Brooke Shields was “of course” always going to attend Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ 2006 wedding – but initially joked why she’d skip it.
“I would say yes to that,” Shields, 58, said. Entertainment Weekly. “I was like, ‘Yeah. I’ll do it — as long as I’m not a bit old!’
The “Dawson’s Creek” alum, 45, then made a special request before walking down the aisle.
“She goes, ‘Oh, do you?’ And I said, ‘What? Bring yourself as an old thing?’
“I had to, like, hunt down antiques,” Shields continued, “you know, to find the perfect one, to give her a gift.”
Luckily, the “Mother of the Bride” actress found a Victorian gift for Holmes.
“It was a little compact that you put the ring on … so you should be able to see their reflection in it and put it around your finger,” she explained to EW. “It was really beautiful.”
In 2006, Shields and Cruise had a public feud after Cruise shamed her for taking medication to deal with her postpartum depression. “It was so funny to me,” Shields said in her 2023 Hulu documentary, “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.”
“It’s not about the moral thing, or the right thing, or the good thing. It’s about who has more power.”
Cruz made his stand with former TODAY co-host Matt Lauer. “There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance. The thing I’m saying about Brooke is misinformation. She doesn’t understand the history of psychology,” he said at the time. Despite the bickering, Shields eventually received an invitation to the wedding.
Meanwhile, Holmes and Cruise, 61, welcomed daughter Suri that same year.
Last month, sorry – which still is. Separated from Cruz – turned 18. Suri grew up primarily in Manhattan and has been sheltered by Cruise’s Church of Scientology since Exes split in 2012.
Last year, Holmes told Glamor magazine that she likes to “shield” Suri from the public eye “because she was so visible when she was younger.”
She added: “I’m so grateful to be a parent, to be his parent. He’s an incredible person. He’s my heart.”
Cruise, for his part, is also the father of two adopted children, Bella, now 31, and Connor, now 29, with ex-wife Nicole Kidman. Earlier this month, a photo taken with Bella and Conor in December 2023 went viral. This was the first photo of the trio. They have been shown together in public since 2009.
“All my life I’ve always wanted to be a father,” the “Top Gun: Maverick” actor told Vanity Fair in 2006.
“I always told myself that my children would be able to depend on me and that I would always be with them and love them – that I would never make a promise to my children that I could not keep. I can.”
He added: “I’m not one of those people who believes you can spoil a child with too much love. You can never give a child too much love. There’s just no way.”
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