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Katie Holmes admits to Hello that she blushes when her husband Tom Cruise pays her a compliment. Not only does it make her blush, but it gives her confidence in herself.
“I love it when Tom tells me I look great. It gives me such confidence,” she tells Hello.
It might make her blush a little, but it also helps her have a little ‘tude.
“Sometimes it makes me blush but it also gives me attitude. Every woman likes to be told she looks beautiful,” says Katie.
Even though he gives her compliments and confidence, she still struggles with body image like most women do.
“I try to embrace my imperfections,” she says.“But I will forever wage the battle of the thighs! So I prefer not to show them off. I am pretty tall. Usually most actresses are tiny and I’m not – I’m a big one.”
I have seen tabloids that made fun of her thighs and her height and it just angers me. Of course, they don’t just do it to her. Every celebrity is at the mercy of the cameras. I have loved seeing Jennifer Lopez out lately in a bikini, showing of her post pregnancy body and not even worrying about it. I think she looks gorgeous and so does Katie.
It’s good to hear that Tom’s comments make her react that way. No matter what people may say about him, I believe he loves her whole-heartedly.
Image used with permission by Newscom
Great point, Julie! I don’t think I could hack being a celeb and having every ounce of cellulite analyzed at every turn.
I kind of admire J-Lo for that reason, since she doesn’t have the perfect body but loves the bod she has. She doesn’t care who calls her fat, who thinks she should lose weight, she knows she’s sexy and doesn’t think twice about the rest of the paparazzi hoopla.
At first I thought this was just a redo of an interview she gave early in their marriage. The loving Tom’s complements and them giving her ‘attitude’ seemed like a rewrite. But I guess this is a new interview?? Altho I would not have thought she might give anything to a source like Hello Mag. –Since it is British and not American, maybe she feels they are friendlier towards her??
it sounds like its bits and pieces from a lot of different interviews , and a lot of it sounds made up, i think.
Interesting, I was confused too because I thought it sounded like a lot of the stuff she already said before too.
You might be on to something there, Annie.
And Tyler it IS confusing, she was such a STRONG person and SO confident BEFORE tc ever came into her life. What happened to make her lose it and then have to turn to him?
She looks pretty, but she needs to grow back the hair, it is not her time to have it short, unless she had to do it for that play. I hope she grows it back. I also feel that Hello has a fake interview published, I don’t think she would want the attention of an interview when she is not promoting a movie or something. I think that of course, having to hear all that crap being said about her child and her husband just makes her feel so frustrated at some of the people in this world, she didn’t have to deal with that back then. But now it is different, it hurts to hear stuff being said about the ones you love, your child and your husband and even you.
Is this from Hello? Hello, was much better than the rest of the tabs. The British tabloids are known for making up stuff, as well as get bits and pieces from old interviews to make a new one. There was that fake interview the Daily Mail did with KH and Heat magazine with NK..
I am not sure about this interview but I must say I have heard most of it before. Also I would wonder whys he is giving interviews without a photo shoot.
Katie has always been a bit shy, she has also mentioned her thighs in an interview befor TC and her height in several interviews. I don’t girls that tall who don’t have something to say about their height. Even NK and Heidi Klum admitted that they are always self conscious about their height and bodies. Which girl isn’t.
Perhaps it is just rehashed stuff after all. I doubt she is giving interviews these days..
When I want to really see Katie, I just go to YouTube and look up her old interviews with letterman, etc. The difference, in my view, between before and after TC is like night and day. I wonder why we never see Tom holding her hand, or showing much affection at all these days. Even on O show, he doesn’t speak much about his soulmate whom he believes he has loved thru many lives..
I find it to be sad that any woman has to feel self-conscious about her body or appearance. Having 2 teenage daughters makes me even more aware of the pressures on us today to be “perfect.” Does anyone remember the awful comments made about Jennifer Love Hewitt after she was photographed wearing a black bikini some months back? Things like that make me angry and I feel that most of this comes from men and their desire to have a woman who fits their idea of a perfect body. I am glad that Katie has a man who can make her feel wonderful about herself because that is what every woman deserves.
