A few years ago she wished for a ‘rainbow’ family of seven children from around the world.

Yesterday, Angelina Jolie was probably wishing she’d been born with a few more pairs of hands.

The actress and her partner Brad Pitt struggled through Narita Airport near Tokyo with their brood of six - just one child short of Miss Jolie’s dream family.

Before the trend for celebrities adopting poverty stricken orphans from around the world took off, Miss Jolie declared: ‘I want to create a rainbow family.
‘That’s children of different religions and cultures, from different countries. Actually, I’d love to have seven, a small football team.’

Her comments, made five years ago before she had met Pitt, were treated with scepticism.

Now the Hollywood actress has finally got her wish.

It is the first time the entire Jolie-Pitt clan has been pictured together.

They were arriving in Tokyo from LA where they had attended the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards.

The family are in Japan for the premiere of Brad’s latest film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

They are expected to return to their native US next month for the Oscars, where both Brad and Angelina have been nominated for Benjamin Button and Clint Eastwood’s film The Changeling respectively.

Attached to her mother’s chest in a sling, blue-eyed little Vivienne, born with her twin Knox in July last year in the south of France, looked the spitting image of her older biological sister Shiloh Nouvel, two, seen here holding her mother’s hand. They both had their mother’s famous rose-bud lips.

Shiloh, the couple’s first natural daughter, was born in May 2006 in Namibia. The name is of Hebrew origin and means ‘the peaceful one’ or ‘His gift’.

Wide-eyed Knox riding on his father’s chest was also styled like him - with both wearing grey jumpers and tweed flat caps.

The twins have certainly earned enough to keep the whole family in expensive threads in their short lives so far. Their parents negotiated the most expensive magazine deal ever when they sold pictures of the twins to People magazine and Hello! a month after the births for £7.5million.

However the money was donated to the Jolie-Pitt family’s charitable foundation.

Gripping tight hold of Brad’s left hand is Zahara Marley. She was adopted from an orphanage in Ethiopia when she was just five months old in July 2005. The adoption came two months after Miss Jolie first visited the country with Pitt.

To Brad’s right is Pax Thien who was adopted from a Vietnamese orphanage in March 2007.

Abandoned at birth he was called Pham Quang before being renamed by Jolie. Pax is Latin for Peace and Thien is Vietnamese for heaven.

Trailing slightly behind the group is Maddox. In June 2002, Jolie and her then husband Billy Bob Thornton adopted the Cambodian orphan.
He was nine months old at the time. Jolie had decided to adopt after visiting the country as a goodwill ambassador for the UN in 2001.

Brad and Angelina - dubbed ‘Brangelina’ by showbusiness commentators - recently complained they spend the entire life jet-setting with their family. Their gruelling schedules promoting films and endorsing products have made them two of the highest-paid celebrities in Hollywood.

Miss Jolie said: ‘Our kids are always packing. They like to pack - it’s a game in our house.

‘It can get very hard trying to find 20 minutes to close your eyes if you’ve been up since four in the morning. We travel so much, we never have to adjust. We change school time to four in the afternoon if we have to.’

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On his KIIS-FM radio show Monday, Ryan Seacrest spoke out about Angelina Jolie dissing him on the red carpet at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.

Seacrest had gotten up next to the actress and beau Brad Pitt, hoping to score an interview on E!’s pre-show. “Hi, guys. Brad? Angelina?” he said, but they ignored his advance and brushed by him.

Seacrest’s take on the incident?

“I don’t think Angelina thinks I’m that important,” he said on his show Monday. “I don’t think I’m top of mind for Brad and Angelina. I honestly don’t believe they’d know who I was if I walked over there.”

When guest Perez Hilton told Seacrest that that’s impossible, as he hosts the No. 1 show American Idol, the TV personality shot back: “Yeah…but they live in France!”

Jolie and Pitt did stop for NBC’s Billy Bush, but Seacrest said, “there’s an NBC deal there. NBC hosted the Globes, and they have a deal to talk to the people who come to the Globes.

“Here’s what I realized when I went down there,” Seacrest went on. “I realized quickly that it’s against the rules to walk down onto the carpet from the platform.

“Then we went back down there and caught up with Tom Cruise, who I think is a terrific guy. I think he’s really cool,” he said. “By the way, have you seen his skin tone up close lately? You should!”

Seacrest clashed with Jolie before: At the 2006 Golden Globes, he asked her what she fed her children that day and she icily replied ” Cereal — we made cereal.”

He later called her “cold” for being so unresponsive.

Turns out, Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, was on her death bed at the time.

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Anne Hathaway couldn’t hold back the rambling and tears as she received the dual honor of Best Actress (along with “Doubt” actress Meryl Streep) for her performance in “Rachel Getting Married” at Thursday night’s VH1 Critics Choice Awards. But one lady who looked less-than-impressed was fellow nominee Angelina Jolie.

As Hathaway gushed about how thrilling it was to win something with her “idol” Streep, the cameras caught Jolie (twice) with such a severe scowl it caused quite the gasp backstage.

Let’s put it this way: if looks could kill, Hathaway would definitely be dead.

“Angelina didn’t say much for the rest of the night,” an eyewitness told Tarts. “She was all smiles before the announcement, and it was clear she wasn’t happy.”

For a the world’s highest-paid actress, one would think Jolie would have found it an appropriate time to use her skills to hide those feelings of disappointment.

