Nicole Kidman welcomed the staff of Vogue Magazine in her home in Nashville and opened up about a part of the home life she rarely talks about in the media.
Inside the house she shares with her husband, country singer and "American Idol" judge Keith Urban, and their two daughters, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret, she fondly showed her guests her rose garden and revealed that she has long cultured a green thumb even back in Australia.
"You have no idea . . . growing those roses in Tennessee . . . I sound like an old woman, but that is joy for me," she said. "I bring my girls down here and say, 'Look!' and they're like, 'Ehhh . . . yeah.'" Nicole told Vogue.
Her young kids, ages six and four, are growing up with the idea that their parents work in the entertainment business, yet they are not easily impressed. When asked by the writer if the kids watch their mother on the set, the Australian star candidly said, "They come and sit on the set and go, 'Where are the snacks?'"
But it is in Nashville where the kids are grounded and where Nicole also lives the life of a regular mother. Here, the Oscar-winning actress carpools the kids to school in the mornings, the Vogue story stated.
Married to Keith since June 2006, Nicole still finds her husband irresistible after all these years. Once, during a night jamming with friends, the actress gushed, "I looked up at him at one point and I saw his tattoos and his foot going, and he had the guitar, and I was like, 'God, I love that man. I'm so glad I'm in this world.'"
"I wish I could have met him much earlier and had way more children with him. But I didn't. I mean, if I could have had two more children with him that would have been just glorious. But as Keith says, 'The wanting mind, Nicole. Shut it down.'"
She has had a lot of experience with having children via adoption, biologically giving birth and surrogacy and thinks that talking about it will help her friends. "I speak openly about it because so many of my friends are discussing it. It's important for other women to go, 'I get it!'" according to Entertainment Weekly.
The full interview will be in the August issue of Vogue, which will be in newsstands July 21, according to E! Online.
