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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