Brad Pitt Became the Tougher Parent After He Had Biological Kids With Angelina Jolie
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie experienced a role reversal as parents when they expanded their family. The Tomb Raider star was once very candid about how Pitt changed after the pair welcomed twins to their family.
Angelina Jolie once gave insight into her and Brad Pitt’s parenting styles
Jolie and Pitt welcomed a pair of twins to their family in 2008. Although the former power couple already had a full house of children, the twins would be the first of their kids who they had biologically.
The decision to have biological children wasn’t one she made lightly. But Pitt provided Jolie enough confidence and reassurance to give a natural birth. However, Jolie and Pitt didn’t expect their brood to grow as much as it did. The fact that she was giving birth to two children instead of one was a pleasant surprise for the stars.
“We weren’t expecting twins,” Jolie once told Entertainment Weekly (via People). “So it did shock us, and we jumped to six [children] quickly. But we like a challenge.”
At the time, Jolie was already planning on ways to make sure her and Pitt’s other children didn’t feel excluded when the twins arrived. This was why she felt it was important for everyone to chip in and take care of the newborns when the time came.
“They’re old enough to feel included to change diapers themselves, to feed bottles themselves, like if I pump into a bottle. We’re trying to find ways where it can be a fun group thing … Everybody gets special time so we can make sure we know where they’re at,” Jolie added.
After the twins’ debut, however, they also had an interesting impact on Pitt’s and Jolie’s roles as parents. According to Jolie, she actually used to be stricter than Pitt.
”I used to be the tougher parent but since the birth of the twins, Brad’s had to play bad cop more often,” she once told Ok! (via News 24).
But Jolie also confided that she and Pitt might bond with their kids individually in different ways based on their personalities.
“It also depends on which of the children we are talking about. Brad has always had this incredible bond with Mad, who’s very smart, and Brad loves teaching him about history and art and culture – it’s an amazing thing to watch them together,” she said.
Brad Pitt considered himself the goofier parent between himself and Angelina Jolie
Jolie may have considered Pitt the stricter parent in some cases, but Pitt still viewed as himself less serious than her. In a 2015 interview with WSJ, Pitt spoke fondly of Jolie’s dedication as a mother. Even on Jolie’s days off from her busy work schedule, the Maleficent star still invested a good amount of time on her children.
“When Angie has a day off, the first thing she does is get up and take the kids out. This is the most important ‘to do’ of the day. No matter how tired she might be, she plans outings for each and all. She has an incredible knack for inventing crazy experiences for them, something new, something fresh,” Pitt said.
Although Pitt felt he was the more fun one, goofing off with the kids wouldn’t have been possible without Jolie’s direction.
“I may be the bigger goof of the pair, but she invents the stage,” he said.
Still, Jolie shared that she might not have been too serious compared to Pitt. She confided that some of the most fun she’s had was spent with her kids before bedtime.
”Our happiest moments are probably in the evening before the kids go to bed. We often play together in our pajamas after dinner and it’s like having a party sometimes where we’re all dancing and jumping around and being silly. That’s when you really feel the beauty of having a family. It’s our little world,” she said.
