October 6, 2005
Happy Hollywood couple TOM CRUISE and KATIE HOLMES are expecting their first child together, a rep for Cruise confirmed to ET Wednesday.
"Tom and Katie are very excited, and the entire family is very excited," a spokesperson told People magazine.
The inseparable twosome have been dating since last April in a whirlwind romance. This will be the first baby for Katie. Tom has two other children, ISABELLA, 12, and CONNOR, 10, both of whom he adopted with ex-wife NICOLE KIDMAN.
Close Cruise pals and fellow Scientologists JOHN TRAVOLTA and KELLY PRESTON reacted to the news: "We're so excited, so happy for you guys, we knew it would happen soon." And John even had a few baby name ideas: "The aviation field has been taken over (Travolta's son is named JETT), Tom's had a history with cars, maybe he should go into the car naming factor -- Rolls Royce of Ferrari!"
The mega-star first called the 26-year-old out of the blue for a private meeting shortly after she broke off her five-year relationship with 'American Pie' star CHRIS KLEIN. The two hit it off immediately and set out on a variety of romantic outings, coming out in public in front of the paparazzi while they were staying in Rome at the end of April. Since then, Tom has subsequently gone on to tell the press how much he loves and cares for Katie -- to the point of jumping for joy repeatedly on OPRAH's couch!
Tom proposed to Katie in Paris last June. Our JANN CARL recently sat down with him on the set of 'Mission: Impossible 3' for some wedding updates.
"We don't have a date yet," Tom revealed, "[But we have] big, big plans. We talk about it. I really didn't know that there were so many wedding magazines. I said, 'Are you kidding me? There are things for the flowers, the cake, the dresses' ... The thing that I love about Kate is that she's an artist, so she actually loves ribbons and she makes cards and creates art. She loves flowers, and she'll do her own floral arrangements. So it's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be a celebration."
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I'm not trying to be mean or cruel here, but I honestly hope that it's an eye opening experience for him. That he actually gets a front row seat of what Brooke Shields went through after the birth of her baby. It would be pure poetic justice!!!
As a woman who has battled depression
for nearly all my life, I was very very angry at Tom Cruise's comments about the use of drugs & therapy for depression. He is not a doctor...fact is has he even played one in any of his cr@ppy movies? 
Who is he to tell me & any other suffers of depression that his way is the right way. Trust me, I tried religion....I nearly became a pastor!!!
I spent 3 years studying in seminary. So he can just shut his mouth. 
If you have never battled depression, you can't fully understand it. Think of a time when you were so terribly sad, like maybe the loss of a loved one....Now, take a way all the reasons & causes for it. Then prolong it over years, maybe end decades.
That is the dark abyss I have lived in. The only thing that has saved me & my marriage is medication & therapy.Either way, I honestly hope that the child is healthy, but that Tom learns that MAYBE he shouldn't make judgements about things he has no clue about. When he has walked in my shoes for awhile...but even then he still wouldn't know what it is to be a sufferer of chronic depression.
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