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They are just 3 weeks old, but twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline are about to take the world by storm.

In an exclusive interview and photos, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie offer PEOPLE an intimate look at their growing family.

“It is chaos, but we are managing it and having a wonderful time,” Jolie tells PEOPLE of daily life at the Château Miraval in Provence, France, where the couple’s four older children – Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 2 – have been enjoying a summer of outdoor play (hide-and-seek is a favorite) on the château’s sprawling grounds.

Adds Pitt: “[It’s] still a cuckoo’s nest.”

Fortunately, they already have some household helpers. “[Shiloh] and Z pick out [the twins’] clothes and help change and hold them,” says Jolie. “It’s sweet – they are little mommies.”

For the complete story, including 19 pages of intimate family photos and the full interview with Brad and Angelina, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Monday

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Angelina Jolie’s estranged father is surprised she became the mother of six young children.

“You know she wasn’t the kind that played with dolls and then all of the sudden she has all of these children,” actor Jon Voight, 69, said on Fox & Friends Thursday on the Fox News Channel.

“She loves kids though,” he added. “She’s very playful. It’s wonderful.”

Jolie and beau Brad Pitt welcomed twins Knox and Vivienne (conceived through in vitro) earlier this month. They join the pair’s adopted brood of Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and biological daughter Shiloh, 2.

And how are Jolie’s new twins Knox and Vivienne doing?

“They’re healthy and they’re doing well and I’m so happy,” Voight said. “And of course the parents are really happy and over the moon. It’s a wonderful time.”

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie might have just added two more kids to their growing family but a source close to the couple says that they have no plans to put the brakes on having biological children any time soon.

According to the source, Jolie plans on having “one more baby naturally—even if they end up having twins. (Twins) would be wonderful.”

Pitt has alluded to wanting to have enough kids to field a soccer team and according to the source, a brood of that size isn’t out of the question. “A dozen kids would be their dream,” says the source.

Hollywood-based clinical psychologist Dr. Michelle Golland, who doesn’t treat Jolie says that a family of this size is not normally what women desire. “There is not one mother that I know that would trade places with Angelina Jolie even if it meant they got to sleep with Brad Pitt,” Golland says.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have asked U2 frontman Bono to be the godfather of their newborn twins.

The couple, who welcomed the arrival of a baby boy and girl earlier this month, were thrilled when Bono immediately accepted their offer.

A source told the Sunday Mirror: “Brad and Angie think the world of Bono. They have been friends for years. Brad is a massive U2 fan and told Bono how much he admired him when they were introduced at a party a few years back.

“Since then, they’ve become very close, which Brad is thrilled about. Angelina is inspired by Bono’s humanitarian work and gets on with his wife Ali Hewson. Ali’s given Angelina some clothes from her ethical clothing range Edun.”

Brad and Angelina will make plans for a christening in the coming weeks. They have yet to agree on a godmother, but insiders suggest that Angelina wants to ask her ex-lover Jenny Shimzu to take on the role.

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BRAD PITT is threatening legal action against any publication which prints photos of his family at home in France.

The move comes after paparazzi photos of the movie star and his family relaxing at their summer retreat hit the internet earlier this week, and Pitt learned the bosses of the agency behind the shots were offering the images to tabloids.

Pitt’s lawyer, Yael Holtkamp, has served the agency with a cease and desist order, and claims the photos were “surreptitiously” taken by photographers with “highly powerful telephoto lenses”.

The shots feature Pitt with new mum Angelina Jolie, his parents and their children playing in the garden of their rented French chateau.

Pitt and Jolie chose to spend the summer at Chateau Miraval in Provence because of the privacy and exclusivity the wine resort offered.

Holtkamp insists the publication of the photos violates the family’s privacy rights.

The paparazzi agency behind the photos has already agreed to stop selling them and the images have been removed from its website.

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Angelina Jolie has left the building. Oh, and so have the twins. Before dawn Saturday, the Hollywood superstar and her newborn twins left the French Riviera hospital where she gave birth a week ago, the hospital said in a statement.

“The mother and her babies are doing very well,” reported the Fondation Lenval hospital, located in the southern Mediterranean city of Nice.

Jolie slipped out at 4 a.m. Saturday with the twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, deftly evading most of the paparazzi who have followed the family for months in southern France, ever since Jolie arrived for the Cannes film festival in May. It was not immediately clear if the twins’ father, actor Brad Pitt, was with them.

AP Television cameras outside the hospital filmed a large white van with tinted windows leaving one of the hospital’s back entrances at that time. No other vehicles left the hospital for the next several hours.

Jolie, 33, checked into the hospital on July 2 and delivered the babies by Cesarian section ten days later. Knox Leon weighed 5.03 pounds and the Vivienne Marcheline 5 pounds.

Jolie’s obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, told reporters after the birth that the 44-year-old Pitt was at Jolie’s side during the delivery, which he said had been pushed up from its originally planned date “for medical reasons” so the babies could be born “in the best conditions.”

The Jolie-Pitt clan had rented four rooms on the fifth floor of the maternity ward of the Lenval hospital, appropriately located on Nice’s beach-front California Avenue. The hospital had treated the mirrored blue windows of Jolie’s room, which looked out the Mediterranean, with a special material that blocked telephoto lenses from peering in.

Jolie managed to check into the hospital unobserved, reportedly arriving by helicopter on the hospital’s rooftop helipad. That fueled rumors she would also leave the clinic by helicopter,

In its statement, the Fondation Lenval thanked the Jolie-Pitts for choosing its hospital. It also thanked the hospital staff “for the attention and care they paid to the family” and the “journalists around the hospital who did their best to respect their privacy.”

The Nice-Matin newspaper has reported that an unnamed U.S. publication has paid $11 million for exclusive rights to the first photos of the Jolie-Pitt twins and that the proceeds will go to charity.

Jolie and Pitt have four other children - Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2. Before Jolie checked into the hospital in Nice, the family set up a household in Correns, 60 miles away.

Jolie’s latest film, the thriller “Wanted” with James McAvoy, has racked up $112 million in its first three weeks in the United States. The action flick - about a secret society of assassins stars Jolie as a gun-toting sexpot - opened last week in France.

The new mother also stars in director Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling,” a 1930s-era drama about a kidnapping that premiered at Cannes this year. Jolie also did voiceovers for the animated comedy “Kung Fu Panda,” which has brought in over $200 million this summer in U.S. ticket sales alone.