Nicole Kidman covers the new issue of InStyle. It’s a new photoshoot, but the interview seems like a rehash of the same old stuff she’s been saying for years. She lives in Nashville, blah blah, she’s all about the quiet country life, etc. Still, there are some interesting things happening with Nicole these days. I’ll get to that in a moment. First, some interview highlights:
She’s super-country: “I’m very country at heart. I have a real desire to be outdoors, a desire for simplicity—a slightly slower, relaxed approach to life. A community, not a big-city feel. That’s what I grew up with, and it’s what I prefer.”
She loves Keith’s tour bus: “That’s basically how I’ve seen most of America, on that bus. Keith and I are both gypsies at heart. We can make our home wherever we are. The girls are like that too now, so we take them everywhere.”
When she and Keith are apart: “For every single night he’s away, he leaves me a love letter. Every single night of our relationship.”
Being born in Hawaii: “I used to pretend to the kids at school that I was born right on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu,” she says with a laugh. “I was actually delivered in a hospital—but it sounded good, and they believed me.”
Taking risks in her career: “I always try to push through fear. People always say, ‘Oh, you take such risks,’ or ‘You’re brave.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, if you only knew—inside I’m really frightened!”
I don’t really have a problem with any of this, I just think Nicole spends more time talking about how she loves the simple country life rather than actually enjoying the simple country life. She and Keith are in LA a lot, that’s all I’m saying. But! Maybe my perspective is off. We can go months and months without seeing Sunday and Faith, so maybe Nicole is doing a better job than many actress moms at raising her kids out of the spotlight.
As for Keith writing Nicole a love letter for every night they’re apart… WHO HAS THE TIME?!?!?! No, seriously… how much of a time-suck is that little romantic gesture? And what new stuff do you really have to say to your beloved in each new love letter? Maybe I’m missing that Romance Gene but after, say, three or four letters, I would be like, “Yeah, stop doing that. I don’t even have time to read them.”
As for the other interesting Kidman news… remember how Grace of Monaco was supposed to be released last year? And then it got pushed back and it was supposed to come out sometime around now. Then it got pushed back again. I thought it was a combination of factors, including but not limited to: a particularly bad performance by Nicole as Grace Kelly; Harvey Weinstein fighting with the director; and the fact that the whole film seems like some Lifetime crap. Well, maybe I was wrong…? Because Grace of Monaco is going to open the Cannes Film Festival this year. Yeah. I don’t get it either.
Photos courtesy of InStyle, Fame/Flynet.
“For every single night Keith’s away, he leaves me a love letter”….PUKE!
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My reaction exactly. Be still my stomach.
So, did he write 30-45 love letters to leave her before he went to rehab? Did he number them or did he create a little Advent calendar, putting one letter behind each little door?
Hahaha, that was funny
That was my first thought too. I’m not usually such a cynic but c’mon.
Yeah, puke was pretty much my reaction, too. Real romantic gestures aren’t forced or predictable.
Not true. Some romantic gestures are ‘predictable’ things that one can look forward to. Every time my boyfriend works a swing shift I leave him a love note (not a full letter, just a few sentences) for when he comes home during his break. He knows it’s going to be there, but he’s still happy to see it.
And every night when he’s out with his friends until the bars close, he brings me home a rose from those creepy dudes who sell roses in the bars. Just because I know when I go to sleep that there’ll be a rose by my bed when I wake up doesn’t mean it’s not a sweet gesture.
I’d only believe this if it’s in the contract (or Nicole’s head).
Nicole Kidman is HIGH MAITENANCE in relationships….check this out – a phone call transcript between her and Tom Cruise. The only time I’ve ever sympathized with Tom Cruise: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.gossip.celebrities/rN1MjgROzX8
I think they both sound obnoxious here. Like a real fighting couple. I do find it odd that he called her “man” and “Bubba” several times.
Bubba is an endearment for baby in certain places. Sounds like how he meant it
OMGoodness that woman is a whiney manipulative narcissistic nightmare. Holy crap! that was just terrible. Dumping on Tom Cruise because he dared to be tired and hurt from a broke foot. Because he dared to not send her a rose after just buying her a crap load of jewelry. I never thought I’d feel sorry for Tom Cruise but damn that was bad. I understand why he’d start yelling at her, she’s a freeking nightmare! She sounds like a petulant 3 year old “me,me,me,me”. Poor Tom.
Wow-that was interesting. Thanks for posting that link. I felt a little guilty reading it because I think it’s terrible that their phones were tapped but it was interesting nonetheless. Tom Cruise actually comes across okay here.
lilian,
I’ve only heard Bubba used on 300 pound country boys – by other country boys. And usually it’s used on not so sharp country boys. I would not appreciate being called it, that’s for sure. I have never heard Bubba outside the deep south.
