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Maddox Gets a Brother

Wed., Mar. 7, 2007 7:59 AM PST by Gina Serpe

It's a boy! Or at least, it will be in about three months.

A Vietnamese official announced Wednesday that Angelina Jolie is in the process of adopting a three- or four-year-old boy she chose to add to her burgeoning family during a recent trip to the Tam Binh orphanage.

Just days after word broke that Jolie had filed papers through a U.S. agency—as a single mother—to adopt a child from the southeast Asian country, Vu Duc Long, director of Vietnam's International Adoption Agency, confirmed the stork delivery would indeed call for some blue-tinted cigars.

Long said it typically takes between three and four months to process an adoption request, but less if the prospective parent has already chosen a child. He also said it could take considerably less time for Jolie, though not due to any special celebrity treatment.

He said his department, which received the 31-year-old Oscar winner's paperwork just last week, had already approved the application and has since sent it on to officials in Ho Chi Minh City for further review.

It's a process Jolie has been through before—and, she has said, will likely be through again.

While Jolie filed the papers as a single mother, the status was simply a technicality—Vietnamese law does not allow unmarried couples to adopt, only "one single person or one married couple."

However, the little tyke's parentage, like that of his soon-to-be brother and sister before him, will no doubt be amended at a later date to reflect the paternal role of Brad Pitt. The 43-year-old subsequently filed to formally adopt all members of the Jolie-Pitt brood, including five-year-old Maddox from Cambodia and two-year-old Zahara from Ethiopia. The couple welcomed their first biological child, Shiloh, last May.

It didn't take long for another addition to be in the works.

In her first postbaby interview last July, Jolie told Anderson Cooper that she and Pitt were already in talks as to which corner of the world their next kin would come from. In December, she echoed her sentiments to Diane Sawyer, saying, "We want to find another brother or sister in the world for our family.

"You know, now the questions are more when you have a mixed-race family, do you balance the races so there's another African person in the house for Z?" she said. "So there's another Asian person in the house for Mad?"

This time around, they went with option B.

The seed was likely planted last November, when the Jolie-Pitts spent Thanksgiving visiting Tam Binh during a surprise trip to Ho Chi Minh City.

In addition to being photographed as culturally adept scooter riders, the duo spent their trip passing out toys and candy to children in the orphanage.