Here are even more photos of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt last night in London. I think this is the breakdown of activities: they went to the World War Z premiere together, then Brad went solo to the Muse concert (which was part of the post-premiere party). Then Brad and Angelina went out to eat at the Haymarket Hotel, then they stopped at the Carlton House (I don’t know why) and then they went back to their hotel.

I’m including some photos of Angelina with a fluffy teddy bear – apparently, a fan gave Angelina the teddy bear, which she held on to for a while and then she gave it to a 4-year-old named Sophie Martinez. Sophie burst into tears when Angelina gave her the bear and Angelina told her soothingly, “It’s a nice teddy.” Sophie’s parents – Brazilian students living in England – told the Mail that they were “touched” by Angelina’s gesture.

I keep seeing stuff about how The Villainess Jolie was so terrible because she “missed” her aunt funeral, which was also yesterday in California. Angelina’s maternal aunt passed away more than a week ago, and Angelina was already scheduled to go to London with Brad. Could she have broken those plans to go to her aunt’s funeral? Probably. But her family seemed like they understood. Angelina’s uncle told E! News, “Angelina will be in London on Sunday so she won’t be able to attend but she has been in touch with us and with various other members of the family, which has obviously been lovely and has meant a lot to us.”

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

HUZZAH! Here are new photos of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt walking the red carpet for the UK premiere of World War Z. This is Angelina’s first red carpet since she announced her double mastectomy. When CB, Bedhead and I were talking about whether or not Angelina would walk this carpet, I wondered if Angelina would wear her traditional shapeless sack dress or whether she would know that people would want to see her figure, and she would wear something figure-hugging. Well, we have our answer – no sack dresses! I’m glad. The dress is apparently Yves. St Laurent. It’s pretty and it looks good on her. Overall, I think she looks rather tired and drawn, but hey… Angelina on her worst day is still WAY better than my best day.

Let’s not forget to talk about Brad! Brad’s hair has gotten so long. That’s all HIS hair, right? He’s not wearing a weave, right?! Eh. I’m not really into the hair length, but I’m enjoying how Brad looks at Angelina. I like the red carpet kisses and the affection. It’s sweet. I really do think this experience brought them closer together, which is an amazing thing.

On the red carpet, Angelina spoke to some of the UK media outlets. The Mirror reports that Angelina said, “I’ve been very happy about the open discussion about the issues,” and because her mother died of ovarian cancer, “I’ve been very happy just to see the discussion about women’s health expanded and that means the world to me.” She also said, “I’m here for Brad, I’m so proud of him.”

Since I know the conspiracy theorists are going to come out of the woodwork to piss all over this… yes, of course Angelina gave herself the defective cancer gene just so Brad could promote World War Z. OF COURSE that happened. Of course she underwent a painful series of preventative surgeries just so WWZ wouldn’t bomb. Obviously.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I have a love/hate relationship with Andy Cohen and Watch What Happens Live. Like, sometimes I think that Andy Cohen is a mad genius for getting decent celebrities to come on his show, and then he gets them hammered and they answer crazy questions honestly. But Cohen is such a drama-queen and he often annoys me if I watch him for more than a few minutes.

Speaking of love/hate, Ethan Hawke was the guest on an episode of Watch What Happens Live two nights ago. I watched about half off the after-show online, and I think Ethan had definitely had a few drinks. He’s not flat-out drunk, but he’s happy and talkative and gossipy. You guys know that Ethan is one of my shamef—ks. He’s so dirty and ratty but I still LOVE him. He’s not aging well, his career isn’t all that, but I would still hit it hard. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I love his voice. I love how gossipy he is. I love the way he laughs. It’s crazy.

So on the after-show, Andy Cohen took calls and Ethan was asked for his “best onscreen kiss”. Ethan replied, “With all due respect – the woman has been in the press a lot lately – but my best onscreen kiss was with Angelina Jolie… Why is Amadeus, Wolfgang Mozart a genius? Angelina Jolie was born to whittle men, to make them weak. And when she kisses you, you don’t know your name.” Ethan and Angelina worked together on Taking Lives, which is a terrible film but it’s decent to watch because of Angelina and Ethan’s chemistry. They might have had an affair while working together (there were lots of rumors about it), but I always thought Angelina was fooling around with Olivier Martinez around that time. But go back and watch the movie – Ethan and Angelina’s sex scenes (spoiler?) are pretty hot. Here’s the Angelina Jolie part (around 1:30 mark):

