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Nicole Kidman: "I Had a Very Easy Labor"
Monday November 3, 2008

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Courtesy of Glamour

Nicole Kidman has no problem with the fact that her newborn daughter looks more like husband Keith Urban.

"It's fine by me, having a little Keith-ette," she tells December's Glamour. "When he goes away, I can look at her and see him."

But Urban is rarely out of her life: She says they've agreed never to be
apart for more than a week.

"We reduced it even more. I have reached a stage in my life when I want to
be with the ones I love," says Kidman, who is being honored as one of
Glamour's Women of the Year. "I used to be willing to do two weeks. And that is too much now; my heart aches."

She also has put a pause on filming movies back-to-back.

"I've given a lot to my work, and I'm not willing to give as much to that anymore," she says. "At this time in my life, I want to be giving to my relationships. And out of that, whatever work you do prospers because you
have more to give. [Pauses.] There's something very primal about giving
birth. It puts you in a state of being very raw."

Giving birth was easy, by the way.

"Keith was my rock during childbirth," says the star, who has yet to hire a
daytime nanny. "I'd heard horror stories of 40 hours of labor, and I was
sure that would be me, but I had a very easy labor. And through it all,
Keith's eyes gave me such strength."

See Nicole Kidman's baby photo.

After giving birth in July, she says, "'happy' isn't an all-encompassing-
enough word.

"I'm in a place of gratitude and humility. I don't take any of it for
granted. I touch wood every day. The journey of life — we all go through it:
You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a
beautiful thing," she says.

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She also says she learned a lot after her 2001 divorce with Tom Cruise.

"I went six years alone. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but it's better
to be alone than in a lousy relationship," she says. "Work was my escape. I
was existing more strongly in my creative world than in my own world."

Check out Hollywood's ugliest divorces.

She says she learned "how to stand on my own two feet. I had to find my own
identity, and my own reason for being here, and it couldn't be because of
another person."

Her advice to young women devastated by divorce?

"The sun always rises tomorrow," Kidman says, "and through this shall come
light."

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