Taking a break from his Defying Gravity tour, Keith Urban stops off at home in Nashville, Tenn., where he stepped out with wife Nicole Kidman and their daughter Sunday Rose, 13 months.
“There’s a certain balance that I’ve got to have in my life,” Keith explains. “My family is extremely important to me. Playing live is important to me too. So how do I balance the two? We structured the tour so I fly to the first date, then bus it to the next couple shows.”
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Viv on
How cute is little Sunday Rose! I love her colorful dress too! Anyone know where it’s from?
Alex on
She is very sweet, and definitely a mummy’s girl!
victoria on
Ok I am just pleased to see that I am not the only mum who went out today with wet hair!!!! lol
CTBmom on
Awww….Sunday is getting so big! She is Keith’s mini-me =)
ellea on
She’s gotten quite cute!
Sheri on
Oh … it’s so good to see our little Sunday again … and she has gotten so big! She is all Keith ~ but seems to be getting red hair now like Nicole 
What a beautiful, sweet family
Brianne on
Cute! I’d love to know where the dress is from as well. Love the color combo!
Mira Lee on
Sunday is a very cute child. She looks a lot like her father. I wonder how often Nicole and Sunday spend time with her two older siblings?
bia on
I love this family!
Alex on
Wow, I’m shocked so many people seem to see more Urban than Kidman in Sunday. I can’t see much daddy in her at all, she’s all mummy to me!
Chelsea on
Count me in as one who thinks Sunday is mostly Keith! It’s all in the eyes. She sure is beautiful!
trish on
What a cutie, lovely family!!
Jeannette on
Makes sense of why Nicole would often refer Sunday as “Keithette” because she does very much look like Keith! Cute little girl. Haven’t seen a picture recently either, have we? She’s growing up too fast!
daniela on
Oh my…Sunday is one precious little girl!!! I still can’t tell who she looks like, but I love her dark hair and chubby cheeks!
Jess on
I’m with Alex…I think she looks more like mommy! But maybe I’m crazy.
meme on
Is Sunday’s dress from GAP?? I don’t think it’s from a high end store, but could be from some online boutique. She’s a keithette.
Jane on
AWW! Sunday looks just like her Dad.
Bugs on
Aww so cute! Sunday looks like Keith!
cara on
i actually think she looks like both – but omg -she’s adorable…i love her dress too. i wanna kiss those chubby cheeks of hers, lOL.
Angel on
Look at cute little Miss Sunday! I am with Alex and Jess – my first thought was that she looked just like Nicole.
KateRose on
I don’t understand why the comments section always seems to be filled with people who insist a baby looks exactly like one parent or the other. It’s kind of odd.
Personally, I think the baby looks like an exact mix of both parents.
CelebBabyLover on
KateRose- It’s just fun to try to figure out which parent a baby resembles more. Anyway, Sunday is adorable!
maggie on
i dont understand how flyin to the first gig helps the family spend more time together? Lol! Huge Keith fan and fan of the family!
mich on
absolutely sunday is a mini nicole. she doesn’t look at all as her father, please open your eyes. she’s the portrait of her mother, how is it possible say it’s not true? see a pic of nicole when she was a child, sunday looks exactly like nicole. it means she will be a stunning woman..
Ken on
sunday is the cutest baby in hollywood. but sorry, she does look like nicole not like keith, probably when she was younger she did look like her father but not…is all her mother, and i’m very happy of this.
Emma on
The dress is from Australian designer Collette Dinnigan, my daughter has the same one.
Jennie on
Even if Nicole’s other kids like being with Tom in the big city, I think it’s wrong of Nicole not to spend more time with her other growing kids. For some reason it semms like Nicole is more happier having a biological child now. Like it’s more her own kid that she has longed for so long. Feels weird.
martina on
Jennie, you know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING of Nicole & Tom’s situation, including their custody agreement and how much time Nicole spends with the older children. You know nothing of her feelings. Never mind a simple fact that just because she isn’t constantly photographed with her older kids, doesn’t mean she isn’t spending time with them. Given your (and ours) lack of knowledge about the situation, how could you possibly pass such a judgment on this woman???
martina on
I may be the only one – but I think Nicole & Keith kind of look alike, so the adorable Sunday looks like both of them 
Diana on
The reason it saves him time to fly in to the firsts gig instead of taking the bud, it means he doesnt have to leave early, the bus normally leaves about 18 hours before the show and if he flys he can leave the morning of, so an extra night at home.