At another part of the after-show, Ethan was asked about the hottest actress he’d ever hooked up with off-screen. Ethan basically says that all of the hottest hookups he’s ever had have been non-actresses, saying: “Let me tell you something, if we’re going to be honest. The facts are the more hot, they are the more acclaimed they are for being hot… the less hot they are. So the hottest chick I’ve ever been with on-screen was not anybody anyone has ever heard of. I wish this weren’t true, but let’s face it – I had a good few years. But the most wonderful experiences didn’t happen with anyone you have ever heard of….They would have gone nuts if I’d said ‘Angelina Jolie!’ Instead they are like, ‘What does it mean?’” That’s around the 2:30 mark:

Photos courtesy of Taking Lives, WENN.

Ugh, let’s do this. I have to admit, it’s incredibly smart of Esquire to release their Brad Pitt cover story piece by piece, spreading out the revelations and quotes throughout the week. Today’s revelations from the Esquire piece do not come from Brad, however. They are from his “longtime makeup artist” Jean Black. Black has apparently been working for Brad for 23 years, and she spends some time in the article praising Brad for keeping his natural look, his wrinkles, her unkemptness. Black told Esquire, “He’s not fighting it.” Then Black seemed to go WAY off-message and she named Jennifer Aniston. RUH-ROH.

Um, really? Brad Pitt’s Esquire interview has even more surprising revelations — this time from Jean Black, a makeup artist and friend who has worked with Pitt, 49, on nearly all of his films since 1990. Speaking with Esquire, Black sheds new light on Pitt’s legendary meeting with Angelina Jolie on the 2004 set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, when he was still married (apparently unhappily) to Jennifer Aniston.

“I think Brad was ready to soar when he met Angie,” says Black, who then quickly clarified of Aniston, whom Pitt divorced in 2006: “This is not to say anything negative about Jennifer. I was part of that and I know that he and Jennifer are very good friends and he cared deeply for her.”

“But in Angie,” Black continued, “he saw a very adventurous person who was grabbing on to life and taking it to its nth degree. It was intriguing because I felt Brad had that in him and wanted to unleash it.”

Whether or not Pitt and Aniston, 43, are actually “very good friends” these days, the World War Z actor himself intimated to Esquire that he was deeply depressed about ten years ago during his marriage to Aniston. Saying he’d done major “drug damage” to himself, Pitt said he was a “drifter . . . I spent years f–king off.” About ten years ago, all that changed.

“It was an epiphany — a decision not to squander my opportunities,” he explains. “It was a feeling of, ‘Get up.’ Because otherwise, what’s the point?”

[From Us Weekly]

OMG, just go ahead and scream that this was ALL Brad’s doing and why can’t he let it go and why does he have to throw so many pity parties and it’s so crazy that People Magazine gave him a “Five Years After Jennifer” cover. Oh… wait. Well, certainly we can scream at Brad because obviously he authorized this woman to speak on his behalf and he told her what to say and isn’t that the most vicious thing his surrogate has ever said about poor, maligned Jennifer? Oh wait.

So… whatever. I’m sure there will be arguments and conspiracy theories but I tend to think this woman was just kind “off message” and what she said wasn’t even that offensive. Who here doesn’t think that when Brad got with Angelina, something inside of him was “unleashed”? As for the idea that Brad and Jennifer are still “friends”… no. They aren’t. They might pay lip service to that idea, but they aren’t friends. I think it was just a verb tense fail – she meant to say “they WERE good friends, he cared deeply for her”.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Oooh, the second Brangelina cover story in a row for People Magazine. And still no quotes from Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie! Still, People Mag has sources close to Brangelina and I’m sure that this cover and last week’s cover were “approved” by Team Brangelina. This week’s story is about how Brad supported Angelina during her mastectomy surgeries:

Talk about teamwork. In the weeks surrounding Angelina Jolie’s preventive double mastectomy and subsequent reconstructive surgery, her fiancé, Brad Pitt, served as her No. 1 support.

At the bustling home they share with their six kids in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, “Brad did everything he could to keep things secret and protect Angie,” a family insider tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story.

Using early morning appointments and rental cars to avoid discovery, “They really wanted Angie to be able to recover and rest before they shared the story,” says the insider.

The actress’s medical ordeal only deepened the bond between Jolie, 37, and Pitt, 49, a couple for seven years. Those close to them say the pair’s teamwork is always on display, in public and private.

