Brad Pitt was calm but emotional, Angelina Jolie laughed and chatted. The world's most famous celebrity couple were joined in the excitement during the birth of their twins - a boy and a girl - and all "are wonderfully well," the doctor who delivered babies in a hospital seaside on the on the French Riviera said Sunday.The newborns - Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, born one minute apart Saturday night - are the ultimate million babies, with experts from their first estimate of photos seek a fortune.
"In the world of celebrities, it seems to be the second coming double," said Darryn Lyons, owner of Big Pictures, a photo agency in London.
For now, mother, father and newborn rely on the public's attention on the fifth floor of the hospital Lenval, behind the blue mirrored windows that provide a panoramic view of Nice sunny beaches, but especially addressed to divert prying lenses of paparazzi.
Angelina Jolie the obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, "said 44-year-old Brad Pitt was beside Angelina Jolie on delivery, as research on the doctor performed a Caesarean section to deliver Knox, weighing a little more 5 pounds, and Vivienne, who weighed 5 pounds.
"He was my assistant," joked Dr. Sussmann.
"He was very happy. ... The emotion was very strong for him, "said Dr. Sussmann on the hospital steps." I felt the emotion of both the mother and father. Angelina Jolie has spoken, was laughing with her husband. They were happy. “
"The mother, babies, the father are wonderfully well," he said.
Dr. Sussmann said the Caesarean section was moved forward from its originally scheduled date "for medical reasons" for babies could be born "in the best conditions." The doctor did not detailed.
He said Angelina Jolie, 33, should remain in hospital for a few more days and it now needs rest. The other four Jolie-Pitt children - Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, and Shiloh 3, 2 - have not yet seen their new sister and brother, he said.
The doctor said he believes that the girl's name was chosen in honor of Angelina Jolie 's mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died in January 2007 after a 7 1/2-year fight against cancer.
News of births drew a small crowd of fans hoping to take a picture of Brad Pitt - or one of their celebrity friends by stopping to pay a visit. None appeared, but the mayor of Nice gave twice birth certificates, which he later displayed to journalists, with the approval of the family, showing Pitt's scrawling WBP, his full name William Brad Pitt .
"The father is one of the happiest moments of his life, like any father, especially when they have the joy of having two children of this wonderful woman as Angelina Jolie," Mayor Christian Estrosi said after the brief official visit, Pitt, which spared the glove of paparazzi that accompanies all travel to the town hall.
"The mother is doing well. She smiles a lot. She is also pleased that the father," Estrosi said.
The twins’ arrival has sparked a wave of speculation on the price of the first "official" snaps.
Nice Matin, the city all day in the Riviera city in the south of France, put the value of twins photos to over 11 million. He broke the news of the birth and said Sunday that the couple sold the rights for the first photo of their extended family recently to a U.S. publication, which he did not name, and that the proceeds would go to works charity.
"I've never seen a series of images at a value of this sum of money," said Lyon, the owner of Big Pictures. He estimated that the twins' official photos will be worth between $ 15 million and 20 million dollars.
The only other photos that "maybe come so close to Britney Spears is giving birth to a foreigner," he said.
Veterans London-based celebrity publicist Max Clifford estimated the first photos could recover 10 million pounds - about euro12 million or 20 million dollars, "making it the largest baby ever addressed."
"This kind of sell many pictures of magazines," he said. "This is one of 10 million pounds ($ 20 million) to play as if the end justifies the means. But it is obviously a very calculated risk because the land which the pictures have a lot of experience with the popularity of Mom and Dad. "
Paparazzi have followed the couple through the south of France for the Cannes festival in May, snapping shots of the family on an outing to Eze beach and sticking closely to implement household Correns, 60 km from Nice . But so far, the couple evaded the paparazzi when it counted, coming without the knowledge Lenval the clinic two weeks before birth.
