Tom Cruise told the crowd at the opening of Mission Impossible 3 in Rome yesterday that he loves changing his newborn’s diapers and revealed that Katie is breastfeeding:

My husband changed our baby a lot right after he was born, too. It’s not that bad if they’re breastfed. At least Katie is breastfeeding. We were concerned that she would use the barley-based formula that L. Ron Hubbard recommended. We were also worried that the baby would be abandoned for its first day in accordance with Scientology tradition, but that may not have happened.

Cruise initially said that he had cancelled all promotional appearances for the film due to the birth of baby Suri, but must have been unable to stay away. He said Katie gave him permission to go to the premiere in Rome, but she may have done it half-heartedly, as Jaunted mentions:

The London premiere of Mission Impossible is tonight. We’ll have to see if Tom attends that too.

Update: Cruise will be in London. Go figure.

Here are pictures of Tom in Rome yesterday at the MI3 premiere. He stood on top of a car to get a better view of the crowd. [via]

Star Magazine is reporting that Tom is breaking Katie’s heart by asking her to sign away custody rights to the newborn in case they break up:

That’s scary as hell and maybe Katie will be able to eventually get her old self, and her child - out of that oppressive environment. I can’t imagine my husband asking me to sign away custody rights - right after the baby was born! How evil.

Meanwhile the name the couple picked out of a baby book may not mean what they think it does. According to language experts, the name Suri is totally ironic:

So whenever someone says the name “Suri,” they’re really telling the little girl to go away. That’s what the Scientologists have been doing to the real Katie all along.

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Update: This is post number 666. Spooky.

Another Update: Reader Carrie, who hooks us up a lot, has pointed out that BabyNames.com lists the origin of “Suri” as Armenian. Carrie writes:

“Wealthy” - that’s accurate.

My aunt is best friends with Sue Fleming, the personal trainer and founder of Buff Brides. Sue has written three books to help brides-to-be and moms shape up: “Buff Brides,” “Buff Moms to Be,” and “Buff Moms.”

That’s why I got all excited when I read in yesterday’s The Sun that Katie Holmes had hired “a personal trainer from BuffBrides.com” to help her get in quick shape for her wedding ceremony. Here’s what The Sun wrote:

There are no lists of personal trainers on Buff Brides.com, so it sounds like Katie has hired Sue Fleming, the owner, herself.

TMZ then runs with this story, stating flat out that Katie has met with Sue:

While Katie may be using the BuffBrides method with her own trainer, she has not met personally with Sue Fleming, and TMZ is mistaken. It seems like they could have simply asked Sue about it if they were able to get her on the phone.

BuffBrides and its companion books are excellent, easy-to-follow programs that you can do at home to get in shape quickly. Katie is sure to be looking great for her summer wedding with Tom Cruise if she faithfully follows the program. You can get the books from Amazon.

Yesterday it was big news that Brooke Shields had her baby right before little Suri supposedly slipped silently out of Katie Holmes. A more incredible detail is the fact that Katie and Brooke gave birth in the same hospital, on the same floor!

Everyone assumed that Katie gave birth at home as planned, but she is said to have snuck out with Tom to go to the hospital. She also chickened out and had an epidural - not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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Shields was famously criticized by Cruise for publically admitting that she used antidepressants to get over a serious bout with postpartum depression. Cruise believes that psychiatric drugs are harmful because of his cult’s stance against their use.

Hopefully the baby was attended to properly and will be cared for by Katie, and not Scientology handlers, for its first three days.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ long-awaited baby has arrived. “Suri,” a baby girl, was “born” on 3:00 am on Tuesday morning:

Tom said in an interview with Diane Sawyer last week that he and Katie opened the baby name book and that was the first name that popped out at them. It’s not a bad name as far as celebrity child names go. A reader at DListed points out that Suri is an anagram of the middle letters in “Cruise.”

