Angelina Jolie has a successful career, a loving fiancé and six beautiful children. However, the A-lister didn't always see her life turning out that way.
"I never thought I'd have children, I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person," Jolie told the June issue of Elle.
"Having come from a broken home — you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them."
The 38-year-old actress, who stuns on Elle's cover and inside the fashion mag, continued to open up about her personal life and relationship with actor beau, Brad Pitt.
"You get together and you're two individuals and you feel inspired by each other, you challenge each other, you complement each other, drive each other beautifully crazy," she gushed.
"After all these years, we have history — and when you have history with somebody, you're friends in such a very real, deep way that there's such a comfort, and an ease, and a deep love that comes from having been through quite a lot together."
The Hollywood stars infamously got together after co-starring and meeting on the set of 2005's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith."
The effortlessly chic brunette beauty said that while her future may have looked blurry when she was young, she learned a long time ago to live life to the fullest.
"(If) you don't experiment, or you're afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don't get around to them, is a life that I'd be miserable living, and the only way to feel that I'm on the right path is just to be true to myself, whatever that may be, and that tends to come with stepping out of something that's maybe safe or traditional."
Jolie added that in her 20s she was “misinterpreted as wanting to be rebellious."
“And in fact it wasn’t a need to be destructive or rebellious — it’s that need to find a full voice, to push open the walls around you," she explained.
"You want to be free. And as you start to feel that you are being corralled into a certain life, you kind of push against it. It may come out very strange, it may be interpreted wrong, but you’re trying to find out who you are.”
Next up for Jolie is her role as the villain in Disney's "Maleficent."
She goes on to chat to Elle about having daughter, Vivienne, play the role of Aurora in the picture.
"For young Aurora, they needed a child who wouldn't be fazed by the Mistress of All Evil hissing 'I don't like children' in her face. And my little Vivienne — we call her my shadow, because there's nothing I can do to shake her. I can be tired, I can be grumpy, I can be in a terrible mood, and she doesn't care. It's 'Mommy, Mommy,' and she'll cling to me," Jolie said.
"We knew that she would still do that thing, she'd still smile at me and insist that I pick her up. So we couldn't really cast anybody else."
Jolie revealed she originally asked Shiloh, her first-born biological child with Pitt, if she wanted to play the part.
"She laughed in my face. She said she'd be a horned creature. Brad and I made the decision that we wouldn't keep them from sets and the fun of making movies, but we wouldn't (glorify it either) we wouldn't make it a good thing or a bad thing," she continued on having their children enter the entertainment industry.
Although she admitted, "I would really prefer they do something else ... after two days of it, Brad and I were so stressed we never wanted to do it again."
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