Vivienne Jolie Reveals at Los Angeles Art Show That She Was Hospitalized for an Eating Disorder Early This Year
Vivienne Jolie, the 18-year-old daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, has revealed in a solo art exhibition in Los Angeles, California, that she was hospitalized for an eating disorder at the beginning of this year, telling her story through paintings and diary entries. HELLO! Magazine reported on the exhibition on November 7.
The show, titled The Tulip Field: A Gallery on Patience of Patients, ran from November 2 to 8 at Forager Crafts in Los Angeles. "The Tulip Field" is her name for the hospital where she was treated, and the titles of the paintings are taken from diary entries she wrote during her stay.
In her artist's statement she wrote that, like many people, she has struggled with her mental health and with an eating disorder: "At the beginning of this year, I was hospitalized for my ED. I was angry, sick, and very alone." She wrote that the kindness and warmth of the children and staff at the hospital eventually broke down the walls she had built, and that she hopes her experience tells others facing similar struggles that they are not alone.
On the day the exhibition opened, November 2, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge approved her petition to drop her father's surname, and she legally became Vivienne Marcheline Jolie, the fourth of Jolie and Pitt's six children to be granted a legal name change removing "Pitt," as GSM reported earlier.
(Source: HELLO! Magazine)
Source: HELLO! Magazine
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Photo: 图：洛杉矶一间画廊的展厅（资料图，非本次展览现场）。Ploughshare12，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: A gallery space in Los Angeles (file photo, not the exhibition in this story). Ploughshare12, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
