Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
The Tomkitten has arrived. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the high-profile pair dubbed TomKat by the media, had a baby girl Tuesday, said Cruise spokesman Arnold Robinson. The baby, named Suri, weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and measured 20 inches long, he said.
"Both mother and daughter are doing well," Robinson said in a prepared statement.
The name Suri has its origins in Hebrew, meaning "princess," or in Persian, meaning "red rose," the statement said.
The baby was born in Los Angeles but the exact location was not disclosed.
It's the first child for Holmes, 27. Cruise, 43, has an adopted daughter and son from his marriage to Nicole Kidman.
Details surrounding the birth, which was planned under the tenets of the Church of Scientology as a silent procedure, weren't disclosed.
Outside the Beverly Hills home where Cruise and Holmes live, about a dozen reporters and photographers stood by. Security officers inside the compound videotaped the journalists.
A security guard at the gate which was shrouded in black to prevent anyone from seeing in refused to release any information. A few cars did arrive and were allowed into the estate. A police motorcycle officer stopped by around 4 p.m. and sat watching the goings-on.
The patrolman, who identified himself as Officer Chase, said he was just making a routine check, since activity around the area had been heightened for some time. He asked if the baby had been born, was told yes, and drove off.
It was just about a year ago that Cruise's romance with Holmes became a world sensation.
Cruise hopped up and down on a couch during an interview with Oprah Winfrey as he professed his love.
"I can't be cool. I can't be laid-back," Cruise declared at the time. "Something happened and I want to celebrate it."
The antics were widely mocked but Cruise was unfazed and continued to avow his affection for Holmes.
He and Holmes, a star of TV's "Dawson's Creek," had been first photographed together in Rome in April 2005.
She had previously been engaged to actor Chris Klein; Cruise had been married to Mimi Rogers as well as Kidman, and had dated Penelope Cruz for several years.
In June, Cruise announced to a Paris press conference that he had proposed to Holmes atop the Eiffel Tower.
"Today is a magnificent day for me, I'm engaged to a magnificent woman," he said. No wedding date has been disclosed.
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A Baby Girl for Brooke!
Brooke Shields
Actress BROOKE SHIELDS gave birth to a baby girl this morning, "The Insider"'s MARC MALKIN confirmed today. Brooke and husband CHRIS HENCHY welcomed GRIER HAMMOND HENCHY into the family fold. She weighs 7 pounds and is 20 inches long!
The former "Suddenly Susan" star announced her pregnancy last October. She and Chris already have a toddler, ROWAN, whom Brooke wrote lovingly about in her recent memoirs.
Last summer, the 40-year-old Broadway star shared her frightening spiral after giving birth to Rowan in Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Post-Partum Depression. The book chronicled her paralyzing depression and her husband's inability to help her.
"I was lost behind my eyes," she told "The Insider"'s LARA SPENCER. "I was not recognizable to him. Chris said, 'There are women who are happy. There are pregnant happy women who are happy who are buying things, holding their babies and cooing to their child.' He said, 'You don't look happy. You don't hold her. What's wrong?' And I didn't even have the energy to comfort him. I just said, 'I don't know.'"
Happily, Brooke was able to recover with the help of her obstetrician, the anti-depressant medication Paxil and therapy. And she expressed her wish to have more children!
"You know, some women don't have it with their first child and have it with their third," she said. "It sort of reiterates again that our bodies are never in the same state at any one time, so it depends on where your body is chemically at that time. But now I'm armed with knowledge, so I'm not going to be shocked."
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