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A fierce bidding war has broken out between two celebrity gossip magazines for the first exclusive pictures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s twins.

Two of America’s leading magazines, OK! and People, are reportedly battling it out to get their mitts on snaps of Brangelina’s as yet unborn twins.

Jolie and Pitt are expecting twins to add to their brood of adopted children, Maddox, Pax and Zahara, and biological daughter Shiloh.

According to celebrity gossip website TMZ.com, bidding has soared to US $15 million (NZ $19 million), and counting.

A rep for People says: “We’d love to see the photos in People. We wish the family well.”

However, rival publisher OK! has been tight-lipped over proceedings and declined to comment on any figures; reps would only admit that the magazine would be “foolish” not to bid for the exclusive snaps.

If the mooted $15 million figure is to be believed, it eclipses the mullah coughed up by People for pictures of the couple’s first baby Shiloh in 2006. The magazine reportedly paid $4.1 million for the North American rights to the pictures at the time.
All profits from the sale of the pictures were donated to charity by Brangelina.

Angelina Jolie never wanted to have children of her own - but her love for partner Brad Pitt changed her mind.

The ‘Tomb Raider’ star had no desire to have biological kids and was focused on adopting tots from around the world.

The actress - who is expecting twins with Pitt - admits it all changed once she fell for Pitt after meeting on the set of 2005 movie ‘Mr and Mrs Smith’.

She tells Britain’s OK! Magazine, “I was dead set on always adopting and it always felt right to me, there were children who needed a home and I had no maternal desire to have children.

“But that changes when you meet someone you love and so your family changes in direction. That was my big surprise.”

Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children: Maddox, six; Pax, four, and Zahara, three, as well as biological daughter Shiloh, two.