Nicole Kidman waited 41 years to have a baby and says she truly thought she would never get the chance. But while filming her latest film, Australia, she and six other women involved with the film swam in the waterfalls of Kununurra, Australia, and ended up pregnant.
“I never thought that I would get pregnant and give birth to a child, but it happened on this movie,” Kidman told The Australian Women’s Weekly in an exclusive interview for the magazine’s 75th anniversary edition, released Wednesday.
“Seven babies were conceived out of this film and only one was a boy. There is something up there in the Kununurra water because we all went swimming in the waterfalls, so we can call it the fertility waters now.”
Kidman says she was surprised to find out she was pregnant while filming in Australia, but clearly it was a pleasant surprise. But, there are those who have their doubts as to the actual gestation of little Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, who was born in July. Theories of surrogates, adoption and pregnancy padding swirled because Nicole showed so little during her pregnancy, even in the very latest stages, and her amazingly lithe body and dinner out and mattress shopping within days of giving birth. She skillfully addresses those rumors without going overboard to try defending anything.
“I’m so lucky I’m so tall, so I carried small and also, I have to say, I had a birth that I was blessed with, a labor that was very good and a baby that was very good to me in that regard.”
She makes a curious statement at the end, almost as a quick afterthought of her kids with Tom Cruise.
“To be given this again is a beautiful thing. To have raised Bella and Connor since I was 25 and now to be able to do it again at 41 … wow!”
Yes, wow indeed.
Note by Celebitchy: Here are photos of Nicole and Keith out in London on 9/20/08. Credit: WENN Celebrity Baby Scoop has a pretty clear photo of Nicole kissing Sunday’s head, but all you can see is the back of the baby, and she’s sure to be adorable.
Ah right. The fertility waterfalls of Kununurra. 🙄
Nicole also seems to have contracted the Jen A Hallmark-speak affliction with her “..birth that I was blessed with…a baby that was very good to me in that regard..” Something still a bit off here.
It must have been the tadpoles, ha ha.
It is amazing how having a baby can make you see life in such a different way…you say all sorts of things you never would have even thought before. All glowly stuff and corny stuff. Makes her real.
She’s lucky she’s tall and carried small? Why? I couldn’t WAIT to show with both mine – Being pregnant was awesome and getting bigger and maternity clothes was one of the best parts!
Four woman on my block are pregnant, must be the water also, that or the block party. 😉
You’re right Leni, having children changed me too. She does sound very happy, getting away from Tommy Girl helped. 🙄
Is Sunday a redhead?
Re redhead, she looks like she might be from what’s visible of her head over on CBS. Very sweet pic.
I bet her fertility doctor agrees that it was the water too- eyeroll.
I think her marriage to Tommy broke up bc she wanted fertility and psychiatric counseling and he wouldn’t allow it.
I’m pretty sure Nicole got pregnant because she actually had sex with her husband, as opposed to all those years of being a beard for a closeted Tom Cruise.
Yeah, I’m dying to play Copyeditor on those Kidman quotes, but people get so sensitive about the ZOMG PILLOW BABY. 😛
I wanted to show right away too. I remember it took me like 5 1/2 months and the first time someone asked when i was expecting I was excited. I looked preggers haha. By the last 2 months I was miserable. ha. If she did have a surrgoate I imagine she signed confidentiality papers? Either way she has her little baby. Now hopefully that mess of a husband will stay in line and not fall off the wagon.
this is out of purpose but what’s up with the new ZOMG word Kaiser used ??? is it OMG with a Z ?? what is the Z for ??
@Frenchie – Zoh. Mah. Gawd. 😯
Just a more hardcore version of OMG, I just do it for irony. Like on a Jolie thread, it’s ZOMG HOMEWRECKER. Maybe for the Aiken thread, it could be ZOMG GAYBE.
She was pregnant. She gave birth. Not sure why there would be so much suspicion about that…weird. I just do find it a bit odd that after 10 years she never had any children with Tom Cruise and then bingo – a baby with Keith. And then Tom marries Katie and has a baby right away. Something doesn’t quite add up.
It doesn’t add up for a good reason: Tom Cruise is gay and always has been. Nicole married him to enhance her (and his) career, acting as a beard. Cruise’s career as a he-man action star would be OVER if it was revealed he was Rock Hudson Jr.
I don’t believe Cruise is the father of Suri, either. Holmes got preggers from Chris Klein, her former boyfriend. That kid looks just like Klein.
i was watching “practical magic” the other day and i had forgotten what nic used to look like. she was so stunning,with her red hair and her real face. now she looks like a hollywood playtpus. sad.
Having a big stomach during pregnancy doesn’t make a woman more or better than some other woman who doesn’t show during her pregnancy.
Gheesh! Why does this have to be some sort of competition.
@ kaiser, thanks for the explanation, don’t know if I’m ready to use it though.
I know couples that have been trying for a baby for years and when they’ve stopped focussing on it, it worked. There are some psychological triggers. Same for some couples that doesn’t seems to be baby-compatible , when they split and get with somebody else, it works (I know a bunch of couples like that). might be her case.
I don’t get why she would hide an adoption or a surrogate, denis quaid did it and it was OK with general opinion.
wow, 7 naked women swimming in the waterfalls and they all got knocked up?? wonder if it was the water,,umm…
‘It must have been the tadpoles, ha ha.’
Thanks for the great laugh, Tiger!
“I never thought that I would get pregnant and give birth to a child, but it happened on this movie,”
What about the baby she miscarried after the divorce from Tom? The baby she said was his and she’d saved the placenta to prove it?
And why would Tom walk away from his wife who was carrying his baby? This would be the proof he needed to show the world that he wasn’t sterile like everyone said he was – yet divorce her he did with only that “Nic knows why” statement. That just proved to me that Nicole was a liar and Tom can’t make babies.
*booking trip to Kununurra, Australia
Well, Diva, since it plainly worked for Nicole…. 😉
I don’t know why so many of the older moms won’t admit to fertility treatment. If you’re around 40 years old, and WANT a baby, and you’re NOT considering fertility treatment, then you’re an idiot.
It’s like they have to project a “perfect” image and admiting to fertility treatment would mean they are less than perfect women in some small way — just like admiting to dieting to keep their figures makes them less than perfect (so sick of hearing, “I eat anything I want, I’m just naturally thin”).
Nicole constantly had a trainer at her side during her pregnancy, and seemed obsessed with not gaining too much weight. It’s a blessing that she didn’t have biological children with Tom-can you imagine how messy that would have been during the divorce? Nicole rarely sees her adopted children she raised with Tom, which is so sad. I believe that Keith is devoted to Nicole, and doesn’t brainwash or control her. That is a much healthier environment for a child to be raised in.
You say magic fertility waters Nic, I say assisted reproductive technology. Can this woman be honest about anything?
I can see it now in the headlines – thousands and thousands of women show up at the waterfalls for their chance at fertility…locals start selling baby-sized tees that read, “I am a Kununurra miracle baby!” Eventually, a film named “The Legend of Kununurra Falls” is made…starring Nicole, of course. The film ends with a joyous birth. It’ll be dubbed as the feel-good movie of the year.