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Katie Holmes at 10th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards

by leora on February 20th, 2008

Katie Holmes looked amazing at the 10th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards. Check out these gorgeous portraits and look back soon for some other pictures from the event last night.

Via Celeb Utopia Tags: katie holmes, portraits, Costume Designers Guild Awards

gapeach
Feb 21, 2008 at 4:56 am

What’s with the panty lines
catinthehat
Feb 21, 2008 at 7:28 am

i saw a clip of her presentation speech and it went something like this: “my HUSBAND has given me many wonderful/incredible (i forgot the adjective) gifts and one of them is the chance to call paula a friend.” WHY o WHY does tommy have to insert himself into everything katIE does? can’t she just have ONE night to herself? it’s yet another sign of his total arrogance and dominance over her.
catinthehat
Feb 21, 2008 at 7:28 am

maybe the adjective was “amazing” . . . did anyone else see this?
New York
Feb 21, 2008 at 8:05 am

Catinthehat, yes, I heard the same thing (you got it pretty verbatim), and I thought the same thing. Just a very strange scenario, all around. Something came up recently that Katie does not want to be called Kate. I wonder if that’s true. I had another thought recently: What kind of MONEY does Tom Cruise get for his affiliation with Scientology?! There has to be money involved, and he HAS TO BE ON THE RECEIVING END OF IT. And it has to be BIG DOLLARS. They always say that he contributed money, but I don’t buy that. He’s profiting monetarily from that organization in some way. There is no other reason that he would be putting himself out there like he has been, with all the ridicule. Unless he truly is an imbecile.
texasfan
Feb 21, 2008 at 8:32 am

Did anyone notice in the justjared.com pics that she is wearing a pretty sizable pink diamond (I guess that’s what it is) ring on her middle finger of her left hand now?
zoe
Feb 21, 2008 at 9:33 am

…you cant blame tommy for everything Katie….
She is an adult who has to accept some responcibility for her pathetic loss of self.
I thought the same thing when I saw a snippet of her tribute to PW. I do no not think she should have presented the award to Paula. There are so many other people in Paula’s life that have known her longer and been there with her through it all. Some just as recognizable as Katie, deeming a lot more respect. It was stupid, and does anyone notice Katie’s BLACK puffy eyes lately, what the hell is that? Is she trying to keep up with her non sleeping husband?? If I were her friend or sister, I would tell her to get a grip and start having her own life and own opinions again….it is so pathetic and I feel eventually Tommy will be bored with her robotic ways. She seems so BORING to me….am I the only one who feels that?….
New York
Feb 21, 2008 at 9:52 am

Yes, that’s the word, BORING. She’s just utterly boring. All of us are beautiful all done up. There’s no talent in being pretty. PRETTY IS AS PRETTY DOES! There’s just no personality there. Void. Empty. Vapid. Utterly insipid. Tom thought he wanted a YES woman, someone he could control, but there’s just no spark there. What do they talk about?! She’s just not real anymore. Get real. Get a life. Be spontaneous. BORING!
concerned mom
Feb 21, 2008 at 10:16 am

Oh for sure the COS is paying tc big bucks plus all the perks of the luxury places they have use of for free. At the Gold base in a very remote part of CA, a huge state of the art gym/fitness center was built by Miscaviage for TC and only elite few. None of the ’slave’ labor can use any of the facilities and they have to make sure not to be seen when TC or his crew are around That is why the COS targets celebs because they are to bring in other celebs $$$ and high profile which I imagine they wish was not so high at themoment
with all the bad publicity TC and clan are generating lol
Battlemama
Feb 21, 2008 at 10:38 am

I read somewhere that members get $$$ for bringing in new victims to the cult. I am sure with his celebrity status and Katie’s, they get alot of perks beisdes the money. I also heard Scientology provides Cruise with attractive young bimbos, like KH.

