Nicole Kidman admitted to reporters she felt like a “silent partner” when married to Tom Cruise. She never felt her movies were that great and instead resigned herself to posing in pretty dresses with Tom at award shows. How tragic! Being Tom Cruise’s card board cut-out wife is a fate worse than death.

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I felt I became a star only by association. I didn’t think [my early movies] were very good, which is why I would always cower in the background. I thought, I don’t deserve to be here. We would go to the Oscars, and I would think, I’m here to support him. I felt it was my job to put on a beautiful dress and to be seen and not heard.”

Tom Cruise has a talent for turning his wives into power accessories. Katie Holmes has practically been molded into a baby-making robot with a frozen housewife smile. Ugh. I wonder what he says to them behind closed doors.

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