Keithurbanfan2007 on
Awwww!Sunday is such a cutie pie,I can’t believe how big she has gotten.I think she looks like both Keith & Nicole.
Lilly on
KateRose, you find it odd people comment about who the child looks like but then join in? Huh. Ok…….
I find that with babies, many people say which parent they look like quite often. They do that in our families at least!
Halley on
The baby is lovely…very cute. I see a bit of both Nicole & Keith in her.
As far as how much time Nicole spends with her two older kids, she has admitted she spends little time with them, but tries to call them regularly. If she wanted to spend more time with them, she would have been living in LA for the last few years, to accommodate their friends and activities. She has chosen not to, and I think that their relationship is likely not as close as a result. Her choice, though. I do find her comments about having a “child of her own” disturbing. If I were her adopted child, I might feel less important based on the way she has gone on about Sunday and having a biological child.
jenifer on
Sunday is so adorable!! and yes, she looks just like her Dad
Becky on
Seriously, these comments about Nicole and her situation with Bella and Connor have me a little steamed, we don’t know Nicole, Tom, Bella and Connor’s situation AT ALL. We may think we know it, but unless we are Nicole, Tom, Bella, Connor or part of their family/close friends we don’t know the situation. For all we know Bella and Connor have told Nicole outright that they don’t want to spend time with her, I know at that age I wanted to spend time with only one parent; i.e. the parent who was fun. Tom seems like the fun parent because he lives in the city and there are lots of things to do there. By the amount of pictures I’ve seen of Tom, Bella and Connor he obviously takes them places. It doesn’t mean that he loves them more he just spends time with them where the paparazzi can get pictures. Plus there’s the fact that Katie is with Tom, Katie’s young and to a couple of teenagers, she’s probably more of a fun mom than Nicole is.
I think the main confusion is that Tom and Nicole have different ways of showing their love for their children. Tom by taking them places and buying them more things and being with them where the paparazzi is. (hence we see them more in LA/New York)and Nicole by spending time with them at home. It doesn’t mean she doesn’t love them, she just shows it differently.
Also I think we need to take into consideration that Nicole lives in Nashville, with Kieth, yes Keith could live in LA and still work on CD’s and his music and stuff but his record company is probably based out of Nashville, like his agent and stuff. We don’t know how painful of a decision it was for Nicole to be live in Nashville. We don’t know how many times she cried herself to sleep because she missed her children so much.
Plus, Nashville doens’t get very many paparazzi, LA is crawling with them. So when Bella & Connor do spend time with Nicole, they’re less likely to be photographed.
KateRose on
“KateRose, you find it odd people comment about who the child looks like but then join in? Huh. Ok…….”
No Lilly, that’s not what I said in my post. I said I find it odd when people insist that the baby looks exactly like one parent over the other. I did not say that I found it odd when people talk about who the baby looks like. The key word here is “exactly” – that’s the part that I find odd.
Mary-Helen on
I think Sunday is such a cutie butt!
As for her relationship with the older kids, she has said some things in interviews that have been kind of head scratchers, like her longing her her own bio child, that the kids don’t call her “Mom” and that they prefer to live in LA and now that they are older she doesn’t need to spend as much time with them. I can understand how people could view those as favourtism towards Sunday. However, we don’t know the full story.
gargoylegurl on
Well said, Becky! I totally agree.
Keith and Nicole seem very private and have done a good job of keping Sunday out ot the limelight. Sure, there’s not as many paps in Nashville, which is probably a big part of why they have chosen it to be their base.
We know nothing of her visitations with Bella and Conner, it’s so unfair to judge her. Perhaps the kids have chosen to live in California – they are getting older.
I’m sure even things said in articles may be taken out of context. What’s wrong with a woman saying she longs to have a biological child? Pregnancy is an amazing experience. I can’t blame her for wanting to go through it. I don’t see how saying that indicates less love for her adopted children.
CelebBabyLover on
Becky- I agree completely!
