As Angelina Jolie knows, adopting a child can be very rewarding – you get the satisfaction of being a parent, the joy of knowing you’re giving an underprivileged kid a better life, plus you get truckloads of cash when you flog the snaps to a magazine.

Now that Angelina Jolie is the full legal owner of her new adopted three-year-old Vietnamese son Pax Thien Jolie, she’s going to have to teach Pax the ways of life. Rule one of that seems to involve whoring out your new kids when they’re at their most confused and vulnerable – in addition to the pictures of Angelina Jolie and Pax Thien that grace the front cover of Hello magazine this week, Angelina Jolie has also sold further exclusive pictures of her new family to People magazine for $2 million, according to one report.

As Radar reports:

Sources… say the globetrotting actress and her not-quite-husband, Brad Pitt, have sold the first photos of their newest adoptee to People. We hear the price tag was between $1.75 million and $2 million, with Getty Images, which brokered the deal, taking a fee of between 5 and 10 percent. A People spokesperson calls that number “absurd,” but adds, “We don’t comment on the specifics on any negotiations.”

And in the meantime – as Pax is flown back to America to meet Brad Pitt – Angelina Jolie has been seen on the cover of Hello magazine with Pax Thien, and has spoken about how freaked out he is by everything all the time. This Is London reports:

The Tomb Raider star told Hello!:

“He is a very serious, very sweet little boy. “We are slowly beginning to build his trust and bond but it will feel complete only when we are all a family. You can imagine what courage it takes to be in all new surroundings with new people and a new language. He is very strong. It will take him a while to realise he has a family; that his new life is permanent and it won’t keep changing.” Jolie has given Pax Thien a Gameboy as one of his first presents. “He has never had anything to call his own,” she explained.

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