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Brad Pitt is engaged to one of the world's most beautiful women, actress Angelina Jolie - and since they met in 2004, he's tried to avoid doing "sexy scenes" with anyone else, says his friend, Frank Pollaro.

"He's crazy about her and she's the same way about him," Pollaro, Pitt's furniture business partner, told Esquire for its June issue. "Once I walked in and Angie was standing there and Zahara walked up and said, 'Daddy, you're not going to start making out with Mommy again, are you?' And it's like that."

But recently, the couple has had to withstand a lot. Jolie, 37, revealed last week that she had a preventative double mastectomy after learning that she was genetically predisposed to breast cancer, and her doctor added that Pitt, with whom Jolie is raising six children, was by her side for every procedure.

For Pitt, that decision was obvious. In Esquire, which hits newsstands May 31, the "World War Z" star, 49, said that his family is his priority.

"I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house," he said. "There's constant chatter in our house, whether it's giggling or screaming or crying or banging. I love it. I love it. I love it."

"I hate when they're gone," he added. "I hate it. Maybe it's nice to be in a hotel room for a day - 'Oh, nice, I can finally read a paper.' But then, by the next day, I miss that cacophony, all that life."

That life was a long time coming. Pitt admitted in the magazine that in the years prior to meeting Jolie, he was a "drifter" who "did too much … drug damage."

"But then I got burnt out and felt that I was wasting my opportunity. It was a conscious change," he said. "This was about a decade ago. It was an epiphany - a decision not to squander my opportunities. It was a feeling of get up. Because otherwise, what's the point?"