ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What would you say are the best and worst things about being pregnant?
ANGELINA JOLIE: It's all just so nice. You just really can't complain about anything as long as you know the babies are looking healthy. The only thing that's hard for me now is with twins and having four kids, there's a lot of the doctor saying ''Stop picking them up as much.'' But we've worked out a system where Brad just lifts them to me every time they want to come up. I just don't bend down. I'll scream, ''Honey!'' and he'll come running and lift them up. Or they climb on chairs, so it's not as big of a lift. So we're trying to follow doctor's orders, but I'm bending them a tiny bit.
I've heard people say it's bad for the sex life.
No, I think it's quite the opposite. It's great for the sex life. It just makes you a lot more creative. So you have fun, and as a woman you're just so round and full.
Pretty soon you'll have six kids all under the age of 8. Have you thought about how you're physically going to be able to handle that?
Well, we weren't expecting twins! So it did shock us, and we jumped to six quickly. But we like a challenge. We really don't know. His mom and dad are on standby to come out and help. And fortunately we can hire help if we need it, but we're going to try as we usually do to balance it as well as we can. The only thing for us when a new child comes home is just balancing the others. Our real focus now is: How do we make sure that the babies' coming is not upsetting to other kids and makes them feel included. They're old enough to feel included to change diapers themselves, to feed bottles themselves, like if I pump into a bottle. We're trying to find ways where it can be a fun group thing. But the hard thing is every single day trying to find time for each of them privately. 'Cause that's our big thing. With our eldest, we have that last half an hour at night; Shiloh tends to be the first up in the morning. Everybody gets special time so we can make sure we know where they're at.
What did you make of all the brouhaha over Jack Black's spilling that you were having twins on the Today show?
Poor Jack! Immediately when he saw Brad, he apologized. But we both told him very clearly that we had only waited because, as you do with any baby, but especially twins, you wait until all results are in on their health, and that we were past that point and if somebody had asked me directly, I would have said yes. So he didn't do anything but take the heat himself.
You and Brad aren't married. How do you refer to each other?
We have that problem all the time. I say ''partner'' sometimes. ''Father of my children'' is too long. But half the time people refer to us as, ''So, your wife this, your husband that.'' We've stopped correcting everybody. It's not a big intentional thing not to marry. We immediately were a family when we became a couple, and children were the priority, and we're both legally committed to the children. And that seemed to be the right thing.
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