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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to adopt child number seven
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-10-17 10:45 Hollywood superstars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are planning to adopt a seventh child.
Jolie said the wheels are already in motion but the couple will wait until their twins turn six months old in January before adding to the family. Asked by US television show Today host Matt Lauer if there were plans to adopt more children, the actress nodded. When Lauer asked: "Do you have anything in mind?" she smiled and replied: "Yeah." The adoption could be only months away, Jolie suggested. "It depends, you can't even start the process until any new children are six months old to understand how the new family has settled, and to see what you can absorb... I think that's a smart thing," she said. She added that the other children were unfazed by their rapidly expanding family: "We have so many children that they are not really stunned any more when kids come home." The couple have three adopted children: Maddox, seven, from Cambodia, Pax, four, from Vietnam and Zahara, three, from Ethiopia. They also have two-year-old biological daughter, Shiloh, while twins Vivienne and Knox arrived in July. The four oldest children are besotted with the twins, Jolie said. "Mad is like the professional big brother, he's done it so many times. We prepared them, we talked to them about it, they knew it was coming and they are all at that great age where they are not threatened. "They are independent enough to not need Mommy and Daddy all the time and to be able to enjoy the kids. They play with them, they change their diapers and they call them 'their babies' and dress them up." Elsewhere in the interview, Jolie spoke of her love for Pitt. "I've met the right person. I don't like being without him, I don't love being alone like I used to," she said. |
