In a new interview with USA Today, Nicole Kidman said she lost her self-identity during her nearly 10-year marriage to Tom Cruise because of the couple’s constant traveling.

“Tom and I, we moved and moved and moved. Your sense of where do I come from becomes less and less relevant,” said Kidman, 40, who split from Cruise, 45, in 2001 and shares custody of their adopted children Isabella, 14, and Connor, 12.

“A lot of my life, particularly when I was working so much, it was about trying to fill in the gaps,” she added. “Now there’s much more reason to exist in the world without my identity needing to be through work.”

She said her life is finally making sense again.

“I have a new niece, I have a new marriage, we just bought an acreage in Tennessee, which we’re really happy to build a house on and spend some time doing that,” she said. “I’m just not willing to give up my life with my man anymore.”

Kidman says she and Urban, 40, are “inseparable” (she even plans to hit the road with him on his world tour).

“I also like seeing him do what he does,” she said. “He can really play, and he can really sing. I’ll vouch for it.”

Kidman said she isn’t as adamant about working so prolifically, either. As for her recent string of box office duds (The Invasion, anyone?), she said she has no regrets.

“You always strive to make a good movie,” she said. “Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. You step into something with the best of intentions and you hope. I think that kind of approach to a career, and a life, is the healthiest way to be.”

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• Jewell & boyfriend Ty Murray
• Keith Urban & Nicole Kidman
• Kellie Pickler
• Kate Walsh
• Leann Rimes
• Sheryl Crow

HUGE ARTICLE AFTER THE JUMP… (more…)

I know she’s reportedly gaining weight for a new movie role – I just don’t see it!

After Nicole Kidman’s last movie came out (Invasion) – I wrote about how I thought Nicole Kidman was box office poison.  A bunch of you got upset with me, so I just dropped it.  Well, I hate to say it – but it looks like the curse is about to continue.

And just for s**t’s and giggles – I would like to know what was the last movie Nicole was in that actually did well…?  I’d say the last movie she did that actually made any real money was Moulin Rouge!

Well, don’t listen to me…here’s what the NY Post has to say:

PITY Nicole Kidman, who hasn’t had a hit in several years. Early buzz on “The Golden Compass” – based on the first book in Philip Pullman‘s “His Dark Materials” trilogy – is negative as well.

“It is a $175 million investment for New Line Cinema, which has been hurting ever since ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy,” says an insider. “People working on the movie say it is just plain bad.”

The picture is said to rely too much on computer-generated images and may stumble with its talking, armored polar bear.  But a New Line rep said, “That’s bull[bleep],” and got us a quote from Ted Cooper, the senior vice president of Regal Entertainment Group who saw the movie at the Showeast convention.

Cooper said, ” ‘Golden Compass’ has been on my radar for nearly a year now. I perceive this as one of the most important films to play throughout the holidays.”

Kidman’s latest flicks have been a flock of turkeys: “The Stepford Wives,” “The Invasion,” “Bewitched,” “The Interpreter,” “Dogville” and “Fur.” A rep for Kidman didn’t return e-mails.

I always think actresses look better with an extra 10 – 20 pounds on them.  Call me crazy.

Just as Renee had to bulk up to play Bridget Jones, so Nicole has already put on 10lb for her latest film, The Reader.

And the 40-year-old Australian actress is planning to double her weight gain in the coming weeks, according to sources on the movie, in which she stars alongside Ralph Fiennes.

“Nicole has said this is one of the most challenging film roles of her career,” a close friend said.

“She is naturally very slim and loves to run and swim so she is always very toned.

“The part she plays demands that she gets fatter throughout the movie as her character slips into middle age.

“It’s a very demanding role because there are a lot of explicit lovemaking scenes.

“The film is set over several decades so her character changes a lot.

“Nicole was originally planning to use prosthetics but was told by the director, Stephen Daldry, that it would be more realistic if she gained the weight.”

The star plays Hanna Schmitz in the adaptation of the bestselling German novel The Reader, which deals with the emotional repercussions of the Holocaust-in post-war Germany.

It tells the story of Michael Berg, a 15-yearold boy who has a passionate affair with older woman Hanna in 1958.

But Hanna disappears suddenly and Michael sees her again only years later when she is on trial for a war crime after it is revealed she was an SS camp guard.

Nicole’s calorie-rich diet includes drinking daily protein shakes and ensuring carbohydrates are in every meal.

“She has been eating about four meals a day,” said the friend. It’s not usual to see her work her way through a big plate of pasta, with bread, and then a dessert.

She’s having to gorge herself. She has quite enjoyed gaining the first 10lb and has been having lots of her favourite puddings as well as chocolate.

“Nicole loves her new bosom, but she is finding eating so much makes her lethargic and sleepy.

“She’s usually running on adrenaline and has to be reminded to eat a meal. Now she’s eating four, and sometimes five small meals a day.”

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Pictures of Nicole on October 7th at the premiere of her new movie, “Margot and the Wedding.”

Nicole Kidman’s acclaimed movie To Die For is to be turned into a new stage musical by the brains behind Broadway hit Xanadu. Producers Tara Smith and B. Swibel are currently updating Joyce Maynard’s novel, upon which Kidman’s 1995 film was based, and hope to announce a premiere date by the end of 2007.

Kidman won her first Golden Globe Award for her role as scheming and overly-ambitious weathergirl Suzanne Stone Maretto in the Gus Van Sant movie.

Swibel tells BroadwayWorld.com: “We hope to deliver upon the brilliance of the story and characters created in the novel and film with an original musical score.”

I really liked that movie, as twisted – and messed up as it was.  But a musical?  Weird.