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Six kids, one very public divorce, and a college dorm room roughly 6,800 miles from Hollywood.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s split has been public property since 2016, but by the start of 2020 the conversation had shifted almost entirely to their six children — and how differently each of them is handling growing up under that spotlight. The celebrity channel OSSA’s video on the Jolie-Pitt kids leans into what’s been reported and said on the record about two of them in particular: Maddox, now a college freshman on the other side of the world, and Shiloh, whose gender expression has been tabloid fodder since she was a toddler.

Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne range from 11 to 18, and each has handled the family’s post-2016 reality in his or her own way. The most striking split has come from the oldest.

• Maddox, 18, enrolled at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College in Incheon, South Korea, to study biochemistry rather than pursue acting.
• Shiloh, 13, has favored short hair and suits since childhood; Pitt told ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ in 2008 she preferred being called John, and Jolie told ‘Vanity Fair’ in 2010 that Shiloh saw herself as “one of the brothers.”
• All six children have had to balance public appearances — including joining Jolie on the late-2019 ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ premiere tour — with an ongoing custody process stemming from the 2016 split.

The Move to Incheon

When Maddox turned 18 in August 2019, he didn’t sign with an agency or show up on a red carpet — he packed for South Korea. He’s studying biochemistry at Underwood International College, part of Yonsei University, one of the more selective programs in the country. Jolie has spoken publicly about the drop-off, admitting she cried saying goodbye to her oldest son on campus, a rare moment of candor from an actress who otherwise keeps her kids’ day-to-day lives out of the press.

Maddox himself has said almost nothing. He’s kept quiet on his relationship with Pitt, and there’s been little reporting on his life at Yonsei beyond the basic facts of his enrollment and major. That silence is notable given how much attention the rest of the family draws — it’s the one Jolie-Pitt storyline that’s genuinely low-key.

Shiloh’s Long, Public Conversation on Identity

Shiloh, 13, has been discussed in the press longer than almost any other topic tied to this family. Pitt told Oprah Winfrey in 2008 that Shiloh preferred to be called John. Jolie went further with ‘Vanity Fair’ in 2010, saying Shiloh viewed herself as “one of the brothers.” Neither parent has walked that framing back in the years since, and by late 2019 outlets like OSSA were still treating Shiloh’s gender-fluid presentation as an open, ongoing story rather than a childhood phase that had passed.

“She’s one of the brothers.” — Angelina Jolie, Vanity Fair, 2010

Shiloh has also had to adjust to a home split down the middle: living primarily with Jolie since Pitt moved out of the family house, while still processing a public breakup that happened when she was barely old enough to understand what a custody filing even was.

Six Kids, One Fractured Household

Beyond Maddox and Shiloh, Pax (16), Zahara (14), and twins Knox and Vivienne (11) have largely stayed out of the headlines, which is its own kind of story given how much attention their older siblings draw. The family’s public appearances tend to cluster around Jolie’s work — the kids joined her for the ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ premiere tour in late 2019, a rare stretch where several of them were photographed together on the same red carpet.

The custody case tied to the 2016 split was still unresolved as of early 2020, which means every school choice, every move, and every public sighting of the kids gets read through that lens. It’s the same dynamic that’s shaped coverage of plenty of other high-profile Hollywood families — for a look at how another famous set of kids navigated growing up under a famous parent’s shadow, see The Untold Truth Of Michael Jordan’s Kids. And for more on how tabloids build entire narratives around things celebrities would rather keep private, there’s Disturbing Details About Terrence Howard Are Now In The Open.

Maddox is doing biochemistry coursework in a dorm outside Seoul instead of sitting for junkets, Shiloh is still cutting her hair short and still leading headlines about it, and the custody case that started back in 2016 keeps grinding into a new decade with no resolution on the books. That’s the state of the Jolie-Pitt family as 2020 opens — six kids, six different ways of dealing with it, and no sign the tabloids are done watching any of them.