Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt’s Daughter Vivienne Discloses Hospital Stay
Vivienne, 18, youngest daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, revealed she was hospitalized for an eating disorder earlier this year. She shared the news at her Los Angeles art exhibition, which ran November 2 to 8, days after a judge approved her name change.
Vivienne, the 18-year-old daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, has revealed she was hospitalized for an eating disorder earlier this year. She disclosed it through her solo art exhibition in Los Angeles, which ran from November 2 through November 8.
The show, titled "The Tulip Field: A Gallery on Patience of Patients," was held at Forager Crafts. It featured paintings that recalled her time in hospital, alongside captions taken from diary entries she wrote during her stay.
A letter on the wall
A letter displayed at the exhibition set out what happened. "At the beginning of this year, I was hospitalised for my ED. I was angry, sick, and very alone," it read.
She wrote that the "kindness and warmth of the kids and staff at the hospital broke down the walls I had built so high." She added: "I have never laughed or cried harder, never been more honest or more myself."
Vivienne credited the other young patients with helping her through. "The other kids there taught me how to be strong when you are at your weakest," she wrote. "It was the worst and best time of my life, and I am better for it."
In the same statement she said: "Like many, I have struggled with mental health. I have also struggled with an eating disorder."
Why she painted it
Vivienne named the exhibition after the hospital where she was treated, which she called The Tulip Field. She said there are no photographs from her time there, so the paintings stand in for them.
"There are, of course, no photographs of our time at the Tulip Field, so these are our memories, our purest memories, preserved," she wrote. She described the work as "moments of hopelessness, moments I couldn't stop laughing, moments of safety, moments of bravery."
One painting, titled Vitals, included a handwritten diary entry dated May 14. It read: "I feel guilty for needing to be in the hospital this long."
The exhibition was meant to help others who may also be struggling. A source said opening up was hard for her. "It took a lot of strength and courage for Vivienne to open up about something so personal, but she's so glad she did," the source said.
The source added: "It wasn't easy putting herself out there, but if sharing her story helps even one person feel less alone or gives them the courage to reach out and get the help they need, then it was worth it."
Name change days earlier
The letter was signed Vivienne Marcheline, with her middle name standing in for a surname. It came days after a Los Angeles judge granted her petition to change her legal name from Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt to Vivienne Marcheline Jolie.
She filed the petition in July, days after turning 18 with her twin brother, Knox, citing "personal" reasons. She is the fourth of Jolie and Pitt's six children to legally drop the Pitt name.
Vivienne had already moved away from the surname professionally. In May 2024, the Playbill for the Broadway show The Outsiders credited her as Vivienne Jolie. She produced the show with her mother.
