Brad Pitt is going on the record for the first time to flat-out deny that he had an affair with Angelina Jolie while he was still married to Jennifer Aniston. It was commonly believed that Brad and Ange fell in love (at first sight, I believe we were told) on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith and began an extramarital affair behind Jen Aniston‘s back … but, in a new interview with W magazine, Brad clarifies that there was no “dastardly affair”, stating that his relationship with Angelina began after he “respectfully” ended things with Jen. HMMM. This is the first time we’re hearing about this after all these years … seems a bit fishy to me. Here is the cover of the new issue of W magazine which accompanies Brad’s revelatory coverstory:

Forget any potential catfight between Brad Pitt’s former wife, Jennifer Aniston, and his current partner, Angelina Jolie, the actor says in a new interview. Despite Aniston’s recent comment to Vogue in which she called Jolie “really uncool” for revealing how she (Jolie) couldn’t wait to go to work with the married actor on Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Pitt tells the February issue of W magazine, “Listen, man, Jen is a sweetheart. I think she got dragged into that one, and then there’s a second round to all of that Angie versus Jen. It’s so created.” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button star, 45, also says of Aniston, “We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don’t see how there cannot be [that]. That’s life, man. That’s life.” As for his take on what took place with Jolie off-camera during the 2003 Mr. & Mrs. Smith shoot, he says, “What people don’t understand is that we filmed for a year. We were still filming after Jen and I split up. Even then it doesn’t mean that there was some kind of dastardly affair. There wasn’t.” He adds, “I’m very proud of the way that it was handled. It was respectful. [The film] will mean something to our kids. It will, that’s all.”

Curious … very curious. You’d think that someone (Brad, Angelina, Jennifer) would’ve made very clear YEARS AGO that Brad respectfully ended his marriage with Jen before he started his relationship with Ange, especially in light of all the heat that came when news broke that Brangelina were an item and that Brad and Jennifer were dunzo (in that order). HMMMM … I don’t know that I totally buy Brad‘s retelling of history here. After the jump, check out the rest of the photos from Brad‘s W magazine photospread …

Gossip Girl star Blake Lively is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of W magazine … and while some think that Blake looks patriotic on the cover, clutching the US flag, I think she looks more superhero-like … very Wonder Womanly. Here is Blake‘s W cover, a few photos from her spread and a portion of her interview:

Blake Lively is a starving artist. “I’m hungry. You hungry? Let’s meet at Sant Ambroeus,” she says, by way of cell phone introduction. Within minutes she’s stepping out of a taxi, an endless stream of legs and golden hair. The pint-size ristorante in New York’s West Village is, on a Saturday afternoon, predictably packed with the type of diners who are too cool to freak out about the numero uno Gossip Girl but not so jaded that they don’t notice her. Over the course of the next hour and a half, only a mother and her trembling tween daughter openly fawn over Lively. Sure, a guy at the next table chats her up, but that’s only because he really, really needs to know if he should order the eggplant appetizer that the gorgeous 21-year-old is digging into with gusto … A tight-knit bunch, the Lively clan also includes a talent manager mom, two older sisters and two older brothers—all of whom are connected to the entertainment industry in some manner. “My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class,” Lively recalls. “And I’m a naturally shy person, so it really helped. I would’ve just been hiding under the table, pulling on my mother’s dress if I hadn’t been in their classes. It forced me out of my shell.” And out she stayed—Lively is warm and ultrachatty, dispensing the type of cheerful anecdotes that make clear she leads a charmed existence.

The interview goes on from there (you can read it in full HERE). It’s a pretty standard interview that doesn’t really delve into anything even remotely resembling drama. When the question of whether or not she competes on set with Leighton Meester on the set of the GG she responds by saying, “I’ve never really had a competitive relationship in any work situation. The media is always trying to pit us against each other, I guess because it’s just not interesting to say, ‘Everyone gets along; everybody just works 18-hour days and goes home to sleep.’ That’s not fun to read, I guess.” Meh, she’s right. I think I’d prefer to hear that they pull each other’s hair out on a daily basis. Ah well. I do like the photos in this spread tho. They are deceptively simple (the flag is a nice touch) … but I quite like them a lot. I know that Beyoncé wants to be an African American Wonder Woman but I think that Blake makes a pretty good case for a Blonde Wonder Woman. What do y’all think … could she pull off that role?

