June 15, 2010 9:08 PM
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Doctor Says Pregnant Jolie "Very Well"
(CBS/AP)
With a Mediterranean view from her fifth floor suite of rooms here, Angelina Jolie may remain hospitalized for weeks - according to her doctor - who insists that does not signal any problem with her pregnancy.
"She is very well," said obstetrician Michel Sussmann, "she is OK."
OK, reports CBS News correspondent Richard Roth, but no light has been shed on just when the twins she's expecting are due, or whether they're girls - as reported, or a boy and a girl - as also reported.
"She's a patient like any other," her doctor said, inferring confidentiality.
Except, says Roth, that she came here by helicopter, her regular visitor is partner Brad Pitt, and photos of their babies, when they arrive, could be the most valuable infant celebrity shots ever - according to public relations experts.
"Figures that are being bandied about go from 5 to 10 million pounds," consultant Max Clifford tells CBS News. In dollars, that's $10 to $20 million.
With peak tourist season just underway on the French Riviera - and all the celebrity power and fortune potential that comes with it - the Brangelina Babywatch will fit right in.
Though the lenses of the world's paparazzi have been trained on maternity wards across the French Riviera in recent weeks, Jolie managed to slip unobserved Sunday into the seafront Lenval hospital.
Pitt has been seen coming and going since Jolie's hospitalization became public. On Wednesday afternoon, he entered a side door with the couple's two daughters in tow, 3-year-old Zahara and 2-year-old Shiloh.
Attention focused on southern France after the couple and their four children - including 6-year-old Maddox and 4-year-old Pax - took up residence in Correns, about 60 miles from Nice. The town's mayor confirmed that the couple had moved into the Miraval Estate villa, and a helicopter has been spotted taking off and landing there.
Set among palm trees, the boxy white Lenval hospital with mirrored blue windows looks out over the sea. During her stay, Jolie can enjoy views of the city's famed Promenade Anglais, sunbathers reclining on the rocky shores and swimmers dipping into the Mediterranean.
"I find it legitimate that she wants to protect her privacy. She is a pregnant woman," he said.
The hospital is doing the utmost to protect the privacy of the couple - who for the birth of their first child went to the African
country of Namibia to evade attention.
The media briefing to a gaggle of journalists jostling for position was held across the street from the hospital. And as of Tuesday, a sign hangs on the visitor's desk inside the lobby: "Journalists are forbidden to enter the premises, except with the authorization of the administration."
The hospital's Santa Maria maternity clinic delivers 2,300 babies a year.
"She is very well," said obstetrician Michel Sussmann, "she is OK."
OK, reports CBS News correspondent Richard Roth, but no light has been shed on just when the twins she's expecting are due, or whether they're girls - as reported, or a boy and a girl - as also reported.
"She's a patient like any other," her doctor said, inferring confidentiality.
Except, says Roth, that she came here by helicopter, her regular visitor is partner Brad Pitt, and photos of their babies, when they arrive, could be the most valuable infant celebrity shots ever - according to public relations experts.
"Figures that are being bandied about go from 5 to 10 million pounds," consultant Max Clifford tells CBS News. In dollars, that's $10 to $20 million.
With peak tourist season just underway on the French Riviera - and all the celebrity power and fortune potential that comes with it - the Brangelina Babywatch will fit right in.
Though the lenses of the world's paparazzi have been trained on maternity wards across the French Riviera in recent weeks, Jolie managed to slip unobserved Sunday into the seafront Lenval hospital.
Pitt has been seen coming and going since Jolie's hospitalization became public. On Wednesday afternoon, he entered a side door with the couple's two daughters in tow, 3-year-old Zahara and 2-year-old Shiloh.
Attention focused on southern France after the couple and their four children - including 6-year-old Maddox and 4-year-old Pax - took up residence in Correns, about 60 miles from Nice. The town's mayor confirmed that the couple had moved into the Miraval Estate villa, and a helicopter has been spotted taking off and landing there.
Set among palm trees, the boxy white Lenval hospital with mirrored blue windows looks out over the sea. During her stay, Jolie can enjoy views of the city's famed Promenade Anglais, sunbathers reclining on the rocky shores and swimmers dipping into the Mediterranean.
Sussmann said four rooms had been reserved for the couple and a pair of security guards - debunking rumors that they had taken over the entire fifth floor.
Photos: Brangelina's Babies
"I find it legitimate that she wants to protect her privacy. She is a pregnant woman," he said.
The hospital is doing the utmost to protect the privacy of the couple - who for the birth of their first child went to the African
country of Namibia to evade attention.
The media briefing to a gaggle of journalists jostling for position was held across the street from the hospital. And as of Tuesday, a sign hangs on the visitor's desk inside the lobby: "Journalists are forbidden to enter the premises, except with the authorization of the administration."
The hospital's Santa Maria maternity clinic delivers 2,300 babies a year.
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