11 Interesting Curiosities About Angelina Jolie, Half Definitely You Do Not Know!

Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven and niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor. Her godparents are actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent, and on her mother's side, she is of primarily French-Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry. Like her mother, Jolie has stated that she is part Iroquois, although her only known indigenous ancestors were 17th-century Hurons. Info.

10 Interesting Curiosities About  Angelina Jolie

1. Growing up, she didn’t like being hugged. During an interview with London's Mail on Sunday, she said: “Growing up, I had a thing about people hugging me, even my mother, I'm holding my breath now just talking about it.”

2. In the early 1990's, Angelina began to suffer from depression and began cutting herself. She told Allure in 2004, “I had that problem early on when I couldn't feel a bond with another human being.”

3. Probably one of her first tattoos, Jolie’s tattoo on her left arm was done in her mother’s presence. The tattooed words are “A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages” ad was inspired by the words of Tennessee Williams.

4. In total, she has fourteen known tattoos. She has a Latin proverb "quod me nutrit me destruit" (what nourishes me destroys me), two sak yant designs featuring a prayer of protection and a twelve-inch-by-eight-inch tiger, and seven sets of geographical coordinates indicating the birthplaces of her children and her partner Brad Pitt.

5. She had an obsessive crush is “Dr. Spock”. Doctor Spock is a fictional character from the TV program Star Treck that became famous during the 1970’s, the era when Angelina was on her youth.

6. In a bid to keep her daughter from going out partying and potentially turning to drugs, her mother allowed 14-year-old Angelina to live with her boyfriend in Angelina’s bedroom with Marcheline sleeping in the room next door.

7. She loves doing her own stunts. As Lara Croft, Angelina Jolie performed almost 80 percent of the stunts.

8. Her natural hair color is dark blonde. Her mother dyed it dark brown when she was four or five and she’s kept it dark ever since.

9. Her godparents are Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. Bisset has starred in movies such as Casino Royale, The Deep, Class and actor Schell won the Oscar for the movie Judgment at Nuremberg.

10. Angelina Jolie is a licensed pilot and owns a single-engine Cirrus SR22 aircraft. She will also be one of the fortunate people to view earth from space by flying on Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic.

11. Angelina is a citizen of three continents. She is an American citizen by birth. She is a Cambodian citizen which was awarded by the Cambodian king in honor of her conservation work in the country. She is an honorary European citizen by virtue of the honorary citizenship granted to her in recognition of her preservation of truth in the Bosnian war through her directorial movie.