“They are very loving and inspiring to each other, exchanging ideas,” says Jeremy Kleiner, a longtime exec at Pitt’s Plan B production company and producer on his upcoming movie World War Z.

On-set, “He would light up when his family showed up. It’s just a very cool thing to see.”

For much more on this story, including Angelina’s next surgery and how Brad’s family has supported her, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE.

[From People]

People Mag keeps referencing Angelina’s “next surgery” and stuff – while Angelina referenced the idea of a partial hysterectomy or the removal of her ovaries, she hasn’t verified anywhere (that I’ve seen) that she’s planning that surgery any time soon.

Would you like an Uncool Bermuda Triangle story? Of course you would. The National Enquirer reports this week that Jennifer Aniston “cried” when she heard about Angelina’s mastectomy. A source says: “She was moved beyond belief reading Angelina’s story. It really took her by surprise how brave she is. To go through such a major thing for all her family has made Jen realise that regardless of how they hooked up, Angelina does really love Brad and [their six] kids. Sure, Jen got hurt when Brad left her and the pain dragged on for years, but she’s so over it now, and wants to extend an olive branch to Angelina.” Sure. Okay. I don’t believe it but whatever.

Here’s Jennifer’s video for her guest hosting Ellen’s show. This makes me think that they are all terrible actors.

Cover courtesy of People Mag, additional photos by WENN.

Matt Damon has a new (funny) interview with Extra. It was probably done yesterday during Matt and Michael Douglas’s Beyond the Candelabra promotion in Cannes. Matt talks about kissing Michael and bejeweled swimsuits and how much fun this project was for him, and them towards the end of the interview, the Extra dude asks him about his friendship with Angelina Jolie and what Matt thinks about Angelina’s mastectomy. Matt’s reaction is cool. He says:

“She’s awesome… There are a lot of women who are struggling with medical decisions, and when they hear that the undeniably most sexy woman on planet Earth, as far as we know, is willing to take control of her health and be public about it, I think it gives other people courage to do that, too.”

[Via Extra]

Angelina and Matt worked together back in 2005, when she played his wife in The Good Shepherd, which was Robert DeNiro’s directorial debut. That film is a hot mess, but I thought it was better than a lot of people thought. If you get through the confusing first act (there’s a lot of jumping around in the chronology of the story), it gets pretty good and becomes a sad meditation on the power of secrecy and the solitude of intelligence work. Joe Pesci has an amazing small role (a glorified cameo) and it’s worth it just for that. Angelina’s role in the film is minimal, and she was pregnant with Shiloh when she filmed it. Matt is obviously friends with Brad too, as they’ve worked together a bunch of times in the Ocean’s films. So, Matt is friendly with Brangelina and he’s a good guy so he said something nice about his friend. Commence hissy fit!

Here’s the video of the Extra interview:

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Brad Pitt covers the June/July issue of Esquire to promote World War Z. The interview was released last night and I’ll be covering it later today. The interview was done by Tom Junod around the beginning of April, when Angelina was in the midst of her multiple mastectomy and reconstruction surgeries. Brad didn’t give Junod any clue into what was going on. And so after Angelina’s announcement (one week ago today), Junod published an addendum (consider it a “reimagining”) to his yet-to-released Esquire cover story. It’s just his basic thoughts on Brad and Angelina’s relationship and Brad talking about how much he loves his girl. It’s really nice:

Tom Junod’s profile of Brad Pitt will appear in the June/July issue, which is on newsstands at the end of the month.

When I met Brad Pitt the day after Easter, he was so tired that he was perhaps more reflective than usual. He had just finished a week of spring break with his family. He had camped out with them the night before on his property north of Santa Barbara, and he had woken up, he said, too early, as well as too wet. They had slept in tents, four of his six children, along with two of their friends, and then he had gotten all of them in a van and driven them down to LA.

“Angie too?” I asked.

“Yeah,” he said. “Angie too.”

I told him that I’d met her a few years before, when I profiled her for Esquire. She was making a movie about the wife of the murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, and the thesis of my story was that while 9/11 was supposed to make us all better — a better country and a better people — it only worked for Angelina Jolie. The story has won a kind of immortality as “The Worst Celebrity Profile Ever Written,” and when I told that to Angelina Jolie’s partner, he at first laughed and said that he hoped Esquire would use that as the title of the profile I was writing about him. Then he got serious. “But you were right,” he said. “You were right, you were right. Angie is….the best person…..”

