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Angelina Jolie’s spiritual birth

Ange feels the presence of her late mother in the room as her twins are delivered.

The birth of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline was a truly spiritual experience — with the actress convinced that her late mother helped her through the delivery.

The healthy babies, a boy and a girl, were born on July 13 via an emergency caesarean. They were due two weeks later, but doctors discovered the little boy was in the breech position, and that Angelina’s blood pressure was alarmingly high.

“We decided Saturday morning to advance the date of the childbirth [by] 10 days,” Ange’s obstetrician Dr Michel Sussman confirmed.

But what could have been a frightening moment became truly a joyful one, with Angelina insisting that her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, was in the room, helping her.

For the full story, see this week’s Woman’s Day (on sale July 21).

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