Mayamae,
I call my niece Bubba all the time as a term of affection and she’s not 150kg or a boy. I am from the Deep Deep South though, so that might explain it. South Africa.
She’s stuck with that fantasy, overly perfect, fairy-tale public persona ever since she broke up with Cruise…. I’ve always suspected it’s a way of maintaining her privacy – go with stories that are so over-the-top fantastic in order to distract from her actual life. Seems to work for her.
Those skinny jeans and the v-neck tee are doing hubs no favors. Skinny jeans are the enemy, people!
He only wears shirts that show off his fug chest tattoo.
Yeah, I just can’t stand his stupid hair do with those weird bangs. It is soooo unflatering and such a gimmick.
It’s funny I heard his music before I ever saw a picture of him or knew who he was and loved it. but then when I saw him his hair, his clothes just screamed “douche!” Him getting with Nicole Kidman just enhanced that. It’s sad. When I listen to his music now I have to pretend to myself it’s an unknown country signer cause if I start thinking about Keith Urban all I can’t think of his “ew”.
They try too hard to project an image of the perfect marriage.
But I think they’ve been honest that their marriage started off rocky, him in rehab, really hurting her, and that they were both damaged people and have really put the work in to have a good marriage. It wasn’t overnight.
Even in his album a few years ago that was basically a love letter to his relationship, there were songs about real life problems that married couples have, even writing a song about arguing and taking off in the truck and pulling over and thinking how he didn’t want to continue this pattern of his life, always running away from problems, and turns around and goes back. I love that song. Another song he did was about the kids up all night, them arguing about something silly, and him just wanting to go to bed, and it was a sweet song.
Nicole for several years in the beginning of their marriage wouldn’t discuss it at all barely, just that she loved him, and it’s just been in recent years where I think they are longer in the marriage and solid that she feels comfortable. In print interviews she will talk about their marriage, but in live interviews she really gets uncomfortable and embarrassed and doesn’t much.
I posted this up above too but I’ve always thought that she gives those over the top stories in interviews in order to maintain her privacy – seems to work for her.
Love letters every night …. so MONOTONOUS.
Well, Kung Fu Panda 2 has opened the Cannes Film Festival. So…
Weird but true? My mother-in-law lives in Nashville and has seen them out twice – once with the kids and once without. Her friend had to tell her who the couple were because Mother Snarkweek is a grand old sort of peacock who thinks celebrities are gauche. But she gladly answered all of my excited questions. As far as she could observe Kidman is markedly taller than Urban, has an athletic not skinny frame and has skin that glows. She said that they seemed really comfortable and quietly domestic with one another. Apparently Urban is the chatty one. Kidman walks with an ex-ballet sort of slide that made her look aloof but there were no diva Chanel sunglasses or look-at-me don’t-look-at-me funny business. That doesn’t go over well in Nashville anyway.
The best part? While Urban pushed the grocery cart towards the exit, Kidman was carefully scanning the receipt. Lol.
Oh and Taylor Swift and her mom only get one popcorn at the movies.
That’s all I’ve got.
funny 🙂
The movie is going to OPEN the Cannes Festival but it’s not part of the actual competition.
Opening the festival means absolutely nothing in terms of quality. The opening movie at Cannes is usually a much more mainstream and less challenging film than the movies in competition (Da Vinci Code opened the competition once so yeah).
Found on a Post It note at the Kidman/Urban home:
“Dear Nic – don’t forget – Botox tomorrow at 11:00 am. Love, Keith”
“I wish we could freeze our perfect love quicker than the Botox has frozen your face”
Oh my god-you and PunkyMomma are killing me. lol
LOL
ay! que romántico
Argh, I want to be cynical and hate but I can’t. I think the love letter thing is incredibly sweet. Mostly I’m just jealous I haven’t found a dude that will put in that amount of effort 😰😫😰
I thought I was going to be the only one who said it – I think that’s incredibly sweet. 🙂
Not feeling her hair/wig in cover.
I loved the bit where she says she NEVER (well, almost never) straightens her hair anymore, and embraces the curls. And yet, the entire photoshoot has her with ironed straight hair.
I don’t think her hair is as curly anymore as it once was – it always looks quite frizzy, thin and fragile in pics nowadays.
These days whenever she’s not filming or promoting something, her hair is usually curly and not really styled.
That seems ….unsustainable. don’t u run out of things to say?!? Reminds me of the leaked conversation with cruise where she goes off on him for not sending her flowers. She might be a bit exhausting.
I agree and would start to mean nothing. So I tend to think It’s probably not some long letter, just a sweet little something each day, with maybe a longer letter on a day where he’s really missing them.
That’s what I was thinking….something like—‘I love you’, ‘Your eyes are pretty’, ‘I love your face in the morning’–something sappy and short like that….