I remembered meeting Angelina Jolie — how thin she was, how much steak she ate and wine she drank, and above all her utter self-possession. She answered every question I asked, but she was the kind of person who responded without ever simply reacting. Brad Pitt was different. He was, like a lot of men, stuck between family and work, and the day he came back to LA from spring break was the day he began the push to finish his summer zombie movie, World War Z. And so, although he was Brad Pitt, he was also a big guy, dressed in black, stained around the eyes by stress and exhaustion, who spoke leaning forward, bent at the waist, with his hands folded between his legs, and was in the habit of repeating himself between long pauses. “I’m a crap interview,” he’d warned me, but when he began talking about his family, he said twice, “I haven’t known life to be any happier,” and he said it in such a way that I never once thought to doubt him.

This was April 1. I didn’t know then what I know now — that a month earlier, his partner, Angelina Jolie, commenced the series of surgeries that would end, a month later, with her pre-emptive double mastectomy. Over the next few weeks, I talked to several of Pitt’s close friends. They must have known what the couple was enduring, but of course they never told me. One of them, however, called me back after our first interview. His name was Frank Pollaro, and he’d spoken about the furniture business he’d started with Brad Pitt, and about Pitt’s excellent eye. But he wanted to say something else, so he called Brad, and asked if he was at liberty to speak about Brad’s relationship with Angelina. He was, and so when he called back, he told me what he’d seen at Brad’s house — “once I walked in and Angie was standing there and Zahara walked up and said, ‘Daddy, you’re not going to start making out with Mommy again, are you?’ And it’s like that. This is a guy who has tried not to do any sexy scenes with other women since he’s met Angelinia. He’s crazy about her, and she’s the same way about him. No matter how hard he’s working, if one of those kids runs by the window he’ll get out of his chair and give them a kiss. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen Angie without one of those children in her arms.”

It’s the nature of marriage — or, in the case Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, a committed relationship — to both invite and repel scrutiny. We have no idea how any two people make a life together, much less two people as professionally exhibitionistic and privately enigmatic as the two combined in the public mind as “Brangelina.” But I will say this: a long time ago, Brad Pitt left college in Missouri to come to LA and act in movies. He insists that he wasn’t looking for stardom, only a sense of life and possibility larger than what he left behind. He insists that he was searching the chimera of Hollywood for something real. This morning, the mother of his children revealed in the New York Times that he was “at the Pink Lotus Breast Center, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries.”

You do not have to be a celebrity, only a father and a man in love with a woman, to know that life doesn’t get any more real than that.

[From Esquire]

Does Junod sound like a fan-boy? Sure. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy this piece immensely. Junod infamously profiled Angelina several years ago – he references that in this piece, and you can read the old story here. It’s not a particularly revealing interview for Angelina, but again, it sounds like it was written by a fan-boy. And why not? Why can’t a celebrity journalist admit that he or she believes that Brad and Angelina are in love and in it for the long haul? That despite all of the glitz and bulls—t that comes with their jobs, they actually managed to make something real and lasting together? *adjusts Brangeloonie tin foil hat*

Photos courtesy of WENN.

You know how dumb I am? I’m so dumb that it’s taken me this long, where I just realized a few minutes ago that Angelina Jolie chose the timing of her mastectomy announcement to just after Mother’s Day. I didn’t even put that together before now. That her choice was about her mother and how Angelina wants to be around for her children, and she chose to announce it 24 hours after Mother’s Day (in America). Anyway, I’m not sure what to make of this story – sources claim that Angelina wants to play her late mother in a bio-pic produced by Brad Pitt?

ANGELINA JOLIE is to play her own mother in a film to be made by loyal partner Brad Pitt. The star, who last week revealed she has undergone a double mastectomy and now plans to have her ovaries removed, will play Marcheline Bertrand, who died from ovarian cancer in 2007.

The biopic celebrating her life goes into production next year with Brad’s company Plan B.

Long before her daughter emulated her, Marcheline was deeply involved in humanitarian work, helping women Afghan refugees and launching the Give Love Give Life organisation to help fight gynaecological cancers.

Angelina, 37, is still haunted by her mother’s suffering and death aged just 56. She had the drastic surgery after discovering she carries the faulty BRCA1 gene, which gave her an 87 per cent chance of developing breast cancer and a 50 per cent chance of developing the ovarian cancer her mother succumbed to. She is now planning to have a hysterectomy too.

Angelina describes her mother as “grace incarnate”. She said recently: “I feel blessed that she was around to see both my brother and I in a nice place. She waited till everyone was OK. Then she closed her eyes.”