As far as I am concerned, Katie is more guilty. She is the child’s mother and she sold her daughter for fame and money. If things were going well and she was part of a golden couple, she would be pushing and promoting Suri as well. Also, her faith must not have been THAT IMPORTANT because she so quickly dumped it even before she met Cruise. Catholicism looks down on out of wedlock s e x, which KH was doing with previous boyfriends, and a b o r t i o n, which she is rumored to have had. Cruise was just the ultimate turning her back on her so called beliefs.

Someone posted about the pack wolves photogs are. Well, if the wolves weren’t fed and kicked away, they would get the hint and leave. Katie sells Suri just as much as Cruise and Scientology do. I am sure KH thinks it is great Suri has had three mag covers by two years old.
Remember ladies, Katie is defending this madness in the press, so guess what: GUILTY!!!

As far as her speech, I am sure she wrote it. I think she is still worshipping Cruise and the Scientology ground he walks on. You can’t be controlled by someone unless you let them. There are stories of people in horrific conditions who won’t let their captors control them, even under psychological and physical pressure. It is called strength of character!!

I still think Paula is a Scientologist.
leo
Feb 21, 2008 at 10:41 am

concerned mom: I wouldn’t be surprised if Suri was actually born at the Gold base several months before April 2006. This would also explain why Katie’s parents were on the east coast on April 18. They probably don’t know her actual date of birth or the father’s identity either. Scientologists must keep all details from suppressive persons. I imagine Katie’s family would qualify as SP’s since they are not scientologists.
leo
Feb 21, 2008 at 10:51 am

battlemama: We’ve heard over and over how Tom did this to Katie. I am so tired of hearing that. Katie fell hook, line and sinker for the movie star Tom Cruise. When she discovered what she was getting into, she did nothing to get out. I agree totally with you. I have no sympathy for her. She is a horrible mother for subjecting her daughter to the CO$. Suri is the only one I feel sorry for. I’ll bet that Tom has no respect for Katie whatsoever. She’s such a flake.
Battlemama
Feb 21, 2008 at 10:53 am

Wonder why celebs are having babies now: $$$$$$
I seriously doubt KH and TC got/get nothing for Suri’s photos.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331645,00.html
Battlemama
Feb 21, 2008 at 10:53 am

Oh, they do it also the free PR for themselves.
Battlemama
Feb 21, 2008 at 10:57 am

Leo: I think it is easy to say ‘Sweet Katie’ was ruined by Cruise and controlled by him because people can’t believe this is really her character. But, folks, it is her character!!

I agree that TC has no respect for her. Unfortunately, I don’t think she has for any for herself, which may explain the choices to a certain extent, and why she keeps talking about gratitude to TC for what he has done for her. She is accountable, though, for those choices (just like we all are for our own).
Lilianne
Feb 21, 2008 at 11:16 am

I think Katie looks really pretty here. Although I do not love the color of the dress or the bodice (it could be a little more fitted) I think it is refreshing to see a female celeb when she isn’t trying to be too sexy. To me sexy isn’t about showing cleavage or a dress being skintight. I don’t really think this dress is too “old” looking for her..but more an effort to be ultra feminine and simple..which to me translates into sophisticated without being trampy.

I wanted to add that I highly doubt that celebs are having children these days for the money the photos can bring them. I would think that if a celebrity is big enough to draw a big pay off for the pics then they are more than likely already very rich and the money for the photo op would therefore be superfluous. I would hope that most celebs who are offered money for baby photos would do the classy thing ( like the JP’s) and donate that money to a charity since most reasonable people would consider it unseemly to profit off of your newly born child. I also heard that one of the big reasons celebrities allow the photos to be taken do so to retain some control over the when and the where. They realize that people want to see and by agreeing to the photo shoots they can call the shots and who could blame them?
New York
Feb 21, 2008 at 11:17 am

Yes, what is all this “gratitude” and “it’s an honor” talk?! Do any of you talk of your spouses, significant others in that manner? It’s so weird. She’s like an idol worshipper. You know she wasn’t raised that way. It would appear as though she comes from a very solid and loving family, and I do believe that. He’s your “husband,” Katie. He’s not a god (as much as he would like you to believe he’s The God). Just to be able to jump in your car and go to the store, go to a friend’s house ALONE, I think her life must be a living hell. No privacy. Quite the other way, I would imagine her bedroom and everything is bugged, constant surveillance. Her family has to be horrified.
texasfan
Feb 21, 2008 at 11:30 am