But back to Anne, this certainly isn’t the first time film critics have managed to trigger a tear or two.

“I cried it with joy the first time I got a good review from the New York Times. I cried with joy because it took forever and I had to memorize it,” she told Tarts. “They said my performance from ‘Becoming Jane’ was a triumph, and I felt so happy, because I’d never gotten a good review from them, so I cried and cried. Then the bad ones, well you try to learn from them. Sometimes you’re even ballsy enough to disagree with them.”

Hathaway received her highest acting praise to-date with her role as a tortured rehabber in “Rachel Getting Married,” but she insisted that she never lets the turmoil of her personal life and her break-up with jailed beau Raffaello Follieri to influence the characters she plays.

“I think it’s dangerous to use what’s going on in your personal life, it’s destructive and misleading because most of the time they have nothing to do with each other,” she said. “As an actress I love being able to leave my life behind.”

But despite the scandalous split, the 26-year-old couldn’t be better.

“I’m a pretty happy person even in critical moments,” she added. “How could I not be? I’m truly blessed and loved in my life.”

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With all the hairy pits I have been posting, I just couldn’t resist posting this picture of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt with a mustache that he grew for Inglourious Basterds and captioned it as I did. Hopefully he will be done filming that movie soon because I hate that look on him. 

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You know I’m always a fan of celebrities who don’t pretend they can cook. My love for it is such that I will ignore the fact that Jamie Oliver is coming out with a new magazine with his name on it. Yeah, yeah we know it’s you Jamie. Couldn’t come up with something else? I guess it is so everyone in the world won’t mistake his cooking magazine for one of the other million cooking magazines out there. He doesn’t call it a cooking magazine though. Says it is not really about recipes. Uh huh. I think the first issue has about 100 recipes in it so he may want to rethink that talking point.

I mean why on earth would anyone really want to buy it? Do we want to know what Jamie thinks about the world? Is he going to give us a learned discourse on global economics each issue? He’s a chef. It’s going to be about cooking. Just because you can call a pal and have him talk about what meals he likes to cook doesn’t make it anything other than a cooking magazine.

Anyway, in the first issue which comes out on Thursday, Jamie interviewed Brad Pitt. Jamie asked about Angelina Jolie and what the best meal was that she ever cooked Brad. According to Brad, the best thing she has ever made is cereal. Wow. Not even toast. Just a bowl of cereal out of a box. It’s good to know the family is starting out with a healthy breakfast each morning though instead of the chicken and waffles I eat every morning. Sure, it makes me sleepy right up to the lunch hour, but there’s nothing like grease and syrup to get your day started off with a bang.

For next month’s issue, Jamie has an interview with Billy Bob Thornton where Billy Bob talks about the gourmet meals Angelina cooked for him. They never got around to dessert though because Angelina just couldn’t keep her hands off him.

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I think we can put those rumors that Angelina Jolie is expecting her 7th child, fourth natural to rest. She didn’t look pregnant as she took her first Maddox toy shopping in New Orleans.

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Angelina Jolie admits she struggled breastfeeding her 4-month-old twins, Knox and Viv, simultaneously.

“You think, ‘Ah, if anybody can do that, I can do that,’ she says in an interview on British show GMTV. “But it’s a lot harder than it looks in the books. I did that a few times, but [mostly] I would take turns. It just takes a long time.”

(In the books? Tricks like the “double football hold.”)

Jolie, 33, says she weaned the twins when they were 3 months old. “[That was] about as much as I could do,” she says.

So how does having six kids affect her Hollywood commitments with Brad Pitt?

“The only time it ever collides is if, you know, we’re trying to get ready for some event where we have to walk a carpet and somebody gets peed on, and figures, ‘Oh well, I guess we’ll be wearing that this evening,” she says.

But she doesn’t mind.

“We appreciate how much that keeps us focused on what’s important,” she says.

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey to air Wednesday, Pitt called their kids “the funniest people I’ve ever met. And you know it really tells you - it’s a great mirror for yourself.

“It really tells you a lot about yourself and who you are and how you react to things,” he continues. “They make me better. They make me a better person as a father.”

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In the December issue of Vogue, Jennifer Aniston opens up about Angelina Jolie — and then some.

When first asked about Jolie, Aniston asked the reporter, Jonathan Van Meter, to turn off the tape recorder for a moment.

She did, however, want to go on the record about one thing: She said she was bothered that Jolie felt the need to recount a detailed timeline of exactly how she fell in love with Brad Pitt on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. (Pitt was still married to Aniston at the time).

“There was stuff printed there that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening,” Aniston said. “I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss.”

Aniston then shook her head in disbelief.

“That stuff about how she couldn’t wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool,” Aniston said.

BRAD PITT

Asked if she ever speaks to Pitt, Aniston said that they have exchanged “a few very kind hellos … and congratulations on your babies.”

She stressed that the two “had an amicable split … The marriage didn’t work out.”

JOHN MAYER

As for her on-again romance with notorious womanizer John Mayer, Aniston (who said she still wants children) said, “People need to mind their own business! Did you ever think Claudia Schiffer and David Copperfield made sense?”

“Love just shows up.”

Of Mayer bragging about dumping her the first time around, Aniston said, “Trust me, you’ll never see that happen again from that man.”

HER MOTHER

Aniston also said she and her mother Nancy are in the middle of a slow reconciliation that began after she split from Pitt.

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