Skip to content “It took me a second to kind of say, well, she can also love her daughter and be dedicated to her daughter and also need this as a woman and receive this as a woman,” she continued.
Jolie, 51, split from Pitt, 62, in September 2016 after two years of marriage, and the exes went through a tumultuous divorce that took eight years to finalize. The exes share six children together: Maddox, 24; Pax, 22; Zahara, 21; Shiloh, 20; and twins Vivienne and Knox, 17.
Now that her daughters are older, Jolie told the outlet they’re encouraging her to not just focus on being their mother.
“I think in some way they’re bringing me back to my old self,” Jolie said. “My desire for them to have all of the strength and openness and softness and faith and ferocity is reminding me. I think they kind of want me now to not just be ‘Mom.’”
