Jolie: I'll never be as good as my mother

Angelina Jolie says she'll "never be as good" as her own mother.

Angelina Jolie says she'll "never be as good" as her own mother.

The Oscar-winning actress – who raises six children, Maddox, 10, Pax, right, Zahara, six, Shiloh, five and three-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, with partner Brad Pitt – will try to be a great parent to her kids but doesn't think she'll ever meet the standards her late mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, set.

In an interview with '60 Minutes', she said: "My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences. Everything was for her children.

"I will never be as good a mother as she was. I will try my best, but I don't think I ever will be. She was the most generous, loving woman. She's better than me."

While she doesn't believe she's as good a mother as Marcheline – who died in January 2007 aged 56 after an eight-year battle with ovarian cancer – Angelina is starting to look more and more like her.

The 36-year-old screen beauty – whose father is actor Jon Voight – said: "I always felt not traditionally beautiful. I have big features … as I get older I look like my mom. And I love my mom.

"You start to kinda put your lineage in line of the different things you are. I see the Native American in me I can see the German from my father’s side and you come to love the combination.”

Marcheline Bertrand with a young Angelina and brother James

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