Nicole Kidmanis doing what she thinks is best to keep her girls grounded.
TheBig Little Liesstar posed for the May 2019 cover ofVanity Fairand opened up to the magazine about one policy she has in place for her two daughters with husbandKeith Urban— 8-year-oldFaith Margaretand her big sisterSunday Rose, 10 — that might make them not herbiggestfan at times.
“They don’t have a phone and I don’t allow them to have an Instagram,” Kidman, 51, tells the magazine, explaining of her logic behind the decision, “I try to keep some sort of boundaries.”
She also has a sweet anecdote about her two children with ex-husbandTom Cruise: sonConnor, 24, and daughterIsabella, 26, whom she shares live in Miami and “just outside London” now, respectively.
“You know, [Bella] really feels more English. We lived there forEyes Wide Shut,Mission ImpossibleandThePortrait of a Lady,”Kidman says. “They both hadEnglish accents when they were little.”
Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman’s daughters.Keith Urban/Instagram
Nicole Kidmanon the cover ofVanity Fair‘s May 2019 issue.Collier Schorr for Vanity Fair
Kidman’s daughters are both musical, like their dad. Faith plays violin, she tellsVanity Fair, while Sunday plays piano — and is interestedin filmmaking, like her mother.
But that doesn’t mean the actress is pushing her girls into her profession — and even if she would, it might not make a difference. As she explains, “You can’treally get kids into anything, I’ve realized. You can push them a bit, but motivation is a really hard thing.”
“I mean, nobody motivated me to be an actor; if anything they tried to deter me,” Kidman adds.
Nicole Kidman.
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Boundaries in regards to social media is only one of the lessons Kidman strives to instill in her children. In the first season ofBig Little Lies, her characterCeleste is a victim of physical abuse— and she tellsVanity Fairthat she has begun broaching similar subjects with her older daughter.
“I was talking to Sunday about there being little girls in different parts of this world who don’t own their bodies,” Kidman says. “A man owns their body. Her eyes were like, ‘What?’ ”
“We’re trying to educate about those things. But it’s giving the information gently, and then guiding,” she shares.
Big Little Liesseason 2premieres June 9 on HBO.
source: people.com
