Angelina: Breastfeeding Twins Is 'Very Hard'

Angelina Jolie might be a supermom, but there was one thing she struggled with – breast feeding her twins at the same time!

"It's very hard," the actress confessed on Britain's morning show GMTV. "I stopped at three months, [it was] about as much as I could do."

The actress, 33, who was in London promoting her film The Changeling with her partner Brad Pitt in tow 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 says 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."

In the film, Jolie plays a mother whose son goes missing, based on a true story.

On whether marriage is important, Jolie says categorically "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."

Source: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20241136,00.html

Simon Mayo speaks to Oscar winning actress Angelina Jolie about starring in the new Clint Eastwood film 'The Changeling'.

Download this interview or subscribe to Simon Mayo's podcast at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/mayo/

Angelina Jolie crying at Changeling press call

Angelina Jolie is a Billion Dollar Babe

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at "Changeling" photocall in London

November 17, 2008

Brad Pitt Does Oprah

Brad Pitt sat down with Oprah to promote his movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, due out Christmas Day, and he talked about parenthood, paparazzi, and the less-than-glamorous parts of parenthood with partner Angelina Jolie.

On how they explain paparazzi to the kids: “Their idea of the world is, when we get in the car and we’re going out there’s 20-30 people standing there with cameras who want to take their picture. This is their idea of the world at large. We try to explain to them, ‘They’re a little funny, they like taking pictures, they’re a little weird, but it’s alright.’ And our little one Zahara [3 1/2], said to me, ‘Actually, Daddy, it’s not alright.’ And it gets to them. We do our best, they have their friends, and we try to keep as much normalcy as we can, and do things together, as a family, we keep everyone together and that’s our rule.”

On what he would do if he could be unrecognizable for a day: “I would like to tear down my fences. I’d like to tear down my gate, I’d like to be able to see my neighbors. I’d like my kids to be able to run in each other’s yards and their yards and our yards and wave at everybody.”

On the W magazine shoot: “We have a lot of fun working together and taking on these projects.” Adding that it is “customary to do a photo shoot when a movie comes out,” Brad says this time they said, “Let’s do it together and see what happens. Angie is seen as a femme fatale, but she also has the biggest heart, just inexhaustible spirit and sweetness and goodness. She’s an inexhaustible mother and great grace and the real glue of the family, and that’s what I wanted to portray.”

On the subject of more children: “Probably. It’s the thing I’m most proud of. It’s the greatest endeavor we’ve ever taken and the most interesting, most fulfilling, most rewarding thing I have ever experienced, and why should I stop?”

On how 4-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne are: “Lovely, they’re lovely. He kind of looks like me and she kind of looks like Angie. It’s a bit bizarre.”

On if they have help: “We had help in the nights because you want to be there for the other ones in the day. Not every night, because we also want to take them on ourselves and be part of that experience. In the beginning, it was mainly us trying to do both shifts.”

On having sleepovers with the kids: “They’re trying to kill us, they really are. They’re really well organized and they’ve got it set up where we’ll get them to bed, read the stories and one of them will show up about a half our later. They can’t sleep and they’ll want to read books, and we’ll do that for about an hour and a half, and that one will go to sleep, and then we’ll just be fading off and someone else - and I know they’ve got shifts, they’ve got it worked out, ‘At 2:30 you pee the bed, and then go crawl in their bed.’ But yeah, we do that once a week.

Brad also shared a funny story about Zahara: “Yesterday, Z.Z. goes, ‘Daddy, smell’ I go, ‘What, honey?’ and she goes ‘Smell’ [brad makes a disgusted face] ‘What is that?’ And she goes, ‘Dog poop.’ I said, ‘Honey, you can’t - you can’t - don’t touch the - go wash your hands! Go, go!’”

On how fatherhood has changed him: “I’m impervious to poo, snot, urine, vomit. You can’t get me; you cannot break me down. In the beginning it was ‘Oh God, oh, how do they vomit that much,’ now it’s just, ‘Honey, come here, you see that? You need to chew your food. You see that? That is half a hot dog.”

On their holiday plans: “Last year was in New Orleans when we stayed at home, and the lead-up is to get something for everyone and make something for everyone and open one gift Christmas Eve. The next morning we go wild. The opposite year, we travel. This year, we want to go to one of the kids’ places of origin and spend time there and do something. It’s very important to us, and very important that they understand where they came from and have pride in where they came from, and that’s shared amongst everyone.”