Here’s the justjared link that shows that pink diamond ring…what do you think? Gift from tommy??

http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2008&mon=02&evt=holmes-guild&pic=katie-holmes-costume-designers-guild-awards-2008-13.jpg
Libraesque2007
Feb 21, 2008 at 11:46 am

It’s pretty disturbing to imagine what her family is going through….watching their daughter and grandaughter be so immersed in this cult

I think the ONLY reason these two media
w h o r e s didn’t do what EVERY other celeb does right away (baby photo shoot) is because they COULDN’T since that kid was born months earlier
catinthehat
Feb 21, 2008 at 12:06 pm

katie’s become ‘boring’ because the tom cruise machine has completely sucked everything out of her and she is an empty shell. i have a great deal of compassion for her because i do think she genuinely was brainwashed very very early on, in the admidst of the excitement of new romance and exotic locales, and that she lost much of her will early on, and that is why she was psychologically and physiologically UNABLE to leave him when she might have had a window of oppportunity. she’s since lost further capacity to be able to think clearly and rationally. it’s analogous to people who are kidnapped and never leave their kidnapper because of stockholm syndrome. this is why i feel compassion for her (even though i do make snarky comments sometimes about her clothes) and should not be judged.
catinthehat
Feb 21, 2008 at 12:08 pm

SHE should not be judged. i think it is really heartbreaking. toledo, do you think her parents would ever try to intervene to get her removed from cos?
Battlemama
Feb 21, 2008 at 12:19 pm

Cat: We don’t know the how much she has consented to everything and how much is ‘brainwashing’. I am guessing that is why you say we shouldn’t judge.

To say that she is not responsible for her choices, though, is not true. She signed away Suri at the beginning of the relationship. If this is a contract, she signed it at the beginning of the relationship. She still went through with the wedding, etc. She valued the weath and fame and sold herself for them. Now, well, she could be regreting things, but do you if that is beause things have gone wrong with the media or she is waking up to realities. I am leaning towards the former.

In other words, SHE MADE CHOICES AND IS ACCOUNTABLE for those CHOICES!! What upsets me is how everyone blames TC for Katie’s behavior when she is not the helpless victim who was sold to or kidnapped by Cruise.
Battlemama
Feb 21, 2008 at 12:20 pm

Libra: That and Shiloh was much more marketable!!
Libraesque2007
Feb 21, 2008 at 12:36 pm

HA!!

I’ve read up A LOT on $cientology and what happens to people when they’re first introduced to it….and I HAVE to wonder what went on for those 2 weeks she went missing
jajorge
Feb 21, 2008 at 3:50 pm

ah, and really, since when do kidnapping victims get limitless credit cards to buy clothes and pamper the self…? my observation is that even pre-tom cruise she never had that PERSONALITY, that INDEPENDENCE, that TALENT, reliable network of friends and family she could rely on…..she might come from a nice respectable family and parents, but a child can be willful and headstrong too, and that’s proabaly not that hard if the child is earning money acting….
like i said before, she’s a wilful pariah. she inflicts all the responsibility to tom all the time…… like when suri was born HE was so oooo amazing……HE introduced her to wagner….HE cooks amazing spaghetti carbonara
(the only dish, it would seem)……it’s something i observe in a LOT of women who pretend to be helpless (or have convinced themselves so) for the sake of seeming more attractive to ego-challenged men….but it’s all calculated. a short-cut. to his chequebook. youth. fame…….
katie has only succeeded in nabbing a rich famous actor. i’m just saying, she’s getting a lot out of this deal with cruise, and she’s chosen this. and she’s NOT young. 29, one is already fully an adult. she chose the easy way, which is consistent with her career too….i never see herself throwing herself into a role, and she reall sucks as an actress…. she thinks it’s THAT easy….. well, no, little girl, life is not that easy, and fairy tales take effort. wake up, open your eyes. see what a selfish stuck-up hypocrite and pariah you are and have been…….. yeah, it’s going to be disillusioning, but one grows from it. find yoursef, little girl. you shouuld have done ths before you ever had suri. who are you??????

