It seems Angelina Jolie has checked herself into a French hospital. But fear not. All is well with Mrs. Pitt and the little bambinos. She is in the hospital only as a precaution. There has been much baby buzz around the 33 year old actress since she announced in May that she is expecting twins. Actually her Kung Fu Panda co-star Jack Black made the announcement. Anyway, since May there has been a serious baby watch on Jolie.

According to a statement by the hospital, “As part of the normal monitoring of her pregnancy, as it has been arranged for a long time, Ms. Angelina Jolie was admitted to the Lenval Foundation’s Santa Maria maternity clinic.” Jolie will stay in hospital until the twins are born. The due date has never been released to the media or general public, resulting in several false reports over the past few months that the actress had actually already had the twins. Dustin Hoffman, also a co-star of Angelina’s in Kung Fu Panda, let it slip that the due date was August 19^th, although that was never confirmed. I bet she’s kinda wishing she had skipped out on that movie.

The twins will be the fifth and sixth additions to the Jolie-Pitt empire, I mean family. The couple have a biological child, Shiloh, born in May of 2006 plus three adopted children: six year old Maddox, born in Cambodia, Pax, four, born in Vietnam and three year old Zahara, born in Ethiopia.

According to the local paper, Nice Matin, Jolie has the nicest room in the clinic, with a view like no other. And why the Hell not? If I was going to be stuck in a hospital for weeks on end, not being able to get out of bed except to pee, I’d want a killer view too. And Brad Pitt, if possible. The paper also reported that Jolie has booked four rooms on the maternity ward after being flown in Sunday by helicopter and that she is under the watch of body guards.

In a press conference Wednesday her doctor, Michel Sussman has said, “I can’t give you a date. Let’s say the birth will happen in the weeks to come.” Gee, thanks for the info, doc. Let’s say that we kinda already figured that out. So I guess the media and public alike will be holding its breath in the weeks to come, just like it has been since May. By all the media hype I’d almost be willing to believe that Jolie is the first woman to give birth to twins.

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