Call me Xenu, but I actually think Katie Holmes looks really good in these photos. Katie was out and about yesterday in NYC, and you can yell at me all you want, but I would love to have her bag AND her blouse. I’m crazy in love with her blouse. Does anyone know where I can get a blouse like that? Thanks. Of course, Katie continued her trend of wearing unflattering jeans, although these look like jeggings to me, not skinny jeans. Whatever they are, they are not cute on her at all. But from the waist up, she looks really good – better than she’s looked the past few months.

Bedhead (working from some tabloids) theorized that Katie was purposefully looking like crap as a way to “get back” at Tom, because he’s so anal retentive and demanding (and unhinged). So… what happened here? Is this a post-Scientology-audit version of Katie? Or did she just feel like putting in some effort at some point? Unknown.

Life & Style has a story this week about how Katie and Tom have been spending all of this time apart (true story) and how Katie hasn’t been on Tom’s arm during any of his promotional work for Rock of Ages (which bombed). Of course, Gossip Cop has a denial from an unnamed “source” close to Tom (Xenu).

“Tom & Katie: Marriage in Crisis,” reads the headline of a Life & Style piece about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, who the mag says are struggling “to keep their relationship together.”

According to the tabloid, Holmes and Cruise “have been spending a huge amount of time apart,” and now “something’s definitely shifted between the two of them.”

The mag goes on to claim that “tension’s been building as Tom’s filmed one movie after another in Germany, Russia, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, leaving Katie to care for Suri like a single mother — and feeling depressed over her stalled career.”

Life & Style notes Holmes accepted an invitation to attend a skating event in Asia “because she’s trying to fill the void in her life while her workaholic husband focuses on his job.”

“With all the distance between them,” writes the mag ominously, “their marriage is in full-blown crisis.”

While it’s true the two stars are often in far off locales filming movies, their marriage is NOT in “crisis.”

A source close to Cruise tells Gossip Cop the Life & Style piece is untrue, and points out that the actor, Holmes and their daughter Suri spent several days, including Father’s Day, in Iceland together.

[From Gossip Cop]

Yes, they spent Father’s Day together, but that was the first time they were together in, like, MONTHS. I do think something is up with them. Maybe it’s contract renegotiations, maybe Katie is tired of the audits, maybe Tom just needs even more “boy time” these days, I don’t really know. But something is up, mark my words.

Photos courtesy of WENN.