Shiloh Jolie-Pitt at 14 – celebrating an LGBT idol and firstborn of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

May 26 , 2020

Happy 14th birthday Shiloh-Jolie Pitt. Photo: @shiloh.jolie.pitt/Instagram

She may have famous parents, but little did we know back in 2006 that Shiloh Jolie-Pitt would become an icon in her own right – here STYLE celebrates some of our best stories about a young trailblazer we will all only be hearing more about in years to come

It may feel like yesterday that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt escaped the global spotlight and headed to the sand dunes of Namibia to give birth to their firstborn child, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt. And now, Shiloh turns 14 years old on May 27.

Little did we know back in 2006 that Shiloh would become emerge as a headline-making, conversation-starter in her own right. From feature film voice-overs and wax figures to becoming an LGBTQ+ idol, things can only get bigger for Shiloh in the future.

In the meantime, we’ve rounded up some of STYLE’s best Shiloh stories to celebrate her birthday.

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Fun facts about Shiloh

From breaking a record as the youngest person to be commemorated in wax at Madame Tussauds to a voice-over role in the blockbuster animated film Kung Fu Panda 3 to being a red-carpet regular, Shiloh is not your ordinary teenager. Even though she was raised in the US, Shiloh was born in Swakopmund, Namibia, as mother Angelina Jolie spent a great deal of time there as the ambassador for the United Nations. Read more:

LGBTQ+ teen idol

At a young age, Shiloh surprised the world. In 2010, Vanity Fair interviewed Jolie, and she discussed her daughter’s exploration of identity. “She wants to be a boy,” Jolie said. “So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear boy clothes. She thinks she’s one of her brothers.” Pitt also mentioned that his daughter wanted to be called John. The full story: