29 APRIL 2005

Angelina Jolie gave the world a chance to see how much her son Maddox has grown when she dropped by New York's Children's Museum this week.

Toting the three-year-old Cambodian-born toddler on her hip, the Lara Croft star, who has just been named the most beautiful woman in the world by a US magazine, looked as stunning as ever in jeans and a V-neck top.

The actress, who had to wait until the US lifted a ban on adoptions from Cambodia before she could take custody of Maddox in 2002, once revealed that she wants "a rainbow of children" from across the globe. "I prefer to adopt. With every adoption I save a further child from the orphanage," she said.

But despite plenty of rumours to the contrary over the past couple of years, it seems to be just Maddox in the family at the moment. "I'm much more peaceful," says the former wild child of her role as mum. "As long as he's healthy I don't worry about anything. Nothing else can shake me."

While her career and role as goodwill ambassador for the United Nation's refugee agency means Angelina is often on the move, when she's not jet-setting she maintains a surprisingly low profile at her Buckinghamshire village home.