Ooooooh! Believe it or not, this is the first time we (this site) has gotten really clear photos of Nicole Kidman’s baby girl Faith Margaret, so this is a special treat. Nicole and her two youngest girls, Faith (in her mom’s arms) and Sunday Rose (walking on her own two legs) touched down in Sydney Australia and promptly got pap’d coming out of the airport. Both little girls look wiped out (it was probably a crazy long flight), and Nicole seems kind of punch-drunk, making cute faces at the paparazzi and the people around the exit.

I’m trying to figure out how old Faith is now… Nicole and Keith said in their announcement back in January that Faith was born on December 28, which makes Faith… exactly six months old today. You know what I love about Nicole these days? I know I’ve said it before, but it deserves to be repeated: now that she’s a 40-something mom with two young children at home, she’s really loosening up. She just seems… less frigid, you know? She used to be an ice queen, which I appreciated for a time. But I like this Nicole too – she just looks so happy. She looks like she drinks a beer sometimes, and carried lint-covered binkies in her pockets. This Nicole is better.

In other Nicole news, she’s in talks to replace Sofia Vergara (!?!?) in a new film, The Paperboy:

The Paperboy is running into some delivery issues. The drama, being directed by Precious helmer Lee Daniels, was to have starred Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Tobey Maguire and Sofia Vergara, with production scheduled to begin later this summer. But Maguire dropped out of the project last week, throwing a wrench into the proceedings and causing the shoot to be pushed back. The delay then intruded on Vergara’s Modern Family shooting schedule, prompting her to drop out of Paperboy on Friday.

But the producers are acting quickly to buttress up the cast and are now in talks with Nicole Kidman to step into Vergara’s shoes. McConaughey and Efron are still in at this point.

Paperboy centers on a reporter and his brother who investigate the events surrounding a murder in order to exonerate a man on death row. Kidman, if her deal can be made, will play a woman with a dark side who writes letters to men on death row. She brings the case to the attention of the reporter, developing a relationship with him.

Kidman, repped by CAA and Media Talent Group, recently wrapped production on Hemingway and Gellhorn, HBO Films’ romancer in which she plays war correspondent Martha Gellhorn to Clive Owen’s Ernest Hemingway.

[From The Hollywood Reporter]

Um… that film sounds terrible, especially given the “talent” attached to it. Lee Daniels is a wonderful and underrated director, so why is he messing with this junk? This thing is Matthew McConaughey’s bread and butter, though, so I guess I should have expected it from him – that is, if he’s playing the reporter. If he’s playing the death-row inmate, that’s a different story. But what if Zac Efron is playing the death row inmate?!? Ugh. Nicole, don’t do it!

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

All credit for this story idea goes to US Weekly for showing us how Nicole has changed over the years. Her 44th birthday was yesterday. Happy Birthday Nicole! I sometimes skip over doing celebrity plastic surgery stories, because what seems obvious to me as a nose job, Botox or fillers can look like new makeup or a trick of the light to some people and I end up second guessing my judgment. With Nicole though, it’s really apparent that she’s had a nose job, lip implants or injections and lots of Botox, which she’s sort-of owned up to, saying she’s “tried” it but gave it up. It’s clear that she’s not as heavy-handed with the Botox as she once was, or that her doctors aren’t, and that she is trying to lighten up.

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When Nicole first hit the scene she was fresh-faced with natural curls, but she gradually morphed into a waxen version of herself. There were many years when it was hard to see her without noticing how glimmering and perfect she was, like she’d just been buffed to a high shine. Then she married Keith Urban, had a couple of babies and just seemed to soften and breathe for once. It was as if her tight as a drum skin had let out a sigh of relief. She’s still just a little too perfect, but lovely. She should have quit with the nose job though. Maybe what’s remarkable about Nicole’s face is that it hasn’t really changed since 1999, except for the little slug-like lip implant she has. I might be spying new cheeks too.

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Kaiser thought this one was a wax figure of Nicole, but it’s really her.

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Photo credit: WENN.com

These are photos of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban at last night’s CMT Awards. Nic and Keith were the biggest stars there – Taylor Swift is on tour and it just seemed like most country music people couldn’t be bothered – although Justin Bieber was there and he won too (of course). Back to Nicole: Er… the dress is Proenza Schouler Fall 2011. Go here to see how it was featured on the runway. On the runway, the skirt looks fully lined. Nicole, however, opted for the simple, sheer bottom half, and added her own twist – a visible slip. At first I was like, “Bitch, are those your Spanx?” But it’s a slip.

