At long last, there's been a Suri Cruise sighting.
As reported Tuesday on the CBS Evening News With Katie Couric, the daughter
of actor Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes will appear with her parents on the
cover Vanity Fair, which will hit newsstands on Wednesday.
Leading up to Tuesday's announcement, Suri Cruise had yet to be seen in
public, either in person or photographically, since entering the world April 18.
To some, this had been a holdout of staggering proportions.
Us Weekly magazine is running a clock, ticking off the days since Suri's
birth. German TV station RTL, taking matters into its own hands, produced a
composite image of what Suri might look like. TMZ.com, perhaps digging for
evidence of Suri's existence, obtained a copy of the official birth certificate,
filed May 8 in Los Angeles. And gossip Web site Defamer.com called the delay
"profoundly strange" and upgraded its suspicion from "mystery" to "riddle that
would make the Sphinx incontinent."
The secrecy had been in stark contrast to the couple's radically public
courtship. Cruise, 44, and Holmes, 27, spared no photo-op during their whirlwind
romance. They are now engaged, though there has been no word on wedding plans.
The top Invisible Baby theory involves Cruise's Scientology beliefs. The
religion's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, was very specific about how infants should
be treated ?he taught that birth should occur in a silent environment.
Perhaps Cruise believes media attention would bring unwanted distraction a
sentiment many parents would likely agree with.
Meanwhile, other celebrity babies born since Suri have made their public
bows. The daughter of Brooke Shields and Chris Henchy, Grier Hammond Henchy, was
revealed weeks ago ?and she was born the same day as Suri. Brad Pitt and
Angelina Jolie's daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, was born on May 27 and landed in
several magazines by early June. The recently born children of Gwen Stefani and
Rachel Weisz are confirmed to exist.
But Suri remains unseen, which is not unusual for a Cruise child. When he and
Nicole Kidman were married, their two adopted children weren't photographed
until 1996, when son Conor Anthony was a year old and daughter Isabella Jane was
3.
