Angelina Jolie has become the fastest Instagram user by gaining 1,000 followers

Angelina Jolie has become the fastest Instagram user to gain a million followers.

The 46-year-old actress joined the photo-sharing platform over the weekend and has quickly garnered more than seven million followers on Instagram.

The Eternals actress surpassed Rupert Grint and Sir David Attenborough to set the record as she amassed 2.1 million new fans in less than three hours.

She is followed by Drew Barrymore, Bella Hadid, Bella Thorne, Gretchen Rossi, Chrishell Stause, Jamie Lee Curtis and Helena Christiansen, to name a few.

The Hollywood star joined the platform to share the photograph of a heartbreaking letter from a teenage girl in Afghanistan, where the Taliban recently gained control of the country.

Angelina’s message read: “This is a letter sent to me by a teenager in Afghanistan. Right now, the people of Afghanistan are losing their ability to communicate on social media and express themselves freely. “So I came to Instagram to share their stories and the voices of those people around the world who are fighting for their basic human rights.”

He added: “I was on the Afghan border two weeks before 9/11, where I met Afghan refugees who had fled the Taliban. That was twenty years ago.

“It is unpleasant to see Afghans displaced again by the fear and uncertainty that has gripped their country.

“Spending so much time and money, shedding blood and losing lives just to get to that, is an almost impossible failure to understand.”

Angelina pledged to continue supporting the Afghan people.

His message continued: “Seeing for decades how Afghan refugees (some of the most capable people in the world) are treated as a burden is also unhealthy. Knowing that if they had the tools and respect, how much would they do for themselves. And meet so many women and girls who not only wanted an education, but fought for it.

“Like others who are committed, I will not deviate. I will continue to look for ways to help. And I hope you will join me.

The 46-year-old actress and activist joined the social network on Friday.

A source told People that Jolie joined Instagram to help spread awareness about the potential oppression of women in Afghanistan as their own communication skills are being cut short.

“Angie felt compelled to join a time when women and youth in Afghanistan are losing the ability to communicate on social media and express themselves freely,” the source said. “From his point of view, if he can be part of the effort to amplify his voices, he considered that was reason enough to unite and use his platform.”

The girl also wrote about how harder it was to go to school with the Taliban patrolling, and how she felt safer before they returned to power.

He also worried that his school would be closed by order.

The teenager feared Afghanistan would return to the “last twenty years”, at a time when women had no “rights” when he said they were expected to work from home and had lost their “freedom”.

Jolie included a photo of Afghan women who were dressed from head to toe in burqa.

U.S. troops in Afghanistan are limited to heading to Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, where U.S. and Afghan citizens have rushed out of the country amid a Taliban-scale takeover of the United States. last days.

The date for the U.S. military to leave Afghanistan was originally set for May 1 by former President Donald Trump in an agreement he signed with the Taliban, although President Joe Biden announced in ‘April which would push the final date to September.

The president’s military advisers told him it would take “weeks or months” to get Afghans who had helped the U.S. leave the country after the September withdrawal, but it appears they did not count on the weakness of the Afghan army, which almost it immediately collapsed and failed to fight the Taliban forces who quickly seized most of the country’s cities.

In a speech last week, President Biden reiterated that Afghanistan’s departure schedule had been largely set by his predecessor.

He admitted that the United States was taken by surprise by the speed of the Taliban’s acquisition and described scenes of mass panic at Kabul airport as “devastating.”

Still, he said he was confident that the move to leave Afghanistan was the best possible option for the United States and that it would always be a difficult process.

“Last week’s events reinforced that the right decision ended with US military involvement in Afghanistan. … I am clearly behind my decision. After 20 years, I have learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw American forces. “

The Taliban have claimed in recent days that it is a more moderate force than the one that ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s.

He claims that women will still be able to attend school, although they will have to be covered in clothes from head to toe.

However, the Taliban had previously required women to be separated from men who are not part of their family, so it seems unlikely that they will be able to return to school or work if they cannot be in the same room as the men. . students and co-workers.