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Viv is elegant while Knox likes music ^_^

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Bits and pieces of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s interviews with People and Hello magazines are trickling down the internet. The latest I picked up was how surprised Brad was with his twins‘ unique looks. The “Assasination of Jesse James” actor said,

“I dare to say that Vivienne is proving to resemble Angelina in spirit, attitude and physicality. She is quite elegant like her mother. And Knox - he’s a bit of me. He likes music like his dad. But when he was born he looked like Vladimir Putin!

LOL! Vladimir Putin indeed! In case you don’t know, Mr. Putin is the current Russian president. Maybe Knox had a pointed nose that’s why daddy Brad Pitt thought he looked like Mr. Putin? I can’t tell it with these babies — they all look the same to me! ;-) As for Angelina Jolie, she revealed how she passed the time when she was in hospital on bedrest for the last two weeks of her pregnancy. The actress shared,

Brad and the kids came a few nights each week and spent the night. So we never went too long without seeing each other. I also watched ‘The War’ by Kevin Burns. I figured it would be the only chance I had to watch a 15-hour documentary!”

Angelina Jolie denies having IVF

In the wake of one tabloid’s mag cover that she underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, Angelina Jolie gave a new interview denying the rumor. The now mother of six said,

“If they had been conceived by IVF, we would have been happy to discuss it. But we have been fortunate never to have had fertility problems.”

In said interview, Brad Pitt also related how they came up with the twins‘ name. The hunky actor said,

“The name Vivienne came to us early, as if she named herself–she has always been Viv. And Marcheline is to honor Angie’s mother. Knox came soon after. It is a family name, my grandfather’s. Léon is a classic French name.”

Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline says HELLO!

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While PEOPLE got the North American rights to the first photos of the Jolie-Pitt twins, HELLO! magazine from London got the world exclusive. This is good news for the international fans of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt since PEOPLE mag is hard to come by outside the US. Inside the HELLO! special issue are 17 pages of intimate Jolie-Pitt family photos, and of course, pictures of Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. The mag is out today so go grab one and send us some scans! LOL! Anyway, here’s an interview snippet of Brad Pitt:

Viv is proving to resemble Ange in spirit, attitude and physicality… And Knox, he’s a bit of me.”

Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline on PEOPLE!

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Finally the wait is over! Presenting the lovely fraternal twins of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt! WOOHOO! ^_^ The widely reported US publication that snagged the North American rights to publish the first photos of Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline is none other than PEOPLE — the very same magazine that got the exclusive to Shiloh Jolie-Pitt’s baby debut (she’s also in this cover! see top right insert photo). Anyway, you can get this fantabulous double issue magazine featuring the Jolie-Pitt twins tomorrow at newsstands =) Here are some snippets of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s interview with PEOPLE:

Angelina Jolie tells PEOPLE of daily life at the Château Miraval in Provence, France: “It is chaos, but we are managing it and having a wonderful time.”
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Brad Pitt adds: “[It’s] still a cuckoo’s nest.”
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Fortunately, they already have some household helpers, says Angie: “[Shiloh] and Z pick out [the twins‘] clothes and help change and hold them. It’s sweet – they are little mommies.” ^_^

Angie still can’t decide between Obama and McCain

angelina-jolie-changeling-cannes3.jpgThe pregnant actress recently told the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau in an interview: “Everyone thinks that I have made up my mind. But my decision is still very much open. I have listened very carefully for what Obama and McCain stand for, which is something that every voter should do. I will make my decision only after I know what both candidates plan to do in the areas that are important to me.” Of course, we all know what Angelina Jolie is interested in — refugees and Iraq. The Wanted actress said it is

“not possible right now to simply hand over the reins to the Iraqis and pull out. The U.S. has not only a moral obligation to help the Iraqi refugees, it is also a US national security interest to end this crisis.”

In the interview, Angelina Jolie also critized the Bush administration’s “highly questionable foreign policy,” but said that was not the reason why she and her family live mostly in France. She says, “French is the second language in our household, so it is good to be there right now.”

Angie on Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt and guns

We all know how the 33-year old actress was very thrilled to land a role in ‘Wanted’. And guess what? Angelina Jolie wants to make more action movies in the next few years. Apparently she hopes to follow in Harrison Ford’s (the aging Indiana Jones) footsteps by filming her own stunts for years to come. Angelina Jolie told MTV:

“I was itching to do something that was physical, because I had done some emotional films and I had been at home with the kids … I think there’s always going to be a side of me that wants to make action movies, you know, for as long as I can. Harrison Ford is doing it, and he’s doing it well. It looks like I’ve got some more time.”

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Aside from wanting to be like Indiana Jones, the pregnant actress also revealed to MTV that she loves “rolling around on the floor” with Brad Pitt. Angelina Jolie insists shooting steamy scenes with other Hollywood hunks will never compare to being with long-term partner Brad. Awww, too sweet! =) She says,

“Well, you know Brad was… I’ll always prefer rolling around on the floor with him than any other man. You know, in general.”

Angie - who plays an assassin in new movie ‘Wanted’ - also revealed she and Brad bonded over their love of guns and often go to the shooting range together. She explained:

“I mean, obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection or when it comes to just the skill of shooting. I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that. Brad and I both like it a lot. That is something we have in common.”

Angelina Jolie talks about her 6 kids

Pretty soon you’ll have six kids all under the age of 8. Have you thought about how you’re physically going to be able to handle that?

