Angela Bowie - photo-model, actress, journalist, musician, icon of style and role model. Many are known as the former wife of David Bowie.
Mary Angela Barnett was born on September 25, 1949year in Cyprus, where her father worked in a mining company. Every three years her family returned to the States to visit relatives. Such trips back and forth can not be called normal, but Angela liked this life. Her father did not like coming to the US, he did not like how they treated black people. Mother, on the contrary, being a native of Canada, loved the convenience of American shopping.
Her mother was 42 years old when Angela was born.Angela's brother was 16 years older than her, so there was no traditional brother-sister relationship between them. They met only at a time when the brother and father simultaneously attended one university in Montana, where the father received an engineer's diploma.
As a teenager, Angela Barnett did not feelneeds to rebel. From 9 to 16 she went to school in Montreux, in the west of Switzerland, and it was a paradise. On easter holidays the girl went to England, for Christmas and summer holidays she returned to Cyprus. She enjoyed independence. Angela did not understand how lucky she was, until years later she heard people tell about her experience of growing up. In her childhood, there were no problems and disputes, Angela managed to avoid disagreements with her parents.
At the age of 16, the girl left Switzerland togo to America, with an ardent desire to start the adventure of your life. She entered the Connecticut College for Women. Here she started a romantic relationship with a girl who ended up with an incident that was remembered forever: "The psychiatrist grabbed me and my girlfriend and locked it in the operating room." I had to convince the nurse to bring me clothes. I jumped out of the second floor window and ran to my hostel. things and flew to Cyprus in a few days.I was an outcast in my own country. "
In 1967, Angela came to England to enter Kinstong University. She says: "I think the only place where I really felt at home was England."
She met Bowie in 1969, when shewas 19, and he was a young rock star. Angela Bowie was 22 when she gave birth to Zoe's son, just a year after she and David were married in 1970. She was not ready for this. In this period of life a person plays thousands of different roles: the consumer, the hired worker, the parent, the lover, the child. It was too much for her.
Now they are not communicating with Zoe, or Duncan, as he now calls himself. He wrote to his mother, but no progress has been made and reconciliation is unlikely.
David and Angela parted ways in 1976 andsubsequently divorced. Their divorce proceedings can not be called peaceful. After the dissolution of the relationship, David completely crossed out Angela from his life and in every possible way renounced her contribution to his success. Her opinion on this sounds quite philosophical: "Well-known men often do so when they feel threatened by the influence of women, they want to be thought of as independent geniuses." God forbid that any woman helps them succeed. "Picasso he did the same with his women - he made them crazy. "
After a divorce from David, at the age of 31,Angela Bowie had a daughter Stacy, it was her gift to herself. This child was an absolute pleasure for Angela, because next to her there was no man who would annoy her, and she swore that she would always maintain good relations with her daughter. Now they communicate two or three times a day and rewrite a lot.
David Bowie was disgusted by Angela's father,how he treated her. His father even crossed out Zoe from the education fund, which he created for the children of Angela. Angela's parents adored both Zoe and Stacy, they worried that they did not spend enough time with their grandson, because after the divorce of their daughter with David, the boy's father received custody.
Angela Bowie is not interested in the role of grandmother.She says: "Children are good when they are yours, but I'm not interested in other people's children, you tolerate them because they are yours." My parents did not spend much time with me, because they were busy with something, but they were not They were awesome. "
