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Angelina: Brad Makes Traveling with Kids Easy
Ask any parent: traveling with children is no walk in the park. Yet Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt make their flying caravan of six kids – including 3-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne – look pretty darned easy.
Still, there is a downside to all this globetrotting.
"After the flight from Europe," Jolie told the German edition of Vanity Fair, "we were all suffering a bit from jetlag. Although we went to bed early, [the kids] were up at 4:30 a.m. goofing around."
After moving their brood from a chateau in the south of France to a palace in a park in Berlin, the family landed in New York last week for the premiere of her movie Changeling – then jetted back to France Wednesday.
Jolie, 33, admits to having an expert travel arranger: "Brad took care of things. He just said, 'Go back to sleep, you have to work tomorrow,' and then went to the living room with the kids. He's an amazing father: totally devoted."
Jolie calls caring for twins a challenge. "We're exhausted a lot, because it's twice as hard with two babies than with one," she says. "But it's twice as much fun, too."
That means watching them interact. "When you look at them, it's like they were made for each other," she explains. "They smile at each other, sniff each other, touch each other. It's just beautiful."
Even at their tender ages, they are each displaying distinct temperaments. "They're totally sweet. They already have completely different personalities. Knox is more the quiet one, very relaxed, while Viv is a little more aggressive and loud," she says.
And as for the inevitable question, "It's funny," Jolie admits, "Knox looks more like Brad and Viv more like me."
Angelina Jolie: Brad Convinced Me to Get Pregnant
Angelina Jolie says she had only intended to adopt children – until her love for Brad Pitt changed her mind.
"I think one of the life changing things that he did, one of many, is that I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do," Jolie, 33, tells W magazine, in an article featuring photos taken by Pitt of her breastfeeding.
But when she saw Pitt, 44, with adopted children Maddox and Zahara, "I knew that he would never see them as different, and that gave me a certain peace," Jolie says.
"I suppose I just looked at him and loved him and just felt open to (getting pregnant)," she says. "I suddenly wanted to. It's one of those things you can't explain."
Now, after having three children with Pitt, including 3-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne and 2-year-old Shiloh, "I wouldn't trade that experience for the world," says Jolie. "It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here."
In the intimate W magazine pictures taken by Pitt just weeks after the twins' birth, Jolie bares her body – quite comfortably, she says.
"I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful, because of the journey it has taken and what it has created," she says. "He genuinely sees it that way. So I genuinely feel even sexier."
Jolie says she has "a lot of respect" for Pitt, who helps her "to be better and fight hard for the things that I love."
"I do think that I'm in a good partnership now," she says. "I think it just needed to be the right man." |