do you really think you are hollywood royalty, or are you covering up something else?? why can you never talk about anything REAL, i.e. jennifer garner’s seen bits of “terrible” raiisng violet, though mostly good………why lie? not the lie itself, but the reason for lying can be the most telling of all………..
concerned mom
Feb 21, 2008 at 5:35 pm

leo, sorry been away for a bit. you are probably right about suri being born sometime earlier. That Gold base is totally secure- guards along the perimeter, etc. they write down any license tag that lingers or drives by more than once. scary if you ask me. personally i thought she might have been born at home in or around feb when those signs were being carried in–be silent and all that crap
concerned mom
Feb 21, 2008 at 6:26 pm

libra-from your last post exactly. I am inclined to believe they did some serious brain-washing on her. This is why Germany hates COS because they use the same techniques that Hitler did to the youth in Germany.
Battlemama
Feb 21, 2008 at 7:50 pm

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/02/21/katie-holmes-black-women/#more-25134

KATIE WASN’T BRAINWASHED!! SHE LOVES BEING THE FASHION MODEL AND CRUISE AND SCIENTOLOGY GAVE HER THE PRESTIGE AND MONEY TO DO IT. ALL SHE HAD TO WAS SIGN SURI OVER TO THEM.

SORRY, NO SYMPATHY HERE FOR THIS MATERILISTIC FLAKE!!!!!!
Battlemama
Feb 21, 2008 at 7:52 pm

She is not being brainwashed right now, she is taking modeling lessons. Look at how she poses in the pics. Sorry, but I think she is using Cruise and Suri just as much as Cruise is using both of them!! Katie still wants her other girlhood dream: to be a fashion icon. She does finally look her age in the pics though.
ng
Feb 21, 2008 at 8:01 pm

http://www.dlisted.com/node/23860

Battlemama: I agree with you as far as her dream to be a fashion icon but when ever I see a picture of Suri, click on the link, I feel bad for her. I don’t know her and will probably never know her. I might see her one day at the Grove or the ArcLight Theater but I will not know this little girl but I feel very bad for her as if she were a friend’s daughter. I just don’t get how someone could do this but I am certain for some people money and fame are too intoxicating. Thankfully there are women that took a pass.
ng
Feb 21, 2008 at 8:08 pm

http://www.splashnewsonline.com/2008/02/21/looks-like-someone-has-gotten-into-toms-vitamins/#more-96494

Now Katie is laughing like Cruise. I guess she thinks that looks good and makes her look happy.
Listen without Suri in the picture, these two don’t interest me.
New York
Feb 21, 2008 at 8:12 pm

Fashion icon?! Truly, it’s all so completely ridiculous. They’re clothes. You put them on and you wear them. It doesn’t make you a better person. How could Katie, after growing up in such a loving home, become so shallow and empty? Fashion icon. When we all think about it, what are we most comfortable in?! Our old, scraggly, torn, worn clothes. I can’t wait for the end of the day to get out of my ” work suit.” I spend a lot of money on my clothes for work because I work in a professional setting, but I am NEVER comfortable in those clothes. I can’t wait to get home and throw on the grossest thing I own. Katie is so LOST. Notice how all of us have so much negative to say about this couple. That speaks legions. Katie needs to cut her losses and leave NOW. Katie, it’s not going to be any better tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, ten years from now. Just leave. I doubt the public, though, will ever welcome you back, unless you come clean. The public really can’t stand the fake sight of you!
Battlemama
Feb 21, 2008 at 8:13 pm

NG: It makes me sick how happy KH is with this life and what she has sold to get it, especially her baby. I feel bad for Suri and it makes me want to vomit when I see KH prancing around like a queen the way she is in those pics. What is sad is that we all know she will eventually bring another one into it.
I do hope there is a special place in h e l l for people like KH and TC for the way they are harming not only Suri but Connor and Bella and all the other innocents who are born into this Scientology crap.
candice
Feb 21, 2008 at 8:30 pm

