Everyone is talking about Nicole Kidman's recent interview with Vanity Fair magazine where she apparently 'bares all' about Keith Urban and the miscarriage she had when she was married to Tom Cruise. As all of the gossip websites are onto the story and publishing tidbits of the interview, Us Magazine published the headline:
Nicole Kidman: I Miscarried Tom’s Baby'
This makes me so insanely angry. As usual, blame the woman. First of all, Nicole Kidman never says in the interview 'I miscarried Tom's baby'. This headline makes it seem as though Nicole's body was inadequate to carry a pregnancy to term. Nicole is the source of blame as if she had the power to control whether she would miscarry or not. Furthermore, why is the fetal death referred to as 'Tom's baby'? Was Tom pregnant? Since when is it 'his'? Just because he was the 'father', why wouldn't the headline say that she miscarried her own baby?
None of us have any idea how Nicole Kidman felt about this pregnancy. Did she think of it as a 'fetus' or a 'baby'? We don't even know at what stage in the pregnancy she miscarried but the use of the word 'baby' makes it seem as though she and Tom lost a 'child'. In fact, Us says:
"In a revealing interview in the October issue of Vanity Fair, Nicole Kidman admits that she and Tom Cruise lost a baby early into their marriage."
I think this is really misleading and unnecessarily sensationalistic. It's great that Nicole feels secure enough to talk about her experience openly but it is unfortunate that emotive language has to be attached to her miscarriage and even more so, this article basically suggests that she failed in her reproductive duties as a woman because she was unable to carry a pregnancy to term.
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