Angelina Jolie's spooky Halloween outing

With Halloween coming up, Angelina Jolie is making sure her brood is ready for some trick or treating action.

The 42-year-old actress was spotted out and about on a spooky shopping date with daughters Zahara, 12, and Vivienne, nine, and son Maddox, 16, who were busy picking out their ghoulie costumes for the American celebration.

Trying to keep a low profile, Ange kept her sunglasses on and looked somewhat ghost-like in a long beige dress with white cardigan, and was seen helping get outfits off the higher shelves for her kids.

Unfortunately the star's other three kids, Pax, 13, Shiloh, 11, and Vivienne's twin brother Knox, missed out on the ghoulie fun.

The family outing comes after the Maleficent actress revealed she had a "bad experience" with embattled Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in her younger years.

"I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did. This behavior towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable," Ange told the New York Times in an e-mail.

The outlet adds that Ange's encounter with the 65-year-old, who has been accused of sexual harassment of actresses and female employees for nearly three decades, happened shortly after the release of Playing by Heart in the 90s, with Ange adding she rejected his advances after he invited her to his hotel room.

Ange has also penned a powerful essay about female empowerment in the latest issue of Harpers Bazaar.

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In the piece the mother-of-six reflects on her relationship with Namibia and how humans are impacting the country's environment and Namibia desert.

"For me, Namibia represents not only ties of family and friendship but also the effort to the balance between humans and the environment so crucial to our future," Ange writes for the magazine, which hits news stands on October 24.

In the accompanying photoshoot Ange poses in the Namibia desert and goes on to explain about the reserve's foundation - the N/a’an ku sê Foundation - which works with the country's San people.

"If my life experience has taught me anything, it is that what you stand for, and what you choose to stand against, is what defines you. As the San people say, 'You are never lost if you can see your path to the horizon.'" she adds recalling a time interacting with a Khoisan-speaking indigenous hunter-gatherer tribe in Namibia.

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