Angelina Jolie Says She and Kids Make a Team Together: ‘I’m Very Fortunate’ – Angelina Jolie can rely on her tight-knit family unit.
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The Those Who Wish Me Dead actress told E! News’s Daily Pop about being a parent of six kids, explaining that at this point, her children take care of her as well. Jolie is mom to Maddox, 19, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 12.
“I’m very fortunate, I have six very capable children,” says Jolie. “Of course you wake up and you just feel like, ‘I’ve got to make sure they’re okay. I’ve got to make sure they’re mentally okay,’ but honestly I think a few years ago it switched and they’re thinking, ‘I’ve got to make sure mom’s okay!’ “
“They take really good care of me, and we’re such a team,” she adds, “so I am very, very lucky. I worry — I’m always the one that worries — but I adore them. They’re cool people.”
In the March issue of British Vogue, Jolie said it’s a “big deal” in her mind if her kids “accept me.” She explained, “I mean, that’s the thing for a lot of mothers, and for a lot of parents regardless. But I think even more so if you have adopted children. They have to choose you too. It’s not the parents’ family and they’re in it. It’s ourfamily.”
Jolie also offered advice to other parents hoping to raise socially conscious humans.
“I know this may sound strange, but don’t make it a duty for them to do good or have to give back,” she said. “If we can help children feel that it’s not about duty or service or charity, but the joy of an interconnected life with people you respect, then it feels very different.”
Called “America’s Number ONE Gossip Columnist” by The National Enquirer. Rob ‘Naughty But Nice’ Shuter breaks celebrity news every day on his website NaughtyGossip.com where he delivers all the dish about the stars we love in his naughty but nice signature style. You can also catch him co-hosting and breaking celebrity news on Good Day New York, The Today Show, The Talk, Wendy Williams Show, CNN, Extra and Z100’s ‘Elvis Duran.’ Previously, Rob was the Huffington Post’s only celebrity columnist and the former executive editor of OK! Magazine. Rob has also hosted his own Saturday night talk show on Mark Cuban’s channel and his own daily morning show, ‘The Gossip Table,’ on VH1! Breaking some of the biggest entertainment stories, including Jamie Lynn Spears’s pregnancy news, Britney’s first post-meltdown interview, Eva Longoria’s wedding, and baby exclusives for Jessica Alba, Tori Spelling and Mathew McConaughey’s tots, Rob always knows where to find the best scoop. Before Rob was one of the world’s most successful entertainment reporters, he was a publicist working for Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys, P. Diddy, Jessica Simpson and Jon Bon Jovi! Now he is bringing all this experience to his new show on I HEART MEDIA in his unique cheeky way, that is always a pinch and never a punch!
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