Posted Nov. 10, 2008

Everyone can exhale now. Angelina Jolie says 4-month-old wonder twins Vivienne and Knox are doing just "great."

Kung-Fu Panda moves in for an "accidental" leg graze with Angelina Jolie. (©Retna Ltd.)

The Oscar winner-cum-fertility goddess made the pronouncement at the DVD launch party for "Kung Fu Panda" Sunday in Los Angeles, where she worked the red carpet solo (Brad Pitt is busy promoting his forthcoming drama, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") in a black minidress and nude-hued stilettos that highlighted her ridiculously lissome gams.

"They're still so little, but they do [have their own personalities]," she told reporters of the double bundles (via People and Us). "They are starting to get very smiley, and they are at those months where their personality really starts to shine. So it is very fun."

Savvy self-promoter that she is, Angelina adds that Maddox, 7, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 2, are big "Panda" fans and are "very, very proud" that she provides the voice for Tigress.

"They have a big Tigress doll that they keep putting diapers on! They love Tigress!" says the actress, who then gives an unnecessary plug to the blockbuster cartoon "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" by telling Us that she took the tykes to see it the day before.

And even though Pitt was a no-show at the event, he wasn't far from her thoughts.

Brad, with Maddox and Pax, arrives at the Venice Film Festival in August. (©AP)

"I have a great partner," Angelina enthuses to "Access Hollywood." "He's the best daddy and we have fun, so whenever it gets hard we can just look at each other and find a way to laugh about and just appreciate that they're only little once, and we should enjoy every minute."

Meanwhile, with In Touch already speculating there could be another Brad-spawned bun baking in her still-warm oven, Jolie does little to quiet the rumor mill as she declares, "Anything could happen. We're open to anything, we love kids and we're having a great time. ... It's chaos in our house, but it's so much fun. We'll definitely have more."

And their brood will continue to be a blended bunch.

"Most likely we'll adopt again," she tells the Times of London, before describing the concept behind their family planning. "As we layer them in, with two new ones, we're watching that balance, that shape and form, and once we feel that's solid, we'll know when it's time to bring in another."

Not surprisingly, "the word 'adoption' is a good word" in the Jenga-like Jolie-Pitt house, she says.

"We talk about orphanages, we talk about their countries and differences, and it's a source of excitement and pride," observes Angelina. "I've heard Maddox explain to Zahara when they are talking about pregnancy, 'No, Zee, remember, you were in that nice African woman's belly. I was in that nice Cambodian woman.'"

All together: Awwww.

She also reiterates her longtime reluctance to give birth ("I just thought there were so many children in the world I never felt I needed to create a life") and acknowledges how her relationship with Pitt eventually changed her mind.

Angelina keeps Brad's hand firmly on her behind at the New York premiere of "Changeling" on Oct. 4. (©Retna Ltd.)

"Early on when we met, we had this time when we were working together and we just spent it discussing how we saw our lives and what our plans were for the future," Jolie recalls of bonding with Brad on "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." "And there was a day when we both talked about wanting a large family."

At the time, "I was thinking of only adoptive children, but he saw a big family mixed with adoptive and born children," she shares. "And I ended up falling in love with a man who I think was destined to have children and suddenly one day it felt right and there it was."

Something else that felt right -- maybe a bit too right -- was posing for an artsy black-and-white spread for W magazine shot by photography-enthusiast Pitt, who she says "sees the beauty in the journey the mother's body takes, as I think all men should. But some men just don't, unfortunately."

"I'd just had the kids six weeks before and felt so private, it didn't feel right having a photographer fly across the world with a rack of stylish clothes for me to wear," reminisces Jolie. "It became this one-week project in our house."

But she tells the mag "matters quickly got out of hand" and a few of the shots proved too risqué for public consumption, "so we made it a little more tame than it was originally."

It's apparently one of the few times she was plagued by second thoughts.

"If you start to regret, start to hesitate and question every move to make, then you live in some different way," reckons Angelina. "And for all the craziness I've done, I've never hurt anybody."