Angelina was snapped taking Shiloh and Zahara to Lee’s Art Shop in New York City on Wednesday morning. The family seemed very happy and the girls came out carrying baskets.
65 comments February 18th, 2009
“It’s chaos at times, but there’s such joy in the house,” Brad, 45, told Britain’s Daily Telegraph.
“I look and there’s our boy from Vietnam [Pax, 5] and our daughter from Ethiopia [Zahara, 3], and our girl was born in Namibia [Shiloh, 2], and our son is from Cambodia [Maddox, 7], and they’re brothers and sisters, man. They’re brothers and sisters and it’s a sight for elation.” Not to mention twins Knox and Vivienne, born last July in France. “We were four before, and we got into our rhythms and it worked. Then someone new comes in, and it discombobulates the movements for a moment, but then you settle in again and it just all works,” he told the paper.
“Everyone’s pretty well integrated. It’s not the first time new kids have come in. “We have the capability to give a child a home, and let me tell you it’s selfish, too, because the reward has been extraordinary.”
And the twins have been a tremendous blessing as well.
“One seemed simple, and it’s just double the fun. It’s surprising how soon their personalities have started emerging. But it’s really important that everyone gets their individual time as well as group time together,” he said.
“Angelina and I are together because we can enhance each other,” said Brad. “I don’t want to waste any time because I’m with company I really, really love.”
47 comments January 31st, 2009
Brad, Angelina and their six children – Maddox Chivan, 7, Pax Thien, 5, Zahara Marley, 4, Shiloh Nouvel, 2, and fraternal twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline, 6 months – touched down at Narita International Airport where they were welcomed by screaming fans. Brad and Angelina arrived in Japan to promote their movies `The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ and ‘Changeling’ just one day after the SAG awards in Los Angeles. In the past two weeks the pair and the family have been to Paris, Germany, Los Angeles and Tokyo.
Wow! The twins are ADORABLE!
84 comments January 27th, 2009
(In the above pic Brad and Angelina were snapped at the premiere of Brad’s new film, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’)
Angelina has opened up about how she manages her very hectic life. Brad is the most important part of her support system.
“We are a good team,” she said. “I do take my time outs, but most of all I get support from Brad. That is important to me and gives me strength.”
And despite recently welcoming twins, Angelina’s body is better than ever. How does she do it?
“I’m very disciplined,” she admitted. “I have a balanced diet and among other things I do Pilates. I feel more comfortable and I do have a lot more energy.”
Reportedly, Angelina and Brad also schedule weekly pampering sessions to maintain their good looks an insider has told Star magazine.
“They call it their Me Day,” the source claimed. “Angelina’s assistant makes all the arrangements. She likes massages, pedicures and waxing – and even gets her toes waxed. Angelina’s very particular about not having any stray hairs.
Brad likes to get highlights and facials and is obsessed with his skin looking flawless and pays extra for detoxifying elixir peels and anti-aging organic serum cleanses.”
14 comments December 22nd, 2008
Angelina and son Maddox looked remarkably normal as they enjoyed a toy-shopping excursion together in New Orleans.
48 comments November 30th, 2008
InTouch magazine is claiming that Angelina is 3-months-pregnant!
According to InTouch, Angelina told everyone the news when a waiter tried to pour her an alcoholic beverage at a restaurant in London.
Brad and Angelina’s spokesperson told Us magazine that she is not pregnant. BUT, a spokesperson for couple also denied the claims when InTouch correctly broke the story of the twins’ pregnancy!
And the couple have made no secret of their hopes of expanding their family.
Just last week, Angelina told reporters at the launch for DVD Kung Fu Panda, that the couple were definitely planning on adding to their family.
She said: “Anything could happen. We’re open to anything, we love kids and we’re having a great time.
“It’s chaos in our house, but it’s so much fun. We’ll definitely have more.”
Wow, could she already be pregnant again!?
51 comments November 26th, 2008
Angelina has sat down for yet another revealing interview while Brad looked after their six children, including four-month-old twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline.
“I can’t stand being away from them for too long,” Angelina admitted. “They’re part of me and I’m part of them. Actually, they’re upstairs – I’m surprised you can’t hear them.”
‘Upstairs’ is the penthouse suite of the luxurious Manhattan hotel in which she meets for the interview. Angelina arrives right on time, looking glamorous and perfectly groomed. She wore a tight-fitting, cream Ralph Lauren crew-neck jumper that emphasised how quickly she regained her figure after the birth of the twins in July. ”Oh yeah, but you should have seen me a couple of hours ago when I was organising breakfast,” she laughed.
The interviewer comments that, “she looks like a particularly beautiful Manhattan mum on her way to meet well-heeled friends for brunch.”
“How did I get my figure back? Well, breast-feeding for a start. That and running around after six kids,’ she said.