Mary-Helen- If I hear “she said they don’t call her mom,” one more time, I’m going to scream! That quote was taken out of context! What said is that they don’t call her “mom”…but they DO call her “mum”, which is the British and Australian term for “mom”. She also said that they jokingly call her “Nicole” at times…the key word there being “jokingly”.
gargoylegurl- Very well said! I also don’t think we should read too much into her comments about having a child of her “own”. Likely she just meant it in the sense of how going through pregnancy and giving birth to a biological child is in some ways different than adopting a child.
Anyway, people were up in arms back in early 2007 when Angelina Jolie made her infamous “blob” comment along with saying that she “feels more” for Maddox and Zahara (Pax wasn’t in the picture quite yet, and obviously the twins weren’t even a thought yet!). This caused lots of “doesn’t she love her biological child as much as her adopted children?” comments. Yet now, two plus years later (the comments were made in January 2007), I don’t think anyone has any doubt that Angelina loves Shi and the twins as much as she loves Maddox, Pax, and Zahara.
My point is that we can’t really know or judge how someone truly feels just by a few comments.
Jennie on
Considering what Nicole has said in previous interviews, I don’t find my thoughts weird of Nicole being happier with her own long awaited bio child. I think I might be right. But Angelina has never said these things Nicole said. Angie only said she was ready to protect her adopted children caus’ they have been through alot of hardship before they were adopted, which Shiloh hasn’t. But Nicole has said she longed for her own bio child, that’s different.
Laura on
Maybe Nicole longed for a bio child because she has had a couple miscarriages. you don’t know how that can affect a woman so maybe she longed to complete a pregnancy. i think everyone is being harsh on her. you don’t know what went on behind closed doors with her and Tom and the custody arrangements.
Elzbieta on
Could it also be that the kids are being raised scientologist and Nicole has never practiced it?
Sarah on
I think she looks like TOM lmao
Anna on
What we do know is that she moved very far away from where her children are living, which is wrong in my opinion. If you are close with your children you could never do that.
Becky on
Amanda, I have no wish to sound rude, but how do you know she wasn’t forced to because of Keith’s work? Yes technically Keith could be based out of LA, but considering his Record label and agent are based out of Nashville, It’s probably too hard to be based out of LA and have an Agent and Record Label in Nashville. We don’t know how many conversations Bella, Connor and Nicole had making sure that they would stay in contact.
We don’t know how many times a day that Bella and Connor call/Email their mom, just because Nicole moved far away from her children doens’t mean she doens’t love them, for all we know she cried herself to sleep every night leading up to and following the move out to Nashville. We don’t know how many nights Nicole has fallen asleep with the thought of “I miss Bella/Connor” going through her head.
If we don’t know the entire situation we shouldn’t judge.
Michele on
I hope Nic is really as happy as she looks in this pic. And I’m pretty sure she is (don’t see the forced smile like on the red carpet). I really hope this couple lasts and they enjoy many great family memories! Nicole deserves great happiness.
CelebBabyLover on
Laura- Right on! I also want to point out that Nicole probably also longed to have a child with Keith, which is perfectly understandable, IMO.
Becky- Once again, I couldn’t agree more! To add to your comments, Tom and Katie travel around a lot for work, and a few months ago in an interview, Tom alluded to the fact that Bella and Connor often go with them, even though we don’t see them much. Therefore, it would be a little unrealistic and unreasonable, IMO, to expect Nicole and Keith to just follow Tom and Katie around all the time in order to be near Bella and Connor.
Elzbieta- I doubt that has anything to do with it. When Tom was on Oprah last year, he made it clear that basically the kids can see Nicole whenever they want (within reason, obviously). Also, whenever Nicole is asked about Tom in interviews, she always has nice things to say about him. Not only that, but she has even spoken very warmly of Katie and Suri.
All of that said, I have to agree with martina that we really have no idea how much time Nicole spends with Bella and Connor. In interviews shortly after Sunday’s birth, Nicole actually seemed to indicate that she sees Bella and Connor more than is publically known. She mentioned that a photo of Bella cradling Sunday is one of her favorite photos, that Bella did some baby-sitting for Sunday while Nicole was at an event, and that, right after Sunday was born, she just wanted to be in the “bubble” of her, Keith, Sunday, Bella, and Connor.
