I noticed that Katie Holmes has decided to change her name to the more grown-up-sounding Kate Holmes (assuming she’s not Kate Cruise – I hadn’t heard anything to that effect).
According to hubby Tom, “Katie is a young girl’s name. Her name is Kate now she’s a child-bearing woman.” What a weird way to put it. There’s nothing weird about wanting to shed a name that you don’t feel fits you anymore, but what a weird way to put it.
That has to be the least weird thing he’s done recently. Which considering his track record is incredible. I was expecting something weirder about now.
Make that “hubby-to-be”, hence it would be premature to change her last name now.
I guess this relationship has been freakin’ front-page news for so long that, in my mind, I prematurely marched them down the aisle.
I think that quote is from when they first started going out last year, unless you have another source. I’ve read that in recent inteviews he’s gone back to calling her Katie. I don’t know what her opinion of it ever was (no direct quotes from her besides “Tom is amazing!”), but I could see her family totally refusing to play along with that, given the other overly controlling aspects of Cruise’s relationship with her.
I wonder how this will end. In pictures and candid video clips it’s obvious they loathe each other, so I doubt they will get married, but I also can’t see her ever getting free again. She totally drank the Kool-aide.
Kate Cruz Holmes, I likr it.
john holmes used to be known as johnny holmes, back when he only did softcore.
/and now you know the rest of the story.
L. Rhonda Cruise?
Eh, I don’t think Katie-er, Kate made the decision. At this point, I doubt she can go take a piss without Tom’s permission.
I also recall hearing about this around the time they started dating, but the radio station I listen to had it as part of their “celebrity news” piece this morning. It’s possible the news is simply making the rounds again.
In related news, I suggest, given Cruise’s behavior such as jumping on couches, threatening to take his toys home, etc., he should now be called “Tommy”.
But they have a five year contract! … Yeah, she so drank the Kool-Aid, with a Jello chaser.
I think Tom only wants to keep her around for a while because the baby might actually need it’s mother. Then again maybe Tom is getting some injections so he can nurse the baby himself and he won’t need Katie. That might explain some of his weird behavior - hormones!
If that is the case then why did she get pregnant? She had a fairly decent career and most likely didn’t need Cruise? It also seems that she got into Scientology after she met Cruise and was knocked up.
Because that’s the deal. She carries Tom’s spawn, acts like she’s doing it of her own free will, vows never to divulge all the craziness…
Sign here, kiddo, I’ll make you (in)famous.
Wasn’t she already fairly famous? Seems a poor bargain.
Famous? Maybe if you have a teenager- otherwise not so much.
Wasn’t she on Dawson’s Creek? I only know that because I read Entertainment Weekly! 
As of January 1, 2005, Katie Holmes had racked up 13 credits for Hollywood movie in just eight years, at least five of them as the movie’s star or title character or a major supporting role.
I certainly knew who she was and I never watched a millisecond of “Dawson’s Creek.”
The possibility exists, amazing though it might seem, that she actually loves Tom Cruise. He has been married before, after all, to women who seemed otherwise quite sane.
Anything’s possible, but I believe that she got caught up in a whirlwind of a relationship with a celebrity who she had a crush on when she was a little girl and, while she was overwhelmed with her good fortune, never saw Cruise’s suffocating control-freak behavior coming. And now, she’s tied to the freakazoid irrevocably since she bore a child for him.
There was an interview with him that I read where he was talking about how he talked to her OB/GYN and when the doctor started telling “Kate” about potential complications, what she had to do, etc, Tom interupted the guy and insisted that he not tell her, but only talk to Tom about it from now on. Because he didn’t want her to have to deal with it.
Yeah, that’s the way to treat her like the “woman” she is, Tom.
I agree with this, except for one thing. I think the bit about her having a childhood crush on Tom Cruise was a fabrication from the desk of his sister-publicist trying to play up some kind of fairytale angle on it all. I’ve read one early interview where she said Kevin Costner was her childhood crush, not Tom.
But yeah, she was bedazzled and snowed by him and I think she’s not just tied to him by the baby, but also by the heavy control the cult has over her life. Like Guin said- Katie can’t even go to the bathroom by herself anymore.
And if she really does truly love him she should work on not looking so repulsed by him in public. If those candid clips I saw of their Australian clip was any indication, I think they secretly loathe each other.