The former couple share six kids: Maddox, 23 Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s kids are not planning to follow in their parent’s footsteps.
While speaking with E! News at the AFI premiere of her new film Maria in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 27, the actress, 49, shared that she doesn’t expect any of her six children — Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16, who she shares with ex Pitt — to become actors like their parents.
“No, I think they’re especially shy, very private people,” she told the outlet, adding, “They want to be private.”
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Earlier this month, just a few days after she dropped her legal case against the Department of Justice and FBI over documents connected to the alleged 2016 plane incident involving Pitt, a family source told PEOPLE that Jolie’s kids are her “biggest supporters.”
“In the past few years, she’s been able to create a life for herself and the kids that make them all happy. It was a struggle for a while, but Angie is proud about how resilient and strong the kids are,” said the insider.
“They are her biggest supporters too,” the source added. “The kids are all amazing.”
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“Being stuck in the past is not anything that Angie wants. She’s actively moving beyond the past. She wants to focus on her family, work and the future,” the insider also shared. “These are all things that make her happy.”
In September, Jolie shared in an interview with CR Fashion Book that she and Vivienne got matching tattoos during their special time working on the Broadway musical The Outsiders.
“I got ‘Stay Gold’ with my daughter Viv during our time with The Outsiders,” Jolie revealed. The phrase refers to the title of one of the original songs featured in the play which Jolie co-produced with the assistance of Vivienne.
“It means so much to us separately and together,” she continued of the tattoo, which she debuted in April at the opening night of the Broadway show. The tattoo sits on the actress’s wrist among her other ink, though she didn’t indicate the placement of Vivienne’s version of “Stay Gold.”
