Angelina Jolie: 'The Happiest Mommy'

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Actress Angelina Jolie speaks about balancing her movie star status and motherhood and says she feels fortunate that she can spend quality time with her children while also enjoying a successful career. 

"I've been lucky to have a great career and a lot of success. But I wake up every day, just the happiest mommy. I'm so lucky, and I don't want to miss school lunches and things like that," Jolie tells ABC for an interview to air on tonight's "Nightline." 

The actress also reveals how she was initially reluctant to take on her role in 'Changeling' because just reading the script about a woman whose son is kidnapped gave her insomnia as she pondered whether something similar could happen to one of her six children. 

"I read it and when I first read it I said no. And I said I wanted to stay away from it because I couldn't sleep the night I read it. Just the thought of anything happening to my kids is something I didn't want to think about. But I couldn't forget her and that she's this real person, she's this real woman that went through this," Jolie says.

Published 2/3/09 by the Insider

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  • What a hypicrite this AJ is - she is never with kids, doesn't talk to her father - and now these big words, anyway she did so much more low things than this - that i am not surprised, i can't see how people can still idiolize her. however i never...
    Anonymous 5/27/09 Reply
  • we need more movies that based on real people. angelina you are an amazing person
    Anonymous 2/12/09 Reply
  • These are the sort of pictures we love to see. Why is it the media always put on sad pictures of Angie and the children. This is the true Angie when she is with her children. LOVE IT YOU ALL LOOK SO HAPPY AND AT PEACE.
    SupahShawty 2/12/09 Reply
  • These are the sort of pictures we love to see. Why is it the media always put on sad pictures of Angie and the children. This is the true Angie when she is with her children. LOVE IT YOU ALL LOOK SO HAPPY AND AT PEACE.
    SupahShawty 2/12/09 Reply
  • i love you i love you angelina
    Anonymous 2/5/09 Reply
  • SHE DOESNT LOVE SHILOH N I BET U SHE DOSNT LOVE THE TWINS. SHE ONLY LOVES ADOPTED KIDS
    Anonymous 2/5/09 Reply
  • SHE DOESNT LOVE SHILOH N I BET U SHE DOSNT LOVE THE TWINS. SHE ONLY LOVES ADOPTED KIDS
    Anonymous 2/5/09 Reply
  • i luv her eyes and lips i think i jealous Mr. Smith...lol from kevin...... Ghana/Africa
    Anonymous 2/5/09 Reply
    • Anyone who makes negative comments about her, is probably 100% UGLY, LONELY, FAT, DEPRESSED, A LOSER, NO FRIENDS!!! Get my drift!! Good thing we can't see your picture displayed. hahahaha Too bad it's always these type of haters who make the...
      Anonymous 2/5/09
  • Glamorous
    MichaelF14 2/5/09 Reply
  • shes starting to loked old and withered like a mother lol...so much for laura croft..
    Anonymous 2/5/09 Reply
  • how many children ago did she say the same thing, about slowing down and did a movie while carrying shiloh.
    Anonymous 2/4/09 Reply
  • You so right.. Brad was the one who left Jen.. Their marriage was coming to a end before their started filming Mr & Mrs Jones.. If anything Jen should be angry at Brad.. But instead she is still running to him for advise on all her new...
    Baja 2/4/09 Reply
  • first of all Ange didnt steal any1 Brat is a big boy n she didnt hold a gun to his head.so Jen shud b angry at brat.n enough already its been yrs since the break up ,they have kids for goodnesake Jen shud snap out of it
    Anonymous 2/4/09 Reply
  • JUST QUIT ACTING ALREADY SO WE ARE NOT FORCED TO SSEE OR LISTEN TO YOUR B/S ANYMORE
    Anonymous 2/4/09 Reply
  • Thanks to Brangelina haters, the more they diss the couple, the more popular they will be. So keep on dissing and keep them in the limelight.
    Anonymous 2/4/09 Reply