[From Express UK]

Everyone is reporting this but I can’t find the original source. Who claimed this first? I don’t know. Sources say the bio-pic will go into production next year. While I am interested in Marcheline’s life – she always sounded like a lovely woman – I’m not sure what kind of interest there would be in a bio-pic? It’s a beautiful thought of course. But… how about a documentary? That would seem more logical, right?

Additionally, Radar has a funny/weird story about Ann Curry and Angelina. After dumping Ann and treating her poorly over and over again, NBC bosses are now begging Ann to score the first interview with Angelina post-mastectomy. Jolie and Curry are especially close – Angelina has gone to Ann with many exclusives over the years, so much so that I consider Ann to be the Head Brangeloonie Journalist in American media.

Ex-TODAY show cohost Ann Curry has been asked by NBC’s top brass to secure the first interview with Angelina Jolie after she stunned the world with the announcement that she’d secretly had a double mastectomy, RadarOnline.com has learned.

The award-winning journalist — dumped from TODAY last summer — has interviewed Jolie, 37, numerous times over her careers.

Now, news division chiefs at the Peacock want Curry, 56, to capitalize on that close relationship and “convince her to give her first television interview about the procedure,” said one source. The network is prepared to offer the Academy Award-winning actress a two-hour, primetime special for the interview, along with airtime on TODAY, the insider added.

“Ann would be prominently featured in all of the promotions and publicity if Angelina agreed to do it,” the source said. “Angelina made it known after Ann was demoted from TODAY that the only journalist to interview her from the Peacock network would be Curry.”

All of the major networks, including ratings-challenged CNN, are clamoring to get the first interview with the mother-of-six, another television executive revealed, noting 60 Minutes, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Cynthia McFadden have all expressed interest in securing the interview.

“Her first television interview will be a ratings bonanza,” the insider said.

Unfortunately for NBC, however, a source close to Curry told RadarOnline.com that she isn’t doing a full court press to secure the tell-all.

“Ann just doesn’t operate that way,” the source said. “Of course she’d love to do the interview with Angelina, but she isn’t going to exploit her friendship with her to get it. Ann has sent flowers to Angelina and reached out to Brad Pitt’s camp because Jolie doesn’t have a publicist. If and when Angelina is ready to discuss the possibility of doing the interview, she knows how to reach Ann.”

[From Radar]

I could see Angelina giving her first interview to Ann, but perhaps only as some kind of Dateline special, or some kind of special evening programming as opposed to something for the Today show. Of course, I could also see Angelina wanting to go with Anderson Cooper (who is also a friend and a Brangeloonie) on CNN or 60 Minutes. Or she could with someone with a medical background like Dr. Sanjay Gupta. I actually think Sanjay is probably in the mix – he’s interviewed her before, his medical background is impeccable and she would really be able to discuss her surgeries in depth.

Photos courtesy of Time, WENN.

I’ve been full of praise for the way Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have publicly handled Angelina’s double-mastectomy, even allowing my Brangeloonie Freak Flag to fly proudly in a way I haven’t in a while. But I do need to have a word with Brad Pitt about this ensemble – Brad was photographed yesterday in LA, leaving a business meeting. At first I thought he was wearing Justin Beiber-esque hammer pants, but I actually think these are slouchy linen sweatpants or something. And they’re too big for him, so they just LOOK like Bieber Pants, and it’s a bad look in total. I’m fine with black sweater – everything from the waist up is fine. But Brad needs to stop trying to make the linen casual-wear happen.

So, we’ve got an assortment of Brangelina news today. Let’s do it with bullet points!

*Angelina’s doctor has begun to blog about Angelina’s process – you can read the first blog post here. The doctor notes that Brad really was there every step of the way and Brad was the first person Angelina saw after she got out of surgery.

*Angelina’s friend Nicholas Kristof, who is an advocate-columnist for the NYT, wrote on his Facebook page: “Angelina Jolie also asked me to convey her thanks. She is just so, so grateful for the overwhelming outpouring of public support that’s she’s getting. And she’s grateful to all for taking this and running with it to start serious conversations about women’s health.” Angelina came out to support Kristof’s book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide several years ago.

*Kristof also tweeted that Angelina is “the gold standard for celebrity activism… [this is] a conversation that’ll save lives. I’ve spoken to Angelina Jolie several times in [the] last few days, and she has been so strong, so brave, so determined. She wants to use her medical issues to nurture a nat’l conversation on health options. No self pity; she just wants to help.”

