This touching image is just one of several taken by doting dad Brad Pitt for an intimate portrait of the couple's family life.
Far from the frantic chaos you would imagine would be in a house of six children aged seven and under, Angelina is seen relaxed and happy as she spends time with her brood.
Tender moment: Angelina Jolie cradles one of her newborn twins in a portrait taken by partner Brad Pitt for W magazine
Brad has made his photography debut shooting his seven favourite things in the world - Angelina and their six children - for America's W magazine.
The publication commissioned Brad to do the photos - which accompanied a revealing interview by the Oscar-winning actress - at the couple's rented home in the south of France.
Taken just seven weeks after the birth of the couple's twins Knox and Vivienne, Angelina is a picture of contentment as she enthuses about the joys of parenthood.
Using no-longer-produced Kodak Tech Pan film specially flown in Tel Aviv, Brad captured the real family life of the Jolie-Pitt clan in black or white.
In one astonishingly intimate shot, Angelina gazes into the camera while breast-feeding one of the couple's twins.
Earth mother: Angelina lounges at the couple's French home with daughter Shiloh and son Pax
Natural glow: Angelina looks content and happy as she breast-feeds one of the twins
With her hair flowing naturally over her shoulder, a tiny hand is seen clutching Angelina's breasts as they feed.
Often portrayed as a sex symbol in her public life, Angelina shows her fun side as she larks around for the cameras in the unguarded shots.
In one photograph, Angelina sits in a white linen dresses giggling at her oldest son Maddox, seven, who is in fits of laughter over a private joke between the pair.
Another image, the Mr & Mrs Smith actress purses her famous lips into 'fish lips' as she plays up to the camera.
Playful: Angelina looks years younger as she pulls a 'fish face'
While Angelina appears smiling in most of the images, one of the shots seem to feature her unprepared.
Biting into a hamburger, Angelina looks like she is an unwilling subject on the camera during her mealtime.
In the accompanying interview, the 33-year-old actress admitted she had brought her son Maddox shopping for knives.
She said: 'We take him to a special shop. We also talk about samurais and the idea about defending someone as good. We talk about everything.'
She added it is something of a family tradition - her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, had taken her shopping for a knife when she was just 11.
Chowing down: Angelina looks annoyed to be photographed eating a burger
Private joke: Angelina giggles with her eldest son Maddox, seven
She added: 'I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me.'
In a separate interview with this week's Hello! magazine, she describes family life is hectic but blissful.
She says: 'It’s a big, loud, busy family. The kids are all great friends, and we all have a lot of fun together. They’re all great travellers, too, and I think partly because there are so many of them, they’re able to make themselves at home anywhere.
'They can just go into an empty room, take it over, and make it their home, which is a wonderful gift.'
'I am fortunate enough to live with my favourite people in the world, including Brad, who is my best friend and an amazing father,' she continues.
'Our life is very, very hard work, but it’s also a lot of fun. We have each other, and we have a lot of love in our life. And anybody who has love in their life has something that is much more important than anything else.'
Ready for your close-up: Brad gets up close and personal for an intimate image of Angelina
As for the two new additions to her brood, she reveals: 'They’re very sweet together, and a great thing about twins is how much company they are for each other.
'You see them together, and they’re looking at each other, they smell each other, they put their hands on each other, and it’s just beautiful to watch. You reach a point where you almost think that to have one baby alone would be kind of lonely.'
Angelina largely stepped out of the spotlight following the birth of her twins, but she is now gearing up to return to Hollywood.
'I’m planning to go back to work in February – there’s a project I’m looking at now that will begin at the end of that month.
'It’ll have been over a year since I last worked and there was a big discussion in our house of, ‘Should I go back to work?’ Brad was wonderfully supportive.
'He said, "Your work is part of you and you should do this. We’ll be fine –the babies will be sitting up and hanging out in your trailer, and the kids will come to visit when they’re not at school. It’s going to be all right."'
The couple, who have been dating since 2005, have three adopted children and three biological, and have recently admitted they want to adopt more.
They are parents to Cambodian Maddox, seven; Vietnamese Pax Thien, four; Ethiopian Zahara Marley, three; Shiloh Nouvel, two; and twins Knox and Vivienne, three months.
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