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Nicole Kidman Says She Was "To Be Seen and Not Heard"

Nicole Kidman NKidman200.jpgNicole Kidman is painting a less than happy picture of her marriage to Tom Cruise.

She tells Glamour Magazine she felt oppressed during the marriage and that her role was to support her super-star husband and "to be seen and not heard."

"I felt I became a star only by association. I didn't think [my early movies] were very good, which is why I would always cower in the background," Kidman said.

Kidman and Cruise met when she was just 22 years old. She says her insecurities got the better of her.

"I thought, I don't deserve to be here. We would go to the Oscars and I would think, I'm here to support him, Kidman said. "I felt it was my job to put on a beautiful dress and to be seen and not heard."

While she says she has no bitterness towards her ex, she says she is happier now than she has ever been.

"I'm in a place of gratitude and humility. I touch wood every day. The journey of life - we all go through it," Kidman told the magazine.

Nicole says it was her marriage to country singer and fellow Australian Keith Urban and the birth of her daughter, Sunday Rose, that have brought her true happiness.

"You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing."



Do you think Tom was jealous of Nicole becoming a star?

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Posted by: Anonymous

Does she even remember she has two other children?? Never see them together



Posted by: Anonymous

Does she even remember she has two other children?? Never see them together



Posted by: Victoria

She remembers...but Tom doesn't want them calling Nicole Mom anymore.



Posted by: Anonymous

Well, she's their mother. If she really wanted to see them, I think she could manage. It's not like she's a helpless divorced mother, she's an actress who has money and fame, she could easily get to see them more often.
Plus, what she said about her marriage with Tom Cruise is almost obscene, first it's private, second she speaks of herself as a total victim, this is crazy!
If there are any victims in that family, I'd say it's the two oldest kids. Being adopted by two celebrities, then being neglected when both have found new families, particularly their mother. How insensitive of her to keep saying how motherhood with Sunday changed her, as if she had never had that before. She sounds like she never had children before. Maybe she thinks adopted children isn't like children from your own blood?



Posted by: Anonymous

I agree, she is so insensitive to her other two children as if they are not even important and never were!



Posted by: Anonymous

"I TOUCH WOOD EVERYDAY" ????? What?????



Posted by: Amy

I'm really starting to hate Nicole. She acts like her adopted children don't exist.



Posted by: Just Passing Through

I think we all know "something" is preventing her from speaking out about their marriage and the children. That's why in so many articles, she always says something like "I can't" or "I won't go there". I wish I could have been a fly on the wall during their relationship.



Posted by: Anonymous

Don't be hating.



Posted by: Anonymous

keith urban is not australian....hes from new zealand



Posted by: Anonymous

Please tell me what "I touch wood" means.



Posted by: Beth

Oh Boo Hoo Nicole. Can't she give an interview without mentioning Cruise? Time to move on now, it's been 7 years.

Anon 12:16, I couldn't agree more. Her comments are so insensitive to those kids.



Posted by: Paramount Studio Employee

Anyone who knows Tom Cruise knows he's an EXTREME control freak and EVERYTHING revolves around him. He and Madonna have a great deal in common--everything on schedule and not a detail out of place guess you could say he is a male DIVA. Nic had no say so in the divorce act -- she was told to comply--basically giving the kids to him to be raised with no contact with her. His young daughter now is nothing more than a show trophy just as Katie. The price you pay for the "glory" of being Tom's wife is money and you will be the bling on his arm.



Posted by: Huh

The term "I touch wood" means the same thing as "knocking on wood"....to ward off evil.



Posted by: Kate

Scientology doesn't allow non-scientologist parents to see the children at all. In the Cruise divorce Nic, because of public opinion, was allowed joint custody. However, the children must be home-schooled by scientologists and a can only leave the church in LA for short durations of time.

Nicole fought hard and lost. The children spend a few mths each summer and several weekends a year with her, but are not allowed to see the internet or spend time with non-scientoligists when in Kidman's company.

Anyone remember the photo of Nicole taking a young bella to Catholic mass one Sunday in LA. She was divorced VERY shortly afterwards.



Posted by: Anonymous

Thank you Huh... You can imagine the thoughts I was having! LOL



Posted by: SoirDuCalme

Oh sure, 4:31, Nicole Kidman is Catholic. That's why she "touches wood" and plays witches in films ( Bewitched, Practical Magic, Golden Compass ) as well as women who are in love with little boys, like in Birth. Or how about the scene in The Invasion where she appears in see-through panties next to the child actor playing her son? VERY Catholic. When was the last time you heard her mention Jesus?

If you want to understand her interviews, you have to know that she is, yes, contractually obligated not to say certain things about Tom. But why not? She married him for the fame and money and knew what he was. He probably had contracts ready on their first date. But she doesn't care about her adopted kids and never has, nor does she care about Sunday, who she "had" ( adopted ) to keep herself in the news. She cares about staying famous and keeping her youth -- but she's failing at both.



Posted by: Anonymous

I thought I would be the only one that wondered why she did not say that she felt such joy with her two adopted kids.

The kids are probably getting a good education and whatever they want...but the most important thing is LOVE..

Would'nt the two kids be step kids to Katie? You don't see her with them either.

I don't know..I love kids..wether they are my bio kids..foster or adopted or just borrowed...I could not shut a kid out like that.. its sad !



Posted by: Jenda

Its so sad that she acts like her adopted kids don't exist. That is why celebrities shouldn't be aloud to adopt. It's bad enough that the children already has abandonment issues and then abandon them again...what a selfish biotch



Posted by: Anonymous

"I touch wood everyday" it a symbol of good luck like keeping your fingers crossed. Some people say "knock on wood."



Posted by: Anonymous

i just don't know what to say about her. I agree with everyone on this page. And what a strange lady.



Posted by: Anonymous

i thought when she said i touch wood everyday she meant she really touched wood everyday from living in the country. Thanks for letting me know it means knock on wood.i feel like such a doofus.



Posted by: Anonymous

I agree with everyone also on this page! But one thing is for certain no MAN would stop me from seeing my kids,famous or not he would get a ass whupping right in the middle of the street and then I would sell the rights to his ass whupping to go to the kids! Tom is a freak! I hate him! I am a christian although not perfect at all and never will be, but this scientologist crap is not right what so ever. She needs to stand up be a women and tell Tom that if he does not let her see her kids that it is going to be on boy! Tom is not as popular as he was and not alot of people like him anymore because he is an ass in many ways. I never hardley see Tom with the adopted kids either so it is not just Nicole. I feel for Kate but I wonder if she will get any tits about her and stand up to Tom. Oh and the comment that Nicole said about the waters getting her pregnant...WTF? are you serious! OMG i hope water does not make you pregnant or we are screwed and will run out of room in the USA! We will haveto be buried standing up, crap I don't want to stand up while I am dead unless I am propped up by the bar with a beer in my hand DAMN!







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