Angelina Jolie says her kids eat crickets like Doritos
By Tribute on July 20, 2011 | 6 Comments
While the Jolie-Pitt family can boast they’re a culturally diverse bunch, they can also say they are all adventurous when it comes to food.
“My boys love to eat crickets. It’s their favorite thing,” said Angelina Jolie, 36, said in a video shoot for a Louis Vuitton Core Values campaign, which was shot in Cambodia (the country where her son Maddox, 9, was born).
“When I first gave it to them, I wanted them not to be turned off by something that was of their culture. They ate them like Doritos, and they wouldn’t stop,” Jolie says of Maddox and Pax, 7.
But the star says while she initially encouraged her kids to try the local delicacies, she soon had to curb the boys’ cravings for the unusual snacks. “They brought to-go boxes home and I had to actually ban the cricket eating at a certain point because I was afraid they were going to get sick from too many.”
Jolie says she’s also tried the Southeast Asian countries’ delicacies. “They’re good. They’re like a potato chip.”
Crickets aren’t the only insects in the Jolie-Pitt clan diet. Jolie admits to have also eaten cockroaches. “There’s this very pointy bit on their stomach you just can’t eat. You have to kind of pop that off.”
While Jolie and her sons are quite adventurous when it comes to trying new foods, Jolie admits she tried Tarantulas on a stick and spider soup—also native to Cambodia. “It does seem like an odd thing to eat,” Jolie admits. “I don’t know if I can get around the fur, but you’ve got to try everything.”
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Jolie needs to eat more crickets herself, gain a few pounds. But good for her for exposing her kids to culturally different foods.
crickets is one thing but a cockroach…. holly disgusting.
No wonder she’s so skinny, those arms and legs, Yuck! Very attractive face but needs to work on those arms very veiny?
Why would we be shocked….remember this is the woman who wore Billy Bob’s blood in a vial around her neck. What was Brad thinking when he chose this nut job over Jen.
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yup….for sure….give the Jolie boys a choice between trip to McD’s and a whack of crickets and you…for sure….crickets mommy pleasssssse!!!!! I’ve only had 20 today, just one more, please!!!!!
okay okay guys calm down, Nanny Number Seven will read you a bedtime story and if you’re good, and I mean very very good, you can each have one more cricket before bedtime…
C-Dub on July 20, 2011 7:39 PM i completely agree with your entire comment.
lmao tarantula ?!?!? gagggg
Wendy on July 21, 2011 1:43 PM its been like 20 years already, get over it and move on, everyone else involved has.
Jo-Anne on July 22, 2011 8:43 AM its nice that she is helping them embrace their background, even if other people cant imagine eating it themselves (or feeding it to their children). she has every right to choose what her children try and what they dont. also, who cares if a nanny raises her kids? im sure everyone that has ever had any kind of a job has had someone else at some point or another “raising” their kids or “telling bedtime stories”.