Suri Is 'The Miracle Of Our Life'

Tom & Katie Dote On Daughter And Discuss 'Where Is Suri?' Controversy

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Sarkin reports that Cruise and Holmes dote on their new daughter. "She has Kate's lips and eyes," Cruise says. "I think she looks like Kate."

"I think she has Tom's eyes. I think she looks like Tom," says Holmes.

Holmes told Sarkin that she liked being pregnant but that the rampant press reports were difficult to deal with. "To withstand ridicule about my pregnancy when it was the most normal, non-controversial thing imaginable," she tells Sarkin.

After Suri's birth, Holmes' motherly instincts just kicked in. "The moment the doctor handed me Suri, I was just ready," she says. "The feeling is indescribable. All I can say is the moment I looked in her eyes I felt like ... Mom. She's a glorious girl. She's the miracle of our life."

Responding to reports from before Suri's birth, Holmes explained to Sarkin that she and Cruise purchased an in-house sonogram machine because the attention from paparazzi resulted in housecalls from her doctor. "The sonogram was for his use!" she says.

In the four-plus months that Suri has been out of the public eye, "we were just living our lives, being a family," Cruise tells Sarkin. "Actually, we were taking our own photos and always planned to release those at the right time."

"Then all the craziness began," Holmes says. "This 'Where is Suri?' controversy. Tom and I looked at each other and said, 'What's going on?' We weren't trying to hide anything."

The decision to have Leibowitz shoot the first photos of Suri was an easy one. "It seemed only natural to have Annie take the first public photographs of Suri," says Cruise. "Annie is the only professional photographer who ever shot Bella and Connor as children."

For now, Holmes is busy tending to her new bundle of joy and preparing for her impending nuptials. According to Sarkin, "They are planning the wedding," she said Wednesday on CBS' The Early Show. "They did not give me the date, but I know it's in the works."