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Angelina Jolie: Brad Pitt & I Have a "Long Life Ahead of Us"
Thursday October 9, 2008


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Angelina Jolie is opening up about how her children keep her grounded, her future with Brad Pitt and how she has managed to stay friends with all of her exes.

"I have two [divorces] behind me but I'm still good friends with both my exes, Billy Bob and Jonny Lee [Miller]," Jolie, 33, says in Jeanne Wolf’s Celebrity PARADE column on Parade.com .

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"I've never had to deal with secrets from the men in my life because I've always married artists and they're a very talkative and expressive bunch," she adds. "I wouldn't have it any other way."

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Her relationship with Pitt (who snapped the W magazine cover of Jolie breast-feeding, left) is no different, Jolie says.

"I don't want to spend my life pretending to be somebody else, and I don't want the person next to me to have to pretend ever, because we have a long life ahead of us," Jolie explains. "So you just want to be able to be who you are in every moment, and that's the only way you'll ever be truly happy."

Another way Jolie finds inner peace: her children.

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"I'm just a mom and I'm very grounded by my family," she says. "I'm very happy, and I'm so lucky.

"The world can like me, hate me, fall apart around me, and at least, you know, I wake up with my little kids and I'm happy," she adds.

In her new movie, Changeling (out Oct. 24 in limited release), Jolie stars in the true story of a 1920s mom who realizes police have returned the wrong missing son to her. The corrupt government then tries to keep the truth from her.

Playing the role, Jolie says, was more "devastating" than her turn as Marianne Pearl in A Mighty Heart.

"Certainly, Mariane Pearl lost her husband in the most horrific way. But I think even she might agree that the loss of a child and not knowing where they are or what is happening to them is probably the absolute worst thing in the world," she says.

"As a mother, it was harder for me imagining that somebody was abusing my child while they were wondering why mommy wasn't coming to save them," she adds. "As a mother, that's just the worst possible scenario. So this film was very, very painful.

And how does Jolie keep her own children safe?

"We have a high-profile family, but I don't want my children to be scared when we have to quickly get into the car because some person is running at us with a camera or something," she says. "It is a fine line of wanting them to be aware of strangers but not making them afraid. I suppose that, like with everything with children, it's just communication and being honest with them."

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