Angelina Jolie is making the rounds promoting her upcoming film “Couture”, but the interview also touched her personal life. The 51-year-old Oscar-winning actress, who has always guarded her private life closely, recently spoke candidly about her life since her divorce, she said she has not dated a single person since her split from ex-husband Brad Pitt nearly ten years ago.

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Speaking candidly with Yahoo Entertainment, Jolie revealed that romance has taken a complete back seat as she poured herself into raising her six children. “To be honest, I haven’t dated since I divorced a decade ago,” she admitted. “So, I kind of get in my head that aspect of me is not centred in my life if I am focusing on my children, my family.”But it was another moment stood out during the interview. Rather than dreading turning 51, Jolie expressed something deeply personal, a quiet longing to reclaim herself. “I am thinking I have to live again. Be free again. In a way that maybe life has broken me a little bit,” she said.

She also opened up about how her daughters have unexpectedly become the ones pulling her back to who she used to be. “I am discovering something now that my daughters are getting older. They are talking to me as young women, and I’m seeing what I want for them. I am seeing what I don’t want them to lose and what I want them to hold on to. And it’s kind of reminding me what I may have lost,” Jolie shared. She added, “I think in some way they are bringing me back to my old self. I think they kind of want me now to not just be ‘Mom.’ There’s a different room for me to be that woman again, that’s not just a mom.”

Jolie had six children with Pitt, sons Maddox, 24, Pax, 22, and Knox, 17, and daughters Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 20, and Vivienne, 17. It’s her three daughters, she says, who have acted as a mirror for her own rediscovery.

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The two met on set of” Mr &Mrs Smith” the set . Smith in 2004 and quickly became one of the most talked about couples in the world. After dating for years, they tied the knot on August 23, 2014, in an intimate ceremony at their French estate, Château Miraval. But the marriage ended years later. They separated in 2016, and what followed was lengthy and highly publicized divorce and legal dispute in December 2024, more than eight years later.

Since the couple’s separation, Brad Pitt has been linked to jewelry executive Ines de Ramon. The pair have reportedly been together since 2022.

The film that sparked all of this honesty, “Couture”, stars Angelina Jolie as Maxine Walker, an American filmmaker whose world is upended by a breast cancer diagnosis during Paris Fashion Week. During her conversation with Yahoo Entertainment, Jolie said she initially found it difficult to relate to the idea that her character could be both a devoted mother and a woman open to love and connection. The role prompted discussions about identity, relationship and life beyond motherhood, themes, Jolie also touched on during the interview.