Actress Angelina Jolie has spoken about how much she misses her mother, particularly since the birth of her twins.
Jolie's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of cancer, at the age of 56, last January.
Speaking to Hello! magazine, the star said: "She was an amazing mom and she shouldn’t have passed away so young."
"She was partly French-Canadian, and she always loved France, so when I was deciding where to have the children, it was just a very comforting idea to do it in France, because I knew she would have loved it."
"They’re the first babies I’ve had without her," she said.
"That’s a reason why we’re all learning French, too, because she always wanted my children to speak the language."
"It’s a beautiful language and a beautiful culture, and being in that part of the world always reminds me of her."
