Forbes magazine crowned Angelina Jolie the year’s most valuable celebrity face, selling the most magazines.  The Angelina Jolie W Magazine cover and breastfeeding photos by her partner Brad Pitt –all photos are now online–prove the point once again.

The article and the photos are online:

• Cover story – One Week: Brad & Angelina
• Brad’s Photos: The Back Story
• Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie Photos(Slide show)

As did the top celebrity six, cited by Forbes (People, Star, US Weekly, In Touch Weekly, Life & Style and OK!) we can be sure W Magazine will have runaway success with its November 2008 issue with its cover story and  Brad Pitt photos.  The issue will be on newsstands October 21, 2008.

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.” 

Source:  One Week: Brad & Angelina

In addition to exploring the personal lives of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, the cover article by Christopher Bagley also focuses on Angelina Jolie’s role in the upcoming Clint Eastwood movie, Changeling, which premiered earlier this year at Cannes and will be in theaters October 24, 2008 in limited release and October 31 in wide release in the U.S.

Some celebrity reactions to the cover:

“I mean, she’s always pushing the envelope,” Nicky Hilton tells Usmagazine.com. “If it were someone else, I’d be shocked, but with her, not really.”

Says Emmy Rossum, “It’s really, really nice,” adding that it’s “totally not” shocking.

“There are women who [breast-feed] at restaurants,” Rossum tells Us. “I mean, in a sense, it’s a private thing, but on the other hand, it’s a really intimate portrait that a boyfriend took of his girlfriend … who cares?”

Echoes Rose McGowan: “Is it supposed to be shocking? I’m sorry, I think there’s a lot more [controversial things] going on…”

Source: What the Stars Think About Jolie’s W Cover!

La Leche League International has already praised the Oscar winning actress for the groundbreaking cover photo.

“Mothers of twins report it takes a lot of time, effort and physical energy to breast-feed. I think the picture is beautiful,” La Leche League International spokeswoman Jane Krouse told Reuters.

Added Andi Silverman, author of Mama Knows Breast: “I think it is fabulous. Seeing a celebrity like Angelina Jolie breast-feed can be a role model to encourage women to make a choice that is wonderful for their baby.”

“Breasts are used to sell all sorts of products,” Silverman said, “so to see them used the way nature intended can only be a great thing.”

Source: US POLL: Experts: Angelina Jolie’s W Cover “Inspires” New Moms to Breast-Feed

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