Posted on 07/01/2004 1:05:32 PM PDT by BluegrassScholar
Being a single mother makes it difficult to find a mate even when you're Nicole Kidman.
"I'm hoping to meet someone and be happy with them. But that's not as easy as it sounds. I'm a 37-year-old woman with two children. Men aren't beating a path to my door," she said in an interview published Wednesday in the latest issue of Now magazine.
"I don't want to sound like a woman from a lonely hearts club and I don't want to advertise. The children are my priority. I take them around with me movies or baseball games or local shows and that's not so appealing for any new man on the scene, is it?" she said.
The Oscar-winning star of "The Hours" has been single since breaking up with rock star Lenny Kravitz (news) earlier this year.
She denied rumors that she might get back together with ex-husband Tom Cruise (news), with whom she split in 2001. The pair share custody of their children, 11-year-old Isabella and 9-year-old Connor.
"That whole part of my life is over and done with. We'll always be in contact because of our children," she said. "But I'm single and there's no one out there for me at the moment."
Kidman, who recently starred in a remake of "The Stepford Wives," also wanted to dash speculation that she's suffering from an eating disorder. She has looked painfully thin in recent photographs, but said her hairstyle was to blame.
"I've been wearing it up a lot lately and that seems to make my face look smaller and make my body look even thinner," she explained. "When I wear it down ... then my boy-like figure looks a little fuller. That's the only explanation I can come up with."
Oh my goodness, lol. Standards a bit high?
Kidman's kinda scrawny though. I'm a bit worried over the Catherine Zeta-Jones pics in the other thread, she looks a bit thinner, but still good, hope she doesn't ruin herself with thinnness like Jennifer Connelly.
No man wants to park his car in gay Tom Cruise's former garage. Yech.
Not in her current skeletal state she isn't. Talk about ruining yourself.
If I knew where the door was, I would gladly beat it down Nicole ;)
I think the police have battering rams for the door problem. But a good carpenter could just take it off its hinges. Even a woman could do that. What's the trouble, is the lock busted up?
Sometimes pictures are worth a thousand words.
I wonder did she have the kids with her when she broke up Jude Law and Sadie Frosts marriage?
memeo to kidman: you're no salma hayek.
She's a Catholic. That is why she and Tom split.
Come on folks. We can get so critical here that we can't even bring ourselves to admit the obvious. Nicole Kidman is a talented actress, a beautiful woman and in the scandal ridden world of Hollywood, she has managed to keep her nose relatively clean for over 10 years despite a rabid press.
Let's give credit where credit is due. She is a star in a day and age where painfully few are left.
I'll take 'er. Maybe. But she'll have to work, I won't!
And there is a fourteen year old in Texas who will be more than happy to provide a lap for Nicole to rest her head in.
Wasn't the reason she left Tom Cruise was because he was the Scientologist and waned the children raised in that group? I was under the impression that she is Catholic, and wanted to raise the children in the Church.
She refers to herself as having a boy like figure. Well, I've seen her in pics wearing very little, and if that is a boy like figure, then I just became gay.
Sometimes I regret marrying a women that was such a good shot with a .357...
Those with 10's of thousands of dollars in credit card debt, those with kids, and those with both....
Good luck.
I have to agree, good grief! I didn't realize everyone on this thread is an Adonis. I consider myself to be somewhat cute, and I certainly wouldn't be criticizing her in the looks dept.
Tom the whacko dumped her because their prenup said that if they were married 10 years, she'd get major claim to his money. If they didn't make it to the 10 year mark, he would only have to pay a much smaller sentiment. So Tom the butt pirate dumped her 9 1/2 years into the marriage. And he stuck her with the kids, too which were adopted (Tom didn't want to make his own babies for some reason).
I admit she is gorgeous.
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