Angelina Jolie says her family is her top priority

Angelina Jolie says that her priorities have changed from career to motherhood since giving birth to twins in July. “The kids are my priority, so it’s possible that from now on I will make fewer movies. I may even stop altogether,” Jolie tells the Italian edition of Vanity Fair. “I no longer have the ambition I had in my 20s.”

Jolie, 33, who spoke to the magazine while promoting her new movie Changeling, says that as she has had more children, she’s come into her own as a mother. “In reality my life is a lot more chaotic and adventurous now. Brad [Pitt] and I pilot airplanes, we travel non-stop, we go to difficult places and we have chosen to do it taking all of the kids with us,” said the mother of six. “I feel a lot braver now than when I was an angry young woman.”

Of her past, she says, “I knew little about the world and I was completely self-absorbed. It was only when I came out of my shell and started taking care of others that I found the real Angelina.” Jolie says her children have inherited her taste for globe-trotting. “Sure I am still restless, but do you know that my kids are the same way? We were in France these last few months and after a while they started asking when we could get back on a plane.”

That curiosity about the world is a value she wants her kids to maintain throughout their lives. “I want them to be able to walk through a marketplace in Adis Ababa and not bat and eye, not think it is dirty and ugly, but that it just represents another part of the world and humanity.”

[From People]

Jolie admits there’s a chance she and partner Brad Pitt will get married in the future, but she says it’ll probably be due to questions from their kids. They ask her why Shrek and Fiona are married but there own parents aren’t. And it’s a fair questions: Shrek and Fiona’s biggest obstacles were their unattractive looks. You’d think that if they could manage to get over it and see what’s on the inside, Brad and Angie could too. I’m kidding, naturally. Except about Brad. That guy is hard to look at.

I think Angelina describes a feeling a lot of women deal with as they have children. The question of if you should worry about some company that doesn’t care about you versus spending time raising your child seems like a rather moot one at times. In Angelina’s case she doesn’t exactly have to stress about the financial ramifications and can just do what suits her best. And that’s one of the ways she’s luckiest of all.

Here’s Angelina and Maddox and Pax in New Orleans on the 7th. Images thanks to Fame.

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