Sex and the Single Mom (Singles Classic)

“When I was married to Billy”—the actor Billy Bob Thornton, her second husband—“I met a man I never slept with,” she says. “We had dinner once, and it ended up being, ‘Look, I’m married. I can’t sleep with you. I can’t even finish dinner, ’cause it’s uncomfortable.’ Three years later I called him and asked if he wanted to be lovers, and it was one of these phone calls of just, you know, a single mom sleeping with a baby and just, I’ll call a man up and ask if he wants to be my lover.

She’s one of the most glamorous movie stars of our time. In Sex and the Single Mom, Angelina Jolie opens up to Nancy Jo Sales, bestselling author of The Bling Ring and American Girls, about marriage, sex, motherhood, as well as her “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” co-star, Brad Pitt.

Sex and the Single Mom was originally published in Vanity Fair, June 2005.

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