Angelina Jolie breastfeeding photographs taken by Brad Pitt

Angelina Jolie has been photographed by Brad Pitt as she breastfeeds in a set of intimate portraits for an American fashion magazine.

The actress sits with the top of her blouse pulled down, exposing her breast, which is covered by the tiny fingers of one of her suckling twins.

The mother of six allowed herself to be pictured for the forthcoming issue of American style magazine W.

The Hollywood pair are used to being snapped, but these pictures taken by Pitt, the actor, reveals a more private side to the couple.

The shoot, which took place inside their French chateau, is not the first time the couple have let cameras inside their family home.

Three weeks after the birth of babies Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon, the celebrity couple invited the cameras into their French chateau in an exclusive photo deal worth a reported $14 million (£7 million) for charity.

They were pictured in the pages of People and Hello! magazines with the twins and the rest of their brood - Maddox, seven, Pax Thien, four, Zahara, three, and Shiloh, two.

The couple denied rumours of IVF treatment at the time, and Miss Jolie said: "If they had been conceived through IVF we would have been happy to discuss it. But we have been fortunate enough never to have had fertility problems."

Via telegraph.co.uk