Angelina Jolie: Brad and Kids "Know All My Oddities"
Angelina Jolie once wore a vial of blood around her neck from ex husband Billy Bob Thornton. She made out with her brother James at the Oscars. And she has admitted to cutting herself.
Her partner Brad Pitt and six kids know of her sordid past -- and don't care.
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"Brad knows me completely, exactly as I am, every part of me. He loves me," Jolie tells the July 11 issue of Parade magazine. "The kids love me. They know all my flaws and all my oddities. And they accept them. And so I can feel complete."
The Salt star (out Friday), 35, explains her wild past: "I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life."
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By age 16, she had already graduated from Moreno High School in Beverly Hills ("It's where the bad kids go," she explains.) and moved out of her family home. "I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with," she says. "I was fearless."
Jolie goes on, "I used to cut myself or jump out of airplanes, trying to find something new to push up against because sometimes everything else felt too easy. I was searching for something deeper, something more. I tried everything. I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in."
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She points out one of her 13 tattoos -- an inscription on her arm -- and reads it. "The wild heart caged. I unlocked my cage years ago. I want my children to have that freedom. I want that for other people, too," she says.
Jolie says she and Pitt, 45, are still deeply in love after five years of dating.
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"I feel sad for someone who has never known love. Love elevates. You know, Brad would joke about me having this conversation about love. Love? It's such a funny word. Brad can find certain phrases of poetry for it. I'm terrible at it. But I know it means wanting the best for the people you love, putting their interests above your own, always. Love does that. Love is what you live for."
The interviewer says Jolie looks at him "like I am nuts" when he asks if they are just together for the sake of their children: Maddox, 8, Pax, 6, Zahara, 5, Shiloh, 4, and twins Knox and Vivienne Marcheline, 2.
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"The children certainly tie us together, but a relationship won't hold if it's only about the kids. You also must be really interested in each other and have a really, really wonderful, exciting time together. We do," she says. "Brad and I love being together. We enjoy it. We need it, and we always find that special time. We stay connected. We talk about it. It's very important. If Brad and I are strong and happy, then our kids have happy parents, and that's the best thing we can give them."
They split parenting duties.
"He takes the kids to school; he visits me on set with the kids. I'm home for dinner, or I'm there for breakfast. We're together all the time. We plan. Brad and I take time off between films to travel, have big experiences, do things together. That's how we work it out," Jolie says.
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Despite their globe-trotting charity efforts, the actress says she and Pitt are never "separated for more than three days, ever."
"We stay really connected. We actually don't go out much. It's funny. We're very homebound. We're very much Mommy and Daddy in our pajamas," she says.
Jolie tears up when discussing her mother Marcheline Bertrand, who died in 2007 at age 56 of ovarian cancer. "Forgive me... I loved her so much," she says while crying.
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"I remember Mother singing in church. How pretty she was! I lit candles with her. She said she had missed nothing in life except getting to know her grandchildren. When she passed away, I brought my son to church to light a candle for her," she says.
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136Brad and Angie love each other!!! THIRD WORLD CHILDREN HAVE NO CHANCE OF LIFE YOU DO NOT ADOPT BECAUSE THE CHILD IS AMERICAN I ADOPTED 4 KIDS FROM 4DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND WOULD NEVER ADOPT FROM THIS FORSAKEN PLACE. ON MY WAY TO HONG KONG.
Of course they know her oddities and accept them. They live with her. If they didn't accept her oddities they would leave. What a stupid article, and I have no intention of putting down good money for it.
What's funny is how negative people are when it comes to someone elses happiness. Sad.
she's a fame-wh0re, liar, and manipulator! when her mom was terminally ill, she was traveling the world trying to get pregnant by brad! when she was 16, she slept with her mothers boyfriend! and now she says that she "remembers her mother singing in church" yet she confessed to not believing in a god, religion or going to church. only stupid, ignorant people would call themselves a "fan" of this phony, trashy liar called angelina holie!
What is most surprising is that she has ever stepped foot in a church.