On if Brad, who considers himself to be the disciplinarian in the family, can handle all six kids at once: “Four is usually my limit on my own, so far. I hope to advance to six.”

On sitting down and explaining about the twins coming home: “We made sure that they still get the single time, that they know that just because the babies have arrived, it doesn’t mean that they’re any less important. That was our big focus. And it’s worked out really well, they’re really sweet with them and loving, they take care of them, and they have a real pride in it. It’s really nice to see.”

Brad, who is also dad to also dad to Maddox, 7, and Pax, 5 this month, also shared that 2-year-old Shiloh only wants to be called John.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at "Changeling" photocall in London

her face looks strange, look at her forehead

I think she did something with botox like Nicole Kidman, recently by mine judgment

Nah, I don't think so. Maybe she's doing like - how's it called? Peelings with fruit acid to clear the skin?

Thanks for pics and the interview, Meghann!

Aaron Eckhart: Angelina Would Make a "Fantastic" Catwoman

The Dark Knight's Aaron Eckhart thinks Angelina Jolie would make a purr-fect Catwoman -- if there's another Batman installment.

"I thought that was a fantastic idea," Eckhart told Usmagazine.com at the GQ Men of the Year party in L.A. on Nov. 18. "When I read that, I felt like all of our records that we made [would] be broken if she did Catwoman."

(Julie Newmar, who played Catwoman in the original Batman TV series, recently told New York's Daily News that she has knowledge that Jolie has inquired about playing the part.)

Another name that's been thrown around? Johnny Depp -- as the Riddler.

"Every time I hear these guys, I feel worse about myself!" Eckhart joked.

He was mum when asked if he'd star in another Batman flick.

"I mean, that's an interesting question," he told Us. "You know, I don't think I will. I think I died in the movie."

But it all remains a mystery.

Eckart joked, "I'm coming back as a totally different character."

Source: http://www.usmagazine.com/news/aaron-eckha...tastic-catwoman

He's :x

The stach is probably for the Quentin Tarantino movie he's currently shooting. He's playing a Tennessee Hillbilly soldier.

wow so many new things around her )) niiiiiiiiiiiice

http://www.bellazon.com/main/index.php?s=&...t&p=1501201

Vote for Angelina in Age Actress Competition, talent round!

Angelina Jolie: ‘Pax Still Saves Food’

Adopting an older child is a completely different experience than adopting an infant, and it comes with its own set of unique challenges. Angelina Jolie has three adopted children, but only middle child Pax, 5 this month, was adopted as an older child; he lived in an orphanage in Vietnam for the first three years of his life. Angelina has shared before some of the funnier parts of helping him adjust, saying when they first adopted him, “he would take five baths a day,” they “had trouble convincing him underwear is not pants” and that he went from being the “shyest” to the “wildest person in the house”.

Unfortunately, not all aspects are as lighthearted, and little Pax is still carrying some emotional scars. Hello! magazine interviewed her about her recent trip to Afghanistan, where she saw children in horrid conditions, and the magazine asked specifically about her own children adapting, being from “similar deprived circumstances.” Angelina answered,

“Children respond to affection quickly when they have been starved of it, so they are very loving soon after coming home. But Pax, for example, still wants to save food. He often puts parts of his dinner away for another time, even though we explain there will be more tomorrow.”

thats why i respect this woman so much.....she sees the difference she makes and she tries to make even bigger difference !

Angelina Jolie: The mummy returns

Jolie is extraordinary in Changeling

Angelina Jolie tells Will Lawrence about her expanding family, life with Brad - and how her mother inspired the performance that could win her an Oscar

Angelina Jolie's latest movie, Changeling, had a profound effect on her. Before she started work on it, the 33-year-old actress was already a mother of four. But, during the shoot, she decided that she wanted more children. "When I started the film, I wanted to get pregnant," she says bluntly. "I think it was the high emotion of thinking about children, which the film makes you do."

Jolie discovered that she was expecting towards the end of the shoot, which started in October 2007, and gave birth to twins Vivienne and Knox the following July. "I didn't want to tell anyone the news [that I was pregnant]. During one scene, I remember someone saying, 'I think Angie should jump up and try and kick the guy.' And I was like, 'Erm, I don't think the character would do that - she's a little more timid and less physical than I am.' Secretly I was thinking, 'I just can't do it in my state!' In many ways, I was relieved to step away from this film."

