In a recent interview with German Vanity Fair, Angelina Jolie talked about the things she likes about  presidential candidate Barack Obama.
“Obama is fighting for international justice, he wants to intervene militarily in genocides abroad, and he wants to close down Guantanamo Bay,” she said. “They are things which could move me to vote for him, not his roots. Of course, an American president like Barack Obama would be great for my family.”

As if we didn’t know parenting twins is tough.
“It’s a damned arduous business, and we are often simply whacked out because it is twice as hard with two babies as with one. But it also makes for double the fun. After we flew back from Europe, we were all suffering a bit from jetlag. We were all in bed early, but at half past four, they were awake and making a real racket.  Brad took care of them. He said to me, ‘Go back to sleep, you’re back to work in the morning,’ and moved into the kids’ room with them. He is an astounding father, full of devotion.”

The twins have a special bond.
“When you see them, you think they were made for each other. They laugh together, they sniff each other, touch each other. It is beautiful.”

On being famous family.
“Would I like to be able to walk through the streets with my kids? Of course. Would I like to be able to wander around Manhattan and buy them an ice cream like other mothers? Of course. But it is not possible. On the other hand, every morning I wake up with the people who are the most dear to me in the whole world. That’s why I don’t feel isolated from that, which is important to me. It helps, of course, that Brad knows all about it, but he’s experienced it even more than me. We often talk about it and try to make the best of things. But I am very grateful for our life and everything that we have.”

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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.

This summer we learned that Brad Pitt had shot a family photo spread for W magazine. Life&Style Magazine has confirmed one of the photos will show Angelina breastfeeding one of the twins.

“Angelina posed for Brad [Pitt] in one of the photos while breast-feeding,” the source revealed to Life & Style. “It’s really beautiful and tastefully done.” They’re scheduled to appear in W’s November issue which is scheduled to hit newsstands on Oct. 21.

This weekend Angelina said that breastfeeding has a been a large part of her C-section recovery.  The March of Dimes reports that 77 percent of women breastfeed their child for any length of time. Forty percent of those women were still breastfeeding their children at six months. Quotes from Angelina suggest that she breastfed Shiloh for about a year.

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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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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I don’t usually post solo Brad sightings(I leave that to the intrepid Randi at Brad Pitt Watch) but in light of all the Roseanna Barr controversy from August I thought this was kind of interesting.  Roseanne was up in arms because Angelina had not selected a presidential candidate at that point. (Rosie thinks Angie should support Barack.)

Angelina might not have decided but it seems Brad sure has.  Earlier today he was spotted cycling near the family’s New Orlean’s home with a “with a drawing of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on the cover.” Brad and Barack are actually ninth cousins related through a Virginian named Edwin Hickman who died in 1718. I checked out campaign donations and neither Brad or Angelina have made any campaign donations for the presidential election.

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Hollywood is already buzzing that Changeling might be nab another Oscar for Angelina Jolie.

The Hollywood Reporters says:

“Jolie completely shuns her movie star image to play a woman whose confidence in everything she thinks she knows is shaken to its very core. She can appear vulnerable and steadfast in the same moment. This woman has a depth she herself has never explored.”

Emanuel Levy says:

“The collaboration of Eastwood with his long-time crew of cinematographer Tom Stern and editor Joel Cox, screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski (who comes from journalism and TV) and actress Angelina Jolie, who gives a strong dramatic performance, results in one of the more enjoyable films to be seen in Cannes Fest. The world premiere I attended was greeted with lengthy standing ovation and hearty applause.”

Dave Karger EW wonders if this scene will be the one Universal submits for Angie’s Oscar.

There are lots of rumors floating around that Angelina did not attend Thursday’s Changeling press conference.  She actually did.

The belief that she’d be present had been fueled by comments from a spokesman for the Toronto International Film Festival, who suggested last month that TIFF passed on showcasing “Changeling” because Jolie couldn’t be present for the gala premiere.

Clint Eastwood responded that there was never a plan for Angelina to attend the press event but she did manage to make it.

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