'Jolie is pregnant'
2006-01-12 08:05
Los Angeles - Hollywood screen stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are anticipating another big premiere this summer: their first baby together, Pitt's publicist said on Wednesday.
"I can confirm they are expecting," said Pitt's spokesperson Cindy Guagenti, declining to offer further details of the news that took Hollywood by storm. "There isn't a lot more to say."
People magazine, which celebrities increasingly use to make exclusive revelations about their private lives, broke the news on Wednesday.
"Yes, I'm pregnant," People quoted the sultry actress as telling an aid worker on Monday in the Dominican Republic, where she is filming The Good Shepherd with co-star Matt Damon.
Jolie's publicist could not be reached for comment on Wednesday to confirm the couple were expecting a baby, who will be each star's first biological child.
Jolie reportedly ecstatic
Rumours that one of Hollywood's most celebrated couples was expecting a joint credit have been circulating for weeks, but the publicity-wary stars have kept mum on the baby talk.
Jolie, 30, already has two adopted children: Maddox, four, a Cambodian born boy whom she adopted with her then husband Billy Bob Thornton, and Zahara, one, whom she adopted from an Ethiopian orphanage last year.
Jolie last month filed legal papers seeking to allow the 42-year-old Pitt to legally adopt her children despite the fact that neither star has officially confirmed their relationship.
Friends told People that Lara Croft: Tomb Raider star Jolie is the happiest she has ever been.
"This is a woman who values her relationships with her children more than anything," an unnamed source told People. "Now, she is creating a family in the context of an adult relationship."
The demise of Hollywood's golden couple
Despite their silence on the matter, the news provides further confirmation that Jolie and Pitt, who reportedly began their relationship while co-starring as husband and wife assassins in last year's Mr and Mrs Smith - are a couple.
Pitt divorced Friends actress Jennifer Aniston in October following a four-and-a-half year marriage in which they became one of Tinseltown's most vaunted and beautiful couples.
But the seemingly-perfect match collapsed in a glare of publicity a year ago when Pitt was filming Mr and Mrs Smith with Jolie.
Since then, Fight Club heart-throb Pitt and Jolie have responded to rumours of their relationship by insisting they were just good friends, despite published photographs of them relaxing with her children.
Jolie, who has appeared in some 30 films and is considered one of Hollywood's most beautiful women, is the daughter of film star Jon Voight, who played in Midnight Cowboy.
She earned an Oscar for her supporting role in 2000's Girl, Interrupted. She now rates as one of the film industry's top actresses, earning $10 to $15m per movie.