Shiloh Cried and Begged Me to Cut Her Hair, Angelina Jolie Says

A while ago, the tabloids noticed that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had started to style their daughter Shiloh in a different fashion from what they’d done until then. More specifically, they allowed her to be a tomboy, which sparked some talk about whether they weren’t trying to turn her into a boy. Far from it, Angelina says again in a recent interview cited by the Huffington Post.

For some reason or another, the public and the US weeklies are taking a major interest in Shiloh and whether she dressed like a boy because she wants to or her parents are forcing her to do so. The same goes for her hair, which was cut short a few months back – but it was precisely Shiloh wanted a cut, Angelina reveals. She has a very strong personality and it’s already manifest in her style of dress and the way she chooses to wear her hair, Angelina explains.

“It’s not my choice. I have a very strong-willed four-year-old girl, who tells me what she wants to wear and I let her be who she is. I think people think kids should be a certain way, but I feel they should wear what they feel like wearing and they should express themselves. Shiloh cried one night and said, ‘Please cut my hair off. I don’t want to have long hair.’ I’m not going to leave it long because somebody thinks I should,” Angelina says.

“She wants to be a boy. So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear boys’ everything. She thinks she’s one of the brothers. Shiloh, we feel, has Montenegro style. She dresses like a little dude. It’s how people dress there. She likes tracksuits, she likes [regular] suits. Shiloh’s hysterically funny, one of the goofiest, most playful people you’ll ever meet. Goofy and verbal, the early signs of a performer. I used to get dressed up in costumes and jump around,” the actress was also saying in a Vanity Fair interview in May this year, as we informed you at the time.

That is to say, Angelina will not dress Shiloh up like a little doll only because other parents would do that to their daughters. If Shiloh wants to wear boys’ clothes and have a boyish haircut, she will get her wish, the megastar says. 

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