Angelina Jolie on Loving Brad Pitt, Cutting Herself as a Kid, and How She Avoids the Paparazzi

By PopEater Staff Posted Jul 7th 2010 07:50PM

'Salt' star Angelina Jolie opens up in a new candid interview with Parade in which she discusses her life with Brad Pitt, their house full of kids, and how she deals with the daily media circus surrounding her.

The gorgeous movie star also discusses some of rebellious past including cutting herself and jumping out of airplanes and the death of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died in 2007 of ovarian cancer.

Excerpts from the interview after the jump.

On love:
"I feel sad for someone who has never known love. Love elevates. You know, Brad would joke about me having this conversation about love. Love? It's such a funny word. Brad can find certain phrases of poetry for it. I'm terrible at it. But I know it means wanting the best for the people you love, putting their interests above your own, always. Love does that. Love is what you live for."

On her past:
"I used to cut myself or jump out of airplanes, trying to find something new to push up against because sometimes everything else felt too easy. I was searching for something deeper, something more. I tried everything. I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in."

On the paparazzi:
"We do everything we can to keep our kids away from it. We travel to places where the kids aren't aware of that kind of thing. We try to give them a full life where they don't have to come face to face with that world. With the paparazzi present, we're careful when we leave the house. Other than that..." She laughs at the absurdity of it all. "We don't stand in the checkout line at the grocery store looking at the magazines. Our friends don't tell us about it. And our kids don't know. I feel if we keep looking out for them, they'll be fine."

On her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand:
"Mother never put herself first, ever. At the end, she said her greatest success was being a mother. I remember Mother singing in church. How pretty she was! I lit candles with her. She said she had missed nothing in life except getting to know her grandchildren. When she passed away, I brought my son to church to light a candle for her." Jolie's eyes fill with tears. "Forgive me," she says. "I loved her so much."

The full interview will be in Parade's July 11 issue.

Tags: angelina jolie, brad pitt

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Thursday 08 July

By Remo

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"We do everything we can to keep our kids away from it."

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa! They cut the part where she also offers to sell a bridge for real cheap. dum dum

By FLsunGAL

Angelina Jolie said in this article: On love: "I feel sad for someone who has never known love." ......everyone except Jennifer Anniston that is...

Sunday 11 July

By Donna Bown

It has always been obvious that Angelina has severe emotional problems, and is quite unstable - just as her father stated. Why he chose to make the statement in public, I don't know, but her 'denial'of such was ridiculous, given her constant erratic behavior.

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