Smith: "Kate Is Running Her Own Show"

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith Denies Holmes Is Prisoner In Marriage With Tom Cruise

(AP)  Jada Pinkett Smith says good friend Katie Holmes is an equal partner in her marriage with Tom Cruise.

"People think Tom and the Church of Scientology got something on Kate? They don't," the 35-year-old actress and wife of Will Smith tells People.com in a story posted Thursday. "Kate is running her own show. And she's a great mother. Her kids — Connor, Bella, Suri — are dynamic children and are extremely happy. And her husband is very, very happy."

Pinkett Smith denies reports that Holmes, 28, is a prisoner in her marriage to the 44-year-old actor, who's been depicted by the tabloids as a controlling husband.

"It burns my soul — I see her in the house with Tom; he doesn't have that on her! ... Let me tell you: Kate ain't no little wimpy kitty cat," says Pinkett Smith, who also calls Holmes a "tigress."

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Photos: Tom & Katie

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The Smiths — close friends of the Cruise-Holmes clan — attended the couple's lavish wedding in Italy last year. Pinkett Smith says Holmes "did not break a sweat" amid the media frenzy.

Dark-haired, blue-eyed Suri was born last year — again, media frenzy. Cruise has two children, Isabella and Connor, from his previous marriage to Nicole Kidman.

"She's young, she popped into motherhood very fast," Pinkett Smith says of Holmes. "If you think about the transition she's done, with as much grace she's had, and on top of it with the attacks — I don't know how she does it."

Pinkett Smith says she's amazed "how people want to focus on 'She's tied up in the basement and he throws steaks to her at night and she gets to see Suri only on Sundays.' It's ridiculous."

[dgshiner]

I don't know how all the other comments, got started just because Jada stated that Katie was a good mom and loved her kids, that is not being disrespectful to their mother! In fact that is a plus and I am quite sure the children know that Tom's first wife is their mother. So ***!!!! is all this coming from? And nobody has said anything about gay or straight parents in the article, just that this young woman takes care of her family, and lets face it they are hers to take care of!!!

[star2510]

I like you agnim...... I don't have to type anything, you already said it!

[mommaheaney]

I do not like, however, Jada's comment that Connor and Bella are "her kids".

Katie may treat them as her own, but they are her step-children and legally adopted by Tom and Nicole, and I found it disrespectful to their Mother.
Posted by ssporleder at 05:38 PM : May 03, 2007

Being a Step-Parent myself, and in a traditional relationship (straight) with my husband, I find that when my SONS mother was alive, she was grateful that her "child" had two mothers and a father. Many people think that the more amount of family and love a child has, the better a child's life is. If it weren't for my presence and the presence of my family, the tragic death of my SONS mother would have been even harder on him. I don't think her comment was meant to disrespect Nicole Kidman, it was to show Katie's ability to become a mother figure and open her heart to children. You, as a woman and a mother, should know that every child needs as much love as they can get and you should never cut them short. How would you feel if something were to happen to you and your child had no where to turn because any women they come across they are discouraged from developing a "mother" type relationship. I never "replaced" my SON'S mother but, I sure would not want him to miss out on what I can provide him. By the way, it was his choice to call me MOM and his mother's family encourages it.

[ssporleder]

Alrighty then.

You are one of the many that are the problem with a great deal of society.

Very closed minded and I feel sorry for those in your family or circle of friends that are gay.

BTW - I am a mom and grandmother and you are a rude, very little prick to accuse me of anything but terrific to those children.

[agnim]

"I am straight, believe in straight, but also believe in and support homes where the children are loved. Gay or straight.
Posted by ssporleder at 07:13 PM : May 03, 2007"

I wouldn't trust children with the likes of you that's for sure.

You think that subjecting children to an environment where their minds can be made mixed up by perverts is so-called 'loving' children.
You have no clue, just as you had no clue that Kaie's children is OK and their birth mothers will be happy if their children are happy and straight.

Homosexuals are mentally mixed up individuals; that is why their mating impulses are directed towards the same gender, unlike the mating impulses of normal humans that are directed towards the opposite gender.

Being mixed about one's identity is something no good humans will wish on any child! You are clueless, just like the mentally mixed up ****!
Lucky for you that even in the ignorance you were fortunate to be steered straight!

[ssporleder]

OK, all of us will take your comment seriousley.

NOT.

Not after your slam at the end.

I am straight, believe in straight, but also believe in and support homes where the children are loved. Gay or straight.

[agnim]

By the way, SSstormtrooper, just so no one get the wrong impression, by 'a child with more than one mom is blessed' I'm not meaning perverted female homosexuals.
Children in their presence ARE CURSED!

And children who are blessed, brings joy to their moms; not your IMAGINED 'disrespect'.

[agnim]

"I do not like, however, Jada's comment that Connor and Bella are "her kids".

Katie may treat them as her own, but they are her step-children and legally adopted by Tom and Nicole, and I found it disrespectful to their Mother."
Posted by ssporleder at 05:38 PM : May 03, 2007

Take a chill pill there, SSstormtroper, and learn that a child can have more than one mother.
And that a child with more than one mom IS BLESSED!

Some children have no mom; that is what you shouldn't 'like'. OK?

[ssporleder]

I always question the press and their cover stories.

If the rags were to do real news, they would have the earth blowing up on a weekly basis.

So, I hope they are OK, because I root for marriage.

I do not like, however, Jada's comment that Connor and Bella are "her kids".

Katie may treat them as her own, but they are her step-children and legally adopted by Tom and Nicole, and I found it disrespectful to their Mother.