Jolie delivers healthy twins

Adan Cochran

13 July 2008

HOLLYWOOD golden couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are the proud folks of new-born twins named Knox and Vivienne, whose pix have already been sold for $11m.

The 1st image of the baby celebs - Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline - has been sold to a US paper for $US11 m. ( $A11.5 mln ), the regional Nice-Matin paper expounded, adding the cash would be given to a humanitarian cause. Jolie, 33, gave birth to the twins on Sat. evening during a half-hour caesarean operation at a maternity hospital in Nice on the French Riviera. The kids are doing terribly well, the ma is doing really well and the daddy is doing really well' ' gynaecologist Michel Sussmann told AFP. When the babies arrived he had been really euphoric' ' and Jolie had a blinding smile' ', he explained. Jolie is about to stay many more days at the Fondation Lenval hospital to recover. The twins were born barely earlier than prepared, Sussmann related. For a caesarean the length of stay varies between 5 and a week. But since these are twins, and they were born a bit early, the stay could be a bit longer' ' Sussmann expounded. Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi went to the surgery on Sun. afternoon to finish the mandatory forms for the twins.

As he left, he showed the documents to the waiting photographers and cameramen. The twins brought the quantity of Jolie's kids with 44-year-old Pitt to 6. Their 1st biological kid, Shiloh, was born May 2006 in Namibia. In May, the pair set up home in a castle they leased from an Yank acquaintance in France's Provence area. Prize winning actress, Jolie is the child of actor Jon Voight. She commenced her meteoric rise to stardom when she took home an Oscar for best supporting actress in 1999's Girl, Interrupted.' '. As well as her film career and founding a family with Pitt, she's employed as a goodwill envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Both Pitt and Jolie top the list of highest paid Hollywood stars, making 10-20 mln greenbacks a film. They remain coy about if they ever plan to wed. Folk have built a lot out of it that we are not' ' twice-divorced Jolie told an interviewer. But we both have been married before, and it is extremely simple to get married, but it's difficult to build a family and be folks together. Any perhaps we've done it backwards, but we actually feel married.' '.