Angelina Jolie
A blend of motherhood, talent and immense possession - that aptly sums up
Angelina Jolie.  One
of the highest paid Hollywood actresses and a top global celebrity, Jolie is a
woman who values her relationship and believes her children are the best thing
ever happened to her. Kickstarting what would become a Hollywood trend, Angelina
adopted two children, Cambodian orphan Maddox and Ethiopian Zahara, who lost her
parents to AIDS. Jolie has become famous for her charitable impulses: she was
named a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees
in 2001. In July 2006, Angelina travelled to Namibia with partner Brad Pitt
where she gave birth to their daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. Jolie feels
life should be led by making own ways. She loves different elements of life and
knows how to manage both work and family. Recently, the couple has adopted a
Vietnamese kid named Pax Thien and increased their family size.
Madonna
Another famous mom we come across is Madonna.  She
is not only an icon but also a loving mother. Madonna always created special
principles for her and her daughters. She is a singer, author, actor and a
perfect mother. Her profession in the showbiz has not, however, come in the way
of her becoming a strict mother to her children. Having lost her own mother to
cancer as a little girl, Madonna hopes that her children never feel the same
pains that she went through. She hopes to be the perfect mother not only to her
own kids Lourdes and Rocco, but also to David Banda, whom she adopted in October
2006 as a motherless 13-month-old child from the African country of Malawi.
Indira Gandhi
The first woman to become the Prime Minister of India,  Indira
Gandhi, daughter of late Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, was popularly
called the 'Iron Lady of India' for her dominant and highly influential nature.
She emerged not only emerged as a courageous leader and a dictator but also as
an ever loving mother. Being a mother of two, Sanjay and Rajiv, she never set
behind in performing her duties well. One cannot forget her excellent role in
forming 20th century India. Even the tragic death of her younger son Sanjay
Gandhi (in 1980) couldn't come in the way of her governance. She continued to
rule the nation with sincerity before being assassinated by her own bodyguards
in 1984.
Catherine Zeta Jones
The Oscar winning Welsh actress was always fascinated by the notion of
motherhood. In fact, such was her keenness to be a mother,  that
she started a family even before she married Michael Douglas in 2000. Their son
Dylan Michael was born three months before their wedding. Catherine became the
target of anti-tobacco groups in 2003 when she was pictured smoking whilst
pregnant with her daughter Carys Zeta.
Motherhood is certainly one of the best things to have happened to her. When she
was preparing for her role in the multi-award winning "Traffic", she was
carrying Dylan, and as per her own admission, a lot of the emotions and
instincts that she used in preparing for her character came from her maternal
instinct of protecting her young one. "When he was born it just blew my mind
away that a complete little stranger would fill me with this overwhelming desire
to nurture and protect him, and I would go to such big lengths to do that" she
said once.
Queen Elizabeth II
Where there is a reigning queen, there is often also a mother.  Unarguably one of
the most famous mothers, Queen Elizabeth II, the reigning monarch over most of
the British
Commonwealth (since 1952), is often credited - along with her mother, Elizabeth
the Queen Mother - with being a firm backbone for the royal family during a
century of singular upheaval. In fact, the Queen Mother was often seen as being
a mother to her people. Elizabeth II was proclaimed queen on 6 February 1952
following the death of her father, George VI; she was formally crowned the next
year, on 2 June 1953. Her husband, Prince Philip, comes from the royal family of
Greece and was created Duke of Edinburgh prior to their wedding on 20 November
1947. With Philip, she has four children: Charles (b. 1948), Anne (b. 1950),
Andrew (b. 1960) and Edward (b. 1964). A loving mother to all her children, the
maternal image of the queen is loved, respected and discussed more than her
royal status.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The matriarch of the Kennedy political family is perhaps most famously known for
her devotion to her children.  The
wife and then widow of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier
Kennedy Onassis remains an American icon of high style and grace. Born in 1929
as Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, Jackie, as she was popularly called, married in 1953
the then U.S. senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy. When Kennedy was
elected president in 1960, Jacqueline became a popular First Lady, known for her
elegant sophistication and her historical interest in the White House. She was
made a widow when Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. She and
John Kennedy had two children, Caroline (b. 1957) and John Jr. (b. 1960); a
third child, Patrick, was born on 7 August 1963, but died two days later. All
her life a political wife and then a political mother, Jacqueline managed to
transcend the traditionally understated role to leave her distinct mark upon a
generation of Americans.
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