Wherever they travel, the kids go with them – sons Maddox, 7, and Pax, 4, and daughter Zahara, 3, Shiloh, 2, and now the twins!
“It was a crazy amount of money,” Angelina conceded, referring to the baby pictures deal. “But look, we’re using the money for our charitable foundation and in that way it does some good.”
“You should never help somebody out of pity, or to get Brownie points in heaven,” she said. “You should genuinely find joy in making somebody else’s life better.”
The charity work and her travels around the world have changed Angelina from an unsettled, often wild young woman into a conscience-driven mother determined to use her fame – and money – for humanitarian causes.
It was while she was making her first Lara Croft film, Tomb Raider, in 2001 that she first travelled to Cambodia. She returned to the same country on a UN field mission and decided that she would adopt a child. She registered with an American-based adoption agency and returned to Cambodia again, in March 2002, to visit orphanages.
“I woke up the day I met Maddox thinking, “My son or daughter is here. They’re going to introduce me to a child and I wonder how I’m going to feel?” And the moment I met him [Maddox was seven months old at the time] I knew I was his mother. And I can’t explain it. I don’t know why, but it was absolutely meant to be.”"
“As you get older you see more character in your face. Now, when I look at myself, I see somebody at peace and I see a mom – and that’s a kind of beauty.”
“I know this is going to sound corny, but I first became happy with the way I look when I became a mother. There’s this idea that beauty is when someone does your hair and puts a lot of make-up on you and sticks your face on the cover of a magazine. Is that beauty? You know what is beautiful? My mom. [Her mother was the French actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died aged 56 last January from ovarian cancer.] She was beautiful to me, and I look more like my mom as I get older. Something else comes out of you when you become a parent and, as you get older, you start to see more character in your face. Now, when I look at myself, I just see somebody at peace, and I see a mom, and I see my own relatives in my face – and that’s a kind of beauty that exists for everybody and doesn’t disappear.”
“I knew I had to find purpose and balance before I became a mother. I wouldn’t have jumped into it until I knew I was all right and could be stable.”
Her latest film, Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood, is based on a true story and was, she shared, the most harrowing role she has undertaken, causing nightmares and panic attacks. “I was wacko, emotionally, during this one,” she says. “I just couldn’t get the story out of my head.”
“During the filming of Changeling I was paranoid about my own children – where they were, what they were doing”
“I remember one weekend I’d taken a nap and Shiloh was asleep in her cradle, and when I woke up she was gone. I was freaking out. And nothing had happened – Brad had taken her and the rest of the kids to the park. But Walter’s story haunted me. Throughout filming I was hugging the kids and keeping them close to me.”
The similarities with the Madeleine McCann case are obvious. “My heart goes out to that family,” she says. “Not to know what has happened to your child is just the worst thing in the world. I love Brad and if anything happened to him it would wreck me, but if anything happened to my kids…it’s something I can’t even think about, it’s so upsetting.”
Changeling was filmed in California in August and September last year, just as Angelina and Brad were thinking of trying for another baby, so the subject matter was particularly traumatic for them.
“It was like, “Do you want to start a pregnancy in this high emotional state?” I felt so raw.”"
“Now we joke that maybe we had too much energy because we ended up with twins! It was a huge surprise – we both got hysterical with laughter when we found out. Twins are on Brad’s mother’s side, so we had joked about the possibility, but didn’t think it would happen. But it’s been great.”
For her portrayal of Christine Collins, Angelina drew heavily on the memory of her own mother. “Mom was so gentle, just a very sweet person. And yet if you were to take her kids, she would have been just like Christine – she would have found the strength somehow to do what was needed to get her son back. I was feeling very frail [about my mother’s death]. But it was actually a time of reconnecting with her. When she first passed away, I couldn’t look at pictures of her – I would just start to cry. But then I looked in the mirror and I could see her in my face – the same brown hair, the way she’d smile. I kind of played her in this film. To spend time with her in that way was very healing. When Brad saw the film, the first thing he said to me was, “I can see your mom…”"
“I have a wonderful family, and I occasionally go out and make a film, so I never read those magazines. There are things about me that are useful for people to read, and then there’s stuff that’s just silly. There are mistakes I’ve made, lessons I’ve learnt – which I’m happy to talk about – and I’d love to talk to other mothers about things I don’t know how to do.”
She and Brad live a nomadic life, with homes in LA, New Orleans and Cambodia. She hinted that, with school commitments, they could settle more, but said, “You know, we’re lucky, we can move around and the kids adapt and they can be with us – that’s the priority.”
She tries to embrace a green lifestyle, but admits that it’s difficult. “I would love it for every car to be greener. I would love them to recycle better, and I would love it if there were laws against packaging and too much plastic and stuff: you know, you buy a kid’s toy and I think it’s something like 80 per cent [of what] you buy is packaging. But I’m not as good about it as Brad. He teaches me a lot. And if we fly private, we buy carbon credits wherever we go.”
