Knox and Vivienne make 8 for Jolie-Pitt family

NICE, France - Brad Pitt was emotional but calm, Angelina Jolie laughed and chatted. The world's most famous celebrity couple were joined in emotion during the birth of their twins — a boy and a girl — and all "are doing marvelously well," the doctor who delivered the babies in a seaside hospital on the French Riviera.
The newborns — Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, born one minute apart — are the ultimate million-dollar babies, with experts estimating their first photos will fetch a fortune. For now, mother, father and newborns are resting out of the public eye on the fifth floor of the Lenval hospital, behind blue mirrored windows that provide sweeping views of Nice's sun-drenched beaches, but specially treated to deflect the prying lenses of paparazzi.

Jolie's obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, said the 44-year-old Pitt was at Jolie's side during the delivery, looking on as the doctor performed a Caesarean section to deliver Knox, weighing in at slightly over 5 pounds, and Vivienne, who weighed 5 pounds. Jolie, 33, is expected to stay in the hospital for a few more days and that she now needs rest.
The four other Jolie-Pitt children — Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3;
and Shiloh, 2.


The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, center, holds the birth certificates of one of Angelina Jolie's twins, Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt, as he and Dr. Michel Sussmann, Jolie's obstetrician, left, pose for the media, at the Lenval Hospital in Nice, southern France, Sunday, July 13, 2008. U.S. actress Angelina Jolie has given birth to her twins, one boy Knox Leon and a girl Vivienne Marcheline. The obstetrician who delivered the twins, Dr. Michel Sussmann, told The Associated Press that the actress, the babies and Jolie's partner, actor Brad Pitt, "are doing marvelously well."


A view of the the Lenval hospital where U.S actress Angelina Jolie has been admitted in Nice, southern France July 4, 2008, and where she expects to give birth to twins.