Response to “Wonder why celebs are having babies?” $$$$$ Maybe? or it could just be that despite celebrity status they are still human with desires to have their own family. Should they not have children because they are famous? Dont get me wrong i dont agree with the pimping out the kids for personal gain but i dont believe that all celebs are like that. Its not all about $$$$$$ to some of them.
candice
Feb 21, 2008 at 8:33 pm

I also completley agree with feeling sorry for innocent children born into scientology and other cults. I havnt seen any pics of suri latley but then i havnt been on the net much. Have i missed something or are they keeping her hidden away??
catinthehat
Feb 21, 2008 at 8:36 pm

wow, such vitriolic comments. i do maintain that scientology is a brainwashing cult and that katIe is and was being seriously and strenuously brainwashed at the highest levels. i think she looks gorgeous in these last photos (except for that one that ng posted with the maniac laugh — that’s totally tommy’s influence to do that) but i disagree that she is happy with her life. i also think that given her roman catholic background, she doesn’t view divorce particularly favorably.
Battlemama
Feb 21, 2008 at 8:36 pm

Candice: I have missed your comments and debates!!
I do agree that they do want them but I just choke over the selling of the kids’ pics. I posted the article in response to someone calling the photogs. wolves because there are celebs who driving the wolves crazy by posing their kid, selling pics to the highest bidder, etc.

Having a baby now in Hollywood has been become the fashionable thing to do. Ten years ago, it was adopting and that was what most did then. And the stars do follow the trends of adopted versus bio.
catinthehat
Feb 21, 2008 at 8:42 pm

http://justjared.buzznet.com/
i think it’s lousy that jada and will smith couldn’t bother to show up for katIe’s mad money premiere.
ng
Feb 21, 2008 at 9:17 pm

Catinthehat: I must say that lately it seems that Cruise and Katie are attending their friends things: Madonna’s Malawi fundraiser, Jada Pinket’s Black Woman’s Luncheon, Paula Wagner’s award at the Costume Awards, etc. But their so called friends were missing in action during Katie’s Mad Money premierie. I have no respect for Will Smith or his wife who are also Scientologist.

Battlemama: I agree. I hope there is a place for Cruise and Katie in the pits of hell for the damage they have contributed to Suri, Isabella, & Connor. The last two really were really at the mercy of whoever adopted them but their own flesh and blood. I can’t stand this couple with their pretense and hypocrisy. They are masquerading evil wrapped around an Armani designer design. That’s okay one day they will get theirs.
candice
Feb 21, 2008 at 9:39 pm

Your right mamma, selling out their kids to mags is pretty sucky but then i think about the reverse side of it and i have to wonder what i would do. Until some serious laws are bought in the paps are not going to go anywhere. Princess diana died and still nothing changed. I was watching larry birkhead on ellen and he had been highly critisized for taking ET on location to the bahamas with him. He responded by saying that he steps outside of his house everyday to face hundreds of photogs snapping away at him and dannilynn and by taking a trusted media sorce with him it takes away the chase. Before i saw that interview i seriously doubted his motives but now i can see why they do it. It must be so hard to know if your doing the right thing or not. I honestly believe that not all of the celebs sell out their kids. Some of them just dont have to. Unlike the Cruises people like Christina Aguilira, Brad and Angie etc are at the peak of their careers. They are famous with or without babies.
Battlemama
Feb 21, 2008 at 9:53 pm

Aren’t they still stalking Smith to get him to convert to Scientology? What can I say, even the Scientologists don’t stick together unless it is to look happy!!

