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Do Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban Get to See Her Kids Enough?
By Cathy Beers


Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise's adopted children Isabella, 13, and Connor, 11 were spotted everywhere by the paparazzi when they were snapping away at the fabulous Katie Holmes bump before she gave birth.

But they were always with their dad and his girlfriend, never with Nic and Keith Urban. Now Star Magazine asks - do Nic and beau Keith ever get to see the children?

The tabloid has this report online:

Nicole was last photographed in public with her children at an L.A. Lakers game Christmas 2004.

Although she has clearly spent some time with the children since then — and even introduced them to her groom-to-be, Keith, 38, over a casual, gigglefilled dinner at the Hotel Bel-Air in L.A. on Dec. 20 - it seems that Nicole just isn't as present in her kids' lives as she was before.

"Nicole probably isn't seeing as much of the kids as she'd like to, but her hands are tied," says a source. "She's juggling traveling from movie sets to Nashville and Australia to be with her family. If she wants to see the kids, she has to come to L.A. and deal with Tom."

Cue the rep: Nicole's rep told Star that she avoids being photographed with her kids for privacy reasons.

Star also reports an insider that claims that Tom is not actively keeping her out of their children's lives, but it's in his nature to control things," says a source. "He micromanages their schedule - sports, home-schooling, Scientology studies."

I'm guessing that's tight and add to that the distance as the kids are in LA and Nicole and Keith are in Nashville.

Is it a problem that Nicole is rarely seen with her kids and photographed? She probably gets in a lot of time with them - and just doesn't advertise it, so I'm guessing no.

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman...27265628.shtml