Angelina: Brad Changed My Mind About Getting Pregnant

Staunch adoption advocate Angelina Jolie says she never intended to get pregnant - but beau Brad Pitt helped change her mind.

"I think one of the life changing things that he did, one of many, is that I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do," Jolie, 33, says in November's W, which features photos taken by Pitt of her breastfeeding. "Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here."

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After adopting Maddox, Zahara and Pax, "[Brad] stopped talking about having other kids in the other way [by natural birth]. So I suppose in my heart, I realized that he was happy with them as his children, completely," Jolie says in the interview, as excerpted by Access Hollywood.

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"I knew he would never see them as different, and that gave me a certain peace. Then I suppose I just looked at him and loved him and just felt open to [getting pregnant]. I suddenly wanted to. It's one of those things you can't explain," she adds.

Of Pitt, she says, "I do think that I'm in a good partnership now... I think it just needed to be the right man.

"It's not just that I love being in Brad's company, which obviously I do, but it's that we both roll up our sleeves and take on what we care about in the same way," she adds. "I have a lot of respect for him, and he helps me to be better and fight hard for things that I love."

Jolie -- who gave birth to twins in July, two years after welcoming daughter Shiloh -- describes newborn Knox as "very chill" and says he "loves music" like his dad. Vivienne is a "studier" and "more demanding," she says in the interview, as excerpted by Entertainment Tonight.

Of her post-pregnancy body -- which, Us Weekly reports in its latest issue, is the result of a healthy new diet -- Jolie tells W: "I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken and what it has created. He genuinely sees it that way. So I genuinely feel sexier."

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Jolie also weighs in on the staggering $14 million media outlets paid for the first shots of her twin babies.

"There's nothing to say other than it's bizarre," say the actress, who donated the money to their charitable foundation. "But we're happy that we have our hands on it to distribute it to people we think are worthy, rather than some paparazzi."


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