Shiloh Blossoms

As she celebrates her 11th birthday, Brad and Angie’s first biological child is happy, confident and still doing things her way.

- Kirstin Buick

IT’S fairly safe to say she and her siblings haven’t been having the easiest of times over the past six months or so. Things are always difficult for the kids in a divorce – and when your parents are two of the most famous people on the planet and their private lives are played out in public, it must be even tougher.

But it also seems as if the kids are handling things okay. And Shiloh Jolie-Pitt in particular is positively blossoming as she heads towards her teenage years.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s first biological child – now a lanky tween and a beautiful blend of her parents’ looks – used to come across as shy and rather unhappy whenever the Brangelina brigade snaked through airports and trooped into waiting cars.

Yet just look at her now. Shiloh radiated happiness and confidence when she was snapped during a visit to Disneyland to celebrate her 11th birthday, tucking into candy floss and enjoying the rides.

But it wasn’t a treat only for the birthday girl: Shiloh wanted her special day to bring joy to kids who aren’t as privileged as she and her siblings are. So she asked whether some of her new friends from Cambodia could come all the way to Los Angeles to spend the day with her and her family at the theme park, dubbed the happiest place on earth.

“All she wanted for her birthday was to see her friends from Cambodia,” a source close to the family told US magazine People. “She wants to show them America.”

And her mom the humanitarian was only too willing to oblige.

Shiloh and her siblings – Maddox (15), Pax (13), Zahara (12) and twins Knox and Vivienne (8) – befriended the Cambodian kids in the Southeast Asian country recently when they accompanied Angie for the filming of her new movie, First They Killed My Father (YOU, 2 March).