Vivienne Jolie, the 18-year-old daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, says she was hospitalised earlier this year after developing an eating disorder. She discusses the experience in text that accompanies her artwork at a Los Angeles exhibition.
The reporting draws on her personal description of feeling “angry, sick and very alone,” and how kindness from hospital staff and fellow patients helped her through the period. Several outlets describe the exhibition as a way for her to share “moments” from her hospital stay, with paintings likened to tulips representing patients and shared experiences.
Outlets also note that Vivienne recently changed her name and, in some coverage, that she dropped her father’s surname. Across sources, the key emphasis is her firsthand account of mental health and hospitalisation, with differences mainly in how much context each outlet adds about her family and name change.
