NICE, France -- Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie checked out of a maternity clinic in the south of France on Saturday a week after giving birth to twins, according to a statement.

Jolie, 33, left before dawn on Saturday, avoiding photographers who have been massed outside the Fondation Lenval clinic in Nice.

The Oscar-winning American actress and her children Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, a boy and a girl, "were doing perfectly well," said the statement issued by the clinic.

The twins, born last Saturday, brought the number of Jolie's children with 44-year-old American film star Brad Pitt to six.

Dubbed "Brangelina" in the press, Hollywood's golden couple has adopted three children: Maddox, six, born in Cambodia; four-year-old Pax, born in Vietnam; and Zahara, three, born in Ethiopia.

Their first biological child, Shiloh, was born May 2006 in Namibia.

In May, the pair set up home in a chateau they rented from an American acquaintance in France's southern Provence region.