Angelina Jolie continues her rounds of the press to promote
Kung Fu Panda and
Wanted. While she was at the Cannes Film Festival last week, the busy mom and actress sat down with the
Sydney Morning Herald to give a revealing interview about her family, pregnancy, and
Some highlights from the interview:
On her pregnancy:“So far I’m just fine. Everybody said I didn’t have to come, but I was feeling all right. It’s not such hard work. I’m sitting and talking a lot and everybody is being nice to me. If anything, being pregnant and not working I’ve had more time to read and study, to do all those things that I don’t when I’m working.”
On not gaining much weight during her pregnancies: “It’s genetics. Dad’s a lanky person. I’m actually trying to put on as much weight as possible so I can stretch, you know. I want as much room as possible.”
On rumors of marriage plans: “I turned on the news and heard we were getting married, and thought, ‘That’s odd’! You know, we’re not against it; it’s not something we’re making a stand about or are scared of. It’s just not felt necessary. We’ve both been married before and I think we feel like we are together because we want to be. We want to raise these children together; we’re committed to them and that’s the priority. It’s not about some contract binding us to have to be dedicated to each other, but that we were going to start building this family and be close just because we are. So we don’t need to do it but one day we will. Maybe if the kids start asking - they’ll probably be the ones to make the decision.”
On true beauty: “I don’t take it seriously at all and I never listen to it. I look in the mirror and I see my mum and I see my little daughter. Like everybody, there are things about myself that I don’t like. I don’t want to point out my flaws. I have them, but right now in my life I have a really good partner and somebody who makes me feel that even when I’ve got the flu and I’m sick or if I’ve just had my C-section in the hospital when I had Shiloh, he makes me feel beautiful. I think there is a lot to being supported and loved. You know, my kids make me feel beautiful. True beauty is when you’ve really found something inside yourself that you’re at peace with and the people around you are as well.”
On choosing Brad Pitt as her partner:“I actually was dead set against being with another actor before I met Brad. Oh my God, yeah, yeah. I was sure it was going to be a doctor in the field or some kind of human rights activist. The last thing I wanted was the epitome of the attractive male movie star.”
On managing work and their family: “We take turns working so one of us is always at home and when we work we limit the hours. We don’t work on weekends. We make sure both of us are at home for at least breakfast or dinner. We adjust everything around family and we’re lucky that we can. I feel for mothers who give birth and have to go to work immediately. We can bring our kids to work, and we only work four months of the year.”
On her special relationship to France and setting up a home there: "It was a dream of my mother’s to live in France. Brad and I are taking French lessons. There’s something to the language that my mother spoke a bit, and her parents spoke, and she always wanted me and my children to speak.”
On her relationship with father Jon Voight: "I think sometimes you have to distance yourself from relationships you feel are unhealthy for you. But we have spoken recently and we are going to try to get to know each other and maybe try not to be this daddy and daughter, but to be there for each other as friends in the coming years."
On plans for more kids: “We keep thinking, ‘is there ever going to be a time when we don’t have kids in the house?’ Maybe we’ll eventually start a foster home or something. We have a clinic that handles children so there are ways of looking after kids without actually physically having them in your home and we’re doing more and more of that. But I think we will adopt again. I’d like to do it again.”
Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
Despite a flurry of online reports that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may have welcomed their twins, People magazine has confirmed that the story is false.
