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Actress Happy to be Role Model For Jolie-Pitt’s Ethiopian Daughter

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Above: Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, featuring the first
African-American princess, dominated the box-office with a $25
million nationwide debut.

Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff

Published: Sunday, December 13, 2009

New York (Tadias) – Angelina Jolie, the adoptive mother of 4 year old Zahara, is excited about the new animated family comedy, featuring Disney’s first black princess, as a positive influence for her Ethiopian daughter.

The Disney animated musical, The Princess and the Frog, currently number one at the box-office, is a fairy tale about a beautiful princess named Tiana and a frog prince who desperately wants to be a human again. The story takes place in Jazz-filled New Orleans, where a fateful kiss would lead them both on an adventure through the fabled wetlands of Louisiana.

According to OK! magazine: “Angelina Jolie has spoken about how she’s ecstatic that her four-year-old daughter Zahara will have a role model thanks to the barrier being broken.”

Anika Noni Rose, 37, the actress whose voice is used for Disney’s first black princess agrees. “It’s wonderful,” Rose, told Valerie Nome of OK! magazine. “I think every little girl should be able to feel themselves the princess. I think every little girl is worthy of having a princely young man, and vice versa. It’s really thrilling that Zahara will never have a moment where she didn’t see herself in that light. She’s Ethiopian. She comes from kings and queens. She should certainly know herself as a princess.”

Here is the film’s trailer:

Video: Princess and the Frog Reaction

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Angelina Jolie Takes Zahara to Ethiopia

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Photo – Jolie with daughter Zahara, NYC, 2007 (Purseblog.com)

People Magazine
By Mary Green
Originally posted Tuesday September 15, 2009 11:30 AM EDT
It turns out that Angelina Jolie’s recent goodwill mission in Kenya was also a homecoming for one member of the Jolie-Pitt family. While Jolie, 34, and Brad Pitt, 45, were “on a trip to Kenya with their children, Angelina stopped in Dabaab Refugee Camp, and also flew to Ethiopia with Zahara and Shiloh for two days,” a close family friend tells PEOPLE. The girls’ trip was “the first time Zahara had been back home since her adoption,” according to the friend. Zahara, 4, was adopted from Ethiopia in 2005. “The trip was about keeping up that culture for her.” Read more.

VIDEO: Angelina Jolie’s UNHCR Trip To Dadaab Refugee Camp (Kenya)

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Jolie to Build Daughter Zahara a Clinic in Ethiopia

Angelina and Zahara (Photo by INF)

Published: Wednesday, August 6, 2008

New York (Tadias) – Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is reportedly planning to build an AIDS clinic in Ethiopia, her adopted daughter Zahara’s country of birth.

“We will be building a Tuberculosis/AIDS clinic in Ethiopia. The one we plan for Zahara to take over when she is older,” Jolie told Hello magazine, which printed its world exclusive pictures of her newborn twins Knox and Vivienne earlier this week.

Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt already have a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, who was born in Namibia in 2006. In addition to Zahara (aged three from Ethiopia), they are also adopted parents to Maddox (six-year-old) from Cambodia, and Pax (four-year-old) from Vietnam.

According to Contactmusic.com, the clinic in Ethiopia is an initiative of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, a charity the celebrity couple established in 2006 for international humanitarian aid.

Jolie also has plans for her Asian children. “The next trip for our foundation will most likely be Asia to follow up on the situation in Burma and our work in Cambodia. The boys have been asking to go there, so we will take them when Knox and Vivienne are a bit older,” she added.