Nicole’s children don’t call her mom.
This is sad, is it not?
Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman says Isabella, 14, and 12-year-old Connor – her two adopted children with ex-husband Tom Cruise – are reluctant to use the traditional parental moniker and instead call her Nicole, much to her annoyance.
She told UK TV show ‘GMTV’: “My kids don’t call me mommy, they don’t even call me mom. They call me Nicole, which I hate and tell them off for it.”
The ‘Golden Compass’ star recently revealed she is unhappy Isabella and Connor are being raised as Scientologists in Los Angeles.
That whole Scientology thing would bug me too! How frustrating would it be to get a divorce (which is bad enough) then have your ex turn around and raise your kids as Scientologists!
November 29th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Is the calling her by her first name an age thing? I know at certain ages kids think it is funny or cool to call their parents by their first name. Or have they never called her mom?
Second thing I don’t know how she can live in Australia when her kids are in LA. Even though Tom Cruise is crazy there a tons of pictures with him and his kids. Not many dads make it to all their kids games he seems like a very hands on loving father.
As a mother I don’t know how you could live that far away and not see your kids??
November 29th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
My brother has called my parents by their first names since he was about 16 and at almost 21 it hasn’t stopped. They handle it well, but I think it really bugs them. I have always called them Mama and Daddy. I only use there first names in situations like a crowded store where tons of parents would turn around if I did not use there first names. I am the older of us kids at 25, but even at his age I never could call my parents by their first names. I do think it could be an age thing though, but with Tom’s crazy “religion” who knows.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
WHY NOT CALL HER NICOLE..DO THEY LIVE WITH HER? OR ARE THEY IN
BOARDING SCHOOL .. SINCE THEY ARE NOT PHOTOGRAPHED WITH EITHER PARENT .. JUST SURI!!
November 29th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
I’ve alway thought it was strange that she chooses to live so far away from them too. If I were divorced I would have to stay as close as possible to my kids, if I didn’t get custody. She is living in Tennessee and AUS, I see pictures of Tom and the kids, but rarely her and the kids, I wonder what the deal is.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Why would they call her mom….she is a total stranger to them. She sees the two weeks out of an entire year. What a mother! First she moved to New York and now she is in Nashville. If she gave a shit about her “kids” she would live in LA. She is a cold human being.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
I can understand her sadness at them not calling her Mom (I myself could never really call my Mom anything but that). But if she’s so upset about her kids being raised as Scientologists then why isn’t she raising them with her?
Either they chose to live with their dad and all his craziness, or she must see them better off there….either way, doesn’t seem like she should be able to complain.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Just because she doesn’t use every opportunity with her kids as a photo-op doesn’t mean she’s not a good mother. Nicole is fierce about her privacy and trys to shelter her kids. Give her a break.
Also, since Suri’s been born, I haven’t seen hair or hide of those kids with Tom.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:34 am
She hardly seems them. They live mostly with Tom.I haven’t seen any pictures of her and her children, after her marriage.Actuallty , she hardly ever mention anything about them.
November 30th, 2007 at 10:24 am
There’s something fishy about that whole Kidman/Cruise with adopted kids relationship anyway. I think the marriage was a brokered business deal for him to marry a woman because he’s gay and a young ambitious Aussie wanting to break into the A-list Hollywood crowd and adopting kids to cement a “family image” to the public. I don’t think she ever was a mother to those kids. Those kids were like having dogs.