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We’ve already seen the baby pictures - now see the photo of Angelina Jolie apparently breastfeeding on the cover of W magazine.

Jolie appears on the cover of the W’s November issue in a sleeveless top, which has been opened to reveal part of her left breast and a tiny hand ostensibly belonging to one of her twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, who were born in July.

The black-and-white photo shows Jolie smiling, her long brown hair cascading over her shoulder. The cover headline promises exclusive “private photos” of the 33-year-old actress by her partner Brad Pitt.

Jolie last caused a stir when she wore a white nursing bra underneath her tank top on the cover of People magazine after she and Pitt welcomed daughter Shiloh, now 2 years old.

Another breast-feeding cover that got people talking was in the summer of 2006, when Babytalk magazine published a photo of a baby and part of a woman’s breast in profile. The magazine conducted a poll of more than 4,000 readers; a quarter of responses were negative, finding the photo inappropriate.

La Leche League International, the world’s oldest breast-feeding support organization, applauds Jolie’s apparent decision to be photographed nursing.

“Breast-feeding in public reveals a whole lot less than what has been revealed on the red carpet. … I think we do need more role models like Angelina Jolie willing to be photographed and say, `Hey look, it can be done, it oughta be done,’” said La Leche spokeswoman Jane Crouse.

Besides Shiloh and the twins, Pitt and Jolie also are parents to three adopted children: Maddox, 7, from Cambodia; Pax, 4, from Vietnam; Zahara, 3, from Ethiopia.

Exclusive photos of the Jolie-Pitt clan have fetched millions of dollars. Last summer, People magazine and the British tabloid Hello! paid $14 million in a joint deal to publish the first shots of the family with newborn Knox and Vivienne. Jolie and Pitt allowed such access in exchange for a donation to charity.

Jolie, who won a supporting actress Academy Award for 1999’s “Girl, Interrupted,” has drawn Oscar buzz for Clint Eastwood’s missing-child drama “Changeling,” slated for release Oct. 24.

Pitt portrays a fitness club dimwit in Joel and Ethan Coen’s recent comedy “Burn After Reading,” co-starring George Clooney, John Malkovich and Frances McDormand.

Angelina Jolie says she had only intended to adopt children – until her love for Brad Pitt changed 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, tells W magazine, in an article featuring photos taken by Pitt of her breastfeeding.

But when she saw Pitt, 44, with adopted children Maddox and Zahara, “I knew that he would never see them as different, and that gave me a certain peace,” Jolie says.

“I suppose I just looked at him and loved him and just felt open to (getting pregnant),” she says. “I suddenly wanted to. It’s one of those things you can’t explain.”

Now, after having three children with Pitt, including 3-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne and 2-year-old Shiloh, “I wouldn’t trade that experience for the world,” says Jolie. “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.”

In the intimate W magazine pictures taken by Pitt just weeks after the twins’ birth, Jolie bares her body – quite comfortably, she says.

“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,” she says. “He genuinely sees it that way. So I genuinely feel even sexier.”

Jolie says she has “a lot of respect” for Pitt, who helps her “to be better and fight hard for the things that I love.”

“I do think that I’m in a good partnership now,” she says. “I think it just needed to be the right man.”

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The Pitt-Jolie clan were the picture of family bliss yesterday as they visited a housing project in New Orleans.

Brad and Angelina showed the world that they are still crazy about each other as they embraced and gazed at each other lovingly while two of their six children looked on.

The loved-up pair were all smiles as they played with their oldest children Maddox, 7, and Pax Thien, 4, in a playground outside the centre.

Pitt is part of a commitment to build 150 new homes in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward.

The actor’s Make It Right project aims to re-build the New Orleans community that was hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina.

Meanwhile Angelina recently admitted that she turned to her late mother Marcheline Bertrand for inspiration in her new movie.

The 33-year-old is tipped for an Oscar for her role as a mother desperately seeking her kidnapped son in Clint Eastwood’s The Changeling.

‘My mother would fight that hard for her children,’ said the star.

She says the role made her think about her own children, with her baby twins taking the number to six.

She said the movie made her ‘confront my worst fear. It made me feel closer to my kids and grateful every night just to know where they are and that they’re healthy’.

She added: ‘Making the phone call [in the film], saying that my kid was kidnapped, was difficult. I don’t even like saying it right now.’

Angelina also revealed that her children produce ‘the greatest chaos’.

‘They’re constantly loud, constantly messy,’ she said.

But she admits that she and Brad are eager to add to their family ‘one way or another’, referring to how they have three children from adoption as well as three from Angie’s own childbirth.

Angelina took half of her extensive brood out for an afternoon stroll to the shops in New Orleans yesterday.

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As could be expected, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt proved quite an eyeful at Saturday’s New York premiere of her new movie. Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood.

But, in fact, there was even more to meet the eye on the leading lady: two new tattoos – to complement her ink indicating global birth coordinates of children Maddox, Pax, Zahara and Shiloh.

Jolie has had the July 12 French birthplace of twins Knox and Vivienne enscribed twice on her left shoulder beneath the latitude and longitude of their other children.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

Clint Eastwood and wife Dina Eastwood

Putting paid to speculation she was going through a challenging time, actress Angelina Jolie looked as beautiful as ever as she visited a New York restaurant on Friday.

In the Big Apple for the premiere her new flick Changeling, the mum-of-six cut a trim figure in a striking silver trenchcoat and black knee-length boots. The gorgeous Tomb Raider star was dining with the film’s director Clint Eastwood and co-star Amy Ryan at Il Buco.

Angelina’s performace as a mum searching for her son is already being tipped as Oscar worthy.

Recent weeks have seen speculation running rife over the health of the 32-year-old, who was making her first public appearance since the birth of twins Knox and Vivienne two months ago. Amongst reports that she was suffering from post-natal depression, the actress and her partner, Brad Pitt, 44, had to issue a statement denying stories that they were splitting up.

After staying in Europe for the birth, the family are now back in the US while Angelina promotes the new film.

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