Nicole has also, I believe, said in the past that she DOES try to avoid the paps when she’s with her kids (that seems to be the case with Sunday as well, as we rarely see her). In addition to all of that, I want to point out that yes, Nicole DOES live in Nashville….But Bella and Connor can easily hop a plane and see her when they want to (remember, Tom has private jets and such at his disposal), and Nashville isn’t that long of a plane ride from LA.
CelebBabyLover on
Oh, and I also want to add that if the situation were reversed and the kids lived with Nicole and we rarely saw them with Tom, Tom probably wouldn’t get nearly the amount of critcism that Nicole does.
It seems that it’s just when a celeb mother doesn’t live with her kids that criticism happens. When it’s a celeb father, usually no one bats an eye.
Kate on
Ummm, the kids Connor and Bella have clearly stated they do not like being photographed or talked about which honestly in the past few years it seems like Nicole has respected. Tom has not respected it and even came out and said he is so proud of them its hard not to talk about them but he has been instructed not too because the kids want to be private. I think both of them are involved in their kids live and they both seem to have a good relationship with them. Lately all you have been seeing is pics of Tom with Katie and Suri in Australia and a friend of mine who lives in Nashville says she has seen the other two kids there spending the summer with Nicole. My friend actually saw Nicole with her daugther at the local Target.
So if you don’t live the life you don’t know damn. You can expect everything you see in papers to be the truth.
Kate on
PS…. Also an added note. The people of Nashville are different then LA. They understand she lives there and really try to help her maintain her privacy and my friend says they pretty much leave her and any other country star alone.
Becky on
I’d also like to add, why is the title Keith Urban’s’ Tour Stop: Home with his girls? it seems that it’s indicating Bella’s not one of his girls. Yes, Bella is Nicole and Tom’s daughter, but she call’s Katie Mom, right? I doubt that Bella (or Conner for that matter) wouldn’t be close to Keith and count themselves as his step kids. (or even ignore the whole step relationship, they seem to do that with Katie) Unless it’s been said in an interview that B&C aren’t close to Keith.
Mary-Helen on
I think there is alot of conflicting information about the Nicole’s older kids and sadly, I think part of it is her fault for talking about how she didn’t feel like a complete woman or like a mom until she gave birth, which could’ve been misconstrued but some of her comments about the kids have been kind of sad. I’m sure she loves her children and spends time with them and they get on well, but I can definitely see why people think she favours her youngest child. You don’t see the kids constantly photographed with Tom, but you do see him and Katie @ soccer games, or shopping and Tom will make a reference to them like “They don’t like me sharing stories, but they are just so great.” I think it’s probably just a case of Nicole’s comments come out harsher then they intend, but an arguement could be made that Sunday is a favoured child.
Kris on
OMG Sunday Rose is all Keith. She looks exactly like him and as gorgeous.
LT on
It’s ridiculous that because Nicole Kidman does not exploit her elder children for fame or attention for herself, she is labeled a bad mother to Connor and Bella. Not knowing any of them, I have no idea if she is a good mother or not – but I certainly don’t consider a lack of photographs as evidence of her parenting.
As for you who think that her describing wanting a biological child as favortism, I would ask how many of you are even parents? I know many parents who built their families through adoption who would still like the experience of giving birth. Wanting to do both does not mean you love your children any less – it just means that you want to experience both ways of becoming a parent.
CelebBabyLover on
LT- It’s also a bit ridiculious, however, that celebs are often labeled as exploiting their children for publicity everytime they step out with said children.
Other than that, I agree with you completely. Lack of photos does not mean Nicole doesn’t see her older kids.
Angie on
I didn’t have time to read all of the comments, but from what I have read, it doesn’t sound like a lot of you know what you are talking about… There could be lots of reasons why Bella and Connor are with Tom in LA. One that I know for sure is that Connor is following in his Dad’s footprints and is making movies. He was in “7 Pounds” (Will Smith) and is now in the process of filming “Red Dawn.” Sounds like a great reason to live in LA! Keith and Nicole are very private. Both have make comments that they chose Nashville because of it’s privacy away from the paparazzi. And…Sunday Rose looks exactly like her daddy – she is the exact replica of Keith’s baby pictures – google it if you don’t believe me!
janet on
I think Sunday looks like Keith around the eyes but she has a lot of Nicole’s coloring. She’s cute either way.
Keith is just adorable.
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