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Nicole Kidman Loves Being Keith Urban’s ‘Tour Wife’

Nicole Kidman chatted with Vanity Fair this week and shared some family details about her girls and husband Keith Urban. Nicole told Vanity Fair that she loves being a “tour…

Nicole Kidman Loves Being Keith Urban's 'Tour Wife'
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Nicole Kidman chatted with Vanity Fair this week and shared some family details about her girls and husband Keith Urban.

Nicole told Vanity Fair that she loves being a “tour wife” and says she can memorize his tour schedule and dates in one glance. “I love that Keith is a guitar player and a singer, but his passion is guitar and writing music. That’s what I’m around every day.”

As for their girls (Faith is 8 and Sunday is 10), both of them love music and Sunday has shown an interest in acting, but neither parent pushes the girls into what they want to do when they grow up.

Kidman offers, "You can’t really get kids into anything, I’ve realized. You can push them a bit, but motivation is a really hard thing. I mean, nobody motivated me to be an actor; if anything they tried to deter me.”

Nicole graces the May cover of Vanity Fair.

-Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.