They were the Hollywood “it” couple of the 1990s.
But, before that, she was Cruise’s loving wife and mother of his two adopted children.
By the time 1990 came to a close, Cruise and Kidman were married.
This was 28-year-old Cruise’s second marriage, as he had previously been wed to actress Mimi Rogers.
It was 23-year-old Kidman’s first marriage (viaParade).
“He basically swept me off my feet.
I fell madly, passionately in love,” Kidman said.
This is it.'
I was consumed by it, willingly.
And I was desperate to have a baby with him.
I didn’t care if we were married.
That’s what I wish I’d done."
They added Isabella to their family in 1993 and Connor in 1995.
“I was willing to give up everything,” Kidman told Vanity Fair.
“I now see that as part of me.
I’m willing to do that I do it when I do a movie too.
I’m willing to go, ‘Yeah, bring it on, consume me, intoxicate me.’
I want to feel alive I want to reel, basically.
“We were happily married through that.
We would go go-kart racing after those scenes.
We’d rent out a place and go racing at 3 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.”
“She knows why, and I know why,” he said.
“She’s the mother of my children, and I wish her well.
And I think that you just move on.
And I don’t say that lightly.
I don’t say that with anything.
Kidman described that time in her life as tumultuous.
“I had more things that I wanted to give, do, participate in.”
