Angelina Jolie touches on home front

By Lorena Blas, USA TODAY
While Brad Pitt stumps for the green scene, careful not to say a word about his private life, his partner, Angelina Jolie, doesn't mind sharing some details about home life with their four children: Maddox, 5, Zahara, 2, Shiloh, 11 months, and new addition Pax, 3.

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Jolie, 31, brought Pax home from Vietnam in March. She tells June's Reader's Digest how she and Pitt, 43, are juggling parenting duties. "We've tried to figure out a lot of private time for each of them. When everybody goes to bed, we give Mad time. When everybody is at school, we give Shiloh time. In between, Z and Pax each get special time. And on Sundays, we have a big family sleep," when the kids get in bed with their parents and watch a movie. "We're talking about having to build a bigger bed!"

This month, the couple's youngest turns 1, and Jolie says that she planned her pregnancy with Shiloh. "I always said I was happy never to have a child biologically. (Brad) told me he hadn't given up that thought. Then … after Z came home (from Ethiopia), I saw Brad with her and Mad, and I realized how much he loved them, that a biological child would not in any way be a threat."

Asked if she adopted Pax so Maddox (from Cambodia) would have a brother who looks like him, Jolie replies that, after Shiloh's birth, "somebody in the house looked like Mommy and Daddy. It became clear to us that it might be important to have somebody around who is similar to the other children so they have a connection."

Family is important to Jolie, whose mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died in January. Jolie says that her mother lived long enough to see her "grow up to be quite happy."

Indeed, Jolie says, "Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of (their kids). He couldn't stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time."

Reader's Digest is on stands May 22.