I used to be a big Angelina Jolie fan, but then she got HUGE overnight (after Gone in 60 Seconds/Tomb Raider) and next thing you know she’s like the rest of them.

A-list, designer dud wearing, red carpet strolling, husband stealing, multi-millionaire whose public image means more than their own personality. Long gone were the knives and blood vials and the general mystique that Angelina once possessed. It was the human side of her. What made her real. What made her unique.

Now that she’s Hollywood royalty we rarely get to see that side of her…even though I am sure it still exists.

When Angie broke down in tears at a London press conference yesterday while talking about her mother, I realized once again, ‘Hey, she is human after all.”

Jolie spoke of her latest film, The Changeling, and mentioned how it was difficult playing a mother in the film. The movie began shooting just after Marcheline Bertrand’s passing in January 2007.

She remembered her mother, saying,

“Her name was Marcheline, but we used to call her Marshmallow, as a joke, because she was just the softest, most gentle woman in the world.

She was really sweet and was never angry - she couldn’t swear to save her life. But when it came to her kids, she was really fierce and so this (film) is very much her, her story. She was the woman I related to, who had that elegance and strength for knowing what was right.”

Yay, Angie. You ARE still real.