Various tabloids have been reporting that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are splitting up. That may or may not be true. What is interesting is to look behind the mystique of the 'perfect couple,' and see that they are just ordinary people.

William Bradley "Brad" Pit (born December 18, 1963) is an actor and film producer. He has been cited as one of the world's most attractive men. Brad Pitt's first acting role was purportedly in the series Dallas, and he has now starred in dozens of movies including Oceans Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, where he acted alongside Angelina Jolie.

Angelina Jolie Voight was born June 4, 1975 to her parents Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, both well known actors, and is god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset. After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York.

Jolie's time as a student at Beverly Hills High School left her feeling isolated among the children of some of the area's more affluent families. Jolie's mother survived on a more modest income, and Jolie often wore second-hand clothes. She was teased by other students who also targeted her for being extremely thin, and for wearing glasses and braces. Her self-esteem was further diminished when her initial attempts at modeling proved unsuccessful. She started to cut herself, wrongly believing that it was somehow therapeutic to her.

At the age of 14, she dropped out of her acting classes and dreamed of becoming a funeral director. During this period, she wore black clothing and dyed her hair purple. Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in 1982, Jolie has been long estranged from her father.

Some say that the many children Pitt and Jolie have adopted is really an attempt to make the world right for children and somehow address their own broken childhood. Sadly, Angelina carries mental and physical scars from a hurtful past.

We cannot change the past but we can build a better future. You can be beautiful on the outside but broken on the inside. Only a power greater than ourselves can make us whole, and Jesus has already made things right so that we can be acceptable to God.