Brad Pitt forgets which of his children are adopted
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Brad Pitt has told how being a dad is the hardest job in the world.
The Ocean’s 13 star said he loved being a father – but admitted he sometimes found it hard going.
And he said that he sometimes FORGETS three of his four children with Angelina Jolie are adopted – because they all feel like his.
He said: “It’s the hardest job in the world [and] the most rewarding job in the world.
“To go home and have dinner with your kids and have to discipline one of them who’s out of line and still have the energy for that, I can’t explain the fulfillment of that but it is everything.”
When told an anecdote by TV presenter Larry King about an author with adopted children who once wrote that he couldn’t remember which of them were biological, Pitt laughed: “That is so true. “They are as much my blood as I am theirs.
“And they are brothers and sisters and I look at [like] this, that one of them came from Ethiopia, one from Vietnam, one from Cambodia and one was born in Namibia and they are brothers and sisters and they have fun and they squabble and they fight just like any other family. It makes me so proud.”
Pitt, 43, will appear on an hour-long special with the US talk show host. He was quick to correct the veteran presenter when he suggested that he had become romantically involved with Angelina Jolie while they worked together on action movie Mr & Mrs Smith.
Pitt was then still married to ex-wife Jennifer Aniston. He said: “Well, that [romance] came after Larry. That came after.”
And he laughed when asked if he fought with Jolie. He said: “No, not really.
“We challenge each other and have good fun with that.”
He added: “She is a woman of strong opinion and very specific beliefs and a great voice.
“I respect it. [She is] a great intelligence.”
Pitt went on the show to promote his efforts to help New Orleans get back on its feet in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
He could be seen surrounded by hot pink tents representing where eco-friendly houses will soon be standing in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, that Pitt says will represent affordable and environmentally friendly housing.
The “Make It Right Project” will see 150 homes built in the area where levees broke, and floodwater pushed homes from their foundations.
Pitt said each home will cost approximately $150,000 USD to build.
He told the CNN show: “We were looking for something that was loud and would get a lot of attention, that was also hopeful.
“They represent the houses that were destroyed. We hope to have a symbolic neighbourhood put back together.”
The full interview with Pitt will be shown tonight/tomorrow night [wed]. The houses will be erected on stilts as a precaution against the threat of future flooding.
Pitt said he would like to see thousands built and he would like his “green” building initiatives to extend beyond the Lower 9th Ward.
He has pledged to match $5 million USD worth of contributions for the project, while billionaire film producer has done the same.
The Lower 9th Ward is one of the poorest sections of the city and saw some of the worst flooding in the aftermath of Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005.
In 2002, Jolie, 32, who also works as a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, adopted her first child, son Maddox, from Cambodia. Three years later she adopted daughter Zahara from Ethiopia. Last year the couple celebrated the birth of their first biological daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, in Namibia. And in March, the actress adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt.
