Angelina Jolie says she's striving for balance
In a candid new interview with Entertainment Weekly, actress Angelina Jolie spoke at length about her four children with partner Brad Pitt — and their two babies-on-the-way. Although the couple "weren’t expecting twins," Angelina revealed, they "like a challenge." Should that challenge become too overwhelming, Angelina said she has help available in many forms.
[Brad's] 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.
Speaking of balance, a priority for the 33-year-old is making sure the twins’ siblings — Maddox Chivan, 6 ½, Pax Thien, 4 ½, Zahara Marley, 3 ½ and Shiloh Nouvel, 2 — are at ease with the newest additions to their family. Angelina thinks that the age range will be beneficial, and they’ll continue to carve out one-on-one time with each child throughout the day. She said,
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.
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Angelina scoffed at the notion that pregnancy is bad for the sex life, telling Entertainment Weekly she thinks 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.
As for Jack Black, who accidentally dropped the twins bombshell during a Today show appearance alongside his Kung Fu Panda co-star, Angelina said she harbors no ill will.
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.
Source: Entertainment Weekly; Cover courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.
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. As much as I used to not care for her, I really like her as a mother. At least from what we read of her.
