Katie Holmes Interview with Glamour Magazine

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Katie Holmes graces the cover of Glamour Magazine's 2009 April edition. Holmes sat down with Glamour magazine and dished about motherhood, her famous husband Tom Cruise, and what life is like being Katie Holmes.

GLAMOUR: You once said that your mother told you, of her life as a mom, “I didn’t sleep for 15 years.” KH: I don’t know if she’s even getting any sleep now! My sisters and brother and I call her: “Mom, what do you think of this?” “Mom, what do I do?” GLAMOUR: Still, you’ve come into your own. In a recent interview you said, “I’m a bit wiser.” How? KH: Well, becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience—in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it’s the most important job in the world. GLAMOUR: Did it scare you at all? The responsibility? KH: Of course. During the first couple of days [with Suri], we would just sleep right next to her to make sure she was breathing. And I was constantly learning on the job, but Tom was very helpful and supportive.



GLAMOUR: You are very protective of your family. You’ve said a couple of times [in response to various rumors about her relationship with Cruise, a practicing Scientologist, and speculation that Suri didn’t exist] that all of the gossip is “not OK.” KH: Some of the stuff [people said] was such absolutely horrible things to say about a child. It was so uncalled for and so disgusting. Enough is enough. GLAMOUR: Did Tom ever say, “Don’t worry about it” [since he was more used to media scrutiny]? KH: Yes. We were changing diapers. He said, “I don’t want you to get upset.” And I said, “Well, I am upset.” So we approached it together. But I definitely felt like—as a woman, as the mother of Suri—I want to handle this! My mom is very strong, and if anyone ever said anything about any of us, she would be, “Excuse me? That’s my family!” GLAMOUR: As you know, the rumor right now is that you are pregnant! KH: Well, I’m not pregnant right now. GLAMOUR: The people who print stuff like that…if you could say something to them, what would it be? KH: Sometimes I think I would say, “Why don’t you come over and have dinner? See what there is to see.” GLAMOUR: And what would they see? What’s a day in the life of Katie, Tom and Suri? KH: We’re all together. We like to be together, so we use the house for our [business] meetings. [We] play Yahtzee, board games, Scrabble. We grill; have pool parties. We play “The Three Little Pigs” and Suri is the Big Bad Wolf. [Tom] reads storybooks to Suri, and we all laugh. When a good song comes on, he’ll break out in a dance. We’ll watch movies in bed—recently Madagascar and Cinderella, for Suri. We really have a good time.

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