Nicole Kidman’s wax figure covers the January issue of Elle. Wait, what’s that? No joke? That’s the real Kidman posing on the cover?! Get out of town. The Dior shorts cover is the subscriber’s cover and it’s terrible. The newsstand cover is a little bit better. Anyway, Nicole covers the January issue because she’s promoting Paddington, which still looks terrifying to me but I’ve heard some people say that it’s actually a lovely family film. Nicole has had a really rough year with the passing of her father and, to a lesser degree, the utter failure of Grace of Monaco. Nic needs a win! So maybe Paddington will be that win. Some highlights from her interview:
Why she married Keith Urban after dating for a month: “I’m spontaneous. I jump in. I kind of like getting married and then getting to know each other; I know that it sounds incredibly strange, but to me, it’s a more natural process.”
Noticing that the 38-year-old interview was pregnant: “I had my last one at 43. My grandmother had her last at 49. Every month, I’m like, ‘I hope I’m pregnant!’” “Off the record,” interjects her publicist, who’d been waiting nearby to escort her into hair and makeup. “‘Off the record’? I don’t mind!” Kidman says. “Why not, right? I wish I was!”
This is what Sheryl Crow says about Kidman: “I think that she has been very poised throughout her public life, and sometimes people will misconstrue that; they see her as being an ice queen. The kind of scrutiny she’s been subjected to can’t be comfortable, and she’s dealt with it by being very careful—that’s what gives people the wrong idea. She’s not someone we’re going to see out paddle-boarding in a G-string; she doesn’t set up situations where she’s playing to the paparazzi. She’s more old-school than that. She’s not that kind of movie star.”
On Kubrick, Cruise and Eyes Wide Shut: She credits the legendary Stanley Kubrick, who directed her and Cruise in 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut, for encouraging her: “He would always say, ‘You’re a character actress, Nicole. Don’t play leading ladies. Go and find the character roles.’” In fact, she says, she loved working with Kubrick so much that she didn’t mind the famously drawn-out, two-year shoot…and neither did her then husband. “We loved it. Everyone thought that was when our marriage started to break down—not at all. That movie was a great part of our life together, and I’m glad we have it.”
Did she really only know Keith for a month before they got married? I feel like they were together for longer than that, but maybe she’s talking about getting engaged after a month. Which is still kind of wacky when you think about it. And I love that Elle published that bit about Nicole’s publicist barking “OFF THE RECORD” when Nicole talked about babies. What, is it a state secret that Nicole wishes she could be pregnant right now? I believe that too – she’s baby-crazy right now. Maybe she and Keith should adopt a kid?
Photos courtesy of Paola Kudacki for Elle.
Wth is that outfit? Bad pajamas with a robe and high heels boots? Did a blind person design this cover? No, a blind person would do a better job.
No bueno.
I have always like Nicole Kidman. I think she has been through a lot with Tom and CO$, but has finally found some peace with Keith. She is now enjoying her life
I agree.
“You’re a character actress…” She should’ve taken Kubrick’s advice to heart instead of messing with her face. I cannot take these actors seriously when their faces can no longer show emotion. I like NK but she sounds disconnected from reality.
However, I realize that I am part of the problem when I critize my body or make comments about celebrities on blogs.
Really heavy face retouching too.
Great figure though.
Totally agree with BC2000. Doing this to your own face gives me a very low self esteem vibe. At NK´s age you should be comfortable with who you are, inside and out.
it is super crazy how she looks now, i don’t think anyone can be blamed for noticing and gasping
Her hair in the top picture would have me not leaving the house. What is the deal with photographing actresses with undone hair these days? (Thinking of Julia Roberts latest campaign with Givenchy where she looks horrible. I don’t like her, so it’s okay with me. I just don’t want it to become a trend.)
The second picture is a lot better, but if not for her eyes, I wouldn’t know it was Kidman. I’m glad she’s happy and hope she gets pregnant since she wants to.
Do you think it’s possible to make her look any whiter? Or did the crew reach the total whiteness award? She barely has shadows in those pics.
I saw her once in person but years ago, before the Botox, etc and her skin was almost alabaster, like flour, she has very pale skin.
Yeah, but human form has shadow.
So… you’re saying she is a Vampyr .. or…
hmm, hadn’t considered that, but I’m liking your theory.
Her face sure as hell doesn’t look spontaneous.
Ouch! (LOL!)