Pregnancy and the birth of the twins mean she hasn’t worked since making Changeling, more than a year ago. “I’m going to make a film [The Mercenary: Love and Honor] in February, and after that I won’t work again for another year. But it was hard even to decide that. I had a lot of discussions at home – can we balance things? Can Mommy go to work? Can it be all right? Maybe I’ll do a few months’ work every year or so. Brad and I are trying to balance our lives so that we raise our kids properly, and we are also trying to make sure we are fulfilled – as artists, as people. When we get film offers, we have to ask ourselves, “Will it be a good thing for the family?” Fortunately [Brad’s] such a great father, and when he goes to work, I’m home, and vice versa. And any mother knows that sometimes just a little time for yourself makes you a better mom. You get that one night’s good sleep and you’re so much better the next day.”"
At home, she insists, they are just like any other family. The kids run and play and they watch DVDs – including Shark Tale, an animation for which Angelina voiced one of the characters.
“They haven’t seen a lot of our films yet, because they are a little young, but I’m looking forward to them one day discovering Mr and Mrs Smith,” she smiled. “They’re going to have a great laugh – to see when their parents actually met, and watch them fall in love and try to kill each other! And Madd was there while we were filming, so he was a part of it. It’s pretty extraordinary.”"
42 comments November 24th, 2008
(In the above pic Angelina and Jon were snapped during happier times)
Angelina Jolie’s father Jon Voight thinks it’s “wonderful” the mom of six wants more kids.
“I think that comes from my dad. My dad was a great storyteller and just had this way with kids,” Jon told Us magazine at Wednesday’s 24: Redemption premiere in NYC.
Angelina is “part of a legacy of my dad … [they both have] this idea about family,” Jon shared. “She always had this very unusual idea — and her brother’s like that, too. Her brother has this great love for protecting children.”
Now that she has the twins, Angelina “is very happy,” said Jon, with whom Angelina has said she is slowly reconciling after years of estrangement. “I saw her before the twins came, and I’ve never seen her that happy.”
Even though he has yet to see Knox and Viv, Jon said he’s already thinking of what to buy his grandchildren.
“Isn’t that a happy thing?” he said. “That’s the happiest thing to think about what kids would like, right?”
Jon said he’s “hoping” to see the kids around the holidays. “We’ll see.”
Jon also shared that he sympathizes with his daughter and Brad trying to protect their kids amid a daily barrage of paparazzi.
“They are handling it, but it’s a stress on them because they can’t do things, they can’t easily go out and do stuff. They always have to consider the barrage of some kind happening. It’s difficult. They’re just kids after all, they’re just young people.”
Awww…hopefully he’ll get to see his grandchildren for the holidays!
68 comments November 20th, 2008
Brad Pitt says that life requires careful planning with six young children.
Brad told Oprah, in an interview on her show that will air on November 19th, that quick outings are things of the past.
“We don’t go to the mall,” shared Brad, 44, adding that preparing for a car trip is an adventure unto itself.
“It’s like a half-an-hour just to get everyone buckled in and make sure they’ve got their snacks, and Z.Z. [Zahara, 3] has got a blanket and Shiloh’s got her silky,” he said.
“Angie’s militant about it. She’s right on top of it. Thank God, because I’m always forgetting something.”
He also revealed 2½-year-old daughter Shiloh’s latest quirk.
“She only wants to be called John. John or Peter. So it’s a Peter Pan thing,” he said. “So we’ve got to call her John. ‘Shi, do you want …’ – ‘John. I’m John.’ And then I’ll say, ‘John, would you like some orange juice?’ And she goes, ‘No!’ So, you know, it’s just that kind of stuff that’s cute to parents, and it’s probably really obnoxious to other people.”
:) That’s cute!
40 comments November 19th, 2008
Angelina has admitted that she struggled with breast feeding her twins at the same time!
“It’s very hard,” Angelina confessed on Britain’s morning show GMTV. “I stopped at three months, [it was] about as much as I could do.”
Angelina, 33, who was in London promoting her film The Changeling with Brad Pitt and their four-month-old twins, Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline, said she even resorted to manuals on the subject.
“There’s this football hold – it’s a lot harder than it looks in the books,” she said in the prerecorded interview at her London hotel on Monday. “I did that a few times. I would take turns. It just takes a long time.”
The mom of six also revealed that it was while filming The Changeling that she became pregnant with the twins: “We decided to start trying in the beginning, and by the end I was.”
On whether marriage is important, Angelina says emphatically “it’s not” – explaining, “we jumped into being a family first. And that just seems like the biggest commitment you can possibly make. It doesn’t feel like anything’s lacking.”
18 comments November 19th, 2008
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