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Are Angelina And Brad Reproductively Challenged?

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt went with costly in vitro fertilization to conceive twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, according to Us Weekly. A source told the magazine, "They conceived through in vitro fertilization. They both desperately wanted more babies soon." The source added that the couple chose in vitro so Angie "wouldn't have to deal with the stress of trying to get pregnant."

Though we called this weeks ago, we gotta ask - was it really to avoid the "stress" of getting pregnant, or was it because these two were having trouble getting pregnant in the first place? Though Brad is smoking hot, he is 44, which is getting up there - perhaps he was having some technical difficulties? Additionally, the chance of someone having fraternal twins at Angelina's age (33) without fertility treatments is under 1 percent, but with in vitro, the chances shoot up to 25 percent.



Why do you think Brangelina went this route? To speed up the process or because things weren't working properly in the first place?

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yeah um cuz we all thought it was just a coinkydink that the almighty perfect couple had conceived the almighty perfect girl/boy twins naturally. paleeeeeze!

Posted by: Anonymous


two babies means more $$$$$$$$$, and more attention. So calculated.

Posted by: Anonymous


I guess angie, (druggie/world savior) is out of detox?
Wonder how those babies are really doing.

Posted by: ain't buyin it


So sick of the media hype for these people and obama.

Posted by: Anonymous


I had twins at 31 w/o invitro so wtf. Get a life X17.

Posted by: Anonymous


From lainey at Tabloids Wars: The Holy Twins In Vitro!

Safe to say Us Weekly was never in the running for the first exclusive shots of the Holy Jolie Twins. As such, in a bold pre-emptive move, Janice Min and her clever gossips are trying to squeeze as much money out of the twins-obsessed public as they can, in advance of those highly anticipated photos sure to annihilate newsstand sales for everyone else – likely in People Magazine or OK!, both bitter rivals of Us Weekly.

But just because Us isn’t getting the pictures, doesn’t mean they don’t have a better story. Take a look at the latest cover – totally explosive!

The magazine cites (Jennifer Aniston’s friends) inside sources who claim that Knox and Vivienne were conceived in vitro because Brad and Angelina were “too impatient”. There’s also something about Brad pushing Angie for biological babies instead of adopted ones, and more salacious smutty details to cure your summer blues.

How will the Pitts fight back? And will this expedite the deal for those photos? Two little faces to obliterate the In Vitro affair?

Posted by: Anonymous


That 1% statistic is absolute c r a p Actually, a woman who is between 39 and 45 has a much greater change of having fraternal twins especially is she has already had a child. Not that matters, but i am a fraternal twin and my mom was 33 when I was born, and I have an older sister.

Posted by: Anonymous


Obviously you people know nothing about infertility or how it feels to be infertile. Trying to get pregnant can be extremely stressful. If they knew they would have trouble conceiving on their own, then it only makes sense that with their second attempt they would seek some help. Lots of people do invitro every day in the country. If you are going to go through the cost (which isn't a big deal to them) and the shots and the monitoring, etc. then it only makes sense to alot of people to put back more than one embryo. Who knows if they wanted twins. They obviously love children, so let them be!

Posted by: Anonymous


I BELIEVE IT....

Angelina is a lying whore and a homewrecker

Posted by: Anonymous


So what!!!! how she got pregnant is her business LEAVE HER ALONE

Posted by: Anonymous


I love them both, they are awsesome. People that talk hate on them should really not look on this site, it's wasting your time plus it wastes my time to read the stupid crap you write.
I still think they are beautiful people and help so many in need.

Posted by: Ozland Princess


this is complete crap you can have twins without invitro they are just lucky and have a great family so shut up all you haters

Posted by: Anonymous


I'm pretty sure everyone realizes US Magazine is about as dependable as X17 as far as the truth is concerned.

Posted by: Anonymous


As soon as they said they were having twins, my first thought was fertility treatment. Heck, if I had the money, I'd pay to have twins too. You get an instant family and only have to deal with pregnancy once.

Posted by: Stephanie


Let me see... a "source" un named of course, knows all about the most intimate details a couple's fertility life.. and spills it to a tabloid... why?

If any of you swallow this, I wish you 4 months of double trouble morning sickness.