Wow, Con.mom, now you’re doubting Tom’s love for Katie and not Katie’s for Tom? LOL! You’re analysing TOO MUCH into their lives!
Here is what TC said about KH on O:
O: “What was going on with you in that moment (when he jumped on her sofa)?”
T: “I just felt that way, and I FEEL that way about her (Katie),” Tom says. “I can’t even articulate it, to be honest. That feeling, that connection. Just who she is and what she means to me.”
Con.mom said: “I wonder why we never see Tom holding her hand, or showing much affection at all these days.”
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First of all we don’t see many pics of them these days, and secondly, do you keep up with all their pics? If so then you not paying attention. Didn’t you see them at the MTV awards, holding hands? Whenever we see them in public they are always holding hands, even when one of them is holding Suri.
I know people are running out of things to pick about these family but some of you are getting carried away..
Correction:
I know people are running out of things to pick on this family but some of you are getting carried away..
You well said hana ı all agree with you. They really love each other so much .I can ‘t understand why people hate being so in love.They are the cutest and devoted couple ı have ever seen
They are so in love and devoted to eachother, you can see it in every look, every gesture, just look closely again at their Telluride walk video July 4th. What a beautiful, happy family. Also, patriotic!
My parents have been married for 45 years and are still very much in love. They do not participate in public displays of affection and are often teased about it. How a couple appears in public has very little bearing on what goes on in private.
The most publicly affection man I ever dated was also the only man who ever hit me.
I am not implying that Mr. Cruise and Ms. Holmes are not in love. I am simply pointing out to “dido” that what you see doesn’t dictate what they feel.
People don’t “hate being in love”, people don’t like Mr. Cruise’s arrogance.
Ahhh Hana-Ana there you are!! Don’t see you that much.. Nope not really. I don’t particularly care how Tom feels..except for the show he put on in the early days –Was it ‘true love’ whatever that is or was it ‘acting’.. One thing I do know that it was–was OVER THE TOP in our face kind of like the Bennifer days–Thank God those are also over.. He couldn’t say enough about his love for Kate and what a great woman she was..I mean after all he did do that famous jumping on the couch on O because he just couldn’t help but proclaim his love to the world…The July 4 pictures don’t really show much love between either one of them.. He used to carry Suri in one arm and hold onto ‘Kate’ with the other. I didn’t see all the O gotta love tommy time interviews so I don’t know if he was still saying how much he loves and respects her and what a great woman she is, etc but if pictures speak a thousand words–recent pictures of these two tell volumes…
Huh?
Should we bring out the love police because TC wasn’t holding Katie’s hand while holding Suri in one arm, on one occasion. But of course KH had her arm around Tom’s waist and was caressing his back affectionately.
Petty I tell you, just petty!
The most recent pictures we have of Tom and Katie are from the MTV awards………………Lovely pictures!
In the July 4th pictures and video, Katie is caressing her husband’s back…….Again, lovely!
After all the hoopla……….Speaks volumes of love to me.
There has been so much wishing and hoping in the media that this union fails, it’s no wonder that there is so much picking apart of every picture and everything else about this couple.
TC jumped………… he got the woman, he married the woman!
Continued happiness to them!
As I said before, the tables have definitely turned. Katie used to be the center of Tom’s attention. Lately, she’s on the periphery of his interaction with Suri. It could all be coincidental, of course, but definitely in contrast to earliers photos of these two.
But, then let’s face it, the heated passion always dies down. Hopefully, they got to know each other well enough in those one or two months before she got knocked up because the infatuation will not carry either one for a lifetime.
She has a great shape and so do most in hollywood. What is perfect anyway? Is the skinny girl without muscle and just bones the perfect one? I don’t let me daughter watch beauty shows because I don’t want her to get the wrong idea.
You all are so amusing. Love police..LOL Good one.
I keep recalling that quote from Katie……….”It would be nice if people were just happy for us”
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Sadly, many people seem to wish for them to break up.
If anyone can’t tell a difference in how he is treating her these days-excluding red carpet events which are for show, blind hero worship has its benefits..
Why is it that TC appears to be treating KH differently? I can’t figure out what would have
changed his feelings. She is as loving and lovely
as ever. Did she do something wrong?
