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BORN TO BE A MOM!

SHE’S been many things in her life: an actor, a producer, a director, a humanitarian, a political activist . . . the list is long and varied.

Yet there’s one role that trumps them all for Angelina Jolie, and that’s being a mom. When it comes to her brood of six, Angie is always there for them.

“I see myself as a mom first,” she says. “I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.”

But those kids are growing fast. Gone are the days when Angie – and Brad Pitt in the good old Brangelina days – used to power through the airports of the world with her half-dozen streaming behind her, clutching snacks, blankies and a variety of soft toys.

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