Zahara’s Family Wants Her Back
November 14th, 2007 | Posted in Celebrity Gossip, Magazines | Print This Article
Members of Zahara Jolie-Pitt’s family have come forward in an effort to reclaim the adopted Ethiopian child who was close to death and riddled with disease when Angelina Jolie rescued her from an orphanage.
Baby Z’s grandmother claims the orphan’s paperwork is not correct, insisting that her granddaughter’s mother is still alive.
The adoption papers, which have been obtained by In Touch Weekly, clearly state that Zahara has a grandmother and extended family alive in Africa, but no living parents.
But now the grandmother insists her daughter, Mentewab Dawit Lebiso, never died, and she’s Zahara’s mother.
The woman claiming to be the mom tells In Touch Weekly, “I want my daughter to come home to see where she is from. Her grandmother and I both tried very hard to raise her, and I want her to come home to regain her identity.”
And baby Z’s aunt, Zinash Haile Yenero, is upset that Angelina didn’t make sure the child’s paperwork was correct before adopting her, and she’s angry the actress has yet to bring her daughter back to Africa.
Zinash rants, “My mother was very sad. At one point she was even thinking of trying to find a way to bring her grandchild back, but she has no money, so she can’t.”
This new article is sure to upset Angelina and Brad, but friends insist the celebrity couple will stand firm.
One friend says, “She believes that Zahara is an orphan and the woman who claims to be her mom is mistaken. Zahara was days away from death and Angelina saved that child. As far as she is concerned, that bonded her to that little girl forever.”
Does anyone think Zahara would be better off in Africa with her biological family?
November 21st, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I think Zahara’s supposed family is very selfish to want to rip the child from the only home and mom she has ever known to mover her to a poverty stricken AIDS stricken place to probably end up orphaned again when they all die off from AIDS too. The child has bonded with Angelina and is used to America and that’s where she should stay. The child’s family should have been there for the child when she was almost dead if they cared about her so much, where were they then? Now they want to ruin the kid’s life by ripping her form a good home to live there. That’s very selfish of them, and that’s if they really ARE the kid’s family. If they are really her family where were they all this time and when the kid was half dead? I hope the bsaby stay right where she is, if they take her she will hate them when she’s old enough to realize she could have growj up rich in America and those idiots ripped her from that to bring her back to AIDS ridden Africa. I think that all adoptions should not be allowed to be nullified except where the child’s life is in danger then the kid just gets taken away like they do from any parent, I think all adoptions should be irreversable. Period. Who would want to take the time to adopt a child and grow to love the child just to have the drug addicted parents come and take the child back into a warzone of poverty and hardship? That goes for kids anywhere whether in America or Africa or Europe!
May 29th, 2008 at 5:21 am
My opinion on this issue is that this child deserves better,I am from Africa and believe that if a child gets an opportunity like this they have to use it .She was saved by a good samaritan,she supported her through and through,medically, financially and otherwise .just the other she was sick and the Jolies paid for her operation So imagine if she was still in Ethopia what would she(the mother)done about the situation. And i think the reason why she wants the child back is because she sees that the child is progressing and is healthy and she probably thinks that she can get the riches off the Jolies.The orphanage did not suggest to write that the mother is dead ,so Z’s mom and her family are the ones who took the child there and told the authorieties that the bilogical mom is dead.