Hana, if you actually looked at the pics in Telluride, you’ll see that she’s guiding him to the car. She can’t wait to get the hec out of Dodge and it’s very apparent in the way she put her hand on his back to say, “walk this way.” If you watch the video, it’ll be clear to you. It was not a lovey-dovey move because she doesn’t even make eye contact with him at any time.
Let’s recall now…….The last time we saw Katie and Tom together was at the 4th of July parade and from the bit of video and few pictures they look perfectly fine and dandy interacting with the neighbors and Katie is caressing her husband’s back.
As they go back to the car TC is gently touching his wife’s back as she gets in the car with Suri.
Prior to that we have the candids from the soccer game where the entire family attended………Lovely photos there too.
We also have backstage at the MTV awards…………Lovely candids from that event too.
Blind hero worship…………….Not for any celebrity. The only person deserving of that compliment would be by mother.
i don’t know why this young woman is worried about the ‘battle of the thighs’ – she should concentrate on the ‘war of the calves’ – that is her weak spot in my opinion
‘If you look too hard for the flaws, you will find them where there none’ -Arnette Lamb.
The posters who have expressed their desire to see this marriage break time and time again are the ones seeing things. I am not surprised. After telling us Tom and Katie were acting, now they see no love between them. Make up your mind, you did not believe that love was there in the first place, how then can you say you no longer see it? Have Tom and Katie become less good at acting then?
For those of us who have always seen true love, we still see it, so far we have been right, Tom and Katie are still together despite the prophecies of doom.
Maybe you have wished so hard for them to stop loving each other that you are starting to mix wishes and horses. LOL….
The only posters that express horrible things about t&k are posted by the ones that say they are the true fans.
C-mom, Tyler and myself along with all of the other clear and free thinkers have NEVER posted that we WANT or desire bad to happen to this couple. The ones that say they are fans post the strong words and then try to hide behind them saying that we are the ones posting them.
I myself have posted that I don’t see the relationship lasting longer then 15 years. BUT I say that based on tc’s history with MANY women, AND that they are a Hollywood couple. (I feel the same about some other hollywood couples).
I really want kh to succeed on Broadway. I don’t care for the types of movies that tc has been doing lately, but I do not want them to fail because he employees so many in the industry, and my neighborhood depends on the movie hands to survive.
So please, stop saying “we” want bad things to happen. WE DON’T!
considering all the dreadful things that have been said and written about tom and katie and what the’ve been through, i am actually very surprised they are still together. i’ve said it before, there have been certain things said about this relationship that bother me, thing that a young wife should never ever have to hear. he,s had a rough time, and she’s gone through that with him, they never ever let up on ridiculing her work , but katie doen’t give the appearance lately of being happy, her face looks thin and drawn, i suppose there could be lots of different reasons for her looking drained, but in hollywood appearances and 24 hour smiles are a must, so thats why i think that maybe there is a little something not right , but like i said i don’t know what.
No, its an insight into their lives and her testament to what a Great guy and husband Tom Cruise is. That’s what I get from it anyway.
Anne,
Frankly, if you were so sure you wouldn’t find the need to post those thoughts here. You’d go on your merry way, yet it bothers you enough that you have to reinforce your mindset. You know you’re not changing my viewpoint, so I have to believe you’re trying to convince yourself.
I don’t think it’s so much that people want them to break up as it is the kind of fascination one derives from rubbernecking at a car crash…. it’s just so fake, such “movie script” stuff. My husband and I are madly in love with each other, but he doesn’t make me blush when he compliments me.
when tom and katie got together everone was saying that the whole thing was an act, and i think a lot still do, but in my mind, i could never figure out what these two people had to gain by acting to be in love, forget katie, but why tom…please don’t anyone tell meit was to promote their movies either,honestly i have never been able to understand why people said that.
THIS IS FOR THE THE PEOPLE, FROM THE 4TH JULY THREAD………don’t know tom cruise, don’t know katie holmes or 2 yr old suri, but i do know one thing that alot of you people are are very nasty and seriously disturbed. you hate with a vengance, i realise now ,where Lauren is coming from.
