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To Sell or Not to Sell—Movie Star Weighs in on Baby Pic Saga

Angelina Jolie and the two newest members of the diverse Jolie-Pitt crew are finally home.

Well, one of them anyway.

Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline sped off with their mother from their temporary digs at the French Riviera hospital where they were born a week ago today.

According to news reports, the actress and her infants slipped out of the hospital’s back entrance around 4 a.m. and sped off in a white van with tinted windows.
No photos were snapped of the newborns, but you won’t have to wait too long to see Brangelina’s babes.

Reports say an unnamed American magazine has shelled out $11 million to run the first photos of the twins.

Interestingly (especially to me because I question whether she was actually pregnant), Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban recently announced that they are refusing all offers from publications willing to pay for pictures of their new daughter Sunday Rose.

Official word from the Kidman-Urban camp states: “The couple will not be selling pictures of Sunday Rose to anyone, for any price.”

That’s music to award-winning actress Meryl Streep’s ears.

The legendary movie star is striking out at celebrity parents who sell pictures of their newborn children for cash.

In a recent interview with a British magazine, the Oscar winner said she is appalled whenever she hears about celebrity parents bargaining for cash for shots of their newborns—even if the money is being donated to charity.

Streep says, “One thing I learned very early on is when you’re famous, you lose your right to privacy. And, if you promote your children, if you have them photographed, then they lose their rights.”

The mother of three daughters and a son insists a child’s privacy is too valuable to sell to the highest bidder.

“They (paparazzi) can follow me, take a picture, whatever they want to do. My kids, no.”

Take that Brangelina, Jessica Alba, Jamie-Lynn Spears, Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey.

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About Michele Cheplic

Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism. She spent the next ten years as a television anchor and reporter at various stations throughout the country (from the CBS affiliate in Honolulu to the NBC affiliate in Green Bay). She has won numerous honors including an Emmy Award and multiple Edward R. Murrow awards honoring outstanding achievements in broadcast journalism. In addition, she has received awards from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association for her reports on air travel and the Wisconsin Education Association Council for her stories on education. Michele has since left television to concentrate on being a mom and freelance writer.