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Wow. There is an absolutely amazing interview that Angelina did with the Philippine Daily Inquirer. She talks about everything from working to her children - here are a few snippits:

What are the joys and difficulties of having twin babies? How are the other kids relating to the twins?

It’s great. Yeah, during hair and make-up [sessions], I had one [baby] on each [arm]. It’s so much fun. It’s hard work and we’re exhausted. Two is twice as hard but twice as fun. Like this morning, we all had jet lag so we tried to get to bed at a decent hour. Then about 4:30 in the morning, everybody started to wake up and Brad took them for me. He said, “You’ve got to work so I’ll take it on” and he went out. I just heard chaos in the living room for about four hours. I tried to sleep but I kept wondering what was happening.

Brad is an amazing, dedicated father. It’s absolute chaos but the kids are really forming beautiful relationships. They (the older kids) are very loving [towards] the babies. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we’re not working right now. We’ve had the kids home schooled. We’ve been together all the time. We haven’t gone away or spent too much time with the babies. Everybody’s getting a lot of time, so everybody’s doing pretty good.

Tell us more about the twins.

Knox and Viv are the sweetest little things—to see them together is just something else. They lie down next to each other a lot. They respond to each other—more so now. They’re starting to smile a lot. It’s funny that Knox looks like Brad and Viv looks a bit like me. They’re good babies. We’re very lucky. The trick in having six is, once you pass three or four, it gets so crazy, anyway, that there’s just more chaos—and it’s okay.

So, you’re not done yet?

No. (Please imagine Randi doing a little dance of joy after hearing this - thank you!)

Read more below:

You have become one of the most famous women on earth. It’s not that easy for you to be just Angelina and have that access to people.

I do wish I had more freedom to do things, especially with the children. But I feel blessed every day. I wake up and I live with my favorite people in the world. They’re the funniest people I’ve ever met. He (Brad) is my best friend and we have a big, loud, busy family so I certainly don’t feel isolated from what’s important to me. I do have dear friends and people I work with.

I want my children to have more freedom. Hopefully, we’ll be less in the public eye as they grow up and they’ll have more of that (freedom). I live with Brad who’s had more to deal with. We share that. We find a way to just make it fine and fun. We’re grateful for life, for everything we get to have. Do I wish I could just walk down the street with my kids? Sure, yeah. Go out with them, get an ice cream and pretzels in Manhattan like my mom did with me— but I can’t.

What do you tell your children about the photographers hounding them all the time?

We usually say that mommy and daddy make movies—that there’s nothing special or different about us. It’s just the fact that we happen to make movies, so people take pictures. It’s one of those things that you can’t really explain. Zahara hates photography. It makes her very nervous when she’s in the car. A lot of people say to us that she looks very serious. It’s because she’s actually upset when there’s a camera near her. She doesn’t like it. Shiloh tends to wave (laughter).

But, it scares them sometimes. We don’t want them in situations where they’re in a park and they’re going to get too many people around them. I wish there was a law that restricts the proximity that a photographer can have to the children. You have a long enough lens. I don’t understand why they can get this close to a kid’s face in a stroller. It doesn’t make sense to me, because I think it’s psychologically damaging for the children! But, that’s another fight.

How do you establish a sense of home for the children when you go to a new place?

They have special things they take with them. The trick with us is, we do have places that we consider home. We have most of our stuff, our books there. We tell them that this is home. We always come back to this. But, they’re really great travelers. We travel so much, and we’re such a big family that they immediately take over an empty room and it’s their home. They fill it up with certain things that we know they love. We try to have those there, but we also don’t want to buy a bunch of new things every time we go to a place. They bring a bag which they’ve packed with whatever they choose to bring to the next place. We have a lot of the same storybooks and things like that.

Mad has a lot of little army men and military planes. Pax has rope and little stuffed monkeys. Zee Zee has a blanket that was once pink, but is now the dirtiest shade of brown you can imagine. Shiloh has little silkies. They’re like these square things with silk on them that she has to have. Knox and Viv don’t have their things yet, but I’m sure you’ll hear about it when they do.

Brad said sometime ago that you will get married when restrictions on who can marry whom are dropped. If Proposition 8 is defeated, wouldn’t that put you on the spot and you would have to get married?

Ask Brad (laughter).

Are you planning to return to work?

I’m looking at something at the end of February, but there was a big discussion in the house—should I go back to work at all? It would have been over a year since I last worked. But, he was just wonderfully supportive and said, “We’re here, and we’re great. The babies will be sitting up and hanging out in your trailer. It’s going to be all right. The kids are at school, and they will come visit.” We’re trying to balance it all.

For the rest of the interviews you can go here and here.

And don’t forget to come back tomorrow morning for the big announcement about the giveaway!!