LOS ANGELES, July 13, 2008 (AFP) - Maybe few expected the made-in-Hollywood romance between former wild child Angelina Jolie and heartthrob Brad Pitt to last, but three years on, new twins have made them proud parents of six kids.
The US glamour couple -- both top the list of highest paid Hollywood stars, making 10-20 million dollars a film -- share three adopted kids and three birth children, a multicultural family with multiple homes that celebrates traditions of the birth-countries of all their offspring.
In April 2006, Oscar-winner Jolie -- who turns 33 on June 4 -- was crowned People magazine's most beautiful person in the world; her family, with actor Pitt, now 44, is considered one of the world's easiest on the eyes.
The couple, who got together while filming 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' in 2005, got off the ground despite the shock of tabloids and entertainment media stunned by the hook-up because Pitt was married at the time to popular actress Jennifer Aniston.
The twice-divorced Jolie, dubbed 'the other woman' or the homewrecker in some tabloids, told NBC television at the time: it was just one of those things, it was not planned and that she had to live her life.
The talented actress, a daughter of Academy Award-winner Jon Voight, is known for her full lips, quirky tastes, tattoos and dabbling in drugs. She began her meteoric rise to stardom when she took home an Oscar for her work in 1999's 'Girl, Interrupted.'
After founding a family with Pitt, with whom she shares adopted children from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam, she began working as an activist for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
In December 2006 Jolie, becoming better known as a sensitive woman in tune with the developing world's problems, and Pitt spent Christmas with Colombian refugees in Costa Rica. They also announced they would try to put more focus on Cambodia, where Jolie filmed scenes from 'Lara Croft: Tombraider' in 2000.
And Pitt, the drifter in 'Thelma and Louise' and the thief from 'Ocean's Eleven,' officially gave his family name to kids Jolie began adopting when she was still married to actor Billy Bob Thornton: sons Maddox, 6; Pax, 4, and daughter Zahara, 3.
In May 2006 Jolie gave birth to daughter Shiloh in Namibia, where the couple found fairly isolated privacy; it was not exactly the chateau on the French Riviera where she awaited the birth of the twins, after a high-profile publicity stint at the Cannes film festival.
Jolie and Pitt are phenomenally wealthy, attractive and obviously love being parents. In March they also were honored as the most generous celebrities in their philanthropic work.
According to US tax figures Pitt donated 4.4 million dollars and Jolie 4.1 million to charities in the name of the Jolie Pitt Foundation in 2006.
They delivered one-million dollar donations to Doctors without Borders and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, data show.
The couple even turned the tabloids' fascination with getting the first pictures of their daughter Shiloh into philanthropy. Published in June 2006, the pictures may have raised as much as eight million euros (10 million dollars at the time) which were given to charity according to Britain's Press Gazette.
Pitt meanwhile has been beyond busy moving between filming, hands-on fathering and volunteering, particularly in New Orleans, building homes to replace some of those devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
And the couple also are in the throes of domesticity and relocating to a chateau in France's famed Provence region, a local official told AFP. The couple are moving their furniture into the Miraval area property, in the heart of the southeastern Var region, with their family.
'They are settling in and bringing their furniture,' while American owner Tom Bove moves out of Chateau Miraval, said local mayor Michael Latz.
Latz was not able to provide any information on Jolie's due date, or confirm any rumors of an eventual marriage, but he did say that the vineyard estate will likely become the couple's main residence.