vanity Fair that her then 4-year-old daughter would rather run with the boys than take after girly interests.
Angelina even said that Shiloh “wants to be a boy. So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear boys’ everything. She thinks she’s one of the brothers.”
Angelina and Brad have seemed to indulge Shiloh’s interest to dress like a boy. At the premier of Angelina’s Unbroken, Shiloh donned a suit that matcher her older brothers Maddox and Pax.
While some media outlets claimed that this showed “gender identity issues,” others have slammed the reports as too intrusive. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt is still an adolescent, an age when many girls still act as tomboys and shun dresses or other traditionally feminine interests.
Others believe the coverage is good justification for the recent “no kids” policy pushed by several celebrities and adopted by media outlets.
Pacific Standard Magazine described the policy.
Several leading providers of celebrity gossip — Entertainment Tonight, People magazine, gossip blog Just Jared, and the E! Network—have vowed to stop printing paparazzi photos of celebrity children. The less demand for these photos, the less paparazzi will invade these children’s lives—or so the logic goes. It’s hard to think of this arrangement as anything other than a positive development: Few would argue for continued harassment of celebrity children, the vast majority of whom have never been given the choice about whether to live their lives in public.”
That hasn’t appeared to be the case for Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, however, with a number of stories on her wardrobe choices and so-called “gender issues.”
