Hollywood's most famous celebrity around the world, Angelina Jolie is known for her exotic beauty, charity work and her numerous children. Angelina Jolie and her partner, Brad Pitt are parents to a total of six children. Out of the six children, three are adopted - Maddox Chivan was the first child Angelina adopted from Cambodia in 2002, Zahara Marley from Ethiopia in 2005 and Pax Thien from Vietnam in 2007.The remaining three are their biological children, Shiloh Nouvel was born to the couple in 2006 and Angelina gave birth to twins, naming the boy Knox Leon and girl Vivienne Marcheline in 2008.

Angelina Jolie is flourishing at being a mother. The famous celebrity mom claims that having children is the greatest adventure of all and her kids are the focus of everything she does. She even has a tattoo that shows longitude and latitude of the birthplaces of all the six children.

Angelina Jolie is involved in humanitarian work with United Nations and is always helping needy people. The profit that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt earned ($14 million) by selling the first images of twins was donated to the Jolie-Pitt foundation. Even the kids have gained a celebrity status just like their star parents. Madame Tussauds has a wax statue of Jolie's daughter Shiloh Nouvel and the children constantly appear in the tabloid media.

Being a celebrity involves traveling most of the time and raising a brood of six is not an easy task. But Angelina Jolie has managed being a full time mother as well as a successful actor. She makes sure to spend maximum time with her family. She even skipped this year's Academy Awards to stay home and spend quality time with her kids. She has balanced her career and motherhood with much ease and excellence.

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