Angelina won?t sell twin photos for 16 mill unless mag stops using ?Brangelina?

Brad and Angelina on 1/27/08 when her pregnancy was just a rumor. Credit: PRPhotos
In the $6 million deal with People Magazine for the first photos of her rarefied twins, Jennifer Lopez reportedly stipulated that People never refer to her as "J. Lo" again.

The first photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's twins could fetch nearly three times the amount paid for J.Lo's babies Max and Emme. And like Lopez, Brad and Angelina also have a moniker they'd like to shed in the deal. TMZ claims that bidding for the first photos of the fifth and sixth editions to the Brangelina clan has reached the astronomical price of $16 million. Angelina doesn't want to put up with the blended name for her relationship any more and is throwing that into whichever contract she signs. She supposedly hates the nickname "Brangelina" and will strike it forevermore from the magazine that buys the rights to those coveted first photos:

A source in the know tells TMZ that one of the conditions of getting the J-P twins' first pictures is that the winning mag is forbidden from using "Brangelina." Multiple sources tell us the couple hates the moniker -- but no one more than Angelina.

BTW -- the bidding is now at $16 million. Take that Levi Alves McConaughey.

[From TMZ]

$16 million for photos of babies who are going to be stalked and photographed for the rest of their lives? At least it will probably all go to charity. It hardly seems worth it for the magazine it if you think about how much the babies are going to change in a few months. It's also doubtful that whichever magazine(s) they're featured in will sell well enough to justify that exorbitant amount. The glossies are said to be shelling out insane amounts of cash for baby and wedding photos in order to forge valuable relationships with the celebrities, not to necessarily recoup their investment in one issue.

I always thought Brangelina had a nice kind of ring to it and am surprised that it bugs Angelina so much. It's fallen out of fashion recently, but we occasionally rely on it to write titles that are short enough to fit on our homepage. It's kind of amusing that the name pisses Angelina off and now I want to use it more. It's like a dumb nickname for the prom queen that seems benign but bugs the sh*t out of her. Of course you're going to use it to refer to her behind her back whenever possible.