Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter Vivienne reflects on hospitalization for eating disorder

Wesley StenzelSat, November 14, 2026 at 1:26 AM UTC

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Vivienne Jolie and Angelina Jolie in New York City on April 11, 2024Credit: Bruce Glikas/GettyKey points -

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter Vivienne displayed a recent collection of her paintings at a gallery in Los Angeles.

In an artist statement, Vivienne explained that the pieces represented her memories of being hospitalized for an eating disorder.

“I was angry, sick, and very alone,” Vivienne wrote.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt‘s daughter Vivienne opened up about a recent health challenge at an art exhibition.

The 18-year-old artist displayed her work under the name Vivienne Marcheline at a gallery in Los Angeles, and revealed that she was hospitalized to help treat an eating disorder earlier this year, which inspired the series of paintings on display.

Vivienne, who recently legally changed her name to Vivienne Marcheline Jolie, discussed her experience in an artist statement displayed at the show, which was titled “The Tulip Field: A Gallery on Patience of Patients” and ran from Nov. 2 to Nov. 8 at Forager Crafts in Los Angeles.

“Like many, I have struggled with mental health. I have also struggled with an eating disorder,” Vivienne wrote (per Page Six). “At the beginning of this year, I was hospitalized for my ED. I was angry, sick, and very alone.”

A representative for Angelina Jolie did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly’s request for comment. A representative for Pitt declined to comment.

Vivienne Jolie in New York City on April 11, 2024Credit: Bruce Glikas/Getty

The artist, who promoted the show on Instagram last month, explained that the community at the hospital built an uplifting environment. “Eventually, however, the kindness and warmth of the kids and staff at the hospital broke down the walls I had built so high,” she wrote. “I have never laughed or cried harder, never been more honest or more myself. The other kids there taught me how to be strong when you are at your weakest.”

She added, “It was the worst and best time of my life and I am better for it.”

Vivienne explained that the “Tulip Field” in her project is what she called the hospital that she stayed at, and that her paintings “represent moments in time spent there.”

She noted that “there are of course no photographs of our time at the Tulip Field,” so she created her paintings as representations of “our purest memories, preserved,” which include “moments of hopelessness, moments I couldn’t stop laughing, moments of safety, [and] moments of bravery.”

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Vivienne also displayed sentences from her journal entries during her time at the hospital alongside each piece.

One such quotation, dated May 14, reads, “I feel guilty for needing to be in the hospital this long.”

Another, dated April 20, reads, “I’m [too] much in a state of bewilderness. There is beauty in oblivion and sometimes I wish I was, but I feel everything with so much sensitivity.”

Vivienne’s pieces depict anthropomorphized tulips in various locations around the hospital.

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The artist previously made headlines in 2024 when she dropped “Pitt” from her name in the Playbill of the Broadway musical The Outsiders, which she produced alongside her mother.

If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, The Alliance for Eating Disorders provides a fully-staffed helpline at 1-866-662-1235, as well as free, therapist-led support groups.

If you or someone you know needs mental health help, text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.

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