First pictures of Angelina's newborn twins – the most expensive baby snaps ever

These are the pictures the world has been waiting to see – the newest additions to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's growing brood.The Hollywood couple sold the rights to the first pictures of their newborn twins – Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline – and they are released today for the very first time.Hello! magazine paid a staggering £7.5million for the photos and they will be the most expensive baby pictures ever.

After a fierce contest between the celebrity magazines, Hello! outbid its rival OK! magazine for the rights to the pictures, and even brought its publication date forward to August 4 to capitalise on the coup.

But the babies have certainly been worth the wait – born to arguably Hollywood’s most attractive couple, the twins were always going to be gorgeous.

Blessed with their mother’s famous large lips, just like their little sister Shiloh before them, these two are bound to be heartbreakers.

And nestling together with their parents – the photos couldn’t paint a more perfect family picture.

In the magazine interview, Angelina says: ‘It is chaos [at the sprawling Chateau Miraval in Provence] but we are managing it and having a wonderful time.’

Doting dad Brad, meanwhile, confides: ‘Viv is proving to resemble Ange in spirit, attitude and physicality… And Knox, he’s a bit of me.’

The money from the sale of the pictures will be donated to charity.

The twins have remained hidden from public view since they were born at Lenval hospital in the south of France on July 13.

The newborns increase the Jolie-Pitt clan to a family of eight, which include their four older children, Maddox, 7, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and two-year-old Shiloh.

Jolie, 33, whose late mother Marcheline was French-Canadian and loved visting France, has also bought a chateau in the country to retain her Gallic heritage.

Brangelina’s first biological child, Shiloh Nouvel was born in Namibia in May 2006.

Pictures of her were sold to Hello! for £2million, which the couple donated to charity.

They have also adopted three children: six-year-old Maddox Chivan, from Cambodia; Zahara Marley, aged three, from Ethiopia; and four-year-old Pax Thien from Vietnam.

A magazine insider said: ‘This is one of the publishing sensations of the decade – Brad and Angelina are the dream couple of the glossy magazine world and we expect to triple our circulation because of the public’s fascination and interest in the couple and their children.’

The American rights to the pictures will go to People magazine, which also published the first images of their daughter Shiloh in 2006.

Once the world’s most expensive baby pictures, the stakes were raised last year when the first images of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s twins Max and Emme went for a bank-breaking £3million.

Read the full story and see 17 pages of intimate family photos in today’s edition of Hello!