In public, he appears to be performing a modern-day-dad juggling act, travelling the world promoting his Oscar-contender, Moneyball, filming his new movie, World War Z, settling the twins Knox and Vivienne into preschool, and supporting a "very nervous" Angelina as she unveils her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey.
But in private, sources say 47-year-old Brad Pitt is at breaking point, and has told pals he "feels like a single father", after Angelina left him to cope with a sick Vivienne, three - who recently fell ill in Hungary - and jetted off on a UN mission.
With sources on the Hungarian set of World War Z, revealing that Brad looks "tired and exhausted", and uncharacteristically snapped at his director and crew, could the family chaos and pressures he claims publicly to thrive on, be getting to him, three years shy of his 50th birthday?
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