Here’s a guest blog by the wonder that is Amy Grindhouse…

Katie Holmes is a woman whom many find enigmatic. She was once Joey Potter on Dawson’s Creek and now she is known for being little more than the kept woman looking all shiny eyed, whilst hanging off Tom Cruise’s arm.

The actress and mother is the subject of much speculation and often ridicule.

Some think that she is the kid who got lucky and married her childhood crush, while others think that she is the target of a clever Scientology-based blind date system, where the winner gets to be shackled to their famous mate for the rest of their lives.

Katie opens up in a new interview in quite astonishingly candid detail, about her feelings on motherhood and how she feels about the inevitable media intrusion into the life of her and her adorable baby daughter, two-year-old Suri.

In the piece published online and in the April 2009 issue of Glamour magazine, Katie opens with the usual stock quotes she always does about how she started in the business and life before becoming Tom’s loyal Scientology robot.

As the interview progresses, the mask slips and we get a more probing look into what murky waters lie behind the now dead eyes of the woman most people in their 20s shall only ever remember fondly as Joey.

The star seems to respond well to many things, the click of a paparazzi bulb, the glare of the spotlight and if her most recent cover shoot for the publication is anything to go by she responds to Photoshop like a Crackberry addict to the ping of a new email.

Katie’s glued-on, wonky smile hides a woman who is arguably as media savvy as Angelina or even the more recent media darling Octomum’Nadya Suleman. Rarely is a woman so adept at selling an image to the media based solely on her looks and her womb.

When lovingly probed by the interviewer Katie divulges many a secret. Things that her adoring fan (yes, fan) is dying to know. Despite public desperation for them to be oh so dysfunctional, by all accounts the Cruise family are like any other parents of a toddler. They both share feeding, playing with the little one and they share nappy changing.

Katie recounts stories of family time as if she were reciting dry tales of her first auditing session. For instance, she retells stories of family board game time with all the love and passion of a daytime TV actress.

So, does the formally bubbly wife of the most famous man in the world feel overwhelmed by her family duties? Does she mind no longer being her own woman? Katie says:

“From an early age I knew that I wanted to be in this business. So I did everything I could to get here, and when I met Tom, I knew in an instant that we were going to be together, that we were going to get married. He does have a very big life. And you know, we just do it.”

Sigh, by all accounts robot Katie is and was a willing participant into the charade that is her life at present.

She welcomed the cameras, she courted the fame and she popped out a baby so quickly that she barely made it down the aisle before she went into labour.

With all that in mind, guess that explains why the wizards in the Glamour Photoshop department could not airbrush out the vacant look in this empty little robot’s eyes.

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