I think a lot of you have touched on the reasons for the Nicole supposedly not talking about the children stuff. First of all, you have the fact that we *think* the children are probably living with Tom more than they are living with Nicole. Therefore, seeing them on a day to day basis, of course dad would bring them up in conversation a little more. Secondly, there’s the fact that Nicole has just given birth for the first time, and while that doesn’t mean she loves Sunday more than she loves Isabella and Connor, it is an entirely new experience for her to welcome a new child that way. This is obviously going to be a talking point in interviews. Third, there is the fact that interviews are NEVER reported to the letter of what was actually said. Journalists cut and chop bits out as they need. It’s probable that Nicole has talked about all three of her children but the press seems to be reporting much more on the Sunday side of things. I’ll admit, in the past, I’ve been uncomfortable with the focus on Suri and Sunday which has seemed to dismiss Isabella and Connor, but whenever I’ve thought about it, I’ve always wanted to criticise the way it was reported, not the parents at the centre of it.

Love the Ellen interview. Thanks for sharing the link.

Reading some of these comments makes me chuckle. Although this isn’t the case now (thank goodness!), Angelina Jolie used to be constantly criticized for talking about her adopted kids all the time but not her bio one, and not loving her bio child as much as her adopted ones (thankfully that critcisim slowed considerably somewhere between when she got pregnant with the twins and Shiloh’s second birthday, and it pretty much stopped completely once Knox and Viv had been born).

Nicole, on the otherhand, seems to get criticized for just the opposite! Some of these celebs just can’t win either way!

Ella that is something I had posted in one of the other Nicole threads about not being able to speak about them. Cause I remember awhile back I think it was Tom though who said the kids don’t like being talked about in public that’s why they probably try to avoid it..esp Bella since she’s at that akward teenage girl stage

Thanks for the link Ella! Nicole really did talk about them the entire time.

p.s. it sounds like she goes to soccer games too

Anais, people felt free to drag Cruise into posts that were about Nicole Kidman — mostly to trash him. Turnabout is fair play.

I’m glad Cruise talks about Isabella and Connor as well as Suri, and doesn’t act as if Suri is special because she’s his biological child.

I think what people have to remember is that articles and sound bites are edited on we almost never get the whole story, start to finish. What one person says to an interviewer may be said in one context, but then is shown and misconstrued into a totally different context. It’s been pretty clear that Nicole spends time with her older children…they were in Nashville after Sunday was born and Connor did visit his mum in Aus when she was filming Australia. They spend the majority of their time with their dad, but that doesn’t mean that Nicole doesn’t love them as much as Sunday. There was a point in my life where I didn’t see my dad all that often…when I was about Bella’s age…but that didn’t mean that my dad and I didn’t love each other.

I love reading Tom gush about his family. He’s a doting Dad and so lovely with it.
As for Nicole – she had/has every right to gush and be in-love with her newborn baby, if she was anything like me she could have bonded with her ‘first’ baby very early in the pregnancy.
After trying for so long it’s no wonder she feels the way she does.
Gush away, I say.
I’m glad both Tom and Nicole are great parents to ALL their children.

Maybe it seems as though he’s talking about his THIRD child when he refers to Suri b/c he has custody of all three of his children where as its obvious that Nicole does not.

As precious and adorable as I think Suri is, he is not my favorite.

How lovely it would be if article about either Tom or Nicole could be posted on here without SOMEONE keeping score of if they mention or fail to mention all of their children.
I have more than one child too (adopted and birthed!) and when each one came into my life it was a HUGE experience, and I just basked in the love of this new person in my life.
It did not mean I did not love my older children any less because suddenly there was a “new kid”
And nobody scrutinized my every word and action for evidence I loved them all equally.
It must really be hearbreaking and exasperating to have to prove over and over again that you love all of your children equally.