Angela Bowie - photo model, actress, journalist, musician, style icon and role model. Many are known as David Bowie’s ex-wife.
Childhood in two countries
Mary Angela Barnett was born on September 25, 1949.years in Cyprus, where her father worked in a mining company. Every three years, her family returned to the States to visit relatives. Such round trips are not normal, but Angela liked such a life. Her father didn’t like to come to the USA, he didn’t like the way they treated blacks. Mother, on the contrary, being a native of Canada, loved the convenience of American shopping.
Relationship with brother
Her mother was 42 when Angela was born.Angela's brother was 16 years older than her, so there was no traditional brotherly-sister relationship between them. They only met at a time when a brother and father were simultaneously attending a university in Montana, where the father received an engineering degree.
Adolescence and Youth
Будучи подростком, Анджела Барнетт не чувствовала needs to rebel. From 9 to 16 years old she went to school in the city of Montreux, in the west of Switzerland, and it was a paradise. On Easter holidays, the girl traveled to England, for Christmas and summer holidays she returned to Cyprus. She enjoyed the independence provided. Angela did not understand how lucky she was, until years later she heard people talk about their experiences of growing up. In her childhood there were no problems and disputes, Angela managed to avoid disagreements with her parents.
At age 16, she left Switzerland toto go to America, with the ardent desire to begin the adventure of your life. She enrolled at Connecticut College for Women. Here she began a romantic relationship with a girl who ended up in an incident that she remembered forever: “The psychiatrist seized me and my girlfriend and locked me in the operating room. I had to convince the nurse to bring me clothes. I jumped out of the second floor window and ran away to my dormitory. I collected 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 the University of Kinston. She says: "I think the only place where I truly felt at home was England."
Life with David Bowie
She met Bowie in 1969, when shewas 19 and he was a young rock star. Angela Bowie was 22 when she gave birth to her son Zoe, just a year after he and David got married in 1970. She was not ready for this. During this period of life, a person plays thousands of different roles: consumer, employee, parent, lover, child. It was too much for her.
Now they don't communicate with Zoe, or Duncan, as he now calls himself. He wrote to his mother, but progress did not happen and reconciliation is unlikely.
David and Angela broke up in 1976 andsubsequently divorced. Their divorce proceedings cannot be called peaceful. After the termination of the relationship, David completely deleted Angela from his life and in every possible way otrezal her contribution to its success. Her opinion on this sounds quite philosophical: "Famous men often do this when they feel threatened by a woman’s influence. They want to be thought of as independent geniuses. God forbid any woman to help them succeed. Picasso he did the same to his women - he made them crazy. "
After divorcing David, at the age of 31,Angela Bowie gave birth to a daughter, Statius, it was her gift to herself. This child was an absolute delight 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 correspond a lot.
David Bowie was disgusted with Angela's father becausehow he treated her. My father even crossed out Zoe from the educational foundation he created for Angela’s children. Angela's parents adored both Zoe and Statius, they worried that they didn’t spend enough time with their grandson, because after the divorce of their daughter with David, the boy’s father received custody.
Grandmother's role
Angela Bowie is not interested in the role of a 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 didn’t spend much time with me because they were busy with something, but they weren’t disgusting. They were awesome. "