*Jon Voight found out about his daughter’s double mastectomy on Tuesday, like the rest of the world, despite the fact that he just seen her days before. Voight said: “My love and admiration for my daughter can’t be explained in words. I saw her two days ago with my son Jamie. We all got together for his birthday, with her and Brad [Pitt]. But I didn’t know. It wasn’t obvious at all. I found out [Tuesday] morning. I was as surprised as anyone and deeply moved by the way she’s handled this. She’s a very extraordinary person, the way she examined it and what she shared.”

*Dr. Oz issued a statement that was extremely complimentary of what Angelina is doing and has done already. His statement reads like a love letter from a fan-boy. It’s really sweet.

Update: OMG, Angelina scored the cover of Time Mag!! You can read an excerpt of the cover story here, and here’s the (absolutely gorgeous) cover.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Brad Pitt has more to say about Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy! Can I just say? I’m glad that Angelina Jolie announced her medical choice the way that she did, in a well-written, explanatory op-ed, and I like how she just left it out there for people to discuss at will. I watched All In With Chris Hayes last night, and his big story at the end of the show about Angelina and breast cancer and health care, and I think so many straight-news shows are covering it that way, as they should. That’s what Angelina wanted, I think. She announced it her way and she controlled how the information was released, but she doesn’t want to control the spin. Which is a great way to handle it.

Anyway, Brad issued a statement yesterday, hours after Angelina’s op-ed went online, and it seems that he also sat down with USA Today yesterday to discuss the situation. You can read the full USA Today piece here, and here are some highlights:

How Brad feels: “I’m quite emotional about it, of course. She could have stayed absolutely private about it and I don’t think anyone would have been none the wiser with such good results. But it was really important to her to share the story and that others would understand it doesn’t have to be a scary thing. In fact, it can be an empowering thing, and something that makes you stronger and us stronger.”

How Jolie kept her commitments: Pitt spoke with proud wonderment recounting how Jolie kept commitments in the past two months visiting the Congo, as well as London for the G-8 Foreign Ministers Conference and New York to honor Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai. “This was during Stage 2 (when the double mastectomy was performed),” he said. “Literally it was just weeks after she’d had truly major surgery.”

Making recovery fun: “We set up our own little post-op recovery that became pretty fun. You make an adventure out of it.”

The experience was… “an emotional and beautifully inspiring few months. And I’ll tell you, it’s such a wonderful relief to come through this and not have a spectre hanging over our heads. To know that that’s not going to be something that’s going to affect us. My most proudest thing is our family. This isn’t going to get that.”

[From USA Today]

Yeah. Brad’s not the most eloquent person, but I believe he’s speaking from the heart, and more than that, I believe that, at this point, having gone through everything they’ve gone through, Brad knows that he and Angelina are in it for the long-haul. They always said that their children bound them together more than any piece of paper, but I think this experience has made them tighter than ever before.

I previewed People Magazine’s cover story in the earlier Jolie-Pitt post, but here’s the whole online article:

Angelina Jolie is one resilient mom.

The actress, 37, has experienced no complications since undergoing a double mastectomy in February and reconstructive surgery in April. “She is doing well,” a source tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story.

But her medical odyssey is not done. The mother of six is also planning to undergo surgery to remove her ovaries. Because of her “faulty” BRCA1 gene, she still faces a high risk of developing ovarian cancer, which her doctors estimate at 50 percent. Some doctors recommend patients undergo the surgery by age 40 or when a woman is done having children, though it may trigger early menopause.

For now, though, the actress and her fiancé, Brad Pitt, have been focused on maintaining a sense of routine for their kids – keeping up family traditions such as a Valentine’s Day gift exchange and an Easter egg hunt while Jolie was undergoing treatment.
In the weeks surrounding the surgeries, “life was normal” for the children, says a source, and they didn’t notice anything amiss.

Adds a family insider: “Her kids always come first to her.”

For much more on this story, including Jolie’s family’s life during her treatment, how Brad has supported Angelina and how her mom inspired her, pick up this week’s PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday

[From People]

Angelina’s mother Marcheline had ovarian cancer for years, and it’s interesting to me (medically) that Angelina’s doctors thought she had a higher risk for breast cancer as opposed to ovarian cancer. But it does sound like Angelina is going to be dealing with her ovarian cancer risk soon, probably this year. Be well, Angelina!

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.