Posted by: Anonymous


Why is this shocking, it's all the rage?? Marcia Cross used it, Lance Armstrong used it, the fake man/woman used it, JLo used it.....

Posted by: Anonymous


Dumb shits! It is a well known fact that women over 30 have an INCREASED chance of having fraternal twins.

My mom was 35 when she had my brother and I (fraternal), my brother's wife had fraternal twins on her 34th birthday, and my grandmother had my mother and her fraternal twin brother when she was 38!

DO SOME RESEARCH AND STOP PRINTING LIES

Posted by: Anonymous


Last August they were having problems and rumored to be splitting and at that time it was reported she was doing in vitro to get pregnant and hold on to him because she was afraid of losing him. This is OLD NEWS from last year!

Posted by: min


For stars it's easy to have vitro fertilization but for unknown people you have to wait 6 or 7 years before...It's all a question of money...

Posted by: angry young women


Angelina was too emaciated to conceive naturally, she was no longer having periods due to her weight loss last year. When the doctor said that he thought she would struggle to conceive naturally unless she put on the weight, she and Brad decided to just jump straight to it and purchase IVF. Remember, these are people who are used to having whatever they want, whenever they want, and they're happy to pay. These twins are just a symptom of their combined need for instant gratification and Angelina's weight disorder.

Posted by: Friend


Obviously this is a lie. Angelina had no trouble getting pregnant the first time so now they are infertile? There are plenty of twins in the world who are not the product of invitro. Why Brad and Angelina's twin have to be invitro is stupid. I have a hard time believing P Diddy and his girlfriend had invitro for their twin girls. Saying Angelina is too thin to have kids is ridiculous. Nicole Richie is way too thin and she didn't have a problem getting pregnant.

Posted by: Amy


Who gives a RATS? This couple ROCKS! Love Them!

Posted by: Anonymous


She was WAY to underweight to be able to conceive naturally... therefore the invitro. So based upon the timing of the birth of these twins it seems they did this around the time when there was story after story of their split. Maybe these babies were to try to salvage their relationship

Posted by: Anonymous


PGD (Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis)...With invitro allows them to choose the sex of the twins with 100% accuracy. Sounds PERFECT to me....do they happen to know anything about it???? HMMMM

Posted by: Anonymous


Just for the record, I'm 24 pregnant with Fraternal twins, no in vitro, I have an 11 month old son, so you can bet that I wasn't trying to get pregnant to begin with...much less twins! Just because the odds are low doesn't mean it's impossible...It really doesn't matter how they were conceived, what matters is that they have 2 loving parents who will take care of them. BTW, if my friend who weighed just 88 lbs before she got pregnant, can conceive, so can Angelina Jolie...

Posted by: Anonymous


It's really unbelievable how far your magazine would stoop to sell, no wonder I've told me and my friends stopped purchasing your papers. And you wonder why you people don't get the best news, why? DUH!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: jhoey27


IT's more likely than not that she had help getting preg. Due to her underweight she prob. stopped having regular periods and so since they had the money....Everyone is saying its possible to have fraternal twins under 35 but its not LIKELY if only 1% ofa chance. Get off your horses, there is NOTHING wrong with getting fertility treatments--what's wrong with you all?

Posted by: isa


Anon 2:15 said "she was WAY to thin to conceive naturally.."

This is so fucking stupid. You can be half dead and get knocked up. She addressed the weight thing several times saying she eats normally and stays extra fit. The crap about their marriage being in trouble is just that - crap. They are both devoted to their family and each other.

I suppose Shiloh was in vitro?? US Weekly is cheaper than toilet paper.

Posted by: LefsaFan


Who cares how they conceived? But to say that Brad, at 44 is getting too old to get it up or to conceive is CRAZY. I know men in their 70's that father kids. 44 for a man is young to have kids. He clearly has no infertility issues since he fathered Shiloh so, whatever they did, it wasn't because he was too old! I don't like this couple AT ALL but I also couldn't care less how they conceived their children and neither should anyone else.

Posted by: Anonymous


where do you people get your info from? I am going thru treatments now, I am 40 and my insurance is covering it! Research your insurance plan... also 14 states have mandates saying insurance has to provide for at least state employees.
Also, you can't pick the sex of your babies, that has to do with the sperm AND you would be unable to tell when you implanted the embryos. And as someone else said you always do at least two...
Who gives a sh*t! If you are over 30 and it takes over a year to conceive, doctors say you SHOULD see a fertility specialist if you want to have more children.
As for way too thin to conceive naturally, what about all the junkies out there having babies every day???

