Nicole Kidman is a mother – something that’s only really brought up when she’s on the promotional trail. We’re not parents of anyone, mind you. We’re only just competent enough to look after the hecklerspray house gerbil, and we don’t think it’s wise to make a leap to a house baby kept in the gerbil’s cage and fed from the same bowl with ‘Killer’ emblazoned in crayon.
All that considered, being the parents of precisely no one, we’re not really in a position to judge. We are, however, in a position to point and yell obscenities at our screens while licking melted chocolate buttons from our chubby little fingers.
So that’s what we’re going to do.
Nicole had one of those baby things in July 2008. She named it something that was a hilariously-close approximation of ‘Sunday Roast’, Sunday Rose.
That child, now two-and-a-half, is the only child about whom Nicole talks without prompting; gushing lovingly about her baby and waxing lyrical about the joys of having a biological child.
One problem. Well, two. One aged 18, the other 15 – her two adopted children with ex-husband, Tom Cruise, beginning two years after their wedding in 1990.
Two people about whom she forgets unless asked to account for why she’s never seen with them and why she seems to have no contact or relationship since the marriage split in 2001.
From Monsters and Critics:
Nicole Kidman has admitted that she is sad that her two adopted children chose to live with ex-husband Tom Cruise. Isabella, 18, and Connor, 15, live in America with Cruise, his wife Katie Holmes and their four-year-old daughter Suri, but Nicole said that she has to respect and accept their decision. She told Hello! Magazine, ?They live with Tom, which was their choice. I'd love them to live with us, but what can you do?? The actress welcomed daughter Sunday Rose with new husband Keith Urban in July 2008, and said she was named after their favourite day of the week. ?When we were both alone, before we met each other, Sunday was the day we dreaded most, because when you don't have someone in your life Sundays can be really lonely,? she explained. ?Then when we met, we went from dreading Sunday to really loving it. We just thought, ?What a great name for our baby!? It's a beautiful thing at 43 to have a two-and-a-half year old.?
She didn’t forget about children she spent the better part of a decade raising after co-adopting them.
SEE!
She’s just been really busy, knitting and getting botox for the last 10 years.
She loves and thinks about them. And it only sounds as though she’s become indifferent to their existence, because of her biological child. The way it was rumoured at one point Tom wanted ‘his own’ son, because son Connor didn’t count.
This leads us to deduce the following:
1) Babies are like DVDs and take-backsies are fine/ legal
2) A biological baby is better than an adopted one, and it’s fine to put the adopted child(ren) in storage once you give birth
3) Spending a decade not moving your forehead is a reasonable excuse for not guiding your children into adulthood
4) Kids are like sweaters – once you get a new one, you can’t really be expected to be so excited about the old one and those stupid buttons that keep falling off.
This was a guest post by Amy Grindhouse, so three stinkin? cheers for that.
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lisa says
She just made the baby Jebus cry.
Gatsby says
But can someone please explain why they had to adopt kids in the first place…wasn’t it ”supposedly” because one of them was unable to conceive? Yet when they got with other mates…they both got REALLY fertile quite fast…so what gives?