Also, I think the friendships and awards things are one-way, especially when crap is flying.
Battlemama
Feb 21, 2008 at 9:55 pm

Honestly Cath, would you sit through Mad Money for an acquaintance? Okay, maybe we all have a little more decency than Hollywood.
toledo fan
Feb 21, 2008 at 10:21 pm

Katie at the luncheon- finally a dress that suits her age. The laugh pic was creepily ‘over the top’.
What is more interesting is…in the pics pf the Smiths and the Cruises at the table together-notice the body language- in the past, Jada couldn’t get close enough to TC, she could always be seen looking at him adoringly/longingly, and always managed to be touching him in some way. now….notice how they are both (smiths) facing away from TC, Jada is sitting next to Will-away from TC AND KH-who is at the end of the foursome. Will has his back to TC, leaning in to Jada and away from TC and Tc’s hand on the back of his chair.
toledo fan
Feb 21, 2008 at 10:54 pm

I will answer a comment by catinthehat and one by New York.
Do I think Katie’s parents will intervene?- No, not yet. Early in the relationship they rushed out there for every crisis/happening. Now- not so much. Like I said before- they are VERY closed mouth- increasingly so as TC gets more negative press.
About Katie coming from a very solid and loving family…not so much. 5 children- 4 divorces, other things that I cannot put on a public blog!
use your imagination-I hinted at it on an earlier post.
we are all products of our past, some are able to rise above it and be better people, some are not. Hollywood is a great example of both extremes!
It’s obvious TC was f’d up by his past!
jajorge
Feb 22, 2008 at 12:39 am

if she’d only go truly crazy like britney, her parents might be able to intervene legally and take control of their daughter’s life….but with tom and his family along with cos handlers, that doesn’t seem too likely, does it?

cults prey on vulnerable troubled individuals, as they’re easier to persuade. a healthy confident individual with close friends and family would not be easily won over to the cult. the whole auditing thing seems freaky to me. it’s like l. ron took the catholic confessional but changed it so the cos is directing the confessional for dirty information.
and so, katie might come from a catholic family, but did that make her catholic? what did she do that was catholic? abortion? premarital sex? catholic catechisms? i have never heard her doing anything catholic. masses? i don’t think it would have been too hard to give up catholicism for scientology, given she was hardly what i’d call a good catholic before.
ng
Feb 22, 2008 at 1:01 am

Toledo fan: I also don’t think Katie comes from a close knit family. It’s nice to say that about one’s family especially since she tried to package herself as a goodie two shoes. But the reality is she lived out of wedlock with Chris Klein and if rumors are true had an abortion. Then she had an affair with Josh Harlett and those are only the ones that have been reported. Then she immediately got pregnant by someone and 8 weeks later announces she’s marrying Cruise and renoucing the Catholic church and God. And not only renoucing her faith but any medical attention she been accustomed to receiving up to this point of her life. No more Tylenol, Ibuprophen, penecillan, etc. that she’s had until now.

To us, she gave up a lot but probably in her eyes she didn’t give up a lot because those things didn’t mean a lot to her to begin with.

Material things were more important than her faith or family because she knew up front that Cruise does not like to associate with non believers and so if her family doesn’t convert into Scientologists she will in time become distant with them and maybe that’s okay with her. I don’t think she was close to them to begin with and that’s why it wasn’t hard to agree to become a Scientologist. Cruise probably got it out of her that she didn’t always get along with her mother and wasn’t really close to her family.

On Good Morning America her mother said a lot in the short segment that she appeared in, she talked about Katie as a child, that she was head strong and liked to pick out the clothes she would wear, etc., her mother even said she had to buy books on how to deal with a head strong child. The bottomline, Katie was a handful and probably didn’t like anyone telling her what to do. That is the real Katie.

Ironically she is now in a cult that is very controlling and watches her every move and so she is definitley acting as the submissive wife, Scientology member to keep the lifestyle she has come to love. You can tell for the first time in her life she is experiencing the ability to shop until she drops, no paycheck to paycheck lifestyle, staying at the best hotels, sleeping in the softest bedsheets, the best moisterizers, hairstyles, great wealth, luxurious surroundings beyond her wildest dreams, living in a mansion in Beverly Hills, etc.