Posted by: m


IVF is VERY STRESSFUL!!! Such crap!!

It's a 6 week process that requires the woman to inject drugs into herself, do random blood tests, deal with a huge stomach once your eggs multiply. And then after the eggs are removed, the sperm is injected and the embryos are implanted. After that it's another waiting game to see if you're actually pregnant.

IT'S NOT FUN, IT'S NOT COMFORTABLE, AND I WOULDN'T WISH IT UPON ANYONE.


No matter how much money you have
the process isn't any easier or quicker!

Posted by: mom w/twins


OF COURSE IT WAS!! IS THIS JUST NOW CATCHING ON? WAS EVERYONE REALLY THINKING THIS WAS A CHANCE CONCEPTION? NO WAY! I KNEW ALL ALONG. AND, NOT ONLY THAT! IT WAS "SELECTIVE REDUCTION" AS WELL! MEANING PEOPLE, THEY CHOSE ONLY ONE MALE AND ONE FEMALE FETUS. (THE REST WERE ABORTED) TALK ABOUT EGO TRIP MANIA!! ANGELINA HAS GOT ISSUES IN WHICH BRAD JUST KINDA "FELL FOR".

Posted by: Anonymous


OH AND P.S. J-LO AND MARK DID THE SAME THING.

Posted by: Anonymous


Angie and Brad love each other and their family. Angie and Brad have great sex together, according to her. But I would like to know where this bullshit about it being stressful trying to get pregnant comes from. You have sex, you have orgasms, you enjoy, if it happens it happens. What the fuck is stressful??

Ten years with Nicole Kidman was barren, but with Keith Urban, wham! Nicole got what she wanted. Maybe there is something to it. But where did Shiloh come from? A gun for hire?? Don't think so.

Posted by: LefsaFan


Wow what a dumb thing for US magazine to write. Expect a retraction soon. The fastest, easiest way to get pregnant is plain old fashioned sex. Taking fertility drugs will up the number of eggs produced increasing the chances of pregnancy.
In vitro is a difficult, painful, expensive process used as a last resort when egg and sperm cant meet normally in the reproductive system for some reason. Also Brads age has nothing to do with any possible infertility. He is quite young at 44.
Now, we have on the authority of someone who is close to someone close to AJ and Brad that the children were actually grown in pods on an experimental infant god and goddess farm on a planet hidden behind mars. Brad and Angie decided to buy two to save on shipping.

Posted by: Anonymous


Since X17 is obviously written by 12 year-olds, it's easy to see why they look at 44 as being an advanced age. Uneducated morons.

Posted by: Anonymous


1st of all, men make more sperm throughout there whole life and the qaulity does not change. However, women are born with all the eggs they are going to have for thier life, and the older they get the quality and the abitlity to fertilze also changes, Get your facts straight!

Posted by: Litia


I feel that if Angie & Brad wanted children and chose to use IVF (for what ever reason) it's between them & God. Lord knows they can afford it.
I wish them both the best.

Love Greatly, Laugh Loud, Live Well & Be Compassionate. : )

Posted by: Barbara


When "the sex is so good" like she yelled from the roofs, in a way of speaking.. why having stress trying to get pregnant.
This story (or/and Angelina) is very weird!

Posted by: Anonymous


We have been trying to get pregnant for over an year. First thing doctor told me to do was to gain some weight (and I am not thin as stick, BMI 18,4). My first thought is that Angelina would never got pregnant without help, because she wast just too thin! She was anorexic when she got pregnant. I live in Europe and in my country no doctors would have done anything before she would have gained weight at least 10kg. Think that´s possible in Lalaland, to be Angelina Jolie and normal weight? If you have the money, why not buy everything. You don´t have to wait, stress and eat... Makes me feel sad, because I would do anything to get pregnant healthily...

Posted by: Anonymous


You can't get pregnant when you're anorexic?? Helooo people Nicole Richie is anorexic but did get pregnant? So who is lying? definetly US MAGS and those who believe it are braindead morons. How many inside source does this mag have? Maybe inside source = the one inside their heads.

Posted by: Ughh






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