When we were dating, my husband used to leave a little chocolate on my desk every day. It happened to have raspberry inside, and I’m not crazy about the combination of chocolate and raspberry, but I thought it was sweet. At first. After about 3 months, he broke down and said he was having nightmares about forgetting to leave one, and he was so sorry but he just couldn’t keep it up, it was too much pressure. So I opened my desk drawer and showed him the backlog of chocolates that I hadn’t even eaten and confessed that I felt pressure to hide them so his feelings wouldn’t be hurt. Lol, I guess we just aren’t the type.
Hahaha! I had a similar experience. My husband, then boyfriend, got the idea in his head that I liked white chocolate, and kept buying me white chocolate bars. I hate white chocolate, but I must have seen a bar somewhere and told him a story about my dad buying me one once when I was little. I knew he couldn’t afford much, so I decided to just come out and tell him that I didn’t like white chocolate. I liked dark chocolate. The darker the better. It was his favorite kind, so that worked out. Still married. Still buying dark chocolate every week.
The thing is, it’s not actually romantic if it becomes a predictable habit.
Shouldn’t romantic be spontaneous and unexpected? A surprise? Unplanned and honest show of appreciation. Not a ritual you keep repeating daily or weekly or monthly. I don’t understand how people can’t see that. The meaning of the loving gesture is in the fact that the person thought about it out of the blue, which makes it special. It’s a sign of love, the sign itself isn’t important. And you can’t repeat and recreate a spontaneous display of emotions! It just doesn’t work like that (but she’s an actress, I guess she believes in recreating emotional scenes on a daily basis, lol)
It’s special if it’s unique and not repeated, Nicole. Otherwise it’s just another learned trait.
As I said above, not always. Sometimes it can be something for you to look forward to. Just because you know something’s coming doesn’t necessarily mean it’s boring. The other person is still thinking of you.
The love letter is sweet but it is something that should have stayed private.
Some guys are just like that. I don’t begrudge her any happiness she has found.
That’s not true. They are in Nashville a lot. You always hear reports of people seeing them shopping at the grocery store, going to church there, coming out of the gym, just living normally. Like any couple that both have jobs like they have there’s years according to projects that are busier than others and gone, like Keith doing the Idol this year so put them in LA this year and last year for that part and Australia last year for a period for the Australian version, which is great for them because the children get to play with their cousins.
Nicole looks so pretty on the cover, more like her old face, smaller without all that filler, and her lips look better.
I always assumed Nicole used donor eggs due to her age/infertility issues, but Faith sure looks a lot like her! What a pretty child.
Ngl I actually think that’s really cute. Admittedly a little cheesy but how lovely to be able to re-read the letters and remember past times in their relationship. Better than scrolling through old texts that for sure. I’m usually pretty cynical but I can’t throw shade at that.
Every. Single. Night. Uh huh. I don’t buy it. That’s a lot of nights and A LOT of high maintenance BS, if true.
That just sounds so false to me. She used to say the same type of thing about Tommy boy and look how that ended.
I actually like Keith urban alot. He’s admitted to his addictions, dealt with them and came out strong. He’s a songwriter, so the letter thing doesn’t surprise me. I hope they stay together. Cute family.
I think they are a good couple. I hope they stay happy. And I agree with what one person wrote….I doubt they are long letters….probably just short sweet notes and sometimes maybe more. Being a song writer….I have no doubt that he would do something like that. My dad was just that sweet with my mom and his kids….notes etc. and it meant a lot.
And as for the kids…..they were open about the youngest that they used a surrogate. but used their own eggs etc…….and that’s why the youngest looks just like Nicole.. The older girl has a lot of Keith in her.
If Keith writes those letters every single night, that means Nicole demands it with her behaviour. Let’s not forget that Nicole is an obsessed woman on a relationship. A lot has been written about her datings after Tom where all these men left her because she wanted marriage right away. All I can say is poor Keith and if he stops writing these letters some day and I am sure he will do so as it becomes too cheesy, then they are in trouble as Nicole will scream the hell out of him…
Hey Nicole those were not love letters they were deposit slips so you can keep funding your hubby’s retirement plan!
I just threw up in my mouth after reading that title.
So who gives her the love letters? Did he pack them all up in a box and someone mysteriously slips it on her pillow every night? I call BS on the entire interview. Anyone who attends his shows knows you can count on one hand how many times she is with him “on the road”. I quote that because his opening act stated in an interview that Keith’s transportation to every show is an airplane.
gross. weird. try hard? I never understand these overly romantic gestures. Hmmmm
Sure a lot of jealous people in this world I am happy that Keith and Nicole found each other and are living a happy life with their two cute daughters.
me too. Happy they’re happy. It’s a nice change.
So many lies Nicole. When is it all going to end.