The flipside of the coin is that she gave up very important things like God, her family, her freedom, etc. I don’t see her being happy at all. I see her acting like she’s happy. But of all of this, the hardest part for me to trying to understand Suri’s role in Scientology. I can’t see a loving mother can allow her child to get into this cult. That part I will never understand. This is horrifying to me. We go about our lives but these innocent children are not going to know any better.
catinthehat
Feb 22, 2008 at 5:05 am

http://www.people.com/people
ng, i noticed that about the body language of the smiths vs the cruises - check out this pic, even people magazine cut out tommy and katie from that shot! that might be a first! now if we can only get mary hart and rosie odonnell to stop gushing about tommy . . .
catinthehat
Feb 22, 2008 at 5:07 am

sorry, i pressed ’send’ to soon. dingleberries are in the 2nd pic. that’s what i get for going online w/o coffee. disregard, please!
Lilianne
Feb 22, 2008 at 11:21 am

I tried to post a comment here yesterday this is still in censorland. It is crazy to me since I don’t know what I put in it that is being questioned. I basically said that I doubted celebs were having babies because of the money pictures of them could bring. That if a celeb is being offered buckets of money for pictures then they are obviously A-listers and already rich in their own right and so the money would therefore be not that important. I would hope that most celebs would do the classy thing (like the JP’s) and donate any proceeds to charity since it is really kind of creepy to profit off of your newborn child. I read that a lot of celebrities agree to these photo shoots so they can control somewhat the when and the how and the what involved with introducing their child to the world. They are aware that people are interested and want to see and know that the paps will be frothing at that mouth to get the photos anyway so why not go about it on their own terms. And who could really blame them for that?
concerned mom
Feb 22, 2008 at 8:08 pm

probably true lillian. With the total crazieness of these paps these days, that would make sense to me. for sure.
LoneStar
Feb 22, 2008 at 9:52 pm

IMO: I think celebrities have babies to satisfy their maternal instincts like the rest of us. Having children is what propogates our species–we don’t multiply and we don’t survive, and that’s ingrained in us humans. With money, however, you’re able to buy the expensive fertility treatments that were unavailable in the past. If you were unable to physically bear children fifty years ago, you just didn’t have them. Modern medicine/technology is great and a lot of mothers who maybe would have not have been able to have children can have them now—if they can afford the treatments and in vitro, etc. A lot of women just can’t do it without the money.
PuckHappy
Feb 22, 2008 at 10:59 pm

ng, a very good post. It is kind of strange that Katie was said to be head strong but yet can be brainwashed.
I’d venture to say she is being medicated unknowingly to make her submissive. And why would anyone question it since CO$ is supposed to be against medication.
They are only against “self-medicating”. That would mean someone is thinking for themselves.
catinthehat
Feb 23, 2008 at 9:06 am

i know the obvious that scientology is against any mood-altering or psychotropic drugs but are they really against all medications? what about antibiotics for infections, pain medications, chemotherapy/radiation, hormone replacement? i wonder who these physicians are that “treat” these cult members — it seems awfully dangerous.
toledo fan
Feb 24, 2008 at 1:00 pm

texasfan- I noticed the ring too- I just commented about it on the latest post-looks like a pretty sizable pink diamond with diamonds on each side. I hadn’t seen your comment prior to my note.
Yeh I thought it was a gift from TC- maybe to commerate Suri’s birth which I believe was in sometime in Feb.
someone commented a while ago about maybe Suri was born in the Celeb Cntr. never thought about that before but it makes perfect sense. No one saw them going into or out of any hospital, despite the paps being camped out in front of their house.
PuckHappy
Feb 24, 2008 at 4:12 pm

The celeb center does make sense. And does anyone remember the photos of the big “breath don’t breath” posters being delivered to the house in February. They said it was so she could practice the silent birth thing. But 6 weeks before the (pretend) birth date of April 18 is not enough time to “practice”.
Most likely the posters were being brought home to be stored until invetro #2 is due.
toledo fan
Feb 24, 2008 at 11:50 pm

or-r-r-r-r-r, the posters were delivered to help with the HOME birth of Suri??? those posters were very creepy too, now that I think about it!