Angelina Jolie is finally bringing her daughter home.
The Oscar winner's newly adopted baby, Zahara, was released Friday from an undisclosed New York hospital after spending a week there being treated for dehydration and malnutrition, People magazine reports.
Zahara was admitted to facility shortly after Jolie returned from Ethiopia to complete the adoption of the six-month-old child.
"The baby is doing great. And most importantly [mother and daughter] have bonded," the child's pediatrician, Dr. Jane Aronson, tells People.
The adoption finalized July 6. Jolie, 30, accompanied by her adopted son Maddox and their good buddy Brad Pitt, flew to Africa last week to get Zahara.
The twice-divorced Girl, Interrupted star has released limited information on the girl, other than to say she was an orphan and her parents died of AIDS.
In a story on its Website Friday, People also took a potshot at rival glossy Star, contradicting an article in the latter magazine that quotes a woman described as Zaraha's maternal grandmother. The Star report quotes the woman, identified as Almaz Blfnhe, saying she helped deliver the girl, who was originally named Tena Adam, and spent cared for her after the death of her mother. Almaz says that Zahara's mother died of excessive blood loss three days after the birth, not AIDS. Almaz says she and the baby shared a bed for four months before deciding she was too poor to raise the child, who was malnourished and weighed less than five pounds at that point, and put her up for adoption, a move that "broke my heart." The article includes a photo ostensibly of Almaz.
But People says the story is bunk. In a statement to the magazine, Wild Horizons for Children, the organization that sponsored the adoption, says, "The photo is not the woman who they claim it is and the quotes are fabricated."
The magazine goes on to report that Zahara has no living siblings, her father is unknown and that her mother died, presumably of AIDS, about month after the girl's birth. (Since Jolie is only cooperating with People, Star and Us Weekly have been scrambling to get in on the scoop; last week, in its haste to get a story out, Us mistakenly reported that Zahara was (a) a boy and (b) jointly adopted by Jolie and Pitt.)
In any case, Zahara wasn't the only member of Jolie's inner circle to require hospital treatment following the African trip. Pitt was released from Los Angeles's Cedars Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday after coming down with viral meningitis. Like Zahara, he is expected to make a full recovery.
Source: E! Online
The Oscar winner's newly adopted baby, Zahara, was released Friday from an undisclosed New York hospital after spending a week there being treated for dehydration and malnutrition, People magazine reports.
Zahara was admitted to facility shortly after Jolie returned from Ethiopia to complete the adoption of the six-month-old child.
"The baby is doing great. And most importantly [mother and daughter] have bonded," the child's pediatrician, Dr. Jane Aronson, tells People.
The adoption finalized July 6. Jolie, 30, accompanied by her adopted son Maddox and their good buddy Brad Pitt, flew to Africa last week to get Zahara.
The twice-divorced Girl, Interrupted star has released limited information on the girl, other than to say she was an orphan and her parents died of AIDS.
In a story on its Website Friday, People also took a potshot at rival glossy Star, contradicting an article in the latter magazine that quotes a woman described as Zaraha's maternal grandmother. The Star report quotes the woman, identified as Almaz Blfnhe, saying she helped deliver the girl, who was originally named Tena Adam, and spent cared for her after the death of her mother. Almaz says that Zahara's mother died of excessive blood loss three days after the birth, not AIDS. Almaz says she and the baby shared a bed for four months before deciding she was too poor to raise the child, who was malnourished and weighed less than five pounds at that point, and put her up for adoption, a move that "broke my heart." The article includes a photo ostensibly of Almaz.
But People says the story is bunk. In a statement to the magazine, Wild Horizons for Children, the organization that sponsored the adoption, says, "The photo is not the woman who they claim it is and the quotes are fabricated."
The magazine goes on to report that Zahara has no living siblings, her father is unknown and that her mother died, presumably of AIDS, about month after the girl's birth. (Since Jolie is only cooperating with People, Star and Us Weekly have been scrambling to get in on the scoop; last week, in its haste to get a story out, Us mistakenly reported that Zahara was (a) a boy and (b) jointly adopted by Jolie and Pitt.)
In any case, Zahara wasn't the only member of Jolie's inner circle to require hospital treatment following the African trip. Pitt was released from Los Angeles's Cedars Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday after coming down with viral meningitis. Like Zahara, he is expected to make a full recovery.
Source: E! Online
I hope their lives are wonderful together 
