
Oooooh. Nicole Kidman covers the June issue of Harper’s Bazaar Australia, and this is the cover. That’s little 18-month-old Faith in Nicole’s arms. Isn’t this a beautiful shot? I think so. Yes, Nicole is a Botox-monster who needs to STOP with the lip injections, but every now and then we can see a glimpse of the old Nicole, and how Nicole would look if she gave up her love affair with the Botox needle. This is one of those times. Plus, I just love all of the ginger. Nicole’s ginger, Faith’s ginger, it’s all beautiful. Incidentally, I love the way it seems like Nicole has chopped off her hair. Wouldn’t you love her hair so much if she cut it off and it looked like this? With regards to the cover line – I’m assuming it’s in reference to Nicole’s casting as 33-year-old Grace Kelly in Grace of Monaco.
The editor of HB Australia talks about how the cover shot came to be:
Truth, beauty, family. Editor Edwina McCann gets to know the real Nicole Kidman on location at BAZAAR’s August cover shoot.
Nicole Kidman is no stranger to criticism. She faced plenty after the birth in December 2010 of Faith Margaret, a much-yearned for sister for Sunday Rose. Faith was famously born with the help of a “gestational carrier” as is the common term in the US. No doubt there will be those who throw yet more criticism at her for allowing her children to feature in photos in this month’s Harper’s BAZAAR. So I wanted to explain what happened behind the scenes.
Kidman was booked for our cover shoot with a young Australian photographer and regular BAZAAR contributor, Will Davidson. The shoot took place a few hours out of Sydney in a country home with a perfect red dirt road, as envisioned by Davidson. Kidman arrived on time, without entourage, and even spotted the crew not a coffee but a coffee van — “my treat” — when she was told the cost was beyond the shoot budget. She was a willing photographic subject, talked to me in an unguarded and genuinely warm manner before the pictures, and later waited obligingly until dark for a specific Gucci dress to arrive. (In the end the light was so low that the shot didn’t make the cut.) Later in the afternoon, Sunday Rose and Faith arrived after their sleeps to see Mummy. Kidman didn’t want to put them down; Sunday Rose donned one of the tuxedo jackets from the clothing racks because it was getting chilly. The photographer then took some shots of Kidman with the girls solely for her family album.
[Via Harper’s Bazaar Aus.]
Nicole tells the editor that she was okay with the magazine using the shots of her kids: “I think it’s OK, because you can’t see their faces; they’re still protected. I feel it’s a really lovely way to celebrate being a mum and being a family, and they’re my daughters, and they’re Keith’s daughters [laughs] … you can see the hair!” See… I don’t have a problem with Nicole (or any celebrity woman) sharing photos of her kids in a magazine. I don’t have the hate-on for it that so many people do, mostly because I enjoy seeing photos of celebrities with their kids and I don’t judge that enjoyment, nor do I judge the moms who share photos. But Nicole’s quote still irritates me – she regularly gets pap’d with her youngest daughters. It happens all the time when she’s in LA. Which is fine. But don’t pretend that “you can’t see their faces” and that she doesn’t have candid photo ops with the kids when she’s got a film coming out, just like Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Garner and all of the rest of them.
Here are some new shots of Nicole as a brunette, shooting The Railway Man in Scotland. Jesus, her lips.




Photos courtesy of HB Australia, WENN.




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