Her grandmother had a baby at 49?’ Holy crap. How do you have the energy to take care of an infant at 49? My 2-year old has tapped me out, and I’m 38.
Seriously. But if Kidman does have more babies at this age or later, presumably she’ll have the kind of help most of us peasants don’t.
I think her comment about getting married first then getting to know someone doesn’t indicate spontaneousness as much as it indicates recklessness. Maybe it’s just me.
It’s not just you. After the Cruise experience, I would be analyzing the F-ck out of a potential husband. He might even have to endure exhaustive testing and background checks conducted by a private investigator.
no, it’s not just you. she describes what we peasants call “dating.” which you do so that you don’t have to marry every dude you go out with. but it explains why she married cruise.
i assume that kidman would have all the help she needed, of course. still, pregnancy, even a really good one, is tough on your body. not sure why anyone would want that at that age. whatevs.
No one will remember this, but Nicole once played a didgeridoo in Australia for some attention. My friend who had lived among the aborigines said “That’s it for her having any more babies. The instrument in only for men, and if a woman plays it she loses her fertility.” And she was RIGHT!
I love how a story about a monster blowing on his own penis to make a long moaning sound becomes the inspiration for an instrument that women aren’t supposed to touch. So basically, it’s a dick, but only men are allowed to put their mouths on it?
If that actually worked, I would expect millions of didgerdoos to be sold annually round the world.
What a load of crap. Firstly, it was on an Anerican late night show and they asked her to blow into it and she obliged, not realising that only men are supposed to play it. It wasn’t in Australia and it wasn’t for attention.
Secondly, a girl I know learnt to play the didgeridoo as a teenager and played it all the time for years. She’s since had two kids.
I remember when they were dating and all over. Especially pics from Woodstock, NY. They were dating for way more than a month before getting married. Who knows when they got engaged? But the one month thing is bologna.
I’d have to go back and check (but I don’t want to spend the time/energy), but I’m sure that they dated for over a year before they got married. Another big hole in that got-married-after-one-month story is they were married in the Catholic church. The church requires you to schedule your wedding at least six months in advance (since marriage is a sacrament, they do this just so people don’t jump in after only one month.) So maybe engaged after one month, but definitely not married.
There are the official dates, and there are the dates that your individual priest sets.
I generally think you should date about a year before considering marriage. That’s about how long it takes for you to see the worst parts of someone. It’s risky to make a life long commitment to someone when you’ve only experienced at their best in good times over a short period of time. In the beginning of the relationship you are generally in that honeymoon phase where you are willing to compromise and on your best behavior. Further plenty of people for whatever reason tend to transform themselves to match their significant other sometimes putting on a facade in order to be the person they think their significant other want. Things like emotional, psychiatric, issues, problems dealing with conflict don’t arise until later. Of course it can work if you go right into it, but you probably got lucky in my opinion.
I knew my husband for 4 months before we got married 15 years ago, and in hind sight, I think you should be with someone long enough for them to have the cold or the flu, and based on that experience, commit or run.
http://www.people.com/people/mobile/article/0,,1105613,00.html
They were dating about a year. It wasn’t until early 2006 Nicole admitted to dating Keith when she took him to an awards show. She made the comment along the line of, “I wouldn’t have gone with him if I wasn’t in a relationship with this person.” I don’t know why I remember all this stuff…aside from that I like them both 🙂
Face definitively has been retouched, she looks lot older in real life or red carpet. But I always loved her since I saw her first movie Bangkok Hilton long time ago. She has a good family now after that disaster called Cruise!!
They BLASTED her with flat light.
I’m not going to say anything bad about her. She’s just lost her father and I respect her for going back to work so soon and being a professional.
She looks much better now, seems like she laid off the botox and the lip injections?
Dare I state the obvious? Who dat woman?
Nicole Kidman? No way.
She just seems so calculated and controlled to me, but who knows.
All celebrities are tbh, but I agree.
I have a friend that lives in Nashville, who found herself at a baby shower that Nicole was also at. She said she was nothing like you would expect, open and friendly and really kind of down home. She said she fit right in with all of the other mothers.
My aunt who lives in in Nashville bumped into Nicole while heading to the bathroom at a movie theater. My aunt said they made small talk and both agreed that they hated the film, lol. She said Nicole was very down-to-earth and nice.
Oh, what lovely stories. It sounds as though she’s found a happy, grounded life in Nashville. What a blessing.
