Tom Cruise Vows: ‘We’ll Have More Children’
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Some new dads feel marginalized during their first few days and weeks with baby, but Tom Cruise was in a unique position to offer support and guidance to wife Katie Holmes, a first-time mom, after the birth of their daughter Suri, 2 ½. "I feel I was a very helpful husband and excited about it," the 46-year-old father of three tells The Mirror, and the memories of caring for a newborn came flooding back. "It was especially nice as it was Kate’s first time," he explains. "I’ve been around kids my whole life but it’s different when they’re yours." With each child he’s welcomed — including Isabella Jane, 15, and Connor Antony, 13, with ex-wife Nicole Kidman — Tom says that his confidence as a father has only grown.
"I’ll never forget the first night with Bella. I was looking at every breath she took and we laugh about it now as I told her, ‘I think I kept you up more than you did me that first night.’ I’ll never forget my mother coming in the morning to teach me how to bathe Bella. And Suri…you know those times we all have that are magic when they’re asleep on our chest? I knew the drill…it’s gas, diaper, hungry, you know?"
Times have changed dramatically since Bella and Connor were babies, both with regard to Tom’s profile as an actor and the aggressiveness of the paparazzi. He is adamant that neither will factor in to how Suri is raised, however. "I don’t want her to be afraid of people," Tom says. "I’m not going to live in fear or have her be frightened of people." It’s an approach which is already paying off. Tom shares,
"Kate is so calm and loving and Suri is the same…She’s very open and warm with lots of love and understanding. She’s happy and fun. She’ll just wave to people in the street."
From the sound of things, if Tom has his way, Suri will become a big sister someday herself! "We’ll have more children," he says. "I’m saying this, but Kate’s not here!"
Click ‘More’ to read about a typical day in the life of the Cruise children.
When Bella and Connor are with Tom, he says that his family of five leads a low-key lifestyle. It begins with a family breakfast, and moves on to watching movies, football, coloring and reading books to Suri, and always spending their evenings together as a family. "Kate is an artist so there are always lots of arts and crafts and fun things," he adds.
"It’s really just enjoying our family getting together. At breakfast we talk about what’s going to happen in the day, how’s school? How’s the book you’re reading? Did you finish your homework? … Our life is what it is. We actually have a very normal but exciting life. I feel very fortunate."
Tom’s new movie, Valkyrie, opens December 26th.
Source: The Mirror
- Posted on Nov 25, 08 at 11:00AM
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November 25th, 2008 at 11:11 am
To Tom Cruise: Your wife’s name is KATIE, not Kate. Stop making up your own version of her name
November 25th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Sounds like they’re one happy family. I’m glad both him and Nic found happiness after they divorce, I think this makes their children very happy.
November 25th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I just want to add that in an interview recently (possibly from the same press event as the Mirror info is taken from), Tom Cruise actually praised the press. I’ll put the link below, but it doesn’t say that in this report, so I just figured I’d let you all know in case you were thinking he was hating on the paps. He doesn’t personally call them aggressive. I love that picture by the way.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a136611/cruise-doesnt-mind-paparazzi.html
November 25th, 2008 at 11:43 am
yay another one! lol
November 25th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Her name is Katie, not Kate.
November 25th, 2008 at 11:52 am
It is obvious that Tom Cruise is not Suri’s biological dad. It is likely that Chris Klien is.
why is this not reported on?
What is the story there?
Did Katie get with Tom for the money?
How does Chris feel about this?
November 25th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Regardless of the little bit of strangeness surrounding Katie Holmes/Tom Cruise’s relationship. They/Suri seem very happy.
I hope things continue that way. And a huge congrats to both Tom/Nicole that they have found extreme happiness and peace with new marriages and babies.
November 25th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I think it’s nice to see Tom praising the paps, we see lots of celebrities complain about them (sometimes rightly so), but he’s said some really nice things in that interview. In fact, I think he went so far as to say that he wouldn’t be critical because people have been good to the family. It’s so refreshing to see someone be so nice about that kind of attention! Is it just me, or is Suri really starting to look like Tom lately?
November 25th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
That was sweet what he said about Bella. I mean, I’m sure the interviewer was asking about Suri but he still managed to tie in his other children to the discussion and “love fest”. I guess that’s where I feel some kind of way regarding Nicole Kidman. It’s almost as if she’s experiencing motherhood for the 1st time…to hear her tell it!!! I know she experienced birthing a baby for the 1st time but jeesh.
I did find it interesting that Tom’s mom taught him how to bathe Bella. Well actually that’s pretty cool…Nicole was probably getting some rest!
November 25th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
SCB I totally agree, I am a little put off by Nicole’s constant gushing about how she’s a mom for the first time, it makes me feel really bad for Bella and Connor. I love that Tom said that about Bella. And I hope they have another one, Suri is so beautiful and from pictures looks like she has a great little personality.
Oh, and Hello fellow CBB lover named Mia *waves* always nice to see someone else with the same name
November 25th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I’m loving Tom more and more as I read these interviews with him. I tend to agree with you, SCB, Tom makes it seem that Suri is his third child, not simply his first biological child wheras, at times, Nicole can make it seem that Sunday Rose is her first child.
I love the story of him watching Bella sleep all night! Too cute. I hope Tom & Katie have more children. Suri is so adorable. She would make a great big sister, I believe!
November 25th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
‘its different when their yours?’ i so hope i am reading this out of context and tom means being around kids isnt the same if your not actually their parent and he doesnt its different when they are your biological kids?
November 25th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
SCB and Stephany, I totally get what you are saying. I wonder if the questions to Nicole are worded differently though, because she did give birth for the first time. Since she couldn’t carry a pregnancy for so long I am wondering if maybe interviewers aren’t asking questions very specific to Sunday and editing out things Nicole might say about her other kids, whereas Tom didn’t give birth to any of his children. Does that make sense?
