Vivienne Jolie reveals eating disorder hospitalisation through personal art exhibition

Angelina Jolie’s daughter shares details of her 2026 hospitalisation through paintings inspired by her treatment

Vivienne Jolie, the 18-year-old daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, has revealed that she was hospitalised for an eating disorder earlier this year. She shared details of her experience through a personal art exhibition in Los Angeles.

In an artist statement titled “The Tulip Field”, which accompanied her paintings, Vivienne opened up about her mental health struggles and treatment.

“Like many, I have struggled with mental health. I have also struggled with an eating disorder,” she wrote.

She explained that she was hospitalised at the beginning of 2026, adding, “At the beginning of this year, I was hospitalized for my ED. I was angry, sick, and very alone.”

Vivienne credited the kindness of fellow patients and hospital staff with helping her through the experience. “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.

She described the period as both difficult and transformative, saying, “It was the worst and best time of my life, and I am better for it.”

Her exhibition, “The Tulip Field: A Gallery on Patience of Patients”, ran from November 2 to November 8 at Forager Crafts in Los Angeles. The paintings were inspired by memories from her hospital stay, with titles drawn from journal entries she had written during treatment.

Vivienne explained that the artwork preserved moments that could not be documented through photographs. “There are of course no photographs of our time at the Tulip Field, so these are our memories, our purest memories, preserved,” she wrote.

The revelation comes after Vivienne legally dropped Pitt from her surname earlier in November. She had previously used Jolie professionally while working as a volunteer assistant on the Broadway musical The Outsiders in 2024.