As Suri Cruise turns 18 and prepares to embark upon a career in fashion, her prospects are unlimited – but her life could have ended up looking very different indeed.
When Suri’s mother Katie Holmes divorced her father Tom Cruise, she removed her daughter from the controversial religion which is known to play a key role in Tom’s life: Scientology.
Katie and Tom married in a Scientologist ceremony in Italy in 2006 when the Dawson’s Creek actress was 27 and
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter Suri has spent much of the last 12 years living in the shadow of frenzied speculation over her infamously fractured relationship with her famous Scientologist father – and as she takes her first steps into adulthood, it seems she is finally ready to answer the question of her future with the Top Gun star once and for all.
Today, the teenager will mark her milestone 18th birthday without her dad Tom, 61, who has
Tom Cruise’s estranged daughter Suri turned 18 on Thursday.
She was seen out in NYC holding a birthday present with a friend, while her Scientologist father filmed Mission: Impossible 3,500 miles away in Britain.
On a wet and blustery day in the Big Apple, Suri clutched a garish pink umbrella as the two friends ventured out to celebrate her milestone.
The teenager appeared to have taken some important styling cues from fashion-conscious mum Katie Holmes by pairing a smart cord-collar
Strolling through New York with her mother, both dressed casually in denim and boots, smiling Suri Cruise looked like any other fresh-faced teenager enjoying quality time with her mother Katie Holmes.
Despited her daughter being featured singing on the soundtracks of some of her films, ‘overprotective’ Katie has shielded her only child from the limelight to enjoy a relatively normal upbringing.
But it could have all been a very different picture if Katie’s seven-year marriage to Tom Cruise had stood
