Brad And Angelina's Twins: Photos, Details, IVF Denial

People magazine has published the $14 million photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's weeks-old twins, Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon.

The cover shows Pitt and Jolie snuggling the babies in a photo taken last week at the Chateau Miraval in Provence, France, where the Jolie-Pitt clan have hunkered down in recent months. There is also a shot of the couple's 2-year-old daughter Shiloh holding Vivienne.

The twins were born July 12 in Nice, France. They are the latest additions to the ever-expanding Jolie-Pitt family, which also includes 7-year-old Maddox, 4-year-old Pax and 3-year-old Zahara.

"It is chaos, but we are managing it and having a wonderful time," Jolie, 33, is quoted as telling People

"Shiloh calls them her babies. She and Z pick out their clothes and help change and hold them. It's sweet _ they are little mommies," Jolie tells the magazine, to which Pitt, 44, adds: "This is Mad's fourth/fifth time becoming an older bro. He's asking us when we can have more."

Jolie says she and Pitt were "in shock and could not stop laughing" when they learned they were having twins, and denied speculation that they had conceived the children through in-vitro fertilization.

"If they had been conceived through IVF, we would have been happy to discuss it," she says. "But we have been fortunate never to have had fertility problems."

As for the twins' personalities, Pitt says, "Viv is proving to resemble Ange in spirit, attitude and physicality. And Knox, a bit of me."

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The photos were published in an issue of People on newsstands Monday. The cover was posted Sunday on the magazine's Web site.

The photos fetched $14 million, a person involved in the negotiations told The Associated Press on Friday, giving People and the British tabloid Hello! joint rights to publish the most expensive celebrity pictures ever sold.

The person asked not to be named because he was not authorized to release the figure.

The money _ more than double the $6 million People paid for Jennifer Lopez's twins on a March cover, according to Forbes _ will go to a foundation created by Pitt and Jolie that largely focuses on helping children around the world.

Comments

[monakimona]

ok, a couple of ps notes, and then I'm done. I'm sorta stunned..!
**To the weirdo who said ...Angelina pumping out babies like a farm animal ...wha?? Birthing 3 kids in your 30s is wrong? They have lots of kids because they've ADOPTED most of them. Is loving children a crime? Better to boost the gene pool with intellegence and talent, than to populate the world with offspring of parents who don't want them, can't use a condom, or afford to care for them
***To the person that said ...people should only have one child .....huh? Move to China.
***To someone who mentioned that Jolie had them "cut out" (??) ....hey ignorant person: it's called a cesarean, named for Caesar (no, not the guy who invented the salad), and it's been going on long time now. It saves mothers' and children's lives...especially when they're breech, or under great stress, as with multiple births
***To those who still feel sorry for Jennifer ....isn' t it obvious that these two are the real thing? No one can "steal your man" if he's getting what he needs. He might stray, but he won't leave. If getting millions for a photo shoot is so bloody immoral, try this: wasn't Jennifer getting a MILLION PER EPISODE for her "Friends" part. For what? Being cute? Certainly not for acting! what's immoral anyway?
Hey...............Hollywood is Hollywood.............. We see what THEY want us to see...............
...........but we also see what WE want to see.

[shedances]

For sure, Hollywood is 'a world unto itself' (LOL). Most people, I think, understand this difference from everyday life ... but it does seem to overly-influence some people. Remember, for example, when many young teen girls idolized Brittany Spears and adopted her clothing & style? Yet, look how she's turned out (despite her Disney beginnings)! And so many other actors & actresses lives are not as they seem. That's in part why I would not judge Angelina Jolie's motherhood desires or abilities by the way that publications like People Mag. arrange their photo shoots. It's meant to sell, first & foremost ... not to be realistic, necessarily.

