Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt have been
presented to the world via People magazine, who reportedly shelled out some $14
million in order to create a 19-page family photo album available on newsstands
Monday, Aug. 4.
Can you imagine the ohs and ahs going on around the world as
person after person lays their eyes on the cuteness and cuddliness that is a
glowing Angelina Jolie holding three-week-old twins Knox Leon and Vivienne
Marcheline in her arms while an emotional Brad Pitt looks on at them with love?
People magazine managed what many others wanted, some quite
desperately, and even more than some dreamed of: the magazine promises a
“complete story,” 19 pages of intimate family photos and a nice long interview with Brad Pitt and
Angelina Jolie in tis new special double issue.
Snippets
offered online Sunday evening have the parents of six describing their growing
household as chaotic yet manageable.
Mom,
dad and brood, now including the lovely twins born July 12 by
caesarean section, at the Lenval Hospital in southern France,
currently live in the Château Miraval in Provence,
France.
The media frenzy regarding the pregnancy and then the birth
has been out of this world, with paparazzi going as far as trespassing the
family’s private property in order to snatch photos of the twins, of Maddox, of
Shiloh, of anybody resembling a Jolie-Pitt!
One such adventure ended with arrests last month for two intrepid
photographers who were wearing camouflage gear and attacked bodyguards when
they were discovered lurking around the grounds.
“It is chaos, but we are managing it and having a wonderful
time,” Angelina Jolie told people, focusing on the joys of parenthood and of
sharing the twin addition to the family with older children Maddox, 6, Pax, 4,
Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 2.
Shiloh is the couple’s only other biological child, born May
2006 in Namibia.
Maddox, the first child adopted by Angelina Jolie (while she was still married
to actor Billy Bob Thornton), is a Cambodian native, while Zahara comes from Ethiopia and Pax
is Vietnamese-born.
The cover of the special issue focusing on the Jolie-Pitt
family also features little Shiloh holding
sister Vivienne in her tiny arms.
The proud parents reveal the children love playing outdoors,
with hide and seek being a favorite pastime. Pitt describes their home as
“still a cuckoo’s nest.”
Chaotic as it may be at times, the family is united,
especially when it comes to taking care of the newborns. “[Shiloh]
and Z pick out [the twins’] clothes and help change and hold them,” says the
33-year-old mother. “It’s sweet – they are little mommies.”
Further delicious information is to be learned from within
the issue’s pages. People magazine has not confirmed or commented on reports
that it paid $14 million for the exclusive photos.
People magazine received joint rights to publish the photos
with British magazine Hello!. The money is reported to be given to charity,
through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
An anonymous source confirmed the $14 million deal, the most
expensive celebrity baby photos ever taken, to the Associated Press.
People is slowly
making a habit of offering the world a first look at a Jolie-Pitt baby, after Shiloh
appeared on the cover with mom and dad in 2006, for a reported $4 million
donation.