Nicole Kidman’s Mother’s Day post was meant to be sweet. Instead, it set off a familiar family question.
The ‘Babygirl’ actress marked Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 10, with a tribute to her daughters Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret, whom she shares with ex-husband Keith Urban. The photo showed Kidman with the girls when they were younger, and the caption leaned warm and simple.
“To my beautiful girls, the greatest joy is being your mother. Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers in the world,” Kidman wrote.
Fans quickly noticed who was not mentioned: Isabella Jane Cruise and Connor Cruise, the two children Kidman adopted during her marriage to Tom Cruise. That omission did not pass quietly.
Fans Question Nicole Kidman’s Mother’s Day Tribute
Kidman’s post drew heat almost immediately from commenters who felt the tribute ignored her two older children.
“What about the other two kids?” one person asked. Another wrote, “I thought you had 4 kids! This is so weird.” A third added, “This hurts my heart,” while another commenter was harsher, writing, “Other kids just used to be a past?”
The backlash was blunt. For many fans, the post reopened years of public curiosity about Kidman’s relationship with Isabella and Connor, who have both stayed far away from the usual Hollywood attention cycle.
Why Nicole Kidman And Tom Cruise Adopted
Kidman and Cruise adopted Isabella and Connor during their marriage in the 1990s. Kidman previously said adoption came after a painful pregnancy loss early in the relationship.
“From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies, and we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic,” Kidman told Vanity Fair in 2007. “And that’s when we would adopt Bella.”
Isabella, now widely known as Bella, was born in Miami in December 1992. She later studied at the Delmar Academy of Make-up and Hair in West London and has since built a quieter creative life. Her official website describes her as a lifelong artist whose work draws from friends, fashion, and music.
Connor also kept a lower public profile, though he briefly stepped into entertainment. He appeared with Will Smith in ‘Seven Pounds’ in 2008 and had a role in ‘Red Dawn’ in 2012. He later tried DJing and released music.
Isabella And Connor Keep Quieter Lives
Connor now reportedly lives in Clearwater, Florida, where he keeps a simpler routine centered on deep-sea fishing and his barbecue business.
“Connor has a pretty simple life in Clearwater,” a source said. “He lives in his own home in a Scientology community. His life is deep-sea fishing. He has a lot of friends and seems very well-liked.”
Kidman has rarely spoken in detail about her current relationship with Isabella and Connor. That silence has only made fans more curious. Some have long wondered whether Scientology and family distance played a role in the public separation between Kidman and her older children.
Her Mother’s Day post did not explain anything. It only added fresh fuel to an old question: why were two of her four children missing from the tribute?