[monakimona]

It seems to me that most of you people are Not getting the point....or Points. First of all, these two rather extraordinary people make an exorbitant amount of money because of YOU folks. YOU are the reason they are millionaires. Second....they are at the very least, putting some of their millions to good use. In New Orleans projects, in their newly formed Organization to help children, in their travels and spreading awareness, using their celebrity status. If you could get 14 million for a photo shoot, don't kid yourself.....you would! And what would YOU do with that money? Would YOU give it all away, to help homeless children? Really? .....And Third.....,.and gee, I sure wish you folks would get a clue.....providing a wonderful home and life to a few lost children....while having a few of their own. Now what's wrong with that, can you tell me? And if you did all these things, along with having a serious career, you'd likely choose to have a little Help. Seems to me they've chosen to take the High Road, and are pursuing Home, a Committed Relationship, Family, and Sharing, whilst doing their best to Raise Consciousness in the world. They can't help it if they're rich and beautiful, talented and intellegent, focused and disciplined. We all could learn a thing or two from this Power Couple. Jealousy and Envy are not pretty things.

[shedances]

Let's talk reality here. First off, no one is begrudging states like Louisiana or Mississippi the financial help they badly need. That has never been the point of anyone's concerns over the celebrity-marketing of people like Angelina Jolie. Secondly, they have never given "it all away," as you put it. They are incredibly wealthy, and have money to burn (so to speak ... LOL). For some, like myself, the true test of generosity is when you give though you have little to spare. I don't see Jolie or Pitt in that category. I am glad, however, for the help & attention they are giving to areas like the Darfur region of Sudan, etc. But they are not the only celebrities involved in causes across the globe and Jolie isn't the only celebrity involved with the UN (see Drew Barrymore's work with the food program there).

I grew up seeing some of Jolie's antics when she was younger, in magazines & on the news. I thoguht she was a bit strange, to put it mildly. And I think she's been working very hard to promote a new, cleaner, more mother-type image than her days of cutting, talking about her bisexuality, and psychiatric hospital stay following a breakdown. In a way, she needs someone like Pitt to keep her from regressing, IMHO.

Thanks for reading my opinions! Also, Happycat, pls. ignore grandky's odd comments ... she's just trying to get a rise out of you, I believe.

[monakimona]

well, I never said "they gave it all away" ... I was speaking of the photo shoot money, which so many people seem to have a problem with. I am of course aware that they are
not the Only Celebrities to donate money or energy. Good on all of them! On Jolie's early "antics", hey....who hasn't done stupid things? especially when young? Maybe her Change is a sign of growth and maturity, not necessarily some "image work"....I just wish folks would give them the benefit of the doubt...

[happycat]

You are right! Unfortunately, last night she succeeded.

[marymansour]

I enjoyed your opinions, she dances. For from disliking philanthropists and concerned celebrities, as accused, I admire those like Mia Farrar and George Clooney who are deeply involved in the atrocities being done in Darfur and Sudan. Paul Newman is one that has quietly supported and benefited cancer research through his food line, even having a camp for pediatric cancer victims. There are many other celebrities who QUIETLY support worthy causes. My hats off to them too.

[CKieffer]

Putting aside the obscene money they earn (and yes, you are absolutely correct that we are the engine driving that issue) for their movies, I am going to stand up and say, as a parent, I totally disagree with how they are behaving.

1) The easiest part is getting the child. The hardest parts are the boring moments when, as parents, we have to focus on consistency, schedules, etc., etc.
2) The easy part is the under two period. The hardest parts are to come and this mass collection of children is addictive in nature and that fits her past behavior patterns.
3) The easy part is moving around to new places with new excitement. The hardest part is staying in one place while your children establish relationships with friends, routines, stay in one school, etc., etc. (Travel has to be balanced with the necessity of letting your children develop relationships, etc.)
Finally, as many famous actors have shown, there is not an automatic inclusion of their children in the public eye just because they are famous. The fact is that Jolie and Pitt thrust their children in front of the public eye constantly and it is very bizarre. .

I do not care what they did with the money from those photos - - it is not money they needed or that they could not have donated to their own foundation on their own -- it is selling your children and is offensive no matter who does it.

[shedances]

Good post, CKeiffer ~ I agree completely!

[happycat]

Very well said!

