Nicole Kidman doesn’t often share insights about her children and personal life, but now the Oscar winner has shared some heartbreaking confessions about how she and her family have struggled during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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Speaking to Glamour UK for their digital issue, Nicole, who shares her two adopted children Isabella, 27, and Connor, 25, with her ex-husband Tom Cruise and has two daughters Sunday Rose, 12, and Faith Margaret, nine, with husband Keith Urban, admitted her kids have had to make some big adjustments.
“Our kids – because we travel, and we won’t be apart – are used to having to learn online,” she explained to the publication.
“But the social distance has been very difficult for them. They are working through the emotions.”
The 53-year-old actress added: “For a 12-year-old, it’s about not being able to access friends easily – that’s a whole thing which every parent will be going through. And then, there’s a nine-year-old, who’s socially forming. One of the hardest things is just watching them pine and yearn for their friends. I pine and yearn for my friends too.”
Nicole also made some rare, candid remarks about growing up in Sydney, admitting that as a child, she had nowhere near the amount of privilege she does today.
“I’ve always been aware of privilege because both my parents came from nothing,” she confessed.
“When we moved to America, we had nothing. My parents had to go to the Salvation Army and get a donated mattress, which we all slept on, while my mum helped put my dad through his PhD as he came from a very poor family.”
The actress also spoke about her country music star husband’s tough childhood.
“I also married a man who’s totally self-made and came from a background where he said every brick in his house is a gig. He grew up on a farm, literally in a shed. They didn’t have bedrooms. Four of them lived in a shed that subsequently burned down. They have talked of a community that came and helped their family because they had nothing.”
Keith previously spoke to Stellar about how he became “creatively paralysed” during lockdown in his Nashville home.
“I didn’t do well with it. I just wanted to get in my trackies, sit on the couch and watch TV with Nic and the kids, and do nothing,” he confessed.
“I did that [nothing] for a while. The family got super-tight during that period.”
The award-winning country music star, who is based with his family in Byron Bay, added that his only struggle has been being separated from his mum and brother in Queensland.
“Nic’s mum and sister, and her kids and husband, are around. All the kids and cousins have got each other, which is really nice.”
Nicole is currently filming the TV adaptation of the Aussie novel Nine Perfect Strangers in the northern NSW coastal town.
The award-winning actress shared a snap from the Byron hinterlands on Instagram this weekend dressed in a crop top and leggings and fans couldn’t get over her youthful looks.
“Lady, do you ever age or just get better every day?” one fan questioned?
“How do you look like you are still in your 20’s??? Gorgeous!!” exclaimed another.
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