Nicole Kidman was just a 22-year-old little-known actress from Australia when she met Tom Cruise during an audition for his 1990 race-car film “Days of Thunder.” Kidman has often said in interviews that she immediately felt the electricity when she shook his hand. They married that year, and by 23 she was pregnant.
“From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies,” Kidman told Marie Claire magazine in 2007. “And we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic.”
Kidman suffered an ectopic pregnancy — a condition in which an embryo starts to develop in a fallopian tube instead of in the uterus – and that lead to devastating loss of her first child. This painful and traumatic experience drove Kidman and Cruise to adopt two children: daughter, Isabella Jane (born 1992), and son, Connor Anthony (born 1995).
According to reports, Kidman managed to get pregnant again with Cruise but suffered a miscarriage around the time he stunned her and the rest of the world by filing for divorce.
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise with their children Connor and Isabella in 1996. (Photo by Patrick Riviere/Getty images)
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