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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.”

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.

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.”

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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Nicole Kidman wasn’t expecting to find love with Keith Urban.

“I didn’t foresee it, that you can meet somebody who you have a deep and more profound love with,” the actress - who divorced Tom Cruise in 2001 - tells November’s Elle.

“I don’t mean to take away anything with Tom, but I would hope that he has the same thing - I know he has the same thing with Katie,” Kidman adds. “You move into a stage where you’re able to be a more fuller person in your relationship.”

She continues, “I want to be really careful with that because I don’t want to take away from 11 years with that man that were really important. Really, for our kids — they were amidst a lot of love. It wasn’t bad. And now we’re amidst a more evolved love.”

Does she have any regrets about marrying Cruise at the young age of 22?

“Um, no. Would I want my kids to get married at that age? No!” Kidman says. “But that was an extraordinary thing for me. [Tom] taught me an enormous amount — as a girl into a woman. Absolutely, I would do it again.”

(Seeing Cruise move on was tough, however: Her pal Lauren Bacall says that Kidman was “unhappy on the set of 2003’s Dogville. “Tom had taken off for Penelope Cruz or some g—–n thing — one of his more ridiculous moves,” Bacall says. Taking a slight jab at the actor, she tells Elle, “Tom Cruise is a maniac. I can’t understand the way he conducts his life.”)

Kidman also opens up to Elle about being a mother at age 41.

“At 41, it’s more of a painful love. I look at that little girl, and I’m like, ‘Oh, no, what’s going to happen?’ It’s almost like my heart is stretching; I’m feeling all the muscles stretch with emotion. It’s a beautiful love, but there’s a lot of fear and pain for her life, and for Bella’s and Connor’s life.

“I like to believe that nothing was stopping Sunday from coming into the world,” she adds.

(Incidentally, she denies reports she named her daughter after early 20th-century artist Sunday Reed. “That’s a myth,” she says. “We just liked the name.”)

“When it comes to my kids, I’m just like a lioness,” Kidman says. “I’m like, ‘No one gets near my babies! That’s why we chose not to sell photos of her. We just want to have our little cocoon.”

Urban is equally protective of Kidman.

“He’s the greatest man besides my dad I’ve ever met,” the actress says. “He’s loyal and he’s a soul searcher.”

She adds, “Keith gave me a life. He gave me a home.”

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There’s no doubt she is Mummy’s girl.

Nestled in Nicole Kidman’s arms, two-month-old Sunday Rose showed off a smattering of strawberry blonde hair.

And although Nicole Kidman wore a cap as she carried her daughter in London on Friday, the few strands that escaped were a perfect match.

The Australian actress, 41, is filming in the capital and has spent a month rehearsing for the musical Nine, with Penelope Cruz and Kate Hudson. She is expected to be here until Christmas.

Miss Kidman gave birth to Sunday Rose, named after the Australian art collector Sunday Reeve, in July, in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, the country singer Keith Urban, 40. He is with her in the UK.

She also has two adopted children with ex-husband Tom Cruise - Isabella, 15, and Connor, 13. She and Urban are reportedly planning to move to LA to be closer to them.

But although Sunday Rose is small enough to pick up and go, Miss Kidman may find her entourage a little less portable. It consists of a nanny, a chef, a driver, a bodyguard and a PA.

Miss Kidman recently attributed the ‘miracle’ birth of her daughter to the health-giving pristine waters in which she swam while filming in a remote location in Western Australia.

Nicole told The Australian Women’s Weekly: ‘I never thought that I would get pregnant and give birth to a child but it happened on this movie.

‘Seven babies were conceived out of this film and only one was a boy.

‘There is something up there in the Kununurra water because we all went swimming in the waterfalls, so we can call it the fertility waters now.’

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Even while pregnant with daughter Sunday, many were amazed that Nicole Kidman still managed to keep her svelte figure.

