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Entity reports on the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie divorce.

Celebrity breakups are hard enough as it is, but what happens when one of your favorite power couples decides to split?

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have often been described as one of the “most powerful couples in Hollywood,” but they are now breaking up for “irreconcilable differences.” According to Associated Press, attorney Robert Offer said that Jolie filed for a divorce “for the health of the family.”

This relationship has been what The Washington Post describes as “one of the most controversial couplings in Hollywood history” (because of Team Aniston versus Team Jolie debacles). Despite this, the celeb couple has been together for nearly 12 years. They began dating in 2004 and married privately in the French hamlet of Correns in Provence on August 2014. Their six children even participated in the ceremony by throwing flower petals and carrying the rings.

In 2014, however, the couple starred in “By the Sea,” a movie written and directed by Angelina Jolie. Jolie and Pitt played a “glamorous couple vacationing together in France while their marriage was on the rocks,” writes Associated Press. Jolie’s choice to create this movie became a little controversial, but CNN reports that Jolie assured that the characters’ relationships were far from her’s and Pitt’s.

“I’m counting on the audience to know that if it was close to us at all we could never make this film,” Jolie said (via CNN). “It’s because we are actually very, very stable and these aren’t our issues.”

Two years later, however, things changed.

Now, TMZ shares that Jolie is seeking physical custody of their children while granting Pitt visitation rights. Though women and men are speculating that there is a “third person” involved in the couple’s demise, TMZ says that they were told, “There was no alleged ‘third person’ … [Jolie’s] decision to file was solely over Brad’s interaction with the children.”

When asked about the relationship, Pitt told CNN, “I am very saddened by this, but what matters most now is the well-being of our kids. I kindly ask the press to give them the space they deserve during this challenging time.”

While people speculate the real cause of the divorce and whether or not it happened solely to protect their six children, could it also be possible that Angelina Jolie is just too independent for marriage?

In a Huffington Post interview with Phyllis Schlafly and Suzanne Venker, co-authors of “The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know – And Men Can’t Say,” the two women claim, “If there’s one thing feminists love, it’s divorce ­– they consider it liberating.” When asked to explain this quote, Schlafly says that feminist writing reveals that these women “sought liberation from home, husband, family, childbirth, children and the role of fulltime homemaker.” And because we currently live in a culture where “50 percent of marriages fail,” Venker adds, “The modern generation was groomed for an independent life.”

Nowadays, women are aspiring for success and focusing on their careers and according to Schlafly, “Feminists demeaned marriage and motherhood … and surveys show that women are not as happy now as they were in the 1950s.”

Although there’s very little research to support the correlation between a woman’s independence and a failed marriage, Forbes does say that “there are subtle digs at feminism.” The Forbes article examines journalist Kate Bolick’s story in The Atlantic, “All the Single Ladies,” in which Bolick explains why she and some other women will probably never marry due to marriageability issues like a man’s economic status.

As Bolick talks about the stress of “marrying down” the economic ladder, Forbes says, “Bolick hints at the errors of the second wavers, explaining that it was her mother who urged her to place independence before coupling … The undeniable implication of all this is that being self-sufficient and successful will probably wreck your love life.”

And for people who know Angelina Jolie’s credentials, they already know that the inspirational woman doesn’t just play strong, independent characters on screen; Jolie also exhibits these characteristics in her professional and personal life.

As Biography writes, Angelina Jolie has “become one of Hollywood’s top marquee names,” especially after starring in top grossing movies like “Wanted, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “Salt” and “Changeling.” She began acting at a young age, but she became a popular star within the entertainment world of the 1990s. Since then, she has won an Academy Award for her role in “Girl, Interrupted” and three Golden Globes for her roles in “George Wallace” (2998), “Gia” (1999) and “Girl, Interrupted” (2000). Additionally, Jolie is consistently one of the highest-paid female actresses in Hollywood. In 2014 alone, she placed fifth on Forbes’ “Highest Earning Actresses” list with an estimated earning of $18 million.

But aside from her Hollywood success, Angelina Jolie is also a devoted humanitarian. According to Biography, she became a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency in 2001 and has constantly been in headlines for her work to help refugees around the world in places like Cambodia, Darfur and Jordan. A couple years later, in 2005, Jolie then received the Global Humanitarian Action Award from the United Nations Association of the USA for her activism on behalf of refugee rights.

While correlation does not prove causation, Angelina Jolie does fall into the category of “independent” and “successful women.” However, despite the reason for the Brangelina divorce, one thing seems to resonate with audiences: As long as the Obamas and the Carters are still together, love is real.

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