As you know, I’ve been pushing a theory that over the last year – and even more so after little Faith Margaret came into their lives – Nicole has really stopped giving a crap about fashion and styling. She spent so long really, really, deeply caring about fashion and being the thinnest, most perfect figure on the red carpet, but not anymore. Nowadays she has some happiness in her life, she’s married and she’s got two young baby girls, so Nicole is letting it all hang out. I mean that in a good way – I like the Happy Nicole. Happy Nicole looks like she enjoys Southern food and like she might have oatmeal in her hair. Happy Nicole wanders through a red carpet in hideous, unflattering dresses, her slip hanging out, her bangs trauma looking catastrophic. (Just a note: I don’t hate Nicole with bangs in general, but whatever is happening here is just hideous.)

So, my verdict: she looks like ten kinds of hell, but she also looks happier than she has in a long time. Good for her.

PS… I know, I didn’t even get to what’s happening on her feet. Don’t get me started.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

For the record, I’m not the one calling this video “creepy”. Salon did that, in a piece where they claim Nicole is recording from “Jigsaw’s dungeon on the set of Hemingway & Gellhorn.” LOL. I don’t think it’s creepy as much as it is… odd, maybe? I like the idea of Nicole Kidman loosening up and making a YouTube video for her fans. I would like it more if the camera wasn’t hand-held and the sound quality was better. But I love that Nicole barely talks above a whisper (it’s her thing) and that someone smeared age-defying Vaseline over the lens. What’s up with the lighting? Oh, Nicole.

This feels like something Mariah Carey would do. All of it, from speaking barely above a girlish whisper to smearing Vaseline over the lens to wearing a full face of makeup and an in-character wig for an informal YouTube video. It’s great.

I disagree with Lainey that Nicole’s face looks harsh – I’m not really seeing these alleged fillers, but her jacked lips are… the same as they have been. I honestly believe that Nicole is trying to ease up on the Botox (her face has more mobile lately), but the lip injections are a big problem. The odd, creepy lighting is making them gleam like two shiny worms stapled to her face.

In the end, all I really want to know is: WHERE IS CLIVE OWEN?!? He’s making this Hemingway and Gelhorn movie with Nicole. He needs to make a YouTube video. “For the [masturbatory] fans.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here are some photos of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, out and about in New York on Friday and Saturday. In some of the photos, Nicole seems to wearing a unfortunate pair of unflattering pants and a billowy white blouse. The blouse and how it catches the breeze, it’s an interesting affect. When I first saw these photos, I thought, “Nicole put on a few pounds – but just a few. Good for her.” When obsessive bump-watchers saw these photos, they started squealing “BABY BUMP!!!” Uh… really?

There are quite a few celebrity ladies who are under bump watch these days, and now it looks as though one more name can be tossed into the pregnancy speculation pool. Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were spotted doing a little shopping in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York, and she appeared to be sporting what looks like a baby bump. Is Nicole Kidman pregnant?

Nicole and Keith have two daughters together, Sunday, 2, and little Faith, who was born a few months ago via a surrogate. Keith and Nicole supposedly had problems conceiving a second child, so that is why they went with a surrogate to have Faith. Sometimes when a couple lets go of the stress of trying to get pregnant, they suddenly find themselves expecting a baby, much to their surprise.

[From Babble]

Babble also thinks the other photos – the ones where Nicole’s hair is wet – are evidence of a bump as well. Something about how Nicole is carrying her bag, like she’s trying to hide “something”. Here’s my take: I think that as she gets a little bit older and more content in her married life with two young children, Nicole has stopped caring about two things. One, she’s stopped caring about big, show-stopping fashion. Two, she’s stopped caring about always being the thinnest, most fragile-looking woman out there. Nicole’s current incarnation looks like she enjoys Southern food and anything comfortable. I don’t think she’s pregnant – I don’t know if she’s even capable of being pregnant. What I do know is that I kind of love this version of Nicole. I enjoyed the slimmer fashionista version too, just because I love a good fashion moment and Nicole was an addict for the red carpet. But I think this Nicole is happier. And God bless.

By the way, I love this photo. I think Keith is getting Nicole to smell his breath? And after that, he probably got her to pull his finger.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

Aussies Nicole Kidman and Kylie Minogue were both at the Billboard Awards last night wearing black dress with beaded lace see-through sections. Both of their dresses were fug in unique ways. Nicole sported her usual matronly style and all her bits were covered. She wore a dress that looked like it should have ended mid thigh but somehow continued to floor length and gave us a glimpse of her legs on the way down. Nicole’s hair was really pretty in a loose side braid and I loved her earrings. I would have liked the dress if it didn’t have the see-through panel across the bottom and if she could have resisted sticking her hands in the pockets. She’s got an “aw shucks” look going on.

