Expectant Angelina Jolie has opened up about her pregnancy for the first time, telling People magazine she recently “felt kicking suddenly” while discussing Iraq education policy in Washington D.C.

U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie was in Washington D.C. this week to discuss Iraq education policy when she “suddenly felt kicking” Tuesday as she talked before the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jolie confessed this to People, making it the first time she talks about her pregnancy with the media. “It is a very special time in our lives,” she confessed to the magazine.

The 32-year-old mother of four brought sons Maddox, 6, and Pax, 4, with her to the nation’s capital. She will be in D.C. all week before re-joining Brad Pitt and their daughters Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 1, People reports.

Jolie talked about her two visits to Iraq and about her new initiative, Education Partnership for Children of Conflict. She described EPCC as “a center that helps raise awareness and coordinate all the various efforts of people working towards education for children of conflict.”

“The best way to heal children of conflict from trauma is to have them focus on their future,” the humanitarian said.

In early February, Jolie, who is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, joined under secretary of State Paula Dobriansky on a US government mission with the State Department to Iraq, “to learn more about the humanitarian crisis and the 4 million displaced people, 58 percent of whom are under 12,” her philanthropic adviser, Trevor Neilson, said at the time.

Jolie fearlessly mingled with American troops at a US military base in the high-security Green Zone in central Baghdad and met with Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Jolie and Pitt are already parents to a happy brood of four:  Cambodian-born Maddox, 6; Ethiopian-born Zahara, 2; Vietnamese-born Pax Thien, 3; and biological daughter Shiloh, born in Namibia in May 2006. The couple’s adoption of Pax Thien was made official in February.

While speculation regarding a new adoption for the couple is always blooming and has momentarily been put to rest by Jolie’s growing baby bump, rumors that she and Pitt are expecting twins or that they plan to have the baby in France are still in the air.