Angelina Jolie gives birth to twins

ANGELINA Jolie and Brad Pitt have named their new twins after relatives.

The premature boy and girl, both 5lbs and healthy, are Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

They were delivered by Caesarean in Nice, France, at 8pm on Saturday as dozens of security guards patrolled inside and outside the hospital.

Mum ... Marcheline

Angelina had been due to give birth in August but it was brought forward for medical reasons.

Michel Sussmann, her doctor at the Lenval Hospital, said: “Mother and babies are doing very well. Everything is marvellous.”

Marcheline is named after Jolie’s actress mother who died of cancer last year.

Knox Leon is thought to be named after Brad’s grandad Hall Knox Hillhouse.

Leon comes from the Greek word for lion and implies strength.

Brad, 44 — who was present at the birth — and Angelina, 33, also have a daughter Shiloh, two, and three adopted kids.

The couple recently moved into a chateau 50 miles away and are due to be flown back there by helicopter later this week.

The babies’ first photo has been sold to a US paper for £5.5million with the money to go to a humanitarian cause.

Angelina Jolie Did Not Marry With Brad Pitt

Online reports that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt tied the knot in New Orleans Saturday are "complete and total bulls--t," a source tells Usmagazine.com.

"Bottom line, they aren't even in New Orleans," the source tells Us.

Reps for Jolie, 32 and pregnant, and Pitt, 44, did not comment on initial reports that they wed at an unannounced ceremony in the French Quarter.

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In 2006, Pitt stated that he and Jolie were waiting until gay marriage was legalized before they would marry.

"Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," he told Esquire.

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Jolie has brushed off the value of marriage.

"We both have been married before, so it's not marriage that's necessarily kept some people together," she told Vogue in 2006. "We are legally bound to our children, not to each other, and I think that's the most important thing."

The couple, who have been together since 2005, have four children and three previous marriages between them.
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Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Expecting

Angelina Jolie, left, and Brad Pitt arrive at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, Calif.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt ended months of speculation that the couple is expecting another child after showing off the "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" star's baby bump Saturday night at the Film Independent's Spirit Awards in California.

They are "thrilled to be adding to their brood," People magazine quotes a source close to the couple as saying. "They are very, very happy."

Jolie walked the blue carpet Saturday in form-fitting black dress that accentuated her growing belly.

The Jolie-Pitt family includes three adopted children and one biological child.

Angelina Jolie’s Iraqi Mission

Out to do her part in saving the world, Angelina Jolie took flight from London to her final destination of Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday (February 6).

According to a People magazine report, “The goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Jolie), 32, is there on a U.S. government mission with the State Department to Iraq. She is accompanying Under secretary of State Paula Dobriansky to learn more about the humanitarian crisis and the 4 million displaced people, 58 percent of whom are under 12.”

Of the situation, the Girl Interrupted actress told CNN in an exclusive interview: “There’s lots of goodwill and lots of discussion, but there seems to be just a lot of talk at the moment, and a lot of pieces that need to be put together. I’m trying to figure out what they are.”

“What happens in Iraq and how Iraq settles in the years to come is going to affect the entire Middle East. And a big part of what it’s going to affect, how it settles, is how these people are returned and settled into their homes and their community and brought back together and whether they can live together and what their communities look like. It’s in our best interest to address a humanitarian crisis on this scale because displacement can lead to a lot of instability and aggression,” Jolie added.

Meanwhile, live-in partner Brad Pitt won’t have to manage the kids all by himself for too much longer, as Angelina plans on returning to the States late Thursday night.