Angelina Jolie In Hospital, Confirms Spokeswoman

PARIS — Brangelina's twins aren't here yet, but the big day is drawing closer. The seafront Lenval hospital in Nice in the south of France said Tuesday that Angelina Jolie had checked in at its Santa Maria maternity clinic to be kept under doctors' surveillance and get some rest before she gives birth.

"There's no urgency. It's been planned for a long time," said Nadine Bauer, a hospital spokeswoman. "She's very well. Everything is fine."

"She is not on the verge of giving birth, not at all," she said. "It's not for right away."

The 33-year-old actress will almost certainly remain in the hospital until she gives birth, Bauer said. She said Jolie was admitted recently but would not say exactly when.

Jolie has said the babies are due in August, but twins are often born early. She and her partner, Brad Pitt, have four children: Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2.

The Brangelina clan has been settling into a new home in the south of France. They recently moved into the Miraval Estate villa in the French hamlet of Correns, in the Provence region. The town's mayor has said the couple have moved in, and a helicopter has been spotted taking off and landing at the site.

Correns is about 60 miles from Nice, a resort on the Mediterranean. Bauer said the hospital faces the sea, is "very modern" and specializes in caring for children.

The hospital is named after Baron de Lenval, who in 1884 donated part of his fortune to start the facility, in memory of his only son, who died in Nice at age 11, the hospital's Web site says. It says the hospital was rebuilt in the 1990s. Photos show a boxy-looking building with a white exterior and mirrored blue windows set among palm trees.

The hospital's address is fitting for the American couple: It's on Nice's California Avenue.

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On the Net:

http://www.lenval.org

Comments

[The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker]

This whole "Jolie Watch" is really CREEPY. It's as if the entire country is watching in breathless anticipation of a new Super Race of pretty people.

Just, ew. People breeding is NOT INTERESTING. Leave them alone.

[Paralogos]

I took my wife to Lenval once, for ultrasound imaging of a difficult pregnancy a few years back. It's a good hospital, and French prenatal care is superb (and essentially free). But it's a public hospital - I'm surprised and impressed that Pitt and Jolie didn't get sucked into one of the elite private clinics in the area.

[Colingavignet]

You answered my question about if it's a Public or private hospital.
And I guess we should all take example on Angelina who have adopted the public health care system, but I hope she doesn't get anything free on french taxpayers money!!!
I don't know which way to go on this news.

[Paralogos]

French "national health insurance" is far more complicated than most people outside of France think. You do have to pay for the services, but you get reimbursed by whichever health insurance pool you belong to (there are several, depending on whether one is an employee, a student, self-employed, etc.). Reimbursement for some treatments is pro-rated and has to be "topped up" by private insurance, but obstetrics is reimbursed 100%. But even if one wasn't reimbursed, its a hell of a lot cheaper than the same care in the US - doctors get paid less, hospitals have less money for fancy equipment, and there's no culture of massive overspending to cover doctors' asses over malpractice claims.

If Pitt and Jolie have set themselves up to be officially resident in France (which would surprise the heck out of me, for tax reasons), they would have been signed up to contribute to whatever health insurance "caisse" film actors belong to, but it's more likely that they're paying out-of-pocket as foreign visitors. We're talking thousands of dollars here, not tens of thousands as in the US, and they could easily afford it.

[JackWOrf]

Wow, I just saw her last night in "Wanted" and she was really hot. That must have been a few months ago. I don't think that a 9-months-pregnant Angelina would have been too appropriate for her role in "Wanted".

[firewmn]

News Flash... while Brandgelina check into hospital for birth of twins find orphan and adopt it.. arrived for two leave with three.....­..

[marymansour]

Goodie, goodie, goodie. Enough of these two for now. The world has pressing problems.

[dotmafia]

Princess Di is wearing a new dress.