Aussie Does It

At least, Hollywood is a place Kidman sometimes goes. Poor Sunday Rose is still adjusting to the lifestyle. "She was really screamy when we got here. She was a bit jet-lagged. She's usually so quiet, but" --

The baby is . . . here? Where?

"Mmm-hmmm, she's upstairs, I hope she's calming down. Otherwise, you could have --" Kidman starts to say, and then of course, no, you could not have.

No media will get to goo-goo-gaw-gaw at this baby for a long time. As soon as she gave birth this past summer, Kidman says, her joy came with worry, about Sunday Rose in the celebrity world. We have a copy of the fluffy fashion section from yesterday's Los Angeles Times, with a picture of a seventh-months-pregnant Nicole that accompanies an article headlined "Expecting Sexy."

"They printed a picture of me?" she asks. It's odd how she does this, how she wants to make you think that she is unaware that there are pictures and pictures and pictures of her like this, everywhere. "Look at that, it's me. With my little baby and she's inside of me. This was in Las Vegas. They printed this," she says. "Awww."

The reverse of this sweetness is that Kidman is fiercely protective of her brood, which includes her daughter and son, Isabella and Connor, whom she and Tom Cruise adopted as babies during their 10-year marriage. She didn't sell Sunday Rose's baby photos to magazines, even for charity. She mentions that Isabella, 15, loves to babysit (having done the same big-sister duty for Cruise and Katie Holmes's muchly photographed daughter, Suri). "Bella's really great with Sunday Rose."

To be closer to her older children and keep the family together, Kidman and Urban recently bought another house in L.A. "It's strange, but in a great way, to have teenagers. For a period of time it's secretive and then it's not. They get to this age where they start to open up, and it's really nice. And they keep me informed about things I would not know about otherwise."

What sort of things?

"Music and things in culture and, well, Bella and Keith really like the same music, which is interesting to me, and --" she says and then catches herself. "But anyway, we won't discuss my kids, because they don't like it. They read these things and they're like, 'Shut up!' "

You embarrass them?

"No, not that, really. It's just that they work so hard to stay private," she says.

Same goes for all the tricky subjects: The rehab stints Urban did soon after she married him in 2006. ("We got through it.") Her old life, married to Cruise. ("A great father.") Whatever went down years ago with the Church of Scientology. (She has said before that she gave up on it even before the marriage to Cruise was over, respectfully backed away from it and eventually reconnected to the Catholicism she grew up with, and has never said a disparaging word about Thetans or Xenu, though imagine what she must have seen.)