Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie covered their tracks to keep double mastectomy surgeries secret Pair used untraceable cars, early-morning appointments during medical odyssey 
 
 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have played spies and assassins on the big screen, and in real life they covered their tracks during Jolie's preventive double mastectomy surgeries. 
 
 The couple used untraceable rental cars and early morning appointments to avoid discovery during Jolie's secret three-month medical odyssey, People magazine reports. 
 
 "They really wanted Angie to be able to recover and rest before they shared the story," an unidentified family insider told People. 
 
 In a stunning op-ed in the New York Times last week, Jolie revealed that she underwent the elective, preemptive double mastectomy in February and reconstructive surgery on April 27. 
 
 She said that as a carrier of a "faulty" gene, she had an 87% chance of developing breast cancer and a 50% risk of getting ovarian cancer. 
 
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 After her surgery, she said her risk of developing breast cancer has dropped to less than 5%. 
 
 "I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer," she wrote. 
 
 Jolie, 37, and Pitt, 49, have six young children together — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne. 
 
 The couple of seven years is often spotted taking the brood to museums, toy stores and movie sets around the world. 
 
 The kids even visited Pitt on the set of his upcoming zombie flick "World War Z." 
 
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 "He would light up when his family showed up. It's just a very cool thing to see," Jeremy Kleiner, a longtime exec at Pitt's Plan B production company and a producer on "World War Z," told People. 
 
 Kleiner said Pitt and Jolie's devotion to each other is equally evident. 
 
 "They are very loving and inspiring to each other, exchanging ideas," he said. 
 
 Pitt was by Jolie's side whenever she snuck out for one of the three surgeries involved in her case, according to the Pink Lotus Breast Center in Beverly Hills. 
 
 For her first "nipple delay" surgery on Feb. 2, Pitt "was on hand to greet her as soon as she came around from the anesthetic, as he was during each of the operations," Dr. Kristi Funk wrote on the Pink Lotus website. 
 
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 "I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt, who is so loving and supportive," Jolie wrote in her op-ed piece. 
 
 In the new issue of Esquire magazine, Pitt admits his laser focus on his family means he has little time for outside friendships. 
 
 "I have very few friends," the actor told Esquire. "I have a handful of close friends and I have my family and I haven't known life to be any happier. I'm making things. I just haven' t known life to be any happier." 
 
 He said he embraces the "chaos" of his domesticity. 
 
 "I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big," 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." 
 
 ndillon@nydailynews.com ||||| Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie used early-morning medical appointments and rental cars to keep her recent health crisis secret, it’s been revealed. 
 
 According to a new report, “Brad did everything he could to keep things secret and protect Angie,” a family insider told PEOPLE. 
 
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 And Jolie’s doctor, Kristi Funk, told the magazine the 49-year-old actor was at Jolie’s side for every surgery. 
 
 They even “managed to find moments to laugh together,” she said, as Jolie wrote her op-ed for the New York Times titled, My Medical Choice. In the article, the the Academy Award-winning actress revealed that between early February and late April she completed three months of preventive surgical procedures to remove both breasts. 
 
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 Pitt’s strength and devotion to Jolie, 37, has highlighted to unflagging bond between the pair, who met in 2004 and engaged in April, last year, much to the delight of their children — Maddox, 11, Pax, 9, Zahara, 8, Shiloh, 7, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 4. 
 
 “In my mind, he’s already married,” Pitt’s friend and furniture-design partner, Frank Pollaro, said in a new interview. 
 
 “This is an admirable person, a man with a deep love for his family.” 
 
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 “They are very loving and inspiring to each other,” another colleague, Jeremy Kleiner, who is a long time executive at Pitt’s Plan B production company and a producer on his upcoming movie World War Z, told PEOPLE. 
 
 “He would light up” on set “when his family showed up,” added Kleiner. “It’s just a very cool thing to see… Brad is passionate about his family. They’re a great source of happiness for him.” 
 
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 Though Jolie is leaning on her family at this time, there is little rest, however: She’s already planning to direct a movie, Unbroken, and was reportedly laboring over storyboard at home just a few days after her mastectomy. 
 
 
 
 ||||| Talk about teamwork.In the weeks surrounding Angelina Jolie 's preventive double mastectomy and subsequent reconstructive surgery, her fiancé, Brad Pitt , served as her No. 1 support.At the bustling home they share with their six kids in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, "Brad did everything he could to keep things secret and protect Angie," a family insider tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story.Using early morning appointments and rental cars to avoid discovery, "They really wanted Angie to be able to recover and rest before they shared the story," says the insider.The actress's medical ordeal only deepened the bond between Jolie, 37, and Pitt, 49, a couple for seven years. Those close to them say the pair's teamwork is always on display, in public and private."They are very loving and inspiring to each other, exchanging ideas," says Jeremy Kleiner, a longtime exec at Pitt's Plan B production company and producer on his upcoming movie World War Z.On-set, "He would light up when his family showed up. It's just a very cool thing to see."For much more on this story, including Angelina's next surgery and how Brad's family has supported her, pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE
– How did Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie manage to keep her double mastectomy a secret for so long? By making early morning doctor's appointments and not driving their actual cars to any of them, according to People. So what type of cars did they use? The New York Daily News calls them "untraceable cars," while Radar goes with the more conventional "rental cars." "Brad did everything he could to keep things secret and protect Angie," says a family insider. "They really wanted Angie to be able to recover and rest before they shared the story." PopSugar notes that Pitt even did an interview with Esquire during this time period and didn't reveal anything, though he did call Jolie "the best person" and revealed that he has "very few friends" outside of his family. (Angie has expressed a similar sentiment before.)