Changeling recounts the true-life story of Christine Collins, who lived in Los Angeles during the 1920s and returned home from work one day to discover that her son had gone missing. After five agonising months, the LAPD reunited her with a boy who they wrongly insisted was her child. When she began asking that they find her real child, the police called her delusional and she was committed to an asylum.

In a press conference later in the day, Jolie becomes flustered when a journalist asks her why she is "so thin". "I don't think that's an appropriate question," she answers frostily. She also cries when she talks about her mother, who, much like Jolie's character in Changeling, raised her family alone.

"She wasn't around in 1928, but there was something about her. She was called Marcheline, but people called her Marshmallow because she was the softest, most gentle woman in the world. She never got angry. But when it came to her kids, she was really fierce. So this is her, in this character. My mom is the woman I relate to."

Perhaps this explains why Jolie's performance in Changeling is so extraordinary; many people expect it to earn her an Oscar nomination. Jolie won an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role in Girl, Interrupted, in 1999, but Changeling represents her best shot yet at the prize for best actress.

According to Clint Eastwood, who directed the film, the intense interest in every aspect of Jolie's private life means that people forget she is actually a talented actress. Does she feel the same way? "I suppose I have felt like that, but you can't focus on it," she says. "If I felt that what people thought about me as an individual was getting in the way of the film, then I should no longer be doing it. It would affect the storytelling. I have to believe that if I do my work then people will watch the story and the character."

With six children and a good chance of more - "I'm sure the family will grow," she says - audiences will be seeing a little less of Jolie on the big screen over the next 12 months. She plans to take time off, while her partner Brad Pitt will continue to work. In January, he will appear in David Fincher's adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on F Scott Fitzgerald's story about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. Pitt has also just started work on Quentin Tarantino's next project, Inglourious Basterds, which is being shot in Berlin.

How does Jolie feel when people refer to her and Pitt as "Brangelina"? "Honestly, I don't have a thought either way," she smiles. "Although on the set of Changeling, Clint was calling us 'Clintelina'. I think that sounds funnier."

"I haven't seen Benjamin Button yet," she continues, "but Brad looks good ageing backwards. And no, I've not been on the set of Inglourious Basterds." She laughs. "This is a Tarantino film, so we're thinking, 'What's a good day to bring children on set?'

"Travelling with the family is fun, though. The other day, when we flew from LA to Germany, all of us had terrible jet-lag. The children kept waking up, so we all got up, turned on the TV, made snacks, and were up until 4am. We laughed our heads off - the kids are some of the funniest people Brad and I have ever met. So more [children] sounds like a great idea, as much as it's hard work. It's just worth it."

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml.../bfjolie120.xml

Angelina Jolie interview - Maternal flame

Angelina Jolie describes acting as therapy, stripping away the many sides of her personality to let one character rule. But in a candid interview with Chitra Ramaswamy, it becomes clear the fiery non-conformist will always make it to the top

THE shock in meeting Angelina Jolie is not how strikingly beautiful she is, but how close to that surface she wears her emotions. Sitting down with her, she is frank and unguarded, listening and answering thoughtfully and appearing to enjoy being interviewed. One has to wonder why she bothers. After all, we're talking about the woman who is one half of the world's most famous celebrity couple. Her every move, child and pound lost or gained is pounced upon, analysed and, yes, invented by salivating hacks and paparazzi. She appears on the cover of

glossy magazines every week. She has been painted

as a troubled goth, a marriage wrecker, an anorexic

control freak, and now the eccentric earth mother.

She bothers, I realise, because it's a trade-off. "I was very pleased to have something of value to speak of, something positive to do with the opportunities I have to express things in the media," she tells me. But there is more in it for Jolie than that. Celebrity, even at its most Brangelina-obsessed, has its uses and, since meeting Brad Pitt three years ago on the set of Mr And Mrs Smith, Jolie, 33, has become a master at harnessing them for her own ends, which are to have more children, travel the world, promote her humanitarian work and appear in fewer films.

It is a dangerous business, though, and fading away, as she has claimed she will in coming years, will not be easy. Jolie has made a pact with the devil and for now has it eating out of her hand, whether that means earning enough to appear in fewer films (Jolie is the second-highest-paid actress in Hollywood, bagging $14m per movie), giving a third of her salary to charity, or having the clout to sell the rights for the first images of her twins for $14m earlier this year. They were the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken: the money went straight into the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. Arguably, Jolie has started to enjoy the influence and sense of purpose all this has given her.

