Brad Pitt is happier than ever after reducing his friendship circle and concentrating on his family.

The actor is a father of six with fiancee Angelina Jolie, and admits he has never felt as content as when he spends time with his brood and immediate relatives.

In a new interview with U.S. magazine Esquire, he says, "I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends and I have my family and I haven't known life to be any happier. I'm making things. I just haven't known life to be any happier."

And the star admits he hates the void his kids leave when they are not with him - even...

Angelina Jolie is one resilient mom. The actress, 37, has experienced no complications since undergoing a double mastectomy in February and reconstructive surgery in April. "She is doing well," a source tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story, which features a never-before-seen personal photo of Angelina as a baby being held by her mother Marcheline Bertrand, who died of ovarian cancer at 56 in 2007.

But Jolie's medical odyssey is not done. The mom of six is also planning to undergo surgery to remove her ovaries. Because of her "faulty" BRCA1 gene, she still faces a high risk of developing...

Angelina Jolie has received a lot of praise for opening up about the double mastectomy she had in February.

The actress revealed her decision via an article in the New York Times on Tuesday, saying that she carries the "faulty" BRCA1 gene -- which put her at a very high risk of developing breast cancer in the future.

Stars like past breast cancer survivors Giuliana Rancic, Kathy Bates and Kylie Minogue, and double mastectomy recipients Sharon Osbourne and Barbara Walters, who both underwent the same procedure for peventive measures, heaped praise on Jolie for telling her story, hoping tha...

Angelina Jolie's fiance Brad Pitt has praised her for her "heroic" decision to undergo a double mastectomy in a bid to thwart breast cancer.

The actress revealed on Tuesday that she had undergone the surgery earlier this year after learning that she was a carrier of the BRCA1 gene -- a "faulty" gene that gave her an 87% chance of developing the cancer.

Jolie had the surgery in February and managed to keep it a secret for months until penning an article for the New York Times to share her story.

"My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under five per cent. (...

Jon Voight was stunned to learn that his daughter Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy earlier this year (13) - because he had no idea about her private health battle.

The Salt star has revealed she underwent the preventative surgery in February (13), after doctors warned her she carries the "faulty" gene BRCA1 but the veteran actor was kept in the dark about her diagnosis.

Voight reveals he spent time with his daughter and her fiance Brad Pitt over the weekend (11-12May13), when they celebrated her brother, James Haven's, birthday, but Jolie never let her closely guarded secret ...

Brad Pitt has opened up further about his fiancee Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy surgery, revealing he and their six kids set up a post-op haven to aid the actress' recovery.

Jolie went public with her big reveal in an article in Tuesday's (14May13) New York Times, revealing she underwent the preventative surgery in February (13) in a bid to keep breast cancer at bay.

Pitt issued a statement on Tuesday morning, calling his partner's actions "heroic" and then sat down for interviews to promote his new movie World War Z but few people wanted to chat about the film.

Asked about Jolie's ...

Angelina Jolie's brother James Haven and soon-to-be mother-in-law Jane Pitt have voiced their pride and support for the actress after she went public with news of her double mastectomy.

The Hollywood beauty revealed on Tuesday (14May13) that she had undergone the drastic surgery in February (13) as a preventative measure after doctors warned her she was at high risk of developing breast cancer - because she carried the "faulty" gene, BRCA1.

Her fiance Brad Pitt subsequently hailed Jolie, a mum of six, for her "absolutely heroic" decision and now her actor brother Haven has expressed his f...

Brad Pitt has heaped praise on his partner Angelina Jolie's "heroic" decision to undergo a double mastectomy earlier this year (13).

On Tuesday (14May13), the Oscar-winning actress revealed to the world that she had both of her breasts removed in February (13) as a preventative measure after doctors warned her she carries the "faulty" gene BRCA1.

Before the operation Jolie had an 87 per cent risk of contracting breast cancer, and in her article for the New York Times she revealed Pitt's support had been integral in getting their family through such a tough time.

Now the Fight Club star h...

Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy earlier this year when she learned she had an 87 percent chance of developing breast cancer.

The actress, whose mother died in 2007 at the age of 56 due to ovarian cancer, made the decision to undergo preventative surgery. She had both of her breasts removed in February after doctors told her that she carried the "faulty" gene BRCA1. 

Jolie, despite her massive star status, managed to keep the surgery a secret for months until she wrote an article for the New York Times explaining her decision and to bring awareness to cancer treatment and tests.

Sh...

Actress Angelina Jolie underwent a secret double mastectomy earlier this year (13).

The Salt star made the decision to undergo preventative surgery and have both of her breasts removed in February (13) after doctors told her that she carried the "faulty" gene BRCA1 and had an 87 per cent risk of contracting breast cancer.

The Oscar-winner explains her reasons for going under the knife in an article for the New York Times, published on Tuesday (14May13), and praises her long-term partner Brad Pitt, who was with her during her surgeries at the Pink Lotus Breast Center in Beverly Hills, Cali...