Now, in a new interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly, the 41-year-old actress opens up about her relatively small bump.

“I’m so lucky I’m so tall, so I carried small,” the 5′ 10 1/2″ star says. “Also, I have to say, I had a birth that I was blessed with, a labor that was very good and a baby that was very good to me in that regard.”

Kidman and husband Keith Urban welcomed Sunday, who weighed 6 lbs., 7 oz., in July.

But the actress, who had suffered a miscarriage with ex Tom Cruise, admits she wasn’t expecting to get pregnant at age 41.

She says “fertility waters” may have played a role.

During production of her upcoming romance Australia, she says she and six other women who swam in the waters of a small Outback town all got pregnant.

“I never thought that I would get pregnant and give birth to a child, but it happened on this movie,” Kidman says.

Seven babies were conceived out of this film and only one was a boy,” she continues. “There is something up there in the Kununurra water because we all went swimming in the waterfalls, so we can call it the fertility waters now.”

If newborn daughter Sunday, she says, “To be given this again is a beautiful thing. To have raised Bella and Connor since I was 25 and now to be able to do it again at 41 … wow!”

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Nestling against her famous mother’s tummy, little Sunday Rose Kidman showed she has inherited her mother’s stunning strawberry blonde hair.

The ginger tinge was clearly visible as Oscar winner Nicole Kidman carried her two-month old daughter in a papoose in London yesterday.

Miss Kidman has said of her baby: ‘She is like a doll – a little, little thing.’

Mother and child – along with Miss Kidman’s burgeoning entourage – visited a theatre school next to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

Miss Kidman has been in London for the past three weeks with her daughter, since she is working on a new movie here.

She has been putting in a full day of work at Shepperton Studios in West London from Monday to Friday every week, where she has been rehearsing for her new movie called Nine with fellow actresses Penelope Cruz and Kate Hudson.

She is spending evenings learning her lines in an apartment associated with a top London hotel.

She has accumulated a remarkable entourage for her stay in the capital – consisting of a nanny, a chef, a driver, a bodyguard and a PA.

All of whom ring her up to go jogging at 6am daily. This weekend she also went with her PA to watch the Noel Coward stage show of Brief Encounter at a theatre on Haymarket in London.

On Saturday morning she also went shopping with her baby on Portobello Road and joined friends for tea at the Dorchester.

Miss Kidman, 41, is expected to be in London until Christmas. She gave birth to Sunday Rose, named after Australian art collector Sunday Reeve, on July 7th in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband Keith Urban.

The Australian actress has two adopted children with ex-husband Tom Cruise – Isabella, 15, and Connor, 13 – and she and Urban reportedly plan to move to LA to be closer to them.

Mr Urban has spoken of his love of being a father. Urban, 40, gushed shortly after the birth: ‘We’re still experiencing the pure bliss of welcoming her into our lives.

‘We’re all doing superbly well and continue to be overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and well wishes we are receiving.’

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Keith Urban has shown his devotion to Nicole Kidman with a new tattoo boasting her name.

The country music singer had his arm inked with his wife-of-one-year’s name just weeks before she gave birth to daughter Sunday Rose. The proud dad showed off his decorated bicep as he headed through Los Angeles airport at the weekend.

The tattoo is not Urban’s first. He already has Amor Vincit Omnia on his arm, which reads Love Conquers in Latin.

He and then girlfriend, supermodel Niki Taylor, had the matching tattoos during their relationship in the 90s.

He has now had this altered to include Nicole’s initials.

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A producer who’s worked with Urban in the country-music capital says the duo is mulling a move to LA so that Kidman can be closer to Isabella and Connor, the kids she adopted with ex Tom Cruise. “They’ve been thinking about relocating so she can spend more time with the older kids,” said the source. Kidman just gave birth to daughter Sunday Rose. Her rep said that she and Urban had “bought a small house” in LA but that “she doesn’t comment on her children.”

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