It feels like just yesterday that Angelina Jolie was toting gorgeous baby Maddox around Hollywood – but now he’s 14 and has found himself the object of many a teenage girl’s affections!
Angelina adopted the adorable boy from a Cambodian orphanage, and she insists he never loses touch with his heritage. And it seems the young girls in his birth country have certainly kept him in mind!
Now 14 with a history of cool haircuts and his impressive command of three languages – English, French, and his native Khmer – not to mention movie-star parents in Ange and Brad Pitt, it’s no wonder that the teenagers of Cambodia hold him in high regard.
When approached by Woman’s Day online, teenagers in the central Cambodian city of Siem Reap, where Maddox is staying with his mother while she films her latest movie, First They Killed my Father were left nonplussed by pictures of western heartthrobs.
Images of Justin Bieber, Harry Styles and Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe meant nothing to them, and even Prince Harry only gained a flicker of recognition.
However, once they were shown Maddox, all the girls’ eyes lit up.
“I know him, he’s Angelina Jolie’s son! He has beautiful eyes and a beautiful smile,” says 14-year-old Chan Tha.
“When I grow up I would love to marry him, because he is well educated. I think he will be a movie star when he gets older.”