The producers behind Brad Pitt's upcoming post-apocalyptic horror film World War Z have opened up about the "insane" production problems which plagued the project, branding the shoot a "nightmare".

The zombie movie was initially due for release last year but was bumped to this summer amid rumors of issues with the script. Executives behind the film have now revealed the full extent of the problems, confirming reports Lost writer Damon Lindelof was drafted in to help salvage the project.

The movie's ending was completely changed and led to weeks of re-shoots, while the $125 million budge...

Jennifer Aniston can't wait to get married to fiancée Justine Theroux - but she won't step on ex Brad Pitt's big day, according to reports.

Aniston was hoping to have a summer wedding with the Tropical Thunder writer, but with Pitt and Angelina Jolie planning on marrying sometime in the season, Aniston has decided to wait.

A source tells Us Magazine, "She does not want her day associated with them." She was considering moving up the date and having a spring wedding, but Theroux "got weirded out by all the rushing."

With the decision to wait until after Pitt and Jolie share their vows, An...

Angelina Jolie has reportedly been spending a lot of time with ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton lately.

Jolie has been regularly visiting Thornton at his Los Angeles home, and a source tells Life & Style Weekly that they've been spending "hours" at a time together.

"Angelina and Billy Bob are still super close," the source tells Life & Style. "And whenever Angelina is in LA, she stops by his house and they'll talk for hours."

Last year the actress wrote the foreward to Thornton's autobiography, "The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts."

"They've seen each other a lot recently," the sour...

Brad Pitt has revealed that his new movie World War Z cut expensive scenes from the final cut because the film became too "bogged down" in political agendas.

The actor, who stars in and produces the upcoming zombie thriller, has revealed that several of the film's scenes shot in Budapest have been cut from the finished movie because, although he was initially more interested in making a "political film," the underlying social agenda became "too much" for a summer blockbuster.

He explained to Entertainment Weekly: "At the time, I was really interested in a more political film, using the z...

Actress Kirsten Dunst doesn't have fond memories of her first kiss, insisting her smooch with Brad Pitt in Interview With The Vampire was "disgusting."

The Marie Antoinette star was just 11 years old when she played Claudia, a woman trapped in a young girl's body, in the film, and locking lips with one of the world's sexiest men was not an experience to remember.

While Dunst admits many of her schoolmates were jealous of her onscreen romance with Pitt, but she wasn't that impressed.

She tells Bullet magazine, "I remember Brad would watch lots of Real World episodes. He had this long h...

Even if you don’t recognize the name Scoot McNairy, you most likely would remember one of his many layered film characters.  Whether it’s his turn as a cautious curmudgeon in the offbeat romantic flick "In Search of a Midnight Kiss", a cynical photojournalist in the cult classic "Monsters" or most recently as timid US embassy staffer Joe Stafford in the Academy Award winning best picture "Argo," McNairy is truly one memorable actor’s actor.  His latest film, the crime thriller "Killing Them Softly," has McNairy playing a small time thief who gets more then he bargained for after pulling a h...

Seeing the effects of middle age on his figure, Brad Pitt, 49, reportedly wears Spanx at all times.

A source told In Touch magazine: "They minimize the bad and accent the good. He's close to 50 and is showing his age."

We can't help but wonder if he'll wear them for his upcoming nuptials with Angelina Jolie.

Several celebrities admit to using the shapewear, including singer Katy Perry who is too lazy to work out and wants fans to know she's just like them.

She said: "I think one of my favorite moments is seeing like a hot girl dancing in a club, and then accidentally seeing her Spanx. P...

Celebrities sometimes come up with some outrageous wedding ideas, but often the rumors are more exciting than the actual event. A man cited as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's florist reportedly has the scoop on the couple's upcoming nuptials.

Lucille Michel told the U.K.'s Grazia magazine: "Guests will travel past water fountains and Shetland ponies leaping as they go up the two-mile long drive to the house." He added, "They want the wedding to take place just before sunset."

In addition, Michel claimed a family of eight elephants will greet guests, an idea spurred by the couple's six chi...

They're battling it out in the "Best Actor" category at the Academy Awards on Sunday, but Hugh Jackman has beaten Bradley Cooper in a less competitive race: sexiest facial hair.

In the battle of the beards, the "Les Miserables" star has bested the "Silver Linings Playbook" stud, according to a new survey conducted by British hair transplant center, Crown Clinic in Manchester.

"Hugh Jackman looks great whatever kind of facial hair he has - stubble, a moustache or a beard," Crown Clinic surgeon and hair loss expert Dr. Asim Shahmalak told WENN.

Rounding out the top five on the list are Dav...

Bottoms up! Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are developing their own brand of wine, which is named after their private estate in France.

The actors were introduced to winemaker Marc Perrin by mutual friends and are collaborating on the new rose called Miraval.

Pitt issued the statement: "We are intimately involved and quite enthused over the wine project with our friends the Perrin family."

Perrin tells Bloomberg.com, "Brad and Angelina are very friendly, nice people and down to earth. They're thinking long term. If you knew Brad and Angelina, you would see they are in search of perfection ...

