Nicole Kidman: Why I Stayed So Skinny During My Pregnancy
Even while pregnant with daughter Sunday, many were amazed that Nicole Kidman still managed to keep her svelte figure.
Now, in a new interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly, the 41-year-old actress opens up about her relatively small bump.
“I’m so lucky I’m so tall, so I carried small,” the 5′ 10 1/2″ star says. “Also, I have to say, I had a birth that I was blessed with, a labor that was very good and a baby that was very good to me in that regard.”
Kidman and husband Keith Urban welcomed Sunday, who weighed 6 lbs., 7 oz., in July.
But the actress, who had suffered a miscarriage with ex Tom Cruise, admits she wasn’t expecting to get pregnant at age 41.
She says “fertility waters” may have played a role.
During production of her upcoming romance Australia, she says she and six other women who swam in the waters of a small Outback town all got pregnant.
“I never thought that I would get pregnant and give birth to a child, but it happened on this movie,” Kidman says.
“Seven babies were conceived out of this film and only one was a boy,” she continues. “There is something up there in the Kununurra water because we all went swimming in the waterfalls, so we can call it the fertility waters now.”
Of newborn daughter Sunday, she says, “To be given this again is a beautiful thing. To have raised Bella and Connor since I was 25 and now to be able to do it again at 41 … wow!”
September 24th, 2008 at 7:58 am
I’m sure the fact that she was going to the gym everyday & going to spinning classes right up to the day before she delivered had nothing to do with her staying so small. Or how by the excessive workouts, her child stayed so small and how that contributes to an easier labor. All that working out is surprising for somebody who claimed to have a difficult time conceiving and had a history of miscarriage. You’d think she’d take it a little easier.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:50 am
I’m 5′10 and a half as she says and I didn’t carry small with EITHER one of my babies..I agree with Cat
September 24th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I’m 5′7″ and fairly big boned, and looked like I was carrying an elephant by six months for all of my pregnancies.
My girlfriend is 5′5″, at best, and small boned and could wear her regular clothes until five months!
There doesn’t seem to be a rhyme or reason to how we carry our babies during pregnancy, the same as some of us ending with lots of stretch marks, and others that can get back into a bikini a week after delivering!!!!!! Nobody ever said that life would be fair, and if you were told that it would be, they lied to you!!
In the end, as long as the babies come out healthy, who cares???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!