Though they looked like the picture-perfect couple in red carpet photos, Nicole Kidman has revealed since her 2001 divorce from Tom Cruise that she felt engulfed by his shadow during their 11-year marriage. "I felt I became a star only by association," Kidman told Glamour in 2008 (via Access). "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 be seen and not heard.
After meeting Cruise on the set of their first film together — 1990's "Days of Thunder" — Kidman told Harper's Bazaar in 2012 that she was "deeply shy" during their marriage and "didn't feel comfortable at all." Furthermore, she revealed to the publication that post-divorce, she rediscovered her calling in life. "I started to do what I've been doing since I was 14, with some gravitas." Not only did Kidman win the Best Actress Oscar in 2003 for playing Virginia Woolf in "The Hours," but her 2001 horror arthouse film "The Others" was a rare critical and commercial success. "Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling," Kidman told Harper's Bazaar.
Kidman's 2006 marriage to Keith Urban also reflects this personal growth. "He just gave me confidence," she mused to the outlet, adding that in contrast to her relationship with Cruise, Urban was "more like an ocean; he took me out."
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