Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitts Twins $14M Baby Photos at People

Photo sold for $14 million World Record.

Pictures of Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s newborn twins, were published in the Monday edition of People Magazine. They were born on 12 July in Nice and these are their first official photographs. Larry Hackett, People’s managing director said: “They will delight our readers who have followed the growth of the Jolie-Pitt family." Apparently the worldwide rights for the photos were sold for $14 million.

The Jolie-Pitt family also includes 7-year-old Maddox, 4-year-old Pax and 3-year-old Zahara. They’ve currently settled down at the Chateau Miraval in Provence, France. That’s where the photos were taken. Jolie, 33, referred to their life at the chateau as "chaos, but we are managing it and having a wonderful time." The notorious family has eight members now.

All were dressed in white for the photo shoot. In one of the pictures one can see the couple's 2-year-old daughter, Shiloh, holding her new sister. A preview of the shooting appeared on the online edition on Sunday.

When asked about the twins’ names, Brad Pitt, 44, explained for People: “”The name Vivienne came to us early, as if she named herself–she has always been Viv. And Marcheline is to honor Angie’s mother. Knox came soon after. It is a family name, my grandfather’s. Léon is a classic French name.”

Angelina Jolie rejected rumors that stated that the two conceived their twins through in vitro fertilization and said that they wouldn’t have kept this a secret to anyone. The couple is so famous that the press nicknamed them Brangelina.

Angelina Jolie gave Birth to the Twins

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has given birth to twins, a boy and a girl, her doctor at a hospital in southern France said on Sunday.

Oscar winner Jolie, 33, had the twins by caesarean section on Saturday evening at the Lenval hospital on the glamorous Promenade des Anglais waterfront drive in Nice. Actor Brad Pitt, the twins' father, was at her side.

The girl, named Vivienne Marcheline, weighed 2.27 kg (5 lbs) while her brother, Knox Leon, weighed 2.28 kg. Marcheline was the first name of Jolie's mother, also an actress, who died of cancer last year.
"The parents and the babies are in excellent health. Everything is fine," Jolie's doctor, Michel Sussmann, told Reuters. He said the c-section had been planned for a long time but the date was brought forward "for medical reasons."

The doctor said Jolie was under epidural and was able to speak to a "perfectly calm" Pitt, 44, during the birth.

"They were very happy," Sussmann said. Asked what Pitt was doing during the birth, he said:
"He was looking at what I was doing. He was my assistant. No, that's a joke."
Jolie arrived at the Lenval hospital in late June by helicopter from the Provence villa where she and Pitt had been staying with their four other children -- Maddox, Pax, Zahara and Shiloh.
A frenzied crowd of photographers and camera crews camped outside the building on Sunday, sweating in the humid heat.

$11 MILLION BABIES
Eager for the opportunity to promote himself and his city, Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi arrived at the hospital to sign the birth certificates in a smart suit and wearing full make-up for TV interviews despite the sweltering conditions.

"I congratulate the happy parents, the most famous couple in the world, who have chosen our city for this happy event ... The newborns are, history will not forget it, real Nicois, citizens of Nice," a beaming Estrosi said, holding up the birth certificates in a blaze of camera flashes.
News of the celebrity births spread like wildfire in the streets and markets of Nice, where residents and tourists were keen to congratulate and advise the A-list parents.

"Sleep when the babies sleep. That is definitely my main advice to them," said Nicole Stechmann, a German visitor.

Newspaper Nice Matin, which broke news of the birth on Sunday, reported the couple had sold exclusive rights to the first photographs of the twins to an unnamed U.S. magazine for $11 million and would give the money to charity.

Canadian tourist Heather Langfield said she was shocked at the hype surrounding the birth.
"It's ridiculous. It's just two people that just had two kids and they're making far too much out of it," she said.

The celebrity couple, known in the media as "Brangelina", moved into a 17th century villa in Provence, France, earlier this year, with paparazzi descending on the village of Correns when news of their arrival leaked out.

Jolie, star of current hit movie "Wanted", and Pitt, of "Ocean's Eleven" fame, went public with their relationship after acting together in the 2005 film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith."

Source : reuters