Angelina Jolie is a busy woman - besides acting and promoting her new flick Changeling, she's got six kids to look after, and although she does have help a couple of times a week, she and Brad do most of the hands-on themselves. How does Angie cope with fame and motherhood? And how do they give their children a sense of home even though they travel the world?
On Brad as a father:
"After the flight from Europe [to attend the premiere of The Changeling], we were all suffering a bit from jetlag. Although we went to bed early, [the kids] were up at 4:30 am goofing around.
"He [Brad] 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.
On their newest editions, Knox and Vivienne:
"It's twice as hard with two babies than with one. But it's twice as much fun, too." Angelina loves watching her babies.
"When you look at them, it's like they were made for each other. They smile at each other, sniff each other, touch each other. It's just beautiful.
"They're totally sweet. Knox is more the quiet one, very relaxed, while Viv is a little more aggressive and loud. It's funny. Knox looks more like Brad and Viv more like me."
How they explain the paparazzi to their children:
"We usually says that mommy and daddy make movies - that there's nothing special or different about us. It's just the fact that we happen to make movies, so people take pictures. It's one of those things that you can't really explain. Zahara hates photography. It makes her very nervous when she's in the car. A lot of people say to us that she looks very serious. It's because she's actually upset when there's a camera near her. She doesn't like it. Shiloh tends to wave (laughter).
"But it scares them sometimes. We don't want them in situations where they're in a park and they're going to get too many people around them. I wish there was a law that restricts the proximity that a photographer can have to the children. You have a long enough lens. I don't understand why they can get this close to a kid's face in a stroller. It doesn't make sense to me, because I think it's pyschologocially damaging for the children! But that's another fight."
How they give their kids a sense of home when they travel the world:
"They have special things they take with them. The trick for us is, we do have places that we consider home. We have most of our stuff, our books there. We tell them that this is home. We always come back to this. But, they're really great travelers. We travel so much, and we're such a big family that they immediately take over an empty room and it's their home. They fill it up with certain things that we know they love. We try to have those there, but we also don't want to buy a bunch of new things every time we go to a place. They bring a bag which they've packed with whatever they choose to bring to the next place. We have a lot of the same storybooks and things like that.
"Mad has a lot of little army men and military planes. Pax has rope and little stuffed monkeys. Zee Zee has a blanket that was once pink, but is now the dirtiest shade of brown you can imagine. Shiloh has little silkies. They're like these square things with silk on them that she has to have. Knox and Viv don't have their things yet, but I'm sure you'll hear about it when they do."
How the older kids are doing with the new editions to the family:
"Brad is an amazing, dedicated father. It’s absolute chaos but the kids are really forming beautiful relationships. They (the older kids) are very loving [towards] the babies. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we’re not working right now. We’ve had the kids home schooled. We’ve been together all the time. We haven’t gone away or spent too much time with the babies. Everybody’s getting a lot of time, so everybody’s doing pretty good."
On what Angelina wants the most:
“I would like to have more freedom, especially to have the chance to be more spontaneous with my kids. 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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