Nice to hear about these, because most people thinks she’s the Ice Queen, me included:)
I grew up with a Paddington Bear (given to me by a godmother from London), that’s why I got so excited after seeing the trailer of this film; eagerly waiting for it’s January release. Wow, just googled this film’s score at Rotten Tomatoes – 97%!!
I can’t decide which I think is dumber – that outfit, or her comment that you should marry someone and then get to know them. I’m torn.
Why choose?
Excellent question.
Right? And didn’t he end up in rehab like right after they got married? I’m not saying that addicts don’t deserve to be loved, but why would you marry somebody that still needs to get their shit together?
Yes, he did. Let’s get married and then I find out you’re a drug addict. Surprise! Great plan.
A friend of a friend rushed into a marriage only to discover the person was a drug addict and are now divorcing after less than a year. Way too risky to use marriage a a get to know you. I’d say even cohabitation is risky as a get to know you.
@GNAT she knew he was an addict, and I think it was even written into their pre-run.
What a weird thing to say when they were clearly dating for quite a while and had a very big wedding. Its even stranger because she usually comes across very level-headed in interviews.
Nicole also said that she and Cruise would be on their honeymoon for the rest of their lives.
Katie Holmes said that. Now I’m just wondering if you got them muddled, or they were fed the same line.
I thought they dated for more than a month. Maybe she means that she decided to marry him within a month. She was not exactly a teenager, and maybe she really did just know he was what she wanted for the long haul.
Happened to me, after years of dating others and never feeling things were exactly right. We will soon celebrate 15 years of marriage.
Oh, congratulations to you. That gives me hope!
What an awful cover! They photoshopped the hell out of her (already waxed) face and figure!
Nicole seems like a nice lady, but why did she mess with her face so much?
Her face makes me really sad. She was so beautiful and talented, but the botox really takes away from both IMO.
The pressure on actresses to look young in Hollywood must really be enormous. I can’t imagine living with that kind of judgment all the time. I’d imagine you can’t help but internalize it to a degree.
I will never understand why she had all of that work done, Botox, fillers, etc…she is very pale and stayed out of the sun, took care of her skin. I could understand tweaking a little if you worshipped the sun or didn’t take care of your skin, but of all the actresses in Hollywood, I’d think she’d need Botox the least! She could have aged beautifully if she had left her face alone, instead she looks like someone who vaguely reminds you of Nicole Kidman
Christin was right. The text has been “corrected.” Now, it’s “she knew she wanted to marry Keith” a month after they started dating. Which sounds about right: she was desperate to marry anybody. She was still dating (shudder) Steven Bing after meeting Keith. She told Bing she wanted marriage and kids. Bing told her he wanted out.
And I agree with the poster above: who marries first and THEN gets to know the lucky mate? That’s what engagements are for.
I don’t think she worded the part about getting to know someone by getting married very well. He did end up in rehab within three months of the wedding, IIRC, so she apparently did not know much about his issues.
Maybe she really was just hunting a mate right away.
Keith Urban’s drug issues were not a secret. I remember reading an interview with him years before he met Nicole where he went into pretty candid detail about his history of addiction. So I can’t imagine another rehab came as a big surprise to Nicole.
Everything I’ve ever heard about Keith is that he is a genuinely nice guy who has had substance abuse problems. Not something to take lightly, but it beats marrying a huge jerk with substance abuse problems.
Nicole is starting to look like Bill Nighy.
Nicole’s face is thinner again. She looks more like her old self, even with the photoshop magazine covers use. I’m so glad she has laid off of the overuse of filler and gone back to her smaller face. Her eyebrows are lower, not all arched up from overbotoxing around that area. Her upper lip looks smaller.
All covers are overly photoshopped these days, even of young women. I don’t like it, but she looks more like the Nicole to me.
I just want to say that at 42, tubes tied, and an incompetent cervix, every month I still wish to be pregnant. I love her for admitting this, sometimes the answer is no but you can still wish for what won’t be. Not a soul crushing disappointment, just a vague reminder that part is done when you weren’t ready for it.
I always thought Nicole and Naomi Watts were similar in a way. I saw Naomi in a movie recently and she was lovely. She has probably had some work done but she looked herself and very attractive/pretty. Made me think of Nicole and if only she had left herself alone. It must have been hard since Nicole was MASSIVE after her divorce from Tom – she was top dog for a while there and that pressure to stay beautiful must be mind f**king