Angelina Jolie Says She And Brad Pitt Are 'Raising Confident Children'
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Angelina Jolie says she's raising "confident children."The 40-year-old actress/director, who has six kids -- Maddox, 14, Pax, 12, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 9, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 7 -- with husband Brad Pitt, told Britain's OK! magazine (via the Belfast Telegraph), "As a parent, you want to create a safe, happy environment where your children feel loved and secure, it builds their self-confidence and that's going to help them deal with the problems they'll face later in life." She continued, "I'm very honest with them and I often talk to them about serious issues, so they're not scared by things they don't understand. I want them to be able to explore their own imaginations. Brad and I want them to grow up ready to deal with the real world and know that we'll always be there to support them." After Knox and Vivienne were born, "The first year was the toughest because I wasn't able to spend as much time with our children as I had before," Jolie said. "But Brad was great about looking after them and making sure mummy would get enough sleep and that everything was OK in the house. It was beautiful to watch him being so caring and generous, even though I could see how exhausted he was at times." Asked on "The Today Show" last week if her kids will follow in her and Pitt's acting footsteps, Jolie said, "I hope not!" "We've always said if they're going to be actors I hope they do something [else first] and then be actors," she said.The four youngest children nonetheless contributed animal noises for Jolie's new film "Kung Fu Panda 3." Jolie said "they took it very seriously.""They came in and said, 'I don't know if I could do this. I'm not sure if I can do this,'" she said, "but they really took it seriously as a job and getting it right and not doing a bad job."
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