November 25th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I agree too about the difference with Tom and Nicole. I can see it too but then again we are not there when the question is being asked in what content so perhaps Nicole’s simply giving them what they want…however it does seem as though Sunday is her only child at times. IDK it seems as if Connor and Bella spend way more time with Tom and Katie then Nicole and Keith.
November 25th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Oh my god would you people stop it about Nicole?! This post isn’t even ABOUT her but you still manage to bring up every little thing that bothers you about her. Move on!
November 25th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Wow, Anais, that was really rude. People were talking about the children, I would think it was acceptable to talk about their mother as well.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
In a recent interview Nicole Kidman had said her kids prefer the city life (in Los Angeles), than the country side in Nashville. So I think Isabella/Connor live with Tom/Katie primarily, and visit their mother half the time.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I think Suri sounds like a little brat!
November 25th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Has anyone watched Nicole Kidman on “Ellen”? She was talking a lot about them because she was asked questions about them! Nicole Kidman comes across as a very loving and protective mom in this interview and she says that she is “actually not allowed to talk about them”. If you are interested you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77hX09_DFUM
I think both, Nicole and Tom, are loving parents to all of their children, it’s just that the media is more interested in the “babys” of the family.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I don’t know if you can even compare Tom and Nicole here. It’s different for a man. Men don’t experience what a woman does when she’s carrying a baby and gives birth, and that feeling is very fresh for Nicole right now. I think with Tom being a man that Bella, Connor, and Suri are going to be more on the “same level” as far as Tom’s feelings for his children. While Nicole probably has the same feelings for all of her children, there’s a whole other set of feelings you have for a baby you give birth to. It’s not really fair to anyone to compare and say “Well Tom is the better parent because he’s including all his children in his comments”. The media asks specific questions that we usually don’t hear and then they probably edit the answers too.
November 25th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
How lovely it would be if article about either Tom or Nicole could be posted on here without SOMEONE keeping score of if they mention or fail to mention all of their children.
I have more than one child too (adopted and birthed!) and when each one came into my life it was a HUGE experience, and I just basked in the love of this new person in my life.
It did not mean I did not love my older children any less because suddenly there was a “new kid”
And nobody scrutinized my every word and action for evidence I loved them all equally.
It must really be hearbreaking and exasperating to have to prove over and over again that you love all of your children equally.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Maybe it seems as though he’s talking about his THIRD child when he refers to Suri b/c he has custody of all three of his children where as its obvious that Nicole does not.
As precious and adorable as I think Suri is, he is not my favorite.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I love reading Tom gush about his family. He’s a doting Dad and so lovely with it.
As for Nicole – she had/has every right to gush and be in-love with her newborn baby, if she was anything like me she could have bonded with her ‘first’ baby very early in the pregnancy.
After trying for so long it’s no wonder she feels the way she does.
Gush away, I say.
I’m glad both Tom and Nicole are great parents to ALL their children.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
I think what people have to remember is that articles and sound bites are edited on we almost never get the whole story, start to finish. What one person says to an interviewer may be said in one context, but then is shown and misconstrued into a totally different context. It’s been pretty clear that Nicole spends time with her older children…they were in Nashville after Sunday was born and Connor did visit his mum in Aus when she was filming Australia. They spend the majority of their time with their dad, but that doesn’t mean that Nicole doesn’t love them as much as Sunday. There was a point in my life where I didn’t see my dad all that often…when I was about Bella’s age…but that didn’t mean that my dad and I didn’t love each other.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Anais, people felt free to drag Cruise into posts that were about Nicole Kidman — mostly to trash him. Turnabout is fair play.
I’m glad Cruise talks about Isabella and Connor as well as Suri, and doesn’t act as if Suri is special because she’s his biological child.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Thanks for the link Ella! Nicole really did talk about them the entire time.
p.s. it sounds like she goes to soccer games too
November 25th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Ella that is something I had posted in one of the other Nicole threads about not being able to speak about them. Cause I remember awhile back I think it was Tom though who said the kids don’t like being talked about in public that’s why they probably try to avoid it..esp Bella since she’s at that akward teenage girl stage
November 26th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Reading some of these comments makes me chuckle. Although this isn’t the case now (thank goodness!), Angelina Jolie used to be constantly criticized for talking about her adopted kids all the time but not her bio one, and not loving her bio child as much as her adopted ones (thankfully that critcisim slowed considerably somewhere between when she got pregnant with the twins and Shiloh’s second birthday, and it pretty much stopped completely once Knox and Viv had been born).
Nicole, on the otherhand, seems to get criticized for just the opposite! Some of these celebs just can’t win either way!
November 26th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Love the Ellen interview. Thanks for sharing the link.
November 26th, 2008 at 4:33 am
I think a lot of you have touched on the reasons for the Nicole supposedly not talking about the children stuff. First of all, you have the fact that we *think* the children are probably living with Tom more than they are living with Nicole. Therefore, seeing them on a day to day basis, of course dad would bring them up in conversation a little more. Secondly, there’s the fact that Nicole has just given birth for the first time, and while that doesn’t mean she loves Sunday more than she loves Isabella and Connor, it is an entirely new experience for her to welcome a new child that way. This is obviously going to be a talking point in interviews. Third, there is the fact that interviews are NEVER reported to the letter of what was actually said. Journalists cut and chop bits out as they need. It’s probable that Nicole has talked about all three of her children but the press seems to be reporting much more on the Sunday side of things. I’ll admit, in the past, I’ve been uncomfortable with the focus on Suri and Sunday which has seemed to dismiss Isabella and Connor, but whenever I’ve thought about it, I’ve always wanted to criticise the way it was reported, not the parents at the centre of it.