After seven years and six children, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are finally engaged.
Brad, 48, proposed to Angelina, 36, with a custom-made diamond engagement ring rumoured to be worth more than $250,000.
Brad’s manager Cynthia Pett-Dante confirmed the news and said the couple’s children — Maddox, 10, Pax, eight, Zahara, seven, Shiloh, five, and three-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne — were thrilled.
“It is a promise for the future and their kids are very happy,” Pett-Dante told People magazine.
Brad designed Angelina’s engagement ring with the help of famous Beverly Hills jeweller Robert Procop.
Procop said he worked on the ring for more than a year, crafting it to perfectly suit Angelina’s delicate hand.
“Brad was always heavily involved, overseeing every aspect of the creative design evolution,” Procop said in a statement.
“The side diamonds are specially cut to encircle her finger. Each diamond is of the highest gem quality.”
Angelina was photographed wearing the sparkler on Wednesday when she attended a private museum viewing in Los Angeles.
Angelina and Brad fell in love on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith in 2005, with Brad leaving his then-wife Jennifer Aniston shortly afterwards.
They are now parents to three adopted children and three biological children and it appears it was their kids who pressured them into tying the knot at last.
“[Marriage] means so much to my kids, and they ask a lot,” Angelina said in a recent interview. “And it means something to me, too, to make that kind of commitment.”
It will be Angelina’s third marriage. She divorced her first husband Jonny Lee Miller in 1999, and her second Billy Bob Thornton in 2003. Brad has been married just once before, to Aniston, whom he divorced in 2005.
