Angelina Jolie Watch

The first picture of Brad Pitt’s photos of Angelina Jolie for W magazine have surfaced along with snippets of the W interview.

Here’s what she say about the intimate portraits:
“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. He genuinely sees it that way. So I genuinely feel even sexier.”

About deciding to give birth to children:
“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. I suppose I just looked at him and loved him and just felt open to (getting pregnant). I suddenly wanted to. It’s one of those things you can’t explain.”

About giving birth to three of her six children:
“I wouldn’t trade that experience for the world. 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.

About her relationship with Brad:
“I do think that I’m in a good partnership now. I think it just needed to be the right man.”

You can just make out a little hand in the picture.  I wonder which of the twins it is.  I can’t wait to see the rest of the photos.  Looks like Brad did a fantastic job.  This interview will reveal a lot about the family.  Kudos to our favorite couple for sharing their lives with us.

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Angelina reveals in an Parade magazine interview that maternal instincts lead her to adopt Maddox. She met him once before she actually knew she would adopt him, “When I met my son Maddox, I went to Cambodia and left feeling I’d left something behind.” She returned the the country on a humanitarian mission, “… I felt, ‘My son’s here.’ It was the strangest feeling. I woke up that morning thinking, ‘They’re going to introduce me to my kid today and I wonder how I’m going to feel.’ And the moment I saw Maddox I knew I was his mother. I can’t explain it.”

Angelina adopted Maddox while she was still married to Billy Bob Thorton but she recieved sole custody of him. Angelina has said that she Maddox’s relationship with Brad help cement their relationship. He actually started calling Brad without their suggestion that he do so.

Okay yesterday they were in New Orleans and couple of days before that they were in New York and few days before that they were Germany and now they’ve returned to France.  Brad and Angie touched down at the Nice airport today with all six kids.  Brad and Angelina will soon return to Germany for Brad’s Inglorious Bastards’ shoot. Brad is southern character will be one of the only English speaking rolls in the film.

According to IMDB, to Angie is next slated to star in The Mercenary: Love and Honor. Angelina plays Catherine the Great who’s been asked “to provide twenty thousand Russian soldiers to help put down the resistance in America.” An American emissary is sent to squash the deal and the two fall in love. The moveis based on Love and Honor by Randall Wallace.

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Angelina and Brad took their two oldest kids to New Orleans Ninth Ward for a look around The Make it Right site  In case you’ve forgotten, Make It Right is the charity founded by Brad Pitt to help rebuild the Katrina devastated Lower 9th Ward.  Make It Right are green and affordable.   The goal of the group is to build 150 homes.  This week Brad announced that Make it Right has raised enough funds to build 90 houses.

Looks like they are off to a good start. Brad and Angelina took some time to chat with locals and of course cuddle up.

Angelina has said that she and Brad will expose the kids to all families charitable endeavors with hopes that the kids follow in their footsteps.

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The family is having a grand old time in the Big Apple. Friday, Angelina took the three oldest kids to Lee’s Art Shop. Angie and kids always hit up Lee’s when they are in New York.   Lee’s is a four story Manhattan landmark that features every art supply under the sun.  They’ve even got a remodeled toy department on the second floor. Click on the pics below to make them larger.

Friday night Angelina attended a Changeling Dinner at Il Bucco. For the occasion she rocked out a gray trench that matched her eyes. I really like her hair a bit longer with just a hint of curl.

Il Bucco is a well known Italian restaurant that was actually started by and independent filmmaker. Though Angie attended solo she was joined by the rest of the Changeling cast.

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According to the Rocky Mountain News, Angelina and Brad may host a charity event during the Democratic National Convention which will be held in Denver August 25-28. The couple is supposedly in talks with “a local promoter” about the event. No word on what charity it will benefit or if the event is part of the official festivities. If Brad and Angie are taking advantage of all the big wigs in town. My guess is the latter. If this is things comes off, they’ll have the full attention of lots of deep pocket big wigs. They could collect a tidy sum for charity. If I had to take a guess, and this is only a guess, I’d guess the event will benefit rebuilding New Orleans.

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In other news, Maddox celebrated his 7th birthday on Tuesday. To celebrate he spent the entire day with dad racing go-karts. “It was just Maddox and Brad,” says a source. “Just father-son time.” Even though dad has more real life experience it was Maddox who crossed the finish line first. Mom stayed home to watch the rest of the brood. Luckily she has help because I can’t imagine taking care of three-week-old twins and 3 kids under five. Kudos to any of you out there who has.

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In still other news Brad’s been cast in Quentin Tarantino’s World War II action-drama Inglorious Bastards,. Brad is set to play “play a Southern rebel who assembles a team of eight prisoners-turned-soldiers to battle the Nazis.” Filming starts on October 13th in Germany. I guess that means the family are hunkered down in Europe for a bit longer.

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Brad and kids spent some time at Bono’s home in Eze, France on Tuesday. Brad can be seen swinging Pax in the air. You can just make out the top of Zahara and Pax’s head. Brad’s also talking to DeNiro’s wife Grace Hightower. The couple brought brought along 12-year-old twins Julian and Aaron(there mom is DeNiro’s ex Tookie Smith) and son Elliot, 10.

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Angelina got a visit from the girls yesterday and Maddox today. (Shiloh is so cute. She’s holding on to her dollies for dear life. While Maddox is rocking the blond again. He’s such a rocker.)

