10 Surprising things you didn’t know about Angelina Jolie (With Pictures)

6. Told To Lose Weight When She Was A Thin 14-Year-Old

Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Jolie, convinced her then 14-year-old teenager to model. She’s openly remarked about what she deemed as a negative experience. According to Vogue, it’s what connected her so much to the role of Gia Carangi, a troubled model, in the movie Gia. 

“I tried modeling when I was 14 and failed miserably,” Jolie told the New York Times. “Like Gia, I was a bit of a dirty punk, but it was interesting to clean up and start feeling like a girl. I was told I had all these problems I needed to fix. I was told to lose weight, and I was thin already. They actually put me in a room in a bathing suit and measured every part of me. I felt terrible.”