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By COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press Writer Sun Jul 13, 5:59 PM ET

NICE, France - Brad Pitt was emotional but calm, Angelina Jolie laughed and chatted. The world's most famous celebrity couple were joined in emotion during the birth of their twins — a boy and a girl — and all "are doing marvelously well," the doctor who delivered the babies in a seaside hospital on the French Riviera said Sunday.


The newborns — Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, born one minute apart Saturday evening — are the ultimate million-dollar babies, with experts estimating their first photos will fetch a fortune.

"In the celebrity world, it seems to be the double second coming," said Darryn Lyons, owner of Big Pictures, a photo agency in London.

For now, mother, father and newborns are resting out of the public eye on the fifth floor of the Lenval hospital, behind blue mirrored windows that provide sweeping views of Nice's sun-drenched beaches, but specially treated to deflect the prying lenses of paparazzi.

Jolie's obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, said the 44-year-old Pitt was at Jolie's side during the delivery, looking on as the doctor performed a Caesarean section to deliver Knox, weighing in at slightly over 5 pounds, and Vivienne, who weighed 5 pounds.

"He was my assistant," Sussmann joked.

"He was very happy. ... The emotion was very strong for him," Sussmann told reporters on the hospital steps. "I felt the emotion of both the mother and the father. Angelina Jolie was speaking, was laughing with her husband. They were happy."

"The mother, the babies, the father are doing marvelously well," he said.

Sussmann said the Caesarean was moved forward from its originally planned date "for medical reasons" so the babies could be born "in the best conditions." The doctor did not elaborate.

He said Jolie, 33, is expected to stay in the hospital for a few more days and that she now needs rest. The four other Jolie-Pitt children — Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2 — have not yet seen their new sister and brother, he said.

The doctor said he believed the baby girl's middle name was chosen in honor of Jolie's mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died in January 2007 after a 7 1/2-year battle with cancer.

News of the births attracted a small crowd of fans hoping to snap a photo of Pitt — or any of their celebrity friends stopping by to pay a visit. None appeared, but the mayor of Nice delivered the twin's birth certificates, which he later displayed to reporters, with the family's approval, showing Pitt's scrawling WBP, for his full name William Brad Pitt.

"The father is having one of the happiest moments of his life, like any father, especially when they have the joy of having two children from such a wonderful wife as Angelina Jolie," Mayor Christian Estrosi said after the brief official visit, which spared Pitt the gauntlet of paparazzi that would accompany any trip to City Hall.

"The mother is doing fine. She is smiling a lot. She is as happy as the father," Estrosi said.

The twins' arrival has spurred a rash of speculation about the price of the first "official" snaps.

Nice Matin, the hometown daily in the Riviera city in the south of France, put the worth of the twins' photos at more than $11 million. It first broke news of the birth and reported Sunday that the couple have sold the rights for the first photo of their newly expanded family to a U.S. publication, which it did not name, and that the proceeds would go to charity.

"I've never known a set of pictures to be worth this amount of money," said Lyons, the owner of Big Pictures. He estimated that the twins' official photos will be worth between $15 million and $20 million.

The only other photos that "would possibly come that close is Britney Spears giving birth to an alien," he said.

Veteran London-based celebrity publicist Max Clifford estimated the first photos could fetch 10 million pounds — roughly €12 million or $20 million, "which would make it the biggest baby deal ever."

"These kind of pictures sell lots of magazines," he said. "It's a 10-million-pound ($20 million) gamble as to whether the ends justify the means. But obviously it's a very calculated risk because whoever lands the photos will have a lot of experience with the popularity of mum and dad."

Paparazzi have been following the couple through southern France since the Cannes film festival in May, snapping shots of the family on an outing to Eze beach and sticking close as they set up household in Correns, 60 miles from Nice. But so far the couple has evaded the paparazzi when it counted, arriving undetected at the Lenval clinic two weeks before the birth.

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Associated Press Writers John Leicester in Paris and Emily Ristow in London contributed to this report

I bet they're gorgeous.

They planned that, I know they did. 3 boys, 3 girls, yep, too perfect.

morningsong said:

They need to adopt another black one for Zahara

Good for them.

I'm glad Shiloh has some backup.

Am I wrong for thinking that Maddox, Z, and Pax tease Shiloh for not being adopted???

"You came outta Mommy's vagina??? Ewww!!!"

Now they have 3 adopted kids and 3 natural born kids.

They must be stopped before they mess around and have some sort of Jolie-Pitt United Colors of Benetton!!!

Paris9748430 said:

technically speaking Shiloh didn't come out of the vagina. Besides, I don;t think they'll start teasing the bio kids until they're teenagers

and???

congrats to them!

Janfriend said:

celeb kids NEVER come out of vaginas!

how disgusting!

someone told me Shiloh Pitt will be nicknamed Piloh Shitt at school

that's not nice

Paris9748430 said:

Well, it's not like the other kids are test tube babies for chrissakes. I think they count as natural born too.

'Knox Pitt' sounds weird to me, I'm sorry.

FunkMistress said:

I'd say all of them came out of their mummies vaginas

WillyWonka said:

I'm sure it's Knox Jolie-Pitt, which isn't so bad.

In response to Shiloh getting teased....I'm sure everyone is going to want to be her friend. The kid is absolutely gorgeous and will continue to develop into a gorgeous girl. She will be envied by all...I already envy her!!!

I hope that Brad and Angelina stay together forever, I absolutely love this couple! I hope they adopt more babies, they can afford it and bring lots of happiness to unfortunate children.

Am I the only person in the whole world that just doesn't give a rat's?


then again, I did click on and post on this thread so...

minneapolisgenius said:

I think they are a phenomenal powerful couple! I think they should be the Presidents of the US!!!!!

I'm not even kidding

CarrieLee said:

I mean I don't care that she gave birth really. I mean, people have babies every day. My good friends just had another son yesterday, so I guess I'm more excited for them (if at all) than Brad and Angelina.

But mostly, I just don't really get all that excited when people have babies. I know that sounds HORRIBLE and it's not the norm I suppose, but that's just how I am. I guess if it was one of my sisters or something, but none of us 3 (me and my two sisters) have kids at all, so the excitement thing hasn't really happened yet. But yeah, when celebrities have kids, I really couldn't care less.


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minneapolisgenius said:

I'm totally with you esp what was it, 10 million just for a photo of babies

minneapolisgenius said:

there's definitely something wrong with your woman bits!

NDRU said:

you smelled that baby's head didn't you, even though you promised you wouldn't

ZombieKitten said:

never! But she's got woman bits, no head smelling is necessary. There's an innate obsession with tiny socks. The head smelling only magnifies it in a woman.

This has all been proven by science & books!

NDRU said:

I'm not a woman then all that stuff had no effect on me EVER

ZombieKitten said:

Science & books!

NDRU said:

no wonder, I studied art and design

Janfriend said:

I saw in an interview a while ago where Angelina said she wanted to do that. But my guess is that it won't happen too soon because they have SIX KIDS!! That seems so crazy for two ppl who work in regularly in Hollywood. I would go insane! But they wanted a big family so I'm sure they're all good.

PurpleRighteous1 said:

they just need to employ a couple more round the clock nannies

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ZombieKitten said:

ZombieKitten said:

Their existing nannies are not around the clock. They go home in the evening