AWWW!
Tyler, what you have said to Anne applies so much to you. If you are so sure, why tell us every day at every opportunity that this marriage is doomed? Are you trying to convince yourself?
@Annie,
I tell you, usually I never snap at people, but some people here can drive you crazy. Con mom, Puck and Tyler are the sane ones of the lot. You have not met the truly twisted ones who put a spin on everything tomkat and twist it to their imagination. And what fertile imagination!
I have never thought that this union was fake. Never. Mimi Rogers Tom’s ex said, ‘any woman would love Tom, any man would love Katie, why do people find it hard to believe they are in love?’
Every one is entitled to their opinion. Some people here are divorced (no disrespect to any one) such people are cynical about true love. Seeing rich people in love makes them a bit bitter. Denial that such love exists makes them feel better about themselves.
Others have a problem with scientology, those are quite many. They think Tom Cruise should take a fall for his church. So they are doing everything in their power to turn public sentiment against him by clinging on four year old stories and things he has already apologised for and truly put in the past. Lets see whether they will cling onto ‘he attacked Brooke Shields’ ten years later. They don’t have any new wrongs to cling to, so they concoct some and turn even simple acts like the way he is holding Suri or holding Katie’s hand into a crime.
Others are simply disgruntled people who want to take it out on any one. These people will always exist in life. They are unhappy in their personal lives and take it out on the world. They will always look for a way to take out their negative energy by hating strangers.
Phew, I am glad that is off my chest.
I want to say first to Amy….your comment about Katie’s calves was and is inappropriate in my opinion. I don’t even know where that comes from anyway…have you actually LOOKED at her legs? There is nothing wrong with them that would deserve such criticism. I guess I was somewhat wrong in my statement that a lot of this desire for women to be “perfect” comes from men because given your name you are clearly not one. Yet here you are helping to add to the body image problem that most women have.
I also feel compelled to say to Lauren that you really ought to try to avoid making generalizations and blanket statements. You do it quite a lot and it really doesn’t help to bolster your position in these “debates” or whatever people want to call them. You stated that “some people here are divorced(no disrespect to anyone) such people are cynical about true love. Seeing rich people in love makes them a bit bitter. Denial that such love exists makes them feel better about themselves.” I myself have been married twice (which means I was divorced) and I only found out that true love does exist through meeting my second husband. Getting divorced did not taint my views on love and marriage and make me cynical to the existence of finding the one meant for you. I would imagine that I am not the only “divorced” person here that that would apply to.
And lastly to Jane. Noone has said (or at least no reasonable person has said) that it is ok to diagnose others from pictures and etc. So for you to say that you think that Con Mom has Alzheimers is inappropriate in my opinion. Just the same as it is for others to say that little Suri has autism based upon looking at pictures. It is beyond ridiculous in both situations. Perhaps you and all others here could try to make your points without being insulting to anyone? Just a thought.
Liliane, Thank you!!!!!!
kit, you are welcome. I don’t know what I did to warrant a thank you but you are welcome nonetheless.
I’ll tell you what you did Lillianne………You are a wonderful representation of how opinions should be expressed.
Thank You.
Lilliane, I always love your posts and I have told you so. I am glad there is a voice of reason. I do also sometimes understand why fans get a bit miffed. Some things insinuated by posters are too absurd to even reply. Do they wish a little girl ill? They seem as though they are. How would they feel if someone told their child those same things, even with good intentions? The fact that they don’t like Tom makes me doubt their good intentions.
Con mom does say the same thing all the time. It can get tiring. Lets all exercise some calm.
Thank you, Mary, that is a lovely thing to say. And you are welcome too. Thank you too, Anne.
I don’t know if I am the voice of reason exactly. I just say things how I see them. I also once heard an invaluable piece of advice about listening vs. speaking that I never forgot. “Do you know why God gave you 2 ears and only 1 mouth? It is so that you can listen twice as much as you speak.” I know that once you say something you can’t ever get it back and even though this is a blog and we are somewhat anonymous I still feel that we should be careful what we say and never forget that there is always someone on the other side reading our words.