Everyone wants to know more about Hollywood’s golden girl Jennifer Aniston, especially the scoop on her marriage and split to Brad Pitt.

Aniston has reportedly been offered big bucks to write a tell-all memoir in hopes she will dish about her current relationship with fiancé Justin Theroux and her divorce from Pitt.

A huge sum of money has been dangled before the actress, but a source told OK! magazine: "Jen won’t want to dwell on bad things. She’ll want people to be laughing, not crying. It’s not about going after Brad and Angelina [Jolie], but if she does write it she will be honest.”

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Every few months the baby rumors start swirling, and it's happening again. Is Angelina Jolie pregnant with her seventh child? According to Star magazine, the actress is three months along, and fiance Brad Pitt has reportedly been bragging to friends that they are expecting a boy.

In addition to the baby news, the tabloid claims the couple is allegedly removing themselves from Hollywood too. Both stars have in the past alluded to cutting down on acting work and focusing on charity endeavors. The rumors could be true, or the magazine is just trying to make money.

The couple has been engaged...

The biggest and most memorable event of 1963 was the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, its 50th anniversary will be marked on November 22. The civil rights movement was in full swing as Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I have a dream" speech and the Vietnam conflict had begun. Gas was 29 cents a gallon and the average cost for a new home was $12,560.

Also that year, the Beatles released their first album 'Please Please Me.' Notable films released in 1963 were The Great Escape, From Russia with Love, The Birds, Cleopatra and The Pink Panther. Popular TV shows included, The A...

Here we go again -- rumor has it that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie snuck in a wedding over the holidays.

The couple, engaged since April, reportedly exchanged vows on Christmas Day at fashion designer Donna Karan's Parrot Cay estate in the Turks and Caicos Islands, according to London's Daily Telegraph.

The super-secret ceremony is said to have only included the couple's six children, Maddox (11), Pax (9), Zahara (7), Shiloh (6), and twins Knox & Vivienne (4) -- who have been pushing the couple to get married for several months -- and Pitt's parents and siblings, sister Julie and brother ...

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's children prepared for Christmas early this year by writing letters to Santa Claus and sending them off last month.

The couple's brood of six - Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne - put pen to paper to detail their wish lists and posted them off in the village of Littlebourne in Kent, England, where their famous father was re-shooting scenes for upcoming blockbuster World War Z.

Littlebourne post office assistant Fiona Lindsay tells People.com, "It was so cute. All the children sent messages to Father Christmas and were absolutely beauti...

Stars including Brad Pitt and Danny Glover have praised Barack Obama after the President declared that prosecuting recreational pot users is "not a top priority."

Hollywood actor Pitt is an executive producer of new documentary The House I Live In, about the country's war on drugs, and he has thrown his support behind Obama after the politician insisted police have "bigger fish to fry" and won't be "going after recreational users in states that have determined that it's (marijuana) legal."

Pitt and his co-producers, Glover, John Legend and Russell Simmons, say in a statement, "President...

Angelina Jolie and her fiance Brad Pitt have donated $50,000 to help buy tents for Syrian refugees.

The actress, who is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, is in the Middle East to highlight the plight of those who have escaped Syria amid ongoing fighting between rebels and President Bashar Hafez al-Assad's government forces.

On Wednesday night, she attended a meeting with border officers in neighboring Jordan and heaped praise on the country's officials for welcoming in refugees.

She said, "The incredible compassion shown to these traumatized refugee families by the Jordanian borde...

Over dinner with his 4-year-old twins, Knox and Vivienne, Brad Pitt gets personal about his family, facing his 50th birthday, and tying the knot with “Mama” (yes, that’s how the Killing Them Softly star affectionately refers to his fiancée, Angelina Jolie, 37): “The time has come…it’s soon,” Pitt says in a revealing interview in the latest issue of PEOPLE. Chatting in between bites – and pausing frequently to talk to the twins or laugh at their antics – a happy, relaxed Pitt acknowledges it’s been a big year for his “familia” since he proposed to Jolie in April. So what’s left to accompl...

Well, there’s no other way to put it other than I really enjoyed it. Truth be told, it isn’t any different than any other gun-toting, mob-laced film we haven’t seen before. However, this one hit more on contemporary times in terms of look, jargon, style and aura! It may not have seemed like much at first “glance,” but Andrew Dominik's crime drama 'Killing Them Softly' packs a decent punch.

Set in a hammered America, with economic echoes via TV recession chatter, and post-Katrina New Orleans exposing a rain-soaked backdrop, the film introduces low-lives Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn as...

While promoting his new film "Killing Them Softly," Brad Pitt opened up about finally getting married to Angelina Jolie and his future career plans.

"Extra" reporter Jerry Penacoli asked the actor, "You always said you wouldn't get married till everyone had the same rights, so is this gonna be a long engagement?"

Brad said, "I don't know we're making great strides…I will admit we have had some pressure from our kids, we didn't realize how much it means to them, we didn't realize how much it means to us."

And has a wedding date been set? Pitt said, "We really don't," and added, "We are b...