She has recently returned from Kabul, and is renowned for roughing it – pregnant or not – in the same conditions as other UN field workers on such trips. She has visited more than 20 countries since becoming a UN ambassador in 2001. The worlds she inhabits are starkly contrasting; going from a war zone or a refugee camp to the glitzy London premiere of her latest film, Clint Eastwood's Changeling, but she plays all this down. "I don't live in either of those worlds in reality," she says, though sitting in a suite in Claridge's, that doesn't quite ring true. It seems more likely that she is drawn to living between extremes, and perhaps that her humanitarian work allows her to feel more validated in other areas. "In reality I live at home with six children. I'm a mum, and that's what I live with every day."

Acting, in comparison, is simply her profession. "My job is to be here," Jolie continues, holding my gaze. She is very good at unflinching eye contact. "This job allows me to do some good work and bring attention to other areas. I can sit here and talk about those areas and you can choose whether to write about them or not, and whether to put good information out there. It's all of our jobs really.

"I feel fortunate that I travelled early on in my life and had children and was able to understand what the priorities are for us to be discussing. I don't have any answers but I'm hopefully posing a lot of the right questions. I'm trying to learn."

Her latest incarnation, on and off screen, is as the responsible, ultra-feminine mother. First there are the films: last year's A Mighty Heart, in which she was the pregnant wife of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Pakistan, and now Changeling, in which she plays a single mother whose son goes missing. Jolie, as we shall see, often signposts her life with her film roles, which is what makes her such a compelling actress. It is also what makes her decreasing º ª interest in film seem strange, disingenuous even. Today, she certainly looks the maternal part. Gone, at least for now, is the turbo-charged, pumped-up look of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, or the male fantasy of the trigger-happy Fox in Wanted. Instead she is petite, natural and looks more fragile than I had expected.

Jolie brings every topic we discuss back to her children. On visiting the set of Pitt's upcoming film, Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards: "We keep trying to figure out the perfect day to bring the kids, but what's a good day for children on a Tarantino set?" On the pressure of constantly being under the media spotlight: "When you're pregnant and people are talking about it, I was like every mum, just wanting my babies to be healthy. It's an odd thing, and something you don't like." Pitt, it's worth noting, is mentioned less, and when Jolie does talk about him it's as the father of her children.

Of course, this could just be another phase. Let's not forget Jolie's wild Hollywood past. She has periodically fallen out with her father, the actor Jon Voight, and in 2002 legally dropped his surname. Voight left home before Jolie was one, and has in the past spoken out publicly about her "mental problems". It doesn't take a Hollywood shrink to see why creating her own family, with a very present father, has become such a focus. Jolie has always credited her mother (actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died at the age of 58 from ovarian cancer) as her acting influence and the reason why, at the precocious age of 13, she went to the Lee Strasberg Institute, where De Niro and Pacino also studied acting. Then there was the early interest in knives, drugs, blood, Billy Bob Thornton. Now, Jolie might seem to have moved on from her punk rebel past and become a fully paid-up member of Hollywood society, but perhaps her eccentricity is to be found elsewhere – in her almost compulsive desire to have more children (she has six so far), live out of a suitcase, fly her own plane or talk about the plight of refugees when people are more interested in what she eats for breakfast.

When we talk about the Oscar buzz surrounding her role in Eastwood's film she is low-key. "I'm just thrilled I didn't fail at my job," she says. "It means I did okay, I didn't let the team down." Compare this with the rather sentimental portrait of family life she gives when asked about what keeps her wanting more children. "We're just having the most fun," she says. "I don't know how we've managed to do it but there is just the right balance. Right now the boys seem to be really teaming up and everyone's got each other. Because they're just old enough to be very independent, they're not jealous of the twins. We watch them play and think they're going to be best friends in life. These little people are gooing to be there for each other when we're long gone. It's extraordinary.

"We came home the other day, from LA to Germany, with everyone having jet lag. We tried to get everybody to bed, but at 12am one of them woke up, at 12.30am another one woke up, and we just thought, 'You know what? Let's get them all up'. We all went to the kitchen, got snacks, turned on a movie and were up until four in the morning, laughing our heads off. They're some of the funniest people we've ever met. We just want to hang out with them. So more sounds like a great idea."

In Changeling, we get one of Jolie's most harrowing roles yet. Based on the true story of a working-class woman in 1920s Los Angeles whose son went missing and was replaced with a different boy by a notoriously corrupt LAPD, it's classic Eastwood territory: big emotions, small politics and an expansive, tear-stained, Oscar-friendly performance. And Jolie lives up to it, playing Christine Collins – whom she based on her mother – with a measured combination of stoicism and barely controlled despair.

