Angelina Jolie is a mother of six children, but there once was a time when she never thought she’d be a mother.

‘It’s strange, I never wanted to have a baby. I never wanted to be pregnant. I never babysat. 

I never thought of myself as a mother,’ the 40-year-old actress told the Associated Press during an interview in Cambodia on Wednesday. 

The Oscar winner has been in the country to direct her next film, First They Killed My Father

Which is based on a Khmer Rouge memoir written by survivor Loung Ung that recounts the 1970s Cambodian genocide.

The wife of Brad Pitt was playing with children at a Cambodian school when it became ‘suddenly very clear to me that my son was in the country, somewhere.’

She adopted Maddox in 2002, and a year later opened a foundation in his name in northwestern Battambang province

Which helps fund health care, education and conservation projects in rural Cambodia.

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Maddox is now 14 and sporting what his mom calls ‘a blonde stripe’ — a shaggy mohawk with the top dyed blonde.  

He joined her in Cambodia to help behind the scenes for the project that she sees as a unique merger of her film work and family with humanitarian interests.

‘For me, this is the moment, where finally my life is kind of in line, and I feel I’m finally where I should be,’ Jolie said.

Her fondness for Cambodia is mutual, says the country’s most celebrated filmmaker Rithy Panh, who says First They Killed My Father will be the first Hollywood epic filmed in Cambodia about the country’s genocide — a sign that the government trusts her to respectfully revisit the horrors of the past.

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