Suri Is 'The Miracle Of Our Life'
Katie Holmes tells Vanity Fair magazine that "it's been heartbreaking" to see the press reports about her family and her new daughter, Suri.
Since the birth of Suri on April 18, Cruise and Holmes have been hounded by tabloid and blog reports that something was amiss with their new daughter or that there was trouble on the homefront.
Holmes rebukes all the speculation in the new issue of Vanity Fair, saying "all those things were invented." To see the new Vanity Fair issue click here.
"Some of the crap that's out there — the stuff that's said about my parents and my siblings (tabloid accounts implied that Katie's family did not hit it off with Tom) — it's really frustrating the amount of s--- that's out there. And the stuff they say about Suri?! You shouldn't say that about us, and you can't say that about my child."
Holmes tells features editor Jane Sarkin in the new issue, which hits stands today in New York and Los Angeles, that the gossip "eats away at me because it's just not OK."
Why does she pay the reports any mind? "This is my future. This is my family, and I care so much about them. To see how someone as caring and good as Tom, it — to see how things can just get so twisted and turned around. I mean, where does it come from?" she says.
The cherubic-looking infant, who sported a full head of jet-black hair in the magazine spread, was being held by her parents in some of the shots made public. In one photo, little Suri appeared to be giving a love bite to her father's nose.
For her story, Sarkin spent five days with the couple and their extended family at Cruise's Telluride, Colo., compound in July. Isabella and Connor, Cruise's other children with ex-wife Nicole Kidman were in tow, including Holmes's mother and father, and Cruise's mother and sister.
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."