Nicole Kidman opens up to Elle Magazine about ex, Tom Cruise
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Nicole Kidman wasn’t expecting to find love with Keith Urban.
“I didn’t foresee it, that you can meet somebody who you have a deep and more profound love with,” the actress – who divorced Tom Cruise in 2001 – tells November’s Elle.
“I don’t mean to take away anything with Tom, but I would hope that he has the same thing – I know he has the same thing with Katie,” Kidman adds. “You move into a stage where you’re able to be a more fuller person in your relationship.”
She continues, “I want to be really careful with that because I don’t want to take away from 11 years with that man that were really important. Really, for our kids — they were amidst a lot of love. It wasn’t bad. And now we’re amidst a more evolved love.”
Does she have any regrets about marrying Cruise at the young age of 22?
“Um, no. Would I want my kids to get married at that age? No!” Kidman says. “But that was an extraordinary thing for me. [Tom] taught me an enormous amount — as a girl into a woman. Absolutely, I would do it again.”
(Seeing Cruise move on was tough, however: Her pal Lauren Bacall says that Kidman was “unhappy on the set of 2003’s Dogville. “Tom had taken off for Penelope Cruz or some g—–n thing — one of his more ridiculous moves,” Bacall says. Taking a slight jab at the actor, she tells Elle, “Tom Cruise is a maniac. I can’t understand the way he conducts his life.”)
Kidman also opens up to Elle about being a mother at age 41.
“At 41, it’s more of a painful love. I look at that little girl, and I’m like, ‘Oh, no, what’s going to happen?’ It’s almost like my heart is stretching; I’m feeling all the muscles stretch with emotion. It’s a beautiful love, but there’s a lot of fear and pain for her life, and for Bella’s and Connor’s life.
“I like to believe that nothing was stopping Sunday from coming into the world,” she adds.
(Incidentally, she denies reports she named her daughter after early 20th-century artist Sunday Reed. “That’s a myth,” she says. “We just liked the name.”)
“When it comes to my kids, I’m just like a lioness,” Kidman says. “I’m like, ‘No one gets near my babies! That’s why we chose not to sell photos of her. We just want to have our little cocoon.”
Urban is equally protective of Kidman.
“He’s the greatest man besides my dad I’ve ever met,” the actress says. “He’s loyal and he’s a soul searcher.”
She adds, “Keith gave me a life. He gave me a home.”
October 6th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
she is on botox? or they photoshoped her?
October 6th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
she has been a botox overdoser for a long time, but even with the botox…she has had other work done too. is she beautiful? absolutely. does she look anything like she did when she started out? anything like herself? no way.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I think these photos are stunning