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November 18th marks the second wedding anniversary for Hollywood power couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. It’s been a weird two years since the fairy-tale wedding in a castle in Italy. But since then, there’s been a slow, steady backlash in the media against the couple - most of it aimed at Tom Cruise and his “religion” of choice, Scientology. The predominant public opinion is that Katie, once a cute, doe-eyed ingenue with a promising film career, has been sucked into the bizarre world of Scientology at Tom’s insistence - although there has been no confirmation of any of this. Some have even gone so far as to say that Katie is a prisoner of this marriage - and the reason she stays with Cruise is their little girl, Suri.
In the two years since Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes wed in a lavish ceremony in Italy, their marriage has been tested. The couple has been dogged by gossip that their relationship is a sham, forced to defend their belief in Scientology and weathered career pitfalls.
As their November 18 anniversary approaches, Tom and Katie are still together - but it’s not all wedded bliss. “Life with Tom is not what Katie thought it would be,” a friend reveals. “Had they just dated a couple of years, I think they would have split up by now.”
Says another pal, “Their relationship is not perfect.”
According to an insider, there’s one big reason Tom and Katie have persevered: their daughter. “She puts up with a lot for Suri’s sake,” the friend explains.
Katie, who is temporarily living in New York to star in the Broadway show All My Sons, spends every free moment with Suri, 2. The two have been spotted playing together in the city’s parks, and on November 5, she took Suri for pizza at Pie by the Pound in the East Village. “She looked so happy,” a witness tells In Touch.
But it was a complete reversal a week earlier, when she dined with Tom alone at Balthazar restaurant in SoHo. “Her face said it all,” an insider revealed. “Katie looked miserable with him. Her smile was really forced.”
Tom, 46, and Katie, 29, weren’t always so incompatible.
“They rushed into the relationship,” a friend explains. “Katie got swept up in it. She thought she loved him.”
But the honeymoon was short-lived. When the reality of being Mrs. Tom Cruise set in, Katie felt controlled by Tom - and Scientology.
[From In Touch print version, Nov. 24, 2008]
While I think this story is a bit melodramatic and very circumstantial in nature - she was smiling with Suri and less so with Tom a week earlier, so what? - it sure is compelling with you look at those older photos of Katie from two years ago and compare them to Katie today. No marriage is perfect, and expecting perfection for Tom and Katie is unrealistic. But looking back at the old photos, it seems like this union is far from perfect or even normal. Katie seems to have aged ten years. While having a baby definitely takes its toll on any new mom, the change is so dramatic, it really makes you wonder what’s been going on behind closed doors. Maybe it’s as simple as Katie, as a young woman, struggling to find her identity as a more mature actress and mother. Or maybe it’s something darker. We’ll probably never know- or we’ll have to wait a long time to find out, like with Tom’s last wife, Nicole Kidman, who only recently started giving vague clues about what life is really like with the star.
In any case, I hope the couple makes some alone time for each other to celebrate their anniversary - no Suri, no Scientology, no paparazzi, no red carpets; just a romantic night for the two of them.
Here are photos of Tom and Katie throughout their relationship.
Written by MSat
Posted in Katie Holmes, Suri Cruise, Tom Cruise
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24 Responses to “Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes will mark their second anniversary”
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Holy moly, she has transformed so much, and NOT for the better!
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She was so cute before Tom. He’s drained the cute right out of her.
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Bet Katie is saying the exact same thing, trillion.
The ‘06 Katie looks like the daughter of the ‘08 one. Two years of Tom can do this? Best anniversary present he could give her is a way out of this mess.
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Agree totally with Trillion and Geronimo. Seems like I have aged during their marriage as well!
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Those side by side pictures are creepy! I wish her nothing but the best & I hope she is happy, but I seriously doubt it. I can’t wait for Suri’s tell-all book!
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She looks so different.
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I never heard the story of how they met. the most i heard was that he was looking for an actress to marry and something like his agent/assistants/lawyers interviewed actresses for him to have a relationship with and eventualy marry. I think this was in that book that came out about him. But they are a random pairing.
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I still think it’s she who secretly wears the pants in their family, as off the wall as that may seem.
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I would argue that the backlash against Cruise started *way* before the marriage. And I think they threw such a lavish wedding in the hopes of a few weeks of good press - *BACKFIRE*
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Sigh. Makes you shudder to see the photos documenting her lightning-fast downward spiral. She used to look human.
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Katie looks like crap. She was a cute young woman, now she looks like an old bag soccer mom. she thinks she is style icon now, but she just looks old and tired. not the cute young mom that she should be. ugh loose the dead weight katie!
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light. died. behind. eyes.
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ok, two things here:
1. i think she has had a nose job and it looks MUCH better now.
and 2. this is a weird phenomenon, but my younger sister once dated a guy that was about 12 years older than her, she was in her early 20’s, he in his mid-30’s and she looked like she had seriously aged about 10yrs once they started dating. we even compared pictures once, one of her about 6mths before she met the guy and one of her after and it was a CRAZY difference.
i think women who date older men naturally gravitate towards looking older and more mature so that way they fit in more with their older, wealthier, and more accomplished boyfriend’s social circle. no?i think katie just looks really depressed, it’s tough being a mom sometimes. you can really love your children and still be really overwhelmed by it all and feel lost or less than. i also can’t imagine the INCREDIBLY scrutiny that she is under and i’m she she is constantly thinking about things everytime she steps outside of her door and there are 50 paparazzi everywhere encircling her and her daughter (
)and i’m sure she wonders what she got herself into. i totally get it, i feel bad for her.
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Totally, I would have sworn that it was like, 5 years. what’s up with that?
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Tom bought her new shackles to celebrate the occasion.
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@ dante: If gossip is correct, I think the new shackles he’s working on will be a boy, no?
If she’s staying in New York with Suri and *gasp* getting a chance to experience a little breathing room, she may be getting brave (in his eyes) in thinking it’s time for a few changes. So in this respect I totally believe he’s trying to get her pregnant again. Best way in the world to tie her to him.
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The discrepancy is disturbing. She looked so innocent and playful before - now, so guarded and grey.
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I just don’t get why he is leading her around, like she’s a debutante at cotillion.
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I have no sympathy for her. She wanted to become famous (and not some B-list actress). And while she’s more famous now than she probably ever could have been on her own, she’s still a B-list actress. She knew what she was getting into and what she was signing up for. She made her Xenu bed and deserves the consequences. I just feel so bad for the kids trapped in that psychologically and spiritually deprived household
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Her choice to climb up and take the ride but someone waxed the slide she’s flying down.
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it creeps me out the way he holds her hand.. it’s TOTALLY unnatural, very stilted and stiff, SOOOO posed, like he’s holding onto a mannequin
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Wonder what she will look like at their fifth anniversary ?
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I feel really sorry for her. She does not look well.
Some of Nicole Kidman’s recent comments about her relationship with Tom are quite telling. Why would he treat Katie any differently? He has managed to turn a spirited, energetic young woman into…
just that. A mannequin. So sad.
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It’s only been 2 years? Why does it feel more like 10?
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