[lisakaz2]

Congrats to 'em. I don't get the IVF thing. Just because they had twins? Like twins aren't even natural? Sheesh

[happycat]

After reading more of GrandyK's posts it is clear to me that she is either Angelina Jolie herself, or Angelina Jolie 's #1 stalker. Either way, I am done responding to anymore of her endless assertions, accusations and arguments.

[GrandyK]

LOL! Oh, pobrecita "happycat!!" What a convenient way of getting out of proving your insane charges about the Jolie-Pitts. Dave Chappelle really called it -- if you don't want to deal with a person's substance just call them crazy. You're a real class act "happydance.!!

[happycat]

oh just shut the f**k already!

[mkam39]

I have read a few of the negatives about Brad and Angelina. Let me have a say as a citizen of Louisiana who is knowledgable of the good these two people have done. New Orleans would not be "coming back" if it were not for their efforts and support. Many in New Orleans can tell you about seeing Brad, Angie, and the kids out and about in the city. Their neighbors love them and are sad when they leave. Forget the media idiots. We have come to know them as good people who are very caring about this world. They do not put on "airs." I am happy to welcome the twins, and wish them well. I like Brad and Angelina because they do good works with their money. Most of you have no idea how much they give each year. God bless them.

[shedances]

There are beautiful babies the world over. It's absolutely foolish for a magazine to pay millions for these pics ... or for the parents to agree to sell those photos to begin with, IMO. Until she began her charitable work, Angelina Jolie led an unremarkable past life (some of it, very disturbing). It's hard (and unrealistic, I would argue) to see her now as an angelic mother, after all she's said and done in the past. BTW, why does GrandyK's posts calling commentors 'hateful' or 'spewing hate' never get deleted? I am curious.

[happycat]

Thank Goodness you are here "shedances"!!! As you can see things have gotten a little bit crazy here the last couple of nights!!!

[GrandyK]

That's been my experience "mkam". Every time I go to NOLA in the last 2 years, I hear some tale of Angelina helping out someone or some school and it is cool to see the progress at makeitrightnola.org.

I hope some of the money their foundation is getting for the photos of their twins can complete the funding for the rest of the houses Brad proposed for the Lower 9th.

[verdugo60]

yawn...

[Aesthete]

I'm not fooled. You know you're interested or you would not have posted at all.

[SlippingInTheDip]

comment posted and blocked in 10 seconds...

[SlippingInTheDip]

The baby PuP is smiling...he's smiling cause of all the people who paid double to buy the Magizine so his Mommie can buy more eggs.

[GrandyK]

The baby smiling is a girl.

[marymansour]

Did you check her diaper to see?

[progressivelady]

Is the war over?

[CKieffer]

This is going to be my last post under this topic because I sat very still for quite some time when I opened up the HuffPo front page and saw the photo of two helmets, two guns and two pair of boots with the "mile-marker" of 500 deaths in Afghanistan.

Two young men... two families... countless friends.... and $14 million for photos of two privileged babies... I think we have given this absurdity more than the attention it deserves.

Wishing everyone all the best ~~~ See you all on the flip side

[CKieffer]

Whew... Atlas has shrugged the world right back in order... 275 posts and GrandyK is back up at 13.5% of the posts. My money is on her being above 15% by the morning.

Meanwhile, her knowledge of their tax information, the number of trespassing attempts on their property, that there was a child in the breech position and most telling... Brad's complete quote versus the abbreviated version printed in People... I have figured it out - - it was done in the Library using a laptop by GrandyK aka Jolie.

(And, that dear HuffPo friends is the absolute most sane answer I can propose since anything else would imply a degree of fan-atical devotion that freaks me out a bit.)

[marymansour]

CKieffer, you have nailed it for the evening. This has been one long summer evening's convertible ride, hasn't it? Either Grandyk has racked up the bucks and invitations from the AJ/BP camp or we have just been on a hayride. Fun and games to all.

[happycat]

Here Here!!! I'll drink to that!

