From correspondents in California, United States, 12:31 PM IST

Angelina Jolie's brother James Haven says that the actress has lost considerable weight as she is still mourning the death of their mother, who passed away in January.

'Angie has become very thin because she's grieving,' www.hollywood.tv quotes Haven as saying. 'It's even difficult for her to eat. I keep saying to her, don't forget to eat.'

Marcheline Bertrand took care of Jolie and her brother after separating from husband Jon Voight in 1976. Her death from cancer at the age of 56 has been devastating to both Haven and especially Jolie, whose emotional distress caused her to lose 109 pounds.

'But you know, she (Angelina) doesn't pay much attention to food anyway and she's been going through a process of grief like me,' Haven said. 'She has not wanted to eat, nor has she been able to.'

He thinks there's a direct connection between Jolie's loss of appetite and the memory of her mother's cooking.

'There was very much that home feeling when we came back from school,' Haven recounted. 'Angie and I would walk in and comment on how we could smell things cooking and baking in the kitchen. Or she'd (mother) be in the middle of cooking and pick up a carrot and teach us about the vegetable or the fruit so that it was visual as well. Angie is now the same with her kids.'

Haven said that their mother's death has deepened his relationship with Jolie as well as with her adopted children.

'If Angelina understood something about missing parents before, she understands completely now,' he said. 'Angelina and I are orphans, too, in a way. When you see those kids in orphanages, they cling to each other. And that's exactly what they have - they have each other,' he added.

(Staff Writer, © IANS)