Well, we weren’t expecting twins! So it did shock us, and we jumped to six quickly. But we like a challenge. We really don’t know. His mom and dad are on standby to come out and help. And fortunately we can hire help if we need it, but we’re going to try as we usually do to balance it as well as we can. The only thing for us when a new child comes home is just balancing the others. Our real focus now is: How do we make sure that the babies’ coming is not upsetting to other kids and makes them feel included. They’re old enough to feel included to change diapers themselves, to feed bottles themselves, like if I pump into a bottle. We’re trying to find ways where it can be a fun group thing. But the hard thing is every single day trying to find time for each of them privately. ‘Cause that’s our big thing. With our eldest, we have that last half an hour at night; Shiloh tends to be the first up in the morning. Everybody gets special time so we can make sure we know where they’re at.

What would be your ideal way to spend a free Saturday?

I have a lot of those. Very simple things. On weekends we usually have family sleep. We always have one night a week where everybody stays up late, watches a movie, and stays in our bed. We have, like, a slumber party.

Is there intense competition among the kids as to who sleeps where?

Yeah, but it’s funny: The boys tend to want to be near Mommy [Angelina Jolie] and the girls tend to want to be near Daddy [Brad Pitt]. So it works out nicely.

What did you make of all the brouhaha over Jack Black’s spilling that you were having twins on the Today show?

Poor Jack! Immediately when he saw Brad, he apologized. But we both told him very clearly that we had only waited because, as you do with any baby, but especially twins, you wait until all results are in on their health, and that we were past that point and if somebody had asked me directly, I would have said yes. So he didn’t do anything but take the heat himself.

Angelina Jolie on EW’s cover!

angelina-jolie-ew2.jpgThat’s Entertainment Weekly magazine for you! And man, did Angelina Jolie gave a very candid interview to them! Yeah, she talked about how’s sex with Brad Pitt! And yes, they’re even doing it while she’s pregnant! LOL! Angie’s interview was done while she was checking out a window display of Corum watches at the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat in the south of France. Here are some delicious excerpts from Angie’s interview

On people saying being pregnant is bad for one’s sex life: “No, I think it’s quite the opposite. It’s great for the sex life. It just makes you a lot more creative. So you have fun, and as a woman you’re just so round and full.”

What would you say are the best and worst things about being pregnant? “It’s all just so nice. You just really can’t complain about anything as long as you know the babies are looking healthy. The only thing that’s hard for me now is with twins and having four kids, there’s a lot of the doctor saying ”Stop picking them up as much.” But we’ve worked out a system where Brad just lifts them to me every time they want to come up. I just don’t bend down. I’ll scream, ”Honey!” and he’ll come running and lift them up. Or they climb on chairs, so it’s not as big of a lift. So we’re trying to follow doctor’s orders, but I’m bending them a tiny bit.”

You and Brad aren’t married. How do you refer to each other? “We have that problem all the time. I say ”partner” sometimes. ”Father of my children” is too long. But half the time people refer to us as, ”So, your wife this, your husband that.” We’ve stopped correcting everybody. It’s not a big intentional thing not to marry. We immediately were a family when we became a couple, and children were the priority, and we’re both legally committed to the children. And that seemed to be the right thing.”

Angelina Jolie talks about Shiloh

brangelina-shiloh-bonpointfrance2.jpgWhen her twins will come, all her other four kids will surely be neglected by the media. So before everything goes to the way of the twins, Angelina Jolie shared her wonderful experience with her first natural-born kid, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt. Here’s what she shared:

“We were in this little hospital in Africa when Shi was born. I don’t think there was anybody else in the hospital. It was just a little cottage, the three of us. It ended up being the greatest thing. We had wonderful doctors and nurses. It was lovely, very personal, all three in this sweet room. We had an American doctor with us, who had met the Namibian doctors, and they worked in tandem because it was a C-section and my first and we didn’t know the country. He spent a few weeks with us. There was only one pediatrician in town, and one anesthesiologist, who had to come in for that—you have to plan it.”

As for Shiloh’s name, where did Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt got that? We all know that the actress named her three adopted kids with meaningful ones. Angie revealed,

“It’s a biblical name, but we didn’t name her for that. It was a name my parents almost named their first child—there was a miscarriage: Shiloh Baptist. Because my father had been shooting in Georgia and that was the most southern name [my parents] could come up with. It’s a name I always liked. I used to go under it in hotels: Shiloh Baptist. I’d gone under it when [Brad] called hotel rooms where I was staying.”

Angie confirmed she’s talking to her dad

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Jon Voight and her famous daughter have been estranged for quite awhile (nearly eight years, I think). But things have taken a rosier turn for Angelina Jolie and her actor-father. In her Vanity Fair interview, the pregnant actress said,

“We’ve decided not to be public about our relationship. [But] I will say we have spoken … and hadn’t spoken for six and a half years. Which is good. Or it needed to happen.”

But for those thinking that Angie and Jon have a father-daughter relationship now, well, it hasn’t really happened yet. The humanitarian actress revealed,

“We don’t really have a relationship, but we’re in contact. And wish each other well. I think we’ve realized there’s been too much discussion. Him discussing me publicly. I’ve had to comment on him. I think it’s best that, if we try to have any relationship in the future, we do it quietly.”

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