Newsmaker

Photos of Jolie and Pitt's baby published

(AP)
Updated: 2006-06-09 09:17

The first pictures of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt have been published - and she appears to have her mother's lips.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie address a press conference held for the Namibian press exclusively in a hotel in the Namibian city of Swakopmund, Wednesday, June 7, 2006. The couple thanked the Namibian people for their hospitality during the birth of their daughter Shiloh. [AP Photo]

Photographs of Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and their infant daughter appear on the cover and inside the pages of People magazine, on newsstands Friday. In six photos taken at a private shoot, the parents are shown snuggling and holding Shiloh, who was born May 27 in Namibia.

"She's got Dad's baby blues and just a soft crop of fair hair, but it's those lips - check out the super-size pout - that most give her away," the magazine writes. "Yes, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt is definitely her mother's daughter."

People quoted James Haven, Jolie's brother, as saying the couple's 4-year-old son, Maddox, "imitated the way Brad held her just perfectly. To see the father, mother, daughter - it was such a beautiful image that it overtook me."

Pitt and Jolie sold the rights to the photos to Getty Images, saying all proceeds would be donated to a charity, not yet named. People paid a reported US$4 million for the North America rights and London-based Hello! magazine obtained the British rights.

A spokesman for People would not comment on how much the magazine paid. On Wednesday, both People and Hello! launched legal action against two Web sites that had published one of the pictures before the magazines appeared on newsstands.

Pitt and Jolie made their first public appearance since their daughter's birth at a news conference for local journalists in Swakopmund, Namibia, on Wednesday, thanking the country for the privacy and peace they enjoyed, and denying they were making wedding plans.

Besides Shiloh and Maddox, the couple have a 16-month-old daughter, Zahara. Maddox was adopted from Cambodia and Zahara was adopted from Ethiopia.

Pitt, 42, and Jolie, 31, who were first linked romantically after appearing together in the 2005 movie "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," retreated to Namibia for government-assisted privacy in the weeks leading up to the birth.