Here are pictures of Cruise in a Spanish-language “Magazine” [via]

Tom Cruise brought his crazy public image to new heights by declaring in his GQ interview that he’s going to eat Katie’s placenta:

He obviously realized how scary he sounded and tried to back down. He’ll have to chow down and leave right afterwards. He plans to promote the hell out of MI3, and will appear next Monday in Rome for the film’s first premiere.

Here’s Katie shopping in Beverly Hills. [via]
Was she impregnated with L. Ron’s sperm?! It seems more likely.

Tom Cruise has tried to strike a compromise between a hospital and home birth for his fiance, Katie Holmes, by building a $250,000 in-house hospital for her:

Tom told Diane Sawyer in an interview that aired on Friday that he runs “seminars” to teach his children and family members how best to adhere to the Scientology birthing rules.

As part of L. Ron Hubbard’s arbitraty guidelines for childbirth and newborn care - which we mention every chance we get - the mother should be in a silent environment when she gives birth, the baby must be left alone for a full day after it’s born, the mother shouldn’t have contact with the baby for three days after birth, and the mother should refrain from talking to the baby for a week. Hubbard also discouraged women from breastfeeding and recommended a barley-based formula for babies.

Cruise told Sawyer that a silent birth is about creating a quiet environment for the mother, and that Katie can make as much noise as she wants. No one has questioned him about Scientology’s recommendation that the baby be left alone for a day, however.

In building an in-home hospital, Cruise wants to make sure that he controls the environment and that no one in the public sphere will witness the cruel way they’re planning to leave the baby alone.

Now that Tom Cruise has brought public awareness to the inhumane practices of Scientology, cult expert Rick Ross notes that it’s one of the most unpopular religions in America. According to a CBS poll, only 8% of Americans view Scientology favorably.

Here is Katie shopping for even more shoes that will never fit her on 4/15 at Neiman Marcus. She’s seen on the same day in a different outfit leaving Maxfields in LA. No purchase will be able to fill the hole in her heart from not being able to have contact with her baby for three days.

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Yesterday we reported a lukewarm rumor that Katie Holmes may have given birth. This was based on the fact that she hadn’t been seen outside of the Cruise estate for several days. Pictures came out of Katie shopping for shoes at Barney’s yesterday, so that theory is blown.

We said it before, but it’s silly to shop for shoes right before you give birth. Your feet are totally swollen and there’s no way you can tell if they’ll fit properly.

Regardless Katie is trying to get out and that’s good for her. She looks quite miserable, as A Socialite’s Life, who alerted us to the pictures, notes. They also point out TMZ’s video of Katie shopping. (link will launch a new window.)

Tom Cruise’s interview with Diane Sawyer comes out tonight. Some details have been leaked, including:

Katie Holmes has not been seen outside of Cruise’s estate for a few days. This may mean that she has already given birth and that the Scientologists are sequestering the baby in accordance with their arbitrary belief system:

Let’s review the guidelines for giving birth and caring for newborns that L.Ron Hubbard pulled out of his ass:

Star speculates that Katie is having second thoughts about her involvement in the Scientology cult and having a Scientology birth because she’s spending 8 hours a day at the Celebrity Scientology Center with Tom, which means that she needs extra convincing:

If the Scientologists were clever about it they would let off from Katie and let her come around gradually and think it’s her own idea - kind of like Stockholm syndrome.

While the media focusses on the fact that she’s supposed to remain silent during the birth, no one has really picked up the story that her baby will be left entirely alone on its first day in the world, and then removed from her and cared for by Scientology handlers for three days. That’s even crazier and more cruel than asking a woman to stay silent during childbirth.

Fellow cult member Kelly Preston tries to clarify that a silent birth is all about being polite:

Here’s Katie out shopping yesterday for paper goods. A commenter on the board where we found the pictures (although they’re originally from Just Jared) said that her Scientology handler(s) had enough sense to keep out of the picture.

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