WEB EXCLUSIVE - At home with the Jolie-Pitts: An intimate look inside the couple's family album

Shunning her high-glamour red carpet looks, with her unbrushed hair flowing over her shoulders, Angelina Jolie gazes into the eyes of her two-year-old daughter Shiloh.

Beside her, sucking his thumb like many four-year-olds do, is her son Pax, snuggled into his mother's side while covered in face and body paint.

This touching image is just one of several taken by doting dad Brad Pitt for an intimate portrait of the couple's family life.


Far from the frantic chaos you would imagine would be in a house of six children aged seven and under, Angelina is seen relaxed and happy as she spends time with her brood.

Brad has made his photography debut shooting his seven favourite things in the world - Angelina and their six children - for America's W magazine.

The publication commissioned Brad to do the photos - which accompanied a revealing interview by the Oscar-winning actress - at the couple's rented home in the south of France.

Taken just seven weeks after the birth of the couple's twins Knox and Vivienne, Angelina is a picture of contentment as she enthuses about the joys of parenthood.

Using no-longer-produced Kodak Tech Pan film specially flown in Tel Aviv, Brad captured the real family life of the Jolie-Pitt clan in black or white.

In one astonishingly intimate shot, Angelina gazes into the camera while breast-feeding one of the couple's twins.

With her hair flowing naturally over her shoulder, a tiny hand is seen clutching Angelina's breasts as they feed.

In another image, Angelina channels Seventies glamour as she stands in a floppy black hat and sunglasses, while clutching one of the twins in a sling.
Often portrayed as a sex symbol in her public life, Angelina shows her fun side as she larks around for the cameras in the unguarded shots.

In one photograph, Angelina sits in a white linen dresses giggling at her oldest son Maddox, seven, who is in fits of laughter over a private joke between the pair.

Another image, the Mr & Mrs Smith actress purses her famous lips into 'fish lips' as she plays up to the camera.

While Angelina appears smiling in most of the images, one of the shots seem to feature her unprepared.
Biting into a hamburger, Angelina looks like she is an unwilling subject on the camera during her mealtime.

In the accompanying interview, the 33-year-old actress admitted she had brought her son Maddox shopping for knives.

She said: 'We take him to a special shop. We also talk about samurais and the idea about defending someone as good. We talk about everything.'

She added it is something of a family tradition - her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, had taken her shopping for a knife when she was just 11.

She added: 'I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me.'

The couple, who have been dating since 2005, have three adopted children and three biological, and have recently admitted they want to adopt more.

They are parents to Cambodian Maddox, seven; Vietnamese Pax Thien, four; Ethiopian Zahara Marley, three; Shiloh Nouvel, two; and twins Knox and Vivienne, three months.