\n“At 41, it’s a more painful love,” she said. “It’s almost like my heart is stretching – I’m feeling all these 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.”
\nKidman said her second marriage \u2013 to Australian country music star Keith Urban \u2013 had enabled her to find a deeper love. “I didn’t foresee it – that you can meet someone who you have a deep and more profound love with,” she said.
\n“You move into a stage where you’re able to be a more fuller person in your relationship.”
\nIn the interview with the November issue of US magazine Elle, Kidman stressed that her comments were not meant as a slight to her ex-husband Tom Cruise and said she wished nothing but happiness for him and his wife Katie Holmes.
\n“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,” she said.
\n“Really, for our kids \u2013 they were amidst a lot of love. It wasn’t bad and now we’re amidst a more evolved love. “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.”
\nKidman said she did not regret marrying Cruise when she was only 22 years old. “Would I want my kids to get married at that age? No,” Kidman said.
\n“But that was an extraordinary thing for me.
\n“(Tom) taught me an enormous amount \u2013 as a girl into a woman.
\n“Absolutely, I would do it again.”
\nKidman said she was determined to protect her family from publicity \u2013 a major factor in the couple’s decision not to sell photos of Sunday after her July birth.
\n“When it comes to my kids, I’m just like a lioness,” Kidman said. “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.”
\nKidman graces the cover of Elle’s Annual Women in Hollywood issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"