[GrandyK]

Why shouldn't I post countering your hateful bile, CKeiffer? Free world -- free internet. Your backslapping applause for SliipngInTheDip, happycat, marymansour for their hate spewing is noted. I guess we all know here your priorities lie.

[SlippingInTheDip]

GrandyK...I'm not "hate spewing", just telling it like it is, after checking the facts on the net. Not from what People Mag or any othe Mag might print.

[happycat]

GrandyK, I am sorry that you have taken my comments regarding Angelina Jolie so personally. I have never seen such fanatical devotion to a celebrity before. Remember, that this is the Huffington Post, and we are all entitled to our opinions even if they don't mesh with yours.
I am going to take CKeiffer's advice and focus on more pressing issues that concern our country more than Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, and I am also going to be grateful that I have a great husband and kids who keep me happy and fulfilled so that I don't have to live through some sketchy celebrity!
Have a good day!

[patianneb]

It's extremely silly but also sweet that Pitt is assigning personality traits to 3-4 week olds. Everybody knows newborns are exquisitely beautiful ugly little things that poop and cry, guzzle and burp and when they are not doing any of the above, sleep. That's it. From my point of view that's enough.
Anything else is parental conceit.
As I said: Silly but sweet

[shedances]

I noticed that, too, about Brad Pitt's comment to People Magazine (lol).

[GrandyK]

Well sure -- but God forbid you should call them "blobs" -- or even "real little things."

[GrandyK]

When did Angelina ever say she did it on her own. She has always said just the opposite. You must have her mixed up with Jennifer Lopez who tells the press she doesn't have a nanny but is out clubbing with her hubby in their Rolls-Royce. what do they do leave the babies in the back seat with the chauffeur. AJ just talked about their three nannies before the twins were born and also said she hadn't hired a baby nurse yet when they were interviewed at Cannes FF.

[spiritos]

NO, actually Jolie repeatedly said how she is happy to be at home taking care of her children. And she has said, 'on her own'.

She's known for speaking out of both sides of the toungue, anyhows.

[GrandyK]

AJ's not known for speaking out of bot sides of "the tongue." Quite the opposite. TAJ also said they had three helpers, so go figure. I trust Aj far more than I trust one of her internet haters.

[GrandyK]

So I am just over achieving -- catch up!

[SlippingInTheDip]

I hear the "Dog Whisperer" is on his way to Nice to housetrain the PuPs.

[happycat]

Snicker!

[marymansour]

The madness goes on, Happy. I tuned in to see the latest. Glad I did. Church is on Sundays, Grandyk. I think the Brangelina Church of the Reproductive's services are at 9 am.

[CrabbyGolightly]

At first, Crabby fell into the camp that thought Brad Pitt wasn't wrong to jettison his "best friend" Jennifer Aniston in exchange for dark angel Angelina Jolie, rumored to have teased Brad mercilessly on the set of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." He took his time deciding whether to ditch the wife, with BFF Courtney Cox and hubby David Arquette admitting that Pitt resisted the temptation as long as he could.

But am I the only one who thinks that these two narciccus are out of control? Collecting babies like they're puppies? Cavorting around the world with children in tow? Selling baby pictures for $14 million? Posing for dollars in the current People magazine? Does the word "over-exposed" mean anything to these two? Does the word 'decorum' hold any meaning for this gypsy woman? Or is the world one big mirror through which they can arouse themselves?

We are thrilled, overjoyed, orgasmic (cause isn't that how they want us to be?) that the world now has improved DNA through the blessed births of Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox. Now, Brad, Angelina, go away, will you? Please? And a special aside to Jennifer: forget the ring, get on John Mayer's stick and cook up a baby. Mayer's a tall cutie and you can make a beautiful baby. And when the Jolie-Pitt kids start getting arrested for driving drunk at 14, you'll thank your lucky stars that God blessed you with normalcy.

CrabbyGolightly.com

[happycat]

There are alot of us who feel the same way you do about Jolie and Pitt, and now more of us have crawled out of our caves to express those thoughts!!! Thanks Crabby!

[spiritos]

LMAO, thumbs up!