Everything Nicole Kidman Has Said About Her Children With Ex-Husband Tom Cruise

Unconditional love. Nicole Kidman has had nothing but positive things to say about her two adopted children, Isabella (born December 1992) and Connor (born January 1995), with ex-husband Tom Cruise.

The Big Little Lies alum, who was married to Cruise from 1990 to 2001, has been open about maintaining a positive relationship with their children despite their affiliation with the Church of Scientology. The former couple adopted their daughter and son in 1992 and 1995, respectively. The actress reflected on her relationship with Cruise in an October 2020 interview, telling The New York Times that she was “happily married” while filming Eyes Wide Shut together. "We would go go-kart racing after those scenes,” she recalled. "We’d rent out a place and go racing at three in the morning. I don’t know what else to say. Maybe I don’t have the ability to look back and dissect it. Or I’m not willing to.” Following her split from Cruise, the Nine Perfect Strangers star went on to marry country singer Keith Urban in June 2006 in Australia. The pair are the parents of two daughters, Sunday (born July 2008) and Faith (born December 2010). [jwplayer i867TzJ4] The Grammy winner gushed to Dax Shepard in a September 2020 "Armchair Expert" podcast episode about his wife, calling her “The One.” The songwriter said, “She’s the one that I was searching for my whole life. It felt so obvious. … [She] was everything I was looking for and then beyond. Just beyond.” While Kidman had “such a crush” on her now-husband, the “Stupid Boy” singer initially wasn’t interested. "Somebody had given me her number and I had it in my pocket for a while. I kept looking at it thinking, 'If I call this number, she's going to answer. I don't know what [to] say,’” Urban explained to Interview magazine in 2018. "I wasn’t in a very healthy place in my life. I'd never have thought she’d see anything in a guy like me. But, at some point, I plucked up the courage to call those numbers and she answered, and we started talking and we talked and talked and talked and talked and it was effortless." As for Cruise, the Mission Impossible star moved on with Katie Holmes after his and Kidman’s divorce. He started a family with the Ohio native, and they wed in 2006. The exes divorced six years later. Scroll down to revisit Kidman’s most heartfelt quotes about Isabella and Connor: [podcast_block]

“I’ve chosen not to speak publicly about Scientology,” the Golden Globe winner told The Hollywood Reporter in January 2013. “I have two children who are Scientologists — Connor and Isabella — and I utterly respect their beliefs.”

“[Connor] is DJing, he’s doing really well. Bella lives in London now,” the Boy Erased star gushed to Extra in January 2013. “I think that, you know, everybody has their own path, and when they find their path, it’s such relief as a parent, you know?”

“They are generous, kind and hardworking,” Kidman raved of her two eldest to Women’s Weekly in May 2014. “And these are traits that I love to see in my children.”

The Emmy winner, who shares daughters Faith and Sunday with husband Keith Urban, spoke sweetly about all of her kids to DuJour magazine in September 2015: “I have four children, so to stay in touch with them is very important. I’m definitely engaged in [the Internet and technology], but I don’t let it rule my life.”

During an interview with Evening Standard in December 2015, Kidman explained why she chooses not to speak out about Scientology and Cruise: “Be the best you can be, not the worst, and think of the children.”

Kidman portrayed a character who hit close to home in 2016’s Lion. “I can see now, for Lion, that this is important to me because I’m a mother with adopted children,” she told Town & Country in November 2016 of the Oscar nominated flick in which she plays an Australian woman who adopts an Indian child. “This movie is a love letter to my children.”

In November 2016, the Bewitched actress told E! News that she would stand by her children if they choose to find their birth parents. “Yeah, of course. That’s part of my belief on adoption,” she said. “If a child wants to find their birth mother, I’m absolutely supportive of that.”

“They’re adults now, married and off in their own lives,” The Beguiled star told Marie Claire of Connor and Isabella in September 2018. “They’re totally grown-up people.”

Kidman spoke openly about her relationship with Isabella and Connor during a candid interview with Who magazine in November 2018. “They are adults. They are able to make their own decisions. They have made choices to be Scientologists and, as a mother, it’s my job to love them,” she said. “And I am an example of that tolerance and that’s what I believe — that no matter what your child does, the child has love and the child has to know there is available love and I’m open here. I think that’s so important because if that is taken away from a  child, to sever that in any child, in any relationship, in any family — I believe it’s wrong. So that’s our job as a parent, to always offer unconditional love.”

"Bella lives just outside of London," the Big Little Lies star told Vanity Fair in April 2019. "You know, she really feels more English. We lived there for Eyes Wide Shut, Mission Impossible, and The Portrait of a Lady. They both had English accents when they were little.” The actress added that her son was living in Miami and involved in music.