Zahara Jolie-Pitt‘s life didn’t have an ideal start. She was conceived via a brutal rape and her mother, who couldn’t deal with raising a baby, ran away from home, leaving Zahara with her grandmother. Her family looked for her, but after a fruitless search, they gave the six-month-old up for adoption. Angelina Jolie was already a single mom to Maddox when she adopted Zahara in 2006 and less than a year later, then-boyfriend Brad Pitt adopted the two after she legally changed their surnames from Jolie to Jolie-Pitt.
According to a report by University Fox, Pitt and Jolie adopted their daughter at an orphanage in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia during the couple’s trip there. Not long after this, Jolie became pregnant with Pitt’s child.
The couple went to Namibia to give birth to the child, so that they could stay away from the paparazzi. Amid super-tight security, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt was born.
Pitt and Jolie have six children together, including the children they adopted. Maddox, Zahara, Pax, Vivienne Marcheline, Knox Léon and Shiloh were born in different countries, but they all belong in the same family.