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A couple of weeks ago we got our first look at the cover of W magazine that features Angelina Jolie breastfeeding one of her babies on the cover in a photo that was taken by none other than Brad Pitt himself. The week after we got to see a few more photos from the spread but nothing that was racy by any means. This week the magazine is out and there do seem to be a couple of risqué yet arty NSFW images of Angelina in the photospread. First, let’s take a look a two really sweet photos of Angelina breastfeeding:

I, for one, see nothing wrong with these photos … in fact, I find them stunningly beautiful. She looks so peaceful and natural. They are great photos. I understand that there are around 30 pages of photos in this issue of W magazine … including one where Angelina is snapped wearing a very sheer top which practically exposes one of her breasts. Now, I can understand why Brad Pitt would want to take a photo like that but I don’t know why either of them would want to have a photo like that published in a major magazine. After the jump, check it out …

Last Thursday we got our first look at the new issue of W magazine which features Angelina Jolie breastfeeding one of her twin babies on the cover (a photo that was shot by Brad Pitt). The feedback that I’ve received and read about the photo has been overwhelmingly positive and many folks mentioned how anxious they are to see the other photos of Angelina that were shot by Brad for publication in W magazine. W mag has updated their website with a sampling of photos from the issue as well as the magazine’s coverstory wherein Ange talks about her kids’ favorite toys (knives), her new movie Changeling, her relationship with Brad and, of course, the twins:

Every family has its unique rites of passage, those generational milestones that mark a child’s growth and remind parents of their own similar experiences, years earlier. In the Jolie-Pitt household, one such event is the day a kid begins collecting daggers. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s seven-year-old son, Maddox, like many boys his age, has lately developed a fondness for guns and knives, and Jolie proudly notes that the predilection runs in the family. “My mom took me to buy my first daggers when I was 11 or 12,” she recalls. “And I’ve already bought Maddox some things. We take him to a special shop.” She emphasizes that the knife blades are dulled so they’re not dangerous, and that the purchases are accompanied by discussions about violence. But, she says, “we also talk about samurais and about the idea of defending someone as good. We talk about everything” … Shortly after I’m escorted onto the 988-acre property where the family has been living since June, Jolie, who moments before was breastfeeding her seven-week-old twins, zooms up the dirt driveway in a Yamaha all-terrain vehicle, wearing a long black dress and dark sunglasses, her hair whipping in the wind. A bit later, as Jolie maneuvers the ATV over a series of potholed trails while giving a tour of the compound’s Provence-perfect vineyards, forests and olive groves, she inadvertently steers us into an area where local hunters are tracking wild boar. “Bonjour!” she shouts to one bemused man who’s armed with a rifle, before driving us back toward a cross fire–free zone. As she sits down for the interview in a stone cottage, Jolie apologizes for perhaps seeming a little drained. Pitt has been away at the Toronto Film Festival, so she’s had the six kids to herself. (There are nannies, of course, including the couple’s first part-time live-in helper; Jolie says she and Pitt were starting to get “loopy” while attending to the twins and trying to find enough time for the others, so for now someone stays over a few nights a week.) But if the actress is overwhelmed, or if she’s savoring this rare break from round-the-clock feedings and diaper changes, she doesn’t show it. She brightly mentions that she and Pitt intend to add at least one more child to the mix … Fierce maternal instincts also lie at the heart of Jolie’s latest film, Changeling, which debuted at Cannes this past spring and opens in the U.S. in October … As intrigued as Jolie was by the story, she initially balked at signing on for a project whose plot revolved around child abduction. “I was concerned to just even put that in my head,” she says. “I didn’t want the idea of a kidnapping around me.” She adds that for both Pitt and her, losing a child would be intolerable—worse than losing each other. “I love Brad, and he loves me,” she says, “but something happening to the kids…” It’s often been observed, rightly or wrongly, that Jolie has completely changed Pitt, transforming the Sexiest Man Alive into a tireless international do-gooder in her own image. She says Pitt has profoundly changed her … “When we first met, he talked about having children in that way. I talked about only adopting children,” she says. After they had agreed that Pitt would adopt Maddox and Zahara, she recalls, “he stopped talking about having other kids in the other way. So I suppose in my heart I realized that he was happy with them as his children, completely. I knew he would never see them as different, and that gave me a certain peace. Then I suppose I just looked at him and loved him and just felt open to [getting pregnant]. I suddenly wanted to. It’s one of those things you can’t explain” … when Jolie talks about the twins and their siblings, she does so freely and openly; her stories are a lot like any young mother’s, despite that each one could potentially launch an Associated Press news bulletin. (If you must know: Zahara and Pax like to slow dance together, imitating Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty; newborn Vivienne is “sturdier” and “more demanding” than her brother Knox, who is “very chill” and “loves music,” taking after his father.) But for insights into life chez Jolie-Pitt, the photographs accompanying this story are perhaps more revealing than anything Jolie might discuss in an interview. Jolie says she prefers to let the photo series speak for itself, though it’s clear she’s an avid enabler of Pitt’s burgeoning photography habit. (For Christmas she surprised him with a Littman 45 Single camera.) “I love his photography,” she says. “Some people have a hobby, and they find the quickest way to it and are very pleased with the outcome right away. But he’s someone who will really study the camera—he’ll get the most complicated one and really understand the science behind it. And he’s very critical of his own work. I’ll see a photograph and think it’s amazing, but he’ll see all the different reasons why it can be better, and he’ll work very, very hard to improve it.” Pitt took these pictures a few weeks after the twins were born. Many new mothers might have hesitated to model, half dressed, for a 30-some-page magazine portfolio, but not Jolie, who doesn’t find that pregnancy has made her body any less attractive. “I’m with a man who’s evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful, because of the journey it has taken and what it has created,” she says. “He genuinely sees it that way. So I genuinely feel even sexier.”

