Vivienne Jolie discloses hospital stay for eating disorder in LA art show

An exhibition about hospital time

Vivienne Marcheline Jolie, 18, the daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, has revealed that she was hospitalized at the start of 2026 for an eating disorder. She disclosed it through an exhibition titled "A Gallery on Patience in Patients" in Los Angeles, where hand-drawn illustrations carry captions taken from her diary. Hello! magazine published its account on Saturday, 7 November, and the show was set to stay open until Sunday, 8 November. She uses her middle name Marcheline in her professional life and is known as V Marcheline.

What the captions say

In the captions she describes being angry, sick and very alone when she was admitted. She writes that the kindness of the children and staff at the hospital eventually broke through the walls she had built, and that she had never laughed or cried so hard, nor been so honest or so herself. One illustration shows a tulip seated beside a public telephone, holding the receiver, with a caption from a diary entry dated 4 April 2026 that speaks of longing for a hug. Other entries from April describe feeling numb and being afraid of that numbness ending. ABC reports that she and her friends called the ward "The Tulip Field".

Name change and the Pitt surname

A Los Angeles court approved her request to change her name to Vivienne Marcheline Jolie, dropping the Pitt surname. EL MUNDO reports that the change was registered on 2 November at the Los Angeles Superior Court, where her parents still live. She is the fourth of the six children to take that step, after Maddox, 25, Zahara, 21, and Shiloh, 20. Her twin Knox and Pax, 22, have not yet filed a request. Media reports say Knox's diploma from Fusion Academy in Los Angeles listed him only as Knox Jolie. It is not known whether Pax will keep the double surname.

Background to the family rift

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt separated in 2016. According to media accounts, the rift began on a private flight from France to Los Angeles that September, when Jolie accused Pitt of injuring her and verbally abusing the children during an argument on board. Pitt has always denied this. The FBI and Los Angeles child protection services investigated, and he was neither arrested nor charged. The Jolie-Pitt family has six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne. A source close to the family, quoted by People, described very little communication between the actor and his children now. Reports citing Celebrity Net Worth put the estate at around 400 million dollars, and say the children who have given up the surname could be excluded from it, though it is still early to say.