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To the outside world, Nicole Kidman appeared to be living a fantasy life as the glamorous movie star wife of her larger-than-life movie star husband Tom Cruise.
In reality, she now says more than a decade after the couple's divorce, her world was much smaller during their 11-year union, and not at all what it appeared.
"We were in a bubble, the two of us," Kidman tells author Patricia Bosworth in the new issue of Du Jour magazine. "We became very dependent on one another."
Kidman, now 45, describes herself as "smitten" and "madly, passionately
in love" when, in 1990 as a 23-year-old aspiring actress from Australia,
she married the once-divorced Cruise, who was by then already a
Hollywood star.
The couple appeared happy and together adopted two kids, Isabella and Connor,
but just two months after celebrating their 10 th wedding
anniversary, the "Top Gun" star pulled the plug on their marriage and
proclaimed to the press only, "Nic knows why."
"I was reeling with Tom. I would have gone to the ends of the earth for
him," the magazine's cover girl says of Cruise, now 50 and recently
divorced for a third time, from actress Katie Holmes. "But looking back
on it now, I was so impulsive and naïve.
"It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system," she says of the divorce, which she also opened about recently to Who magazine, after a long silence. "I thought our life together was perfect."
After the shock, Kidman bounced back from being "Mrs. Tom Cruise," both
professionally and personally, winning the Best Actress Oscar for her
work in "The Hours" and going on to marry country music star and new "American Idol" judge Keith Urban.
"My life changed. He is a wonderful, caring man and he makes me feel
secure," Kidman says of Urban, 45. "We don't ever like to be separated."
After adopting her two children with Cruise, and seeing them live
largely with him after the divorce, and suffering a miscarriage at the
end of her marriage to Cruise, Kidman calls giving birth to a daughter,
Sunday Rose, with Urban in 2008, a "healing experience."
"It took me so long to have a child. I feel enormous gratitude," she
tells Du Jour. "Sunday has healed an enormous amount in me. It's a very
private thing, but she just has."
The couple also welcomed a second daughter, Faith Margaret, via a
gestational surrogate two years later, and live what she calls a
"wonderful home life" in Nashville where she hosts a weekly baby group
with her and her daughters' friends.
"There's always music," Kidman says of life in what Bosworth describes
as the family's "big gray house with a pool and tennis court and movie
theater." "Keith plays the guitar and piano and drums. He's always
composing music. It's lovely when you have a baby who picks up the
drumsticks and plays - wearing angel wings."
"Before, I was running away from life," says the actress, next set to
bring Princess Grace of Monaco to life on the big screen. "Now I embrace
it. You never know how long you have. So I cherish every minute."
*Source: yahoo.com
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