Yes, I have to agree that the story told by the intimate photos shot by Brad tell a much more rich, fascinating story than her interview with the magazine does. Anyone familiar with W magazine knows that they tend to publish many, many photos within their pages. The print version of W will, very likely, include many more photos of Angelina, the kids, etc. shot by Brad Pitt (a “30-some-page magazine portfolio” apparently). I am very surprised that the family chose to be so open, so soon after the birth of their newest children. It’s a side of the family that really appeals to me. They may keep to themselves on a regular basis but in instances like this interview with W, they really seem to outdo themselves.

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Angelina Jolie is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of W magazine. Life & Style magazine reports that Angelina is photographed breast feeding one of her newborn twins in the mag … and, indeed, the cover photo appears to show Ange breast feeding. It’s unclear if there are any other intimately private photos of this nature inside the mag but I think the cover photo deffo makes a statement … check it out:

It’s true! Sources who’ve seen the photos confirm exclusively to Life & Style that Angelina Jolie really did pose for the cover story of W magazine while breast-feeding! “Angelina posed for Brad [Pitt] in one of the photos while breast-feeding,” the source reveals to Life & Style. “It’s really beautiful and tastefully done.” “The photos are amazing,” adds a second source. Brad shot the photos in mid-August at Chateau Miraval, the family’s home in the South of France. They’re scheduled to appear in W’s November issue, hitting newsstands on Oct. 21.

My guess is that this cover photo is prolly the only one to show Ange breast feeding but … who knows … it is the Art Issue after all, I guess we’ll find out soon enough. As for this cover photo, I personally think it’s really a beautiful shot. Very tasteful, very pretty. Angelina really looks like the portrait of motherhood. I quite like this photo. Thus far, no portions of the W interview (if there is one) have been disclosed and no other photos from the mag have come to light … but I’ll keep my eyes out. Since the mag boasts that they have “Brad’s Private Photos of Angelina Jolie” I am very curious to see them. What do y’all think of this cover photo? Is it too much?

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