An early report from StarAngelina Jolie adopted Zahara Jolie Pitt in a magazine shortly after her birth. She gave her birth name to the magazine “Tena Adam”She identified her as an infant orphan whose birth mother had died due to complications from HIV/AIDS. However, it was later discovered that this was not the infant’s true history.
As it turned out Mentwabe Dawit, Zahara’s birth mother was discovered by ReutersTo be alive and still living in Ethiopia in 2007. Dawit said that her daughter Yemsrach (named Yemsrach) was conceived after she had been sexually assaulted. Dawit’s mother was the one who adopted her granddaughter, believing that she had fled from death. Zahara was malnourished at the time, and her grandmother — identified as Almaz Blfnhe from the Star magazine article — was quoted as saying, “No woman wants to give away her own flesh and blood.”
“Each day I would be in tears as I took her to the adoption office. They would send me away,” Blfnhe further added. “They eventually realized I did not have the money, and they took [Zahara] from me and said they could give her a better life.”
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