Brad & Ange INSIDE THEIR NEW WAR OF WORDS

Putting their fragile truce in jeopardy, Angelina finally spills her side of the story – and Brad hits back

S ince her shock split with husband Brad Pitt in September, Angelina Jolie has taken her six children to Africa, skied with them in Colorado and celebrated her twins’ 9th birthday in July at Disneyland. But between trips, “I’ve been trying for nine months to be really good at just being a homemaker and picking up dog poop and cleaning dishes and reading bedtime stories. And I’m getting September better issue.at all Her three,” goals? she Forgettold Vanitya hit movie—Fair’s her kids have made her take cooking classes: “I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house.”

Personal details of the star’s life now as a single mother were laid bare in the wide-ranging interview, in which Jolie, 42, spoke out for the first time in detail about her public split with Pitt, her private tears and how the kids are coping. The sit-down took place at her new $25 million, six-bedroom mansion in the Los Angeles area of Los Feliz, just four days after the family moved in. Jolie was dealing with knocking over a cup of tea, cleaning a white couch after dog Dusty jumpeda water slide,on it and but son told Knox’s Vanity requestsFair the day-to-to put up day demands are easier to deal with than the emotional chaos. “It’s just been the hardest time, and we’re all just coming up for air,” she said. “We’re all trying to do our best to heal our family.”

The interview came two months after Pitt, 53, delved into his own new reality in a GQ Style tell-all during which he revealed he sought help for problems with drinking and fell in “love” with therapy. But while Pitt didn’t discuss the ex-couple’s children—maddox, who turns 16 on Aug. 5, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 11, and twins Vivienne and Knox—jolie candidly exposed their home life to Vanity Fair. “It’s surprising that Angelina would use the children to help herself in the story, especially after years

“I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house” —Angelina Jolie

Brad Pitt (in New York on June 8) is “doing great” and sees his kids a few times a week, a pal told ET. “He’s doing well.”

A Slip ’N Slide was installed (at Knox’s request) at the family’s new LA home on June 9.

“Let’s embrace being not normal!” said the hands-on mother (with Vivienne in Los Feliz on July 16) of her life philosophy.

Her kids are “very strongminded, thoughtful, worldly individuals,” said Jolie (with Knox at Disneyland on May 26).

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“I’m putting my family first and I’m in charge of my life and my health,” Angelina Jolie (at the Los Angeles premiere of Kung Fu Panda 3 in 2015) told Vanity Fair. “I think that’s what makes a woman complete.”