Brangelina Welcomes Baby Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt

James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Sunday, May 28, 2006

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have finally had their baby, whom they named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have welcomed a baby girl, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, a rep for the couple confirms in a statement to PEOPLE. The child was born on May 27, at night, in the African country of Namibia. Shiloh – which in one longstanding translation from the Bible has come to mean “the peaceful one” – was born in The Cottage Hospital in Swakopmund.

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The new parents, along with kids Maddox, 4, and Zahara, 1, have been staying at the luxury resort in Namibia since April, where their personal security team and Namibian police have shielded them from paparazzi. Last week, the Namibian government said foreign journalists wishing to cover the birth must have written permission from Pitt and Jolie to enter the country and obtain a work permit.

The new girl is the couple’s first biological child. Jolie adopted Maddox from Cambodia in 2002 and Zahara from Ethiopia last year. Pitt is in the process of legally adopting both children. The baby is the latest step in a life-changing year during which Pitt and Jolie went from costars (in last summer’s slick crime thriller Mr. and Mrs. Smith) to supercouple to, finally, Mommy and Daddy.

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Word that Angelina was pregnant first broke on Jan. 11, when representatives of both stars confirmed the baby news to PEOPLE after the actress and U.N. goodwill ambassador had confided to a charity aid worker in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: “Yes, I’m pregnant.” The pregnancy news – which came shortly after Pitt’s announcement that he planned to adopt Maddox and Zahara – might have been a media bombshell, but it was a natural progression for the pair who put nest-building on the fast track.

Jolie, 30, had long spoken about expanding her family, and told PEOPLE last October that she would like to adopt again. “There’s something about making a choice, waking up and traveling somewhere and finding your family,” she said. Pitt, 42, has also often talked about wanting a family. He has no children from his 4-year marriage to Jennifer Aniston, which ended last year.

Well, the waiting’s over for the fans at least. For the couple, the hardest part is yet ahead.

Elsewhere:

Miu thinks it’s “a very pretty name.”
Kevin, who has several kids of his own, thought it was a “stripper/porn-star name.”
Trent is sure she’ll be “the world’s most beautiful baby, borne of the loins of the world’s most beautiful man and woman.”
Phil has a similar take: “All hail Supreme Ruler of the Known Universe, the Great and Mighty, All-Knowing, All-Seeing, Perfect Being - Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. We are yours to command as you see fit.”

He also has a photograph of Jolie breast feeding the baby. Alas, it is a fake.

Brangelina Welcomes Baby Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt

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