Nicole’s face is softening up a bit and you can tell she’s eased up a little on the Tox and fillers, although she’s still impossibly smooth and her lips look as plump as usual. When you compare her to poor alien-looking Kylie Minogue, she looks pretty normal. Doesn’t Nicole look a little high though, like she just smoked a joint in the limo?

Kylie has been cat-eyed and wrinkle free for a very long time, bless her heart. While she’s tried to claim that she doesn’t use Botox anymore, I think she means strictly Botox and isn’t counting any other injectables or work she’s had done.

Kylie wore a black crinkly-looking short dress with black sequins and rose details. The dress just looked like it would itch and it was bunching up slightly in the wrong areas. I could see her underwear through the skirt and it’s a good thing they were full coverage. She had on some banging black peep toe platform shoes with tiered fringe. I usually don’t like fringe on anything, but those shoes are awesome. She paired her dress with chunky white gem dangle earrings and a matching ring. It was all rather jarring put together, but I feel bad for picking on Kylie.

Photo credit: Fame and WENN

These are some new photos of Keith Urban getting a star on the “Music City Walk of Fame” in Nashville yesterday. His wife Nicole Kidman was in attendance, of course. And she was really animated too! She even forced his BotoxFace into a contortion of laughter and pride. That’s about it for the photos, I guess. I mean, that’s all of the “news”. Although I would like to say a few things, of course.

First of all: has anyone else noticed Nicole’s latest style “trend”? She’s been dressing very, very matronly lately, but it’s a unique kind of matronly. If you saw her clothes on a 60 year old, you would be like “Yeah, that makes sense.” But on Nicole, it seems like her high-neck collars and fussy lace details and everything prim and proper… it all seems rather… I don’t know, like she’s trying to do the “sexy librarian” thing. Only I’m pretty sure she’s not really trying to look like some fetishized “librarian” I think Nicole just thinks she looks awesome. The high-neck collar on her blouse is giving me some kind of 1980s flashback. That kind of blouse was the height of ladies’ professional attire circa 1983.

What else did I want to talk about? I guess her BotoxFace, but I was so overcome by the collar I kind of forgot. My favorite photos are the ones where she’s giving that big black guy a “WTF?” look (not really, but the angle suggests it), and the one where she’s laughing and it looks really, really painful. Oh, I love this one too:

Photos courtesy of Fame.

FROM THE DESK OF CLIVE OWEN:

Darlings –

You didn’t expect to hear from me again so soon, did you? Well, once I spoke to you yesterday, I began to realize how horrible I was to leave you alone for so long. It was terrible of me. I apologize. Would you like a foot rub to make it all better? How about a mustache ride? There you go. See, I’m texting you right now with this dirty proposition.

Oh, and I lied to you yesterday. This is not my Ernest Hemingway costume, obviously. I just didn’t want you to know that I’m wandering around San Francisco in dirty clam-diggers, no socks and a North Face fleece, for no reason other than comfort. When I’m not in seduction-mode, I tend to dress down. When your biscuits come to Frisco, however, I will be naked. Or in an impeccable suit, of course. Are your biscuits getting warmer?

Anyway, why I wanted to write to you today: my costar. Nicole Kidman. What do you think of her? She’s playing Martha Gellhorn, the legendary war correspondent, and third wife of Ernest Hemingway, who I am playing. These are some photos of Nicole in character… this wig is quite fetching on Nicole, isn’t it? Would she be offended if I told her she should cut her hair like this? She would probably be offended, but she would forgive me if I offered her a mustache ride.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Nicole Kidman in white Christian Dior. Ugh. This was one of my worst dressed picks! I think it’s mostly because I remember the era of red carpet fashion when Nicole Kidman could do no wrong, and the comparison between then and now is so stark. Maybe she just doesn’t care anymore… although I don’t think that’s the case. I think Nicole still cares about fashion. I think she cares very much of this Dior gown. I think Nicole feels this dress is beautiful and that she looks amazing in it. And that’s the problem with Nicole these days – she’s just lost it. “It” being whatever she had that made her so watchable, in films and on red carpets. Oh, and note to Nicole: stop wearing white on red carpets. You are not virginal. You are not bridal. You are pale, and white makes you look like you’re glowing (not in a good way) and nearly translucent.

Anyway, this dress was so fug and unflattering that I wasn’t even paying attention to Nicole’s ugly hairstyle, or her fug shoe shoice, OR her giant diamond choker. I dislike all of it! Those little strands of hair in her face are tragic, while the vintage Fred Leighton choker is… okay. But not really with this fug dress, with this hair. And when did Nicole develop this epic shoe problem?!

