This just in from Women’s Wear Daily! Not surprisingly, the exclusive photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s newborn twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, sold big. How big? 2.6 million copies big!

According to the trade journal, “The issue is the biggest seller in seven years, and is the fourth highest newsstand seller in the magazine’s 35-year history, behind the Sept. 11 issue (4.1 million single copies), the issue covering Princess Diana’s death (3 million) and the one covering the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. (2.8 million). The June 19, 2006 issue with the exclusive baby pictures of Brad and Angelina’s first daughter, Shiloh, moved 2.2 million newsstand copies (perhaps the extra Pitt-Jolie baby provided a bigger draw this time).”

What will happen if Brad & Angie have triplets? To read the full report, visit WWD.com.

Angelina Jolie is shooting down reports that she and partner Brad Pitt conceived their twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline through in vitro fertilization.

“If they had been conceived by IVF, we would have been happy to discuss it,” Angie says in a new interview. “But we have been fortunate never to have had fertility problems.”

When asked about naming the twins, Brad said, “”The name Vivienne came to us early, as if she named herself–she has always been Viv. And Marcheline is to honor Angie’s mother. Knox came soon after. It is a family name, my grandfather’s. Léon is a classic French name.”

Last night, first pictures of the world’s most famous twins were revealed. On newsstands now is the issue of People, which gives an exclusive 19-page view of the Jolie-Pitt family of eight. Pick up your copy today!

Here are the first pictures of the world’s most famous twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie new baby joys.

“It is chaos,” laughs Angie on life at the sprawling Chateau Miraval in Provence, “but we are managing it and having a wonderful time.”

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

The new issue of People (on newsstands Monday) will give an exclusive 19-page view of the Jolie-Pitt family of eight including the twins’ four older siblings, Maddox, 7, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 2.

“[Shiloh] and Z pick out [the twins’] clothes and help change and hold them,” says Angie. “It’s sweet – they are little mommies.”

Adds Brad: “[It’s] still a cuckoo’s nest.”

As reported earlier this week, People magazine picked up the rights to publish these exclusive photos in the United States for $14 million.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s newborn twins sold to People magazine for a whopping $14 million, a person involved in the negotiations confirmed to The Associated Press. (Earlier this week, JustJared.com exclusively reported the mag’s winning bid was between $10 to $15 million.)

Since the insider was not authorized to release the figure, he asked not to be named.

People magazine will feature twin babies Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon in an issue to hit newsstands Monday.

To see a sneak peek at the cover, visit People.com on Sunday night around 7PM EST.

As exclusively reported earlier this week, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will be introducing their twins, Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline, in next week’s People magazine.

Knox and Vivienne, the couple’s fifth and sixth children, were born in mid-July in France.

Britain’s Hello! magazine has confirmed it secured the worldwide rights to publish the first photos of the newborn twins.

To see a sneak peek at the cover, visit the mag’s website at People.com on Sunday night around 7PM EST.

JustJared.com has just learned that People magazine has drummed up the winning bid for the first pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s twins - Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. It is rumored that the winning bid is between $10 million and $15 million. The pictures will come up in a future People magazine issue (but not this week!). The money paid to Brad and Angelina has already been earmarked for charity.

Also, Food and Wine has recently put together restaurants and recipes for the family of 8! Restaurants for large families have been picked by select food bloggers in New York City, Washington D.C., New Orleans, San Francisco and Seattle. Simple, classic and kid-friendly French recipes were also included.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt turned to fertility treatments to conceive twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, reports Us Weekly.

“They conceived through in vitro fertilization,” a source tells the mag. “They both desperately wanted more babies soon.”

Apparently the chance of having fraternal twins at Angelina’s age (33) naturally is under 1 percent; with in vitro, the chances are 25 percent.

Continues the source, “[Angie did it so] she wouldn’t have to deal with the stress of trying to get pregnant. She could just knock it out.”

FYI: In vitro fertilization costs around $12,000 per procedure.

Angelina Jolie has left the French hospital where she gave birth to twins last week.

The Lenval hospital in the southern French city of Nice said in a statement on its website: “Angelina Jolie left the clinic Santa Maria of Foundation Lenval around 4AM on July 19 with her babies, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. The mother and her babies are doing very well.”

The Fondation Lenval also thanked the Jolie-Pitts for choosing the hospital. It also thanked the hospital staff “for the attention and care they paid to the family and the journalists around the hospital who did their best to respect their privacy.”

No word on where Brad, Angelina, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne are headed to next…