Some people don't need a marriage certificate to define their relationship.
omg she and brad are still in love after five years of dating? I don't get what she means? Dating to me means going to movies dinner the beach little day trips parties out with friends ect. It doesn't mean living together and having six kids.. She is so delusional she says her kids know all her oddities how is that possible? Does she sit around talking to them about how she used drugs and cut herself and slept around? She is out there promoting another dumb movie filled with more violence that our kids will see but hers will not, so she is trying to humanize herself so we will go buy a ticket. Not going to happen she is making Jennifer Aniston look so much more normal and even more Americas sweetheart than ever and Angie is even more weird and strange. just my opinion..
@sam, i'm assuming you have a boyfriend that refuses to marry you and you just saying that to make yourself feel better. the fact is, if a man truly loves you, he WILL marry you. look at simon cowell for example, he was with that terri girl for years and said that he NEVER wanted to marry anyone but the fact is that he just refused to marry HER! brad had kids with the first woman he met after he divorced jen, because that's what he wanted - kids! lol i bet if angie dies, brad will want to take his kids and go back to jen but it's too late, who wants that old billy goat
Some of you all really need to get off your high horses and actually READ. For some people, getting engaged and married isnt the biggest priority in their lives. Brad and Angie have said MULTIPLE times that they are in no rush to get married again - they have been there, done that. People crack me up - you say people have to get married to prove they really love each other, yet 50% of marriages end in divorce. Some people just have no desire to get married. Period. Grow up.
Looks like the photo of her statue at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. Too much botox, make up and photoshop.
Will you people get off of Angelina's case? She didn't "steal" or "seduce" Brad. If he wanted to be with Jennifer Aniston...then he would not have even considered leaving...it wouldn't have been an option. 2nd...NOBODY, outside of Brad and Jennifer, knows what was really wrong with their marriage. 3rd...Angelina is an entertainer who uses her celebrity to help others (she gives 1/3 of her salary to charity), she adopts kids from nations that others scorn and she uses her celebrity to highlight problems, like her work with the U.N. SO, until any of you are doing at least half of what she's done...BACK OFF! SHE'S AWESOME!
@Consult totally agree with you well said,five damn years still no ring that right their says alot YOU SUCK ANGIE !
Brad do us a favor and leave Angie she's got nothing to offer you but a bunch kids find yourself a real lady with class because the one your with has NONE what hasn't she done in her wacked ass life the best thing that ever happened to you was JEN A. but you had to "F" that up for a S.L.U.T thats fake inside and out you can do so much better it's still not to late !
So happy for you, for Brad and the Kids. God bless ur family always.
Wha! Wha! Wha! Bunch of whiney @ss losers who can't stand when others are obviously happy. Must hurt to be so envious. Self righteous @ssholes. For the dumb @sses who keep talking about homewrecking, no such thing idiots. As for the ones that say he sticks around for the kids, come on, you really believe your own bull. He's there because he truly loves her. I wish her all the happiness and all the love she deserves. JEALOUS PEOPLE!!!
Must say, this is one of the hottest pics I've seen of her. Fierce !!!!
I'd rather not find love if i had to seduce and lure someone's husband. may she end up in a psycho ward.
Love elemenates all things that consist of negative vibes singular vowels indented. finding mouth chews acroos the table repulsive and want buy time find happiness for what u luv to do
I do not think much of A Jolie or Brad Pitt. Fact is she messed with a married man, but is that a surprize to anyone? I mean she was always nuts, had no morals too start with. Why not adopt some kids from the good old USA? When I read about Jolie & Pitt and there mansions and all there money I could care less. In a world where people are losing jobs and there homes, who cares about those two. I am not interested in their political views either, there`s or any other of the stars in Hollywood. I am sick of the rich and famous and their views. Who the hell has time to care about " Why Brad and I are together" etc. Most people are more concerned if they will have a roof over their heads and food to feed their kids and money to pay their bills. To Brad and Angie I say " WHO CARES "
Poor Haters!