Jolie talks about motherhood and Brad ‘the amazing father’

ANGELINA JOLIE has revealed that she was searching for a father to her children before she met Brad Pitt.

Jolie, 31, has previously maintained that she was happy to be a single mother when she met Pitt, then married to Jennifer Aniston, on the set of their movie Mr and Mrs Smith.

But she tells Elle magazine in a new interview: “What I wanted was to find somebody who, first and foremost, was a great father, because I was already a parent.

“Yes, I needed somebody who cared about the issues. But it’s not just that Brad will travel and he loves kids. He’s a thoughtful, intelligent man.

“When it comes to talking about something going on in the world and what we can do, his natural instinct is, ‘How and when can we do that?’ “It’s the same with raising kids. He just naturally knows he’s lucky to be a dad to these really funny, lovely little people, so the way he parents them comes naturally. It’s just right.”

Jolie revealed that she and Pitt, 43, parents to adopted children Maddox, five, and Zahara, two, and biological daughter Shiloh, seven months, want to have a huge family of 10 children.

The Oscar winner said: “We definitely want a very big family. It might seem crazy to build it so quickly.

“But if we’re going to have 10 kids, we’d like to raise them while we’re young.

“Madd and I talk about him being adopted, and he’s got opinions about his brothers and sisters to come. Maddox has already named the next addition to the family.

“Last night I said to Brad, ‘If this becomes a reality, are we really thinking of that name?’ He said, ‘Yes, I think we have to’.”

The Tomb Raider star gushed that it had been “amazing” to find her perfect partner.

She said: “Oh, amazing! Amazing! I still find that. It’s amazing that there’s that thing you should hold out for, that you’re not wrong in feeling something’s not enough.”

She added: “We came together because we’re similar.

“He never talked about politics or the charity things he’s done, but early on I realised he was aware of these issues.

“He’s a really amazing father — he didn’t just become that around me.”

The actress, previously married to Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller, also appeared to say in the interview that she did not approve of Madonna’s adoption of a Malawian child.

She said: “I’m sure their hearts are in the right place. But the reality is Malawi is a country... Well it’s not on our list, because there’s a very limited number of countries you can adopt from.”

The full interview appears in the February issue of Elle.