According to a French newspaper, Angie is on fifth floor of the hospital with an unobstructed view of the Bay of Angels. The paper also says that Angie has reserved four rooms on the maternity ward and has at least one bodyguard on the floor.

The Fondation Lenval ” is a 133-bed hospital in Nice, France, that specializes in the care of children and teens. Established in 1884, it has a history of treating children whose parents do not have the resources for medical care.” Angie’s probably paying about $200 a night for each room.

The girls road with dad to see mom while Maddox traveled with a bodyguard. The French publication also reports that Angie arrived by helicopter.

There are some pics floating around the internet that are supposedly of Angie showing her pregnant belly.  There appears to be a Brad-looking person standing next to her.  It really doesn’t look like her to me.  The hair is all wrong(doesn’t this woman have light hair?) and the guy doesn’t look as buff as Brad.  Also doesn’t she have tattoo on her pelvis?  Wouldn’t we see it peaking out? Where’s her C-Section scar.  I doubt she’d flash reporters after going through all the trouble to have her doc hold a press conference.  Seems weird to me but maybe Angie was having some fun with the paps.  What do you guys think?

More snippets from Angelina’s July Vanity Fair interview have been released. Check out the the groovy green wig.  The photos were taken on January 31 before Angie was showing.

On naming their youngest Shiloh:

“It’s a biblical name,�? she told me, “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.

On how how she’s exposing her children to different religions:

“[My mother] was Catholic but also a child of the 60s. She stopped going to confession at one point because she was having sex before marriage. To me, she represented what religion should be. She never preached. If things didn’t make sense to her, she never just accepted it. I had Communion, but she never forced me to go to church. Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It’s a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That’s how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We’ll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We’ll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We’ll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.�?

On Brad Pitt coming into her life unexpectedly:

“After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn’t looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don’t see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in the movies.”

You can read the entire interview  HERE.

Also check out snaps of Brad and Maddox hanging out at the Grand Prix in Italy.  Obviously those babies haven’t been born because Brad wouldn’t be away from his family.

Angelina, Brad, Maddox and Shiloh were spotted today shopping in Cannes at the trendy Bonpoint children’s boutique. The family bought white, white and more white for the twins in sizes ranging from 1-3 months. There’s lot of speculation on the sex of the babies. According to Fox News, Angelina confirmed that she’s having fraternal twins.

Fox News’ Roger Friedman says that Angelina told him that there was a line on the sonagram that indicated the her babies were not perfect copies of one another. Neither Brad nor Angie have confirmed the sex of the baby. People says that Angie and Brad have no idea what sex the babies are. An employee asked if Angie was expecting boys or girls, she replied, “I don’t know yet – we don’t want to know.”

I suspect that Angie and Brad know the sex of the babies. I’m sure they’d like to keep something private. Lord knows everything in their lives is for public consumption. Click on the pictures to enlarge.

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Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Maddox and Pax returned from today’s sail. You can just make out out Pax’s feet behind the guy in the brown pants. Maddox is getting so tall. He won’t be able to swing between mom and dad much longer. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge images.

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The family is really enjoying their mini-break. Today Angelina, Brad and the boys were spotted enjoying Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s yacht Tatoosh. The couple is already partaking of Allen’s Villa Maryland in St. Jean Cap Ferrat.

Tatoosh was purchased by Allen in 2001 for $100 million. It features:

• Five decks

• a master suite, a saloon and other rooms on the top deck;

• a saloon with a French limestone fireplace, a dining area, staterooms and a ladies’ powder room on the main deck

• a lobster tank

• a shaded six-foot deep swimming pool

• a movie theater

• facilities to transport two helicopters on the top two decks

The boat was presumably named for Tatoosh Island off the coast of Washington State.

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Angie, Brad, Maddox and Pax were in Grasse, France yesterday for a routine sonogram. Apparently they want the kids to feel included as the family grows.

“Angie was due for a scan and they thought it would be cool to do it on Mother’s Day and take Maddox and Pax along to see the twins for themselves on the sonogram machine,” a source told E! News.

“Brad and Angelina are very big on explaining things in a very simple way to their kids and they want the kids to feel included in the process of her pregnancy. Having them see the babies for themselves was a really exciting day out for them all.”

The family grabbed some chow from a local Mickey D’s and headed back home. Today Brad, Pax and Maddox are in Monaco with the family lawyer. Perhaps they’ve settled on a house.

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The family has been busy. After spending some time in Monaco, Angelina, Brad, Zahara, Shiloh and Maddox hung out with the Edge from U2(aka David Howell Evan) earlier today. Brad and David helped Angie sit or get up…I’m not sure which. While Angie rested, the menfolk took played in the water with the tots. Love the multi-colored frock that Angie is wearing. There are also some blurry shots of the family having breakfast on Sunday morning. Angelina is toting a slick doed Shiloh while Pappa Pit is shirtless. Good times.

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Angelina and Maddox were spotted Tuesday in the France hanging out on the porch of Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen’s Villa Maryland in St. Jean Cap Ferrat. That’s where the family is staying at least until the Cannes Film Festival or until Angie give birth. I wondered why Angelina was wearing a wrap so I checked the whether along France’s south coast. It’s could feel a bit nippy to some. The low is 53 degrees Fahrenheit.