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Angelina's comforting embrace for her new son

Last updated at 09:24am on 22.03.07

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Angelina Jolie's newly adopted son looks somewhat overwhelmed by his celebrity lifestyle.

Pax Thien Jolie grips the Hollywood star's shoulder as the pilot and Angelina's aides crowd around him.

But the actress keeps him in a comforting embrace as she carries him into the waiting jet at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi.

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Angelina with Pax Thien

She was followed into the plane by two minders who carried her adopted son Maddox, 5, from Cambodia and adopted daughter Zahara, 2, from Ethiopia on board.

Little Pax Thien has already had his first glossy photo shoot. In a sun dappled picture taken by Per-Anders Pettersson for Getty images, Pax and Angelina look out wistfully on the Vietnamese landscape. He was also snapped with his new sister, Zahara.

But Jolie has said she felt guilty for bringing her new son into the media glare. "Photographs and press coverage will make him upset. I'm very worried about that. I would like to say I'm sorry for bringing this into Pax's life," she reportedly told a press agency.

The youngster was said to have cried when he met the star at the Ho Chi Minh City orphanage. But the Tomb Raider star bent down and hugged him, speaking a few words in Vietnamese. "Khong sao dau, khong sao dau" (No problem, no problem) she said.

The three-year-old boy was renamed Pax Thien, after the Latin word for peace and the Vietnamese word for heaven.

Angelina's adopted children are carried on board

Vietnamese regulations don't allow unmarried couples to co-adopt, so Jolie adopted Pax as a single parent while Pitt remained in Los Angeles with daughter Shiloh, where he is filming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.


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How can Jolie apologise for the 'media circus' surrounding her latest adoption in one breath and then have a 'glossy' "Hello" photoshoot the next?

- Emma Atkinson, London

I wonder if she feels guilty at the lack of time he has had to adjust to his new family before being whisked off to a totally different environment and culture? I know Ange and Brad are teaching their children about their cultures but is this not a lot of change of the poor darling too quickly? Everyone says children are so resilient, but is that to ease the adults guilt?

- Bill, Hertfordshire


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