She even believes that her emotional involvement in her role in Changeling led her to get pregnant. "I was so relieved to step away from this one," she says. "Every time I said the word 'son' it was very emotional. When we started I wanted to get pregnant and I think the high emotion of thinking about children, well, I think that was partially why it happened."

Working with Eastwood, who is famous for shooting scenes in a couple of takes, was extraordinary. "You hear that he's quick and think, 'Oh, he just likes to get things done'. But the fact is he's extremely decisive. He wants to keep things fresh and it's very clever, because when everything takes a long time, actors start thinking."

Jolie's breakthrough role was in Gia, in 1998, playing a damaged model who died of Aids at the age of 26. At the time, Jolie was 23 and still in her dark, outlandish phase. She once spoke about contemplating hiring a hitman to murder her, and the year before Gia she married her first husband, Jonny Lee Miller, wearing a shirt on which she had painted his name in her blood.

Reality would continue to bleed into celluloid, sometimes at a personal cost. Days after winning the best supporting actress Oscar for her turn as the wild sociopath Lisa Rowe in Girl Interrupted, Jolie briefly went into a mental institution. When her social conscience and interest in refugees was awakened while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in Cambodia (the country in which she adopted her first child Maddox), Jolie went on to star in Beyond Borders, an unpalatably worthy film about a privileged woman who becomes a humanitarian overnight when she gets out into the world.

Jolie has always been very serious about her acting. She is unique among A-list actresses in her representation of female sexuality, and indeed off screen she has always been open about her bisexuality. She is tougher than Jodie Foster – the only other A-list actress who plays major action heroes – edgier than Nicole Kidman, sexier than Cameron Diaz and has a greater range than Julia Roberts. She says her more masculine roles are still just as important to her.

"The next film I'm doing has quite a bit of action," she says, referring to a role originally written for Tom Cruise. "Someone was saying to me it's because I was breastfeeding while I was reading the script and feeling very 'mummy' and thinking: 'I need to get out there and be tough.' I'm excited about it because we have a lot of action movies for women, but they tend to be fantastical. This is more of the original, serious CIA thriller that's intelligent and tough. There is also that side of me, as much as there is this idea of going away from home and working on something serious. My life at home is very serious and sometimes it's good to step away and be physical. Also, when I'm doing easier roles, it's not so hard for the kids to be on set, (unlike] when I'm a bit of a basket case during the production. With action movies, mum's a lot easier to be around."

Eastwood has compared Jolie to Meryl Streep and said her talent is obscured by her beauty. The vigour of Jolie's performances, when she is at her best, is arguably down to her emotional investment in them, the same quality that is disarming when meeting her. She has spoken of tattooing herself as a way of marking out her own body, reclaiming it from her characters' skins, and described acting as a form of therapy in which she has 40 sides, doing away with 39 of them to get into character. It sounds like a dangerous game and I wonder how she would cope without it? She starts laughing. "I have needed it in the past, but I now have a lot of children who teach me every day. I'm learning a lot from being a mum and from my travels. I'm able to do a lot of that in my life. I need film less and I'm needed at home more. You know, I'm balanced… I'm all right now." v

Changeling is released on Friday www.changelingmovie.net

Source: http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/featu...rnal.4720213.jp

never seen the last 4 pictures..where are they from?

Brangelina Gets Cozy On Vacay!

http://x17online.com/celebrities/brad_pitt...242008.php#more

They're all from a Vanity Fair shot earlier this year. The one where she's wearing the green wig, you know?

Here's the Link - click!

Edited November 25, 200816 yr by CarMELita

A DOTING DAD

BRAD Pitt and Angelina Jolie are just as annoyingly amazing in real life as they always say they are. Pitt caught some flak after going on "Oprah" and claiming to be very hands on with his children. But a source at the Ocean Club in the Bahamas, who saw the Brangelina clan on vacation recently, told Page Six, "They were so adorable with their kids." The hotel guest added, "Brad and Angelina spent a lot of time in their private villa but would take the four kids out of the room to play." Our spy didn't see them with their new twins, "but they spent lots of time with the older kids doing arts-and- crafts projects and playing on the play ground. It was a great picture."

Source: http://www.nypost.com/seven/11242008/gossi..._dad_140456.htm