Last thing, a note to Keith Urban: CHANGE YOUR HAIR. You do not need to flat-iron your junk every single day!!!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Nicole Kidman did a new interview with 20/20′s Australia that aired last night. People Magazine ran an excerpt in which Nicole discussed her struggle with fertility issues and the fact that she hired a gestational carrier to have her second biological daughter, Faith, who is about seven weeks old. There’s some criticism that Nicole focused on her biological children (at least in the quotes that People ran) but in the full interview Nicole does talk about her adopted now teenage children, Isabella, 18, and Connor, 16, and says that she wishes they would come live with her. I think that Nicole went through so much when she separated from Tom in 2001. She suffered a miscarriage around that time and was separated from her children. She can’t talk about the way that Scientology strongarmed her into giving up custody to her children to Tom, but I think it’s safe to assume that’s what happened. (Tom’s divorce from Nicole was coordinated by Scientology, according to a former high-ranking official in the cult.)

I watched the interview online (available here) and Nicole seems starry-eyed and over-the-top as usual, but she does say some nice things about parenthood and how it changes you.

KARL STEFANOVIC: Nicole’s first pregnancy with Sunday Rose was common knowledge. But the announcement of Faith’s sudden arrival and the use of what Americans call a gestational carrier caught us all by surprise. Can I ask a personal question – were you at the birth?

NICOLE KIDMAN: Yeah! Oh, yeah!

KARL STEFANOVIC: How was that?

NICOLE KIDMAN: I mean, so deeply, emotionally moving and having given birth and then being on the place of seeing my child being born this way, the love I felt for our surrogate, gestational carrier. When we released our statement I know in Australia there was, like, “Gestational carrier – what does that mean?” And I think we were trying to be accurate. If it’s your biological child then you use ‘gestational carrier’ and if it isn’t, then you use ‘surrogate’. I mean, who knows what it is, but she was the most wonderful woman to do this for us. And we were in a place of desperately wanting another child and this opportunity arose for us. And I couldn’t get pregnant and we wanted another baby. I get emotional just talking about it ’cause I’m so grateful to her. I cannot believe I’m now crying on 60 Minutes.

KARL STEFANOVIC: It’s a beautiful thing. You should be proud of it.

NICOLE KIDMAN: Oh, so, so proud and anyone that’s been in the place of wanting another child, or wanting a child, knows the disappointment, the pain and the loss that you go through trying and struggling with fertility is such a big thing. And it’s not something that I would ever run away from talking about. I’ve had a very roller-coaster ride with fertility. I just have, and it has never been easy for me so to now be in this place where I have two gorgeous adopted children and two biological children, I can’t believe that’s what’s happened in my life, you know.

KARL STEFANOVIC: Is the bond the same when you gave birth to Sunday as with Faith?

NICOLE KIDMAN: Yes. Yeah. I mean, but it’s the same when your children are adopted as well. I think children are children. You’ll die for your children and when you feel that as a parent, I mean, that’s the unconditional love and people can talk about it and until you feel it, you can’t quite grasp it.

KARL STEFANOVIC: Nicole has always yearned to be a mum. As the young wife of Tom Cruise she conceived but suffered an ectopic pregnancy. When she was 25, they adopted daughter Bella and two years later son Connor. Have Bella and Connor met Faith yet?

NICOLE KIDMAN: Yeah. I mean, it’s so different because they don’t live with us but I would love them to come and live with us at some stage. I mean, they’re 18 and 16. It’s a different thing. They’re teenagers. They’re in a whole different place…

NICOLE KIDMAN: I’m just a girl who’s been put into pretty extraordinary situations at times and I’m kind of navigating my way through. And I fall over and make mistakes, pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much, I suppose, authenticity and, um, you know, a moral code which I feel is right and that’s really all I have, so.

[From Ninemsn.com.au]

I think there’s a lot of pain there for Nicole. She missed seeing her children grow up and she was separated from them and couldn’t talk about it. Now she has two daughters with Keith and it doesn’t replace her older kids, but it’s not like she can get that time with them back.

I have to mention the rumor that Nicole had her first biological daughter, Sunday, via surrogate but never acknowledged it. It’s not something I believe, but if you look at Nicole’s relationship with the truth it’s entirely possible. This may sound like a stretch, but look at how she admitted to Botox use many years after the fact. She said it in passing like “I tried Botox” but didn’t own up to lip implants or any other injections, or the fact that she was “trying” Botox for years to the point where she looked like a wax figure. She even said “I’ve never tried plastic surgery on my face,” which could technically be true if you don’t count injections. Maybe she “tried” a surrogate for Sunday and that’s how her first daughter was born too. There’s no shame in it, but when you try and project a perfect image you may end up fudging the truth, and then conducting multiple follow-up interviews in which you try and control how much of the truth you’re ultimately willing to disclose.

Photos courtesy of WENN.