Angelina Jolie Confirms Each of Her Six Children Is Truly Unique

# Angelina Jolie Says Her Six Children Are "Definitely Individuals"

Angelina Jolie says all six of her children have grown into "definitely individuals" — and that the best thing she can do as a parent is stay out of their way.

The 51-year-old actress made the rare comments about her family in a new interview with L'Officiel, published Wednesday. Her children with ex-husband Brad Pitt — Maddox, 24, Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 20, and 18-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne — are now all adults.

"One of the most important things, I think, is to basically not get in their way," Jolie said, adding that she is "proud" they follow their own paths.

"As a parent, you try to do many things, but you also try to not get in the way of this human being who has a life separate from yours and so much potential in their own mind," she continued. "You want to make sure that you support them."

## What She Said About the Years Ahead

With all six now grown, Jolie said she is looking forward to a period focused on her own work — and her children, she said, fully support the shift.

"I really love and am looking forward to more connection and community. I'm not somebody who vacations or shops or things like that," she explained. "I envision more field work, more travel, and just being out in the world.

Get my motorcycle back, get back in a plane."

"That's definitely what my kids want!" she added. "They had Mom when Mom needed to be Mom. Now, they'd like me to call them from Tunisia having just landed a plane to meet with local artists."

The "Maleficent" star said she would like to live outside the United States and be "nomadic for a while."

"I'm going to get back to doing more hands-on work with my foundation in Cambodia and my field work," she said. "I don't really plan to have a base."

## The Family's Distance From Brad Pitt

Jolie shares her six children with Pitt, 62. The children have been estranged from the actor, and four of them — Maddox, Shiloh, Zahara and Vivienne — have taken legal steps to remove "Pitt" from their own names, .

A July report said Jolie has no interest in a public fight with her ex-husband. "She just wants everyone to heal," a source said at the time, adding that Jolie "isn't angry."

"If people knew the whole truth they would have more sympathy for the children and respect them," the source claimed. "The fact they aren't speaking ill or sharing things publicly only shows their decency."

Pitt, for his part, has spoken openly about how difficult the aftermath has been for him. Last month, he told Esquire he had felt "suicidal" while navigating the family fallout roughly a decade after the split.

"The pain was so oppressive that — I wasn't going to act on this, but I could feel — I could feel the cold steel of the bullet in my head, and it felt like relief," he said.

Asked whether he was dealing with "kid stuff," Pitt replied, "Family stuff. We could leave it at that."

## What She Signaled for the Next Chapter

Taken together, the interview describes a deliberate turn: less base, more movement; fewer film-set years, more field work. Jolie framed the change not as a retreat from her family but as the natural result of it — six adults who, in her telling, are ready for her to be "out in the world."

Neither Jolie nor Pitt has commented further on the family dynamic. What she offered this week was limited to her own household: pride in six individual paths, and a plan to chase some of her own.