Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Kids: Cambodia Confirms Couple NOT Adopting a Child From Cambodia

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are not about to adopt another child to add to their six children. Officials from Cambodia denied that the Hollywood couple has secretly adopted a little boy.

Rumors that Jolie and Pitt secretly adopted a boy named Alloy Shoun from Siem Reap surfaced early this week, with major media outlets like Vogue, The Sun and Metro even picking up the story.

According to The Sun, Jolie was said to have even kept the adoption a secret from her own husband for fear he would "throw a fit." However, Jolie's children, Shiloh, nine, and Zahara, 10, were said to have bonded quite well with Alloy, which is why the actress wanted to bring him back home and be part of the family.

E! Online reported that Alloy belongs to a poor family and has 12 sibling. Allegedly, Jolie showered the Cambodian family with gifts and paid $1 million to adopt him, per Gossip Cop. However, a spokesperson for Cambodia's Ministry of Social Affairs' Inter-Country Adoption Administration (ICAA) issued a denial, saying that the rumors are simply that - rumors.

Sao Samphois from the ministry said that the story circulated on Facebook, but the truth is the ministry has no contact with the Hollywood parents, per Phnom Penh Post. The spokesperson also stated that adoption proceedings between America and Cambodia have been suspended for many years now due to concerns about human trafficking. "The adoption between the two countries is not yet open," Samphois told the news outlet.

Back in November, Pitt declared in an interview that they were originally aiming to have "a dozen kids" in the family, but admitted to "crapping out" after having six, per Us Weekly.

Jolie, Pitt and the kids were in Cambodia for a few months last year as the actress was directing her movie, "First They Killed My Father." It is based on the book written by human rights advocate and Cambodian local Luong Ung and the story is about her first-hand experience under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 70s.

"First They Killed My Father" will be streamed on Netflix in 2016 and Jolie's first son, Maddox, whom she adopted from Cambodia in 2002, also worked behind the scenes.

"It deepened forever my understanding of how children experience war and are affected by the emotional memory of it. And it helped me draw closer still to the people of Cambodia, my son's homeland," Jolie said in a press release.