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Angelina Jolie: I'm Going to "Give Up Acting" for My Family
Angelina Jolie: I'm Going to
December 4, 2012

Is Angelina Jolie** headed for an early retirement?

Maybe, according to a new interview the 37-year-old star did with Britain's Channel 4 News. Asked about her plans for the future, the Oscar-winning actress revealed that she would likely put the brakes on her movie career in the not-too-distant future to focus on taking care of her family. (Jolie and fiance Brad Pitt** have six children: Maddox, 11, Pax, 9, Zahara, 7, Shiloh, 6, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 4.)

"I think I'm going to have to give up acting as the kids hit the teenage years," the Maleficent star said, explaining that there would be "too much to manage at home."

"I've enjoyed being an actress," she continued. "And I am so grateful to the job. I've had great experiences, and I have even be able to tell stories and be a part of stories that mattered...It's a really lucky profession to be a part of. But if it went away tomorrow, I would be very happy to be home with my children."

The former UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador -- recently appointed UNHCR Special Envoy -- added that she hoped to devote more time to her humanitarian work.

"I wake up in the morning as a mum, and I turn on the news like everybody else, and I see what's happening, and I want to be part of the world in a positive way," she said, noting that her philanthropic efforts had become a much bigger part of her life ever since she adopted son Maddox in 2002.

Jolie is not alone in her desire to explore other avenues. Last year, her longtime love also hinted at retirement, telling Australia's 60 Minutes that he might want to stop acting within three years.

"I wasn't actually putting an exact deadline on my expiration date, but I see it coming," Pitt clarified later at a Moneyball press conference in November 2011. "I just have other interests."

This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Angelina Jolie: I'm Going to "Give Up Acting" for My Family


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Yeah retire already. I don't even think you're that good of an actress anyway. you're not the prettiest woman in the entire planet.
Posted by Ginger1999 December 6, 2012, 1:44 am
Great now she can help the UN usher in a one world government and a international criminal court.
Posted by Jimjam December 5, 2012, 8:45 pm
So she says, we have heard this a few times before from her....
Posted by blondylocks December 5, 2012, 11:16 am
I wish I was rich and had that option. Instead I work and get put down by my so called friends that don't have jobs. But they also ship their kids off and call themselves a stay at home mom. Needless to say we aren't friends anymore. And I have to put up with my mother in law using my daughter as a pawn to get what she wants because she babysits less than 20 hours a week. And when we tell her that we don't have money to give her she brings up about watching my daughter. So we cant even get our bills caught up for helping her out. And my parents are gone, so we don't have many sitters.I wish I could just say the he with it, and quit work and stay home with her myself. :(
Posted by Blondeb36 December 5, 2012, 5:43 am
Love Angelina
Posted by Stefani 95 December 5, 2012, 2:25 am
I THINK THEY MAKE A GREAT POLITICAL FAMILY GOOD LUCK and GOD BLESS
Posted by 5tudpa55ion December 4, 2012, 11:58 pm
I think A.J. is looking through some kind of rose colored glasses if she think the kids are gonna even want her near them when the hit the teenage years.
Posted by FAT AND KINDA HAPPY December 4, 2012, 11:50 pm
And this'd be #432 that she's said that. Well see.
Posted by Kmomma1 December 4, 2012, 11:19 pm
Sounds wonderful to me.
Posted by JAZZY LL December 4, 2012, 10:36 pm
Old news- she's already said she planned on letting go of acting. But mum? Is that suppose to be a direct quote
Posted by booksandshoes December 4, 2012, 10:25 pm

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