MERGED ----> Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes: Engaged + Congrats Tom and Katie

[Carek1230]

^ Hahahahahaha! Yeah that'd be a good reality TV show!

 

[Pearl]

Tom and Katie are expecting a baby:

http://et.tv.yahoo.com/newslink/etsid48750012733/

Happy Hollywood couple TOM CRUISE and KATIE HOLMES are expecting their first child together, according to People magazine.

"Tom and Katie are very excited, and the entire family is very excited," a spokesperson told the mag.

The inseparable twosome have been dating since last April in a whirlwind romance.

The mega-star first called the 26-year-old out of the blue for a private meeting shortly after she broke off her five-year relationship with 'American Pie' star CHRIS KLEIN. The two hit it off immediately and set out on a variety of romantic outings, coming out in public in front of the paparazzi while they were staying in Rome at the end of April. Since then, Tom has subsequently gone on to tell the press how much he loves and cares for Katie -- to the point of jumping for joy repeatedly on OPRAH's couch!

Tom proposed to Katie in Paris last June. Our JANN CARL recently sat down with him on the set of 'Mission: Impossible 3' for some wedding updates.

"We don't have a date yet," Tom revealed, "[But we have] big, big plans. We talk about it. I really didn't know that there were so many wedding magazines. I said, 'Are you kidding me? There are things for the flowers, the cake, the dresses' ... The thing that I love about Kate is that she's an artist, so she actually loves ribbons and she makes cards and creates art. She loves flowers, and she'll do her own floral arrangements. So it's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be a celebration

Uhm, this doesn't sound very good
What if she comes down with post-partum depression?

 

[U2Girl1978]

omg. are you freakin' serious?!

 

[Carek1230]

This whole thing is disturbing. Katie Holmes is just a baby. Now SHE is having a baby?!!!

 

[Dulce de Leche]

Craziness....now insanity

 

[tiny dancer]

Just heard the news on TV.

 

[The_Sweetest_Thing]

I always thought that Tom and Nicole adopted kids because he couldn't get people pregnant either due to a lack of sperm, or his being with other men....

 

[The_Sweetest_Thing]

and wait....i thought katie was supposedly a virgin until her wedding night...

this is so fucked up.

 

[AvsGirl41]

So, I guess Scientologists don't believe in condoms?

 

[Doozer61]

it is going to be the lead article in the Scientific American magazine

 

[Carek1230]

What a waste of media time

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I'm not surprised at all

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

Well best of luck to Katie after she gives birth.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Conan, if they mated

 

[Aardvark747]

TC -

Congrats to them both!

 

[Bonochick]

This guy on the radio this morning said something like, "If this Scientology stuff can teach you how to get into a hot virgin's pants, sign me up!"

 

[indra]

Well best of luck to Katie after she gives birth.

Yup. I have a feeling she's gonna need it.

 

[randhail]

Tom impregnating a woman?

Mission: Impossible


What happens if Katie goes through post-partum depression like Brooke Shields and needs anti-depressants? The shit will really hit the fan then!!

 

[Carek1230]

Tom impregnating a woman?

Mission: Impossible


What happens if Katie goes through post-partum depression like Brooke Shields and needs anti-depressants? The shit will really hit the fan then!!

If Katie suffers PPD & is prescribed anti depressants, then Tom can have an argument with himself about it.

 

[Bonochick]

I saw these posts at another message board, and they cracked me up.

~~~

"Xenu is gonna be a grand-pappy!"

~~~

"He probably boned Xenu and is using Katie as a surrogate uterus. I hope she is getting additional money for a therapist."

~~~

"Where does a 70 million year old alien god register????"

 

[Laird/Bono]

Conan, if they mated

O.M.G. That's so funny

* But now Rosie O'Donnel is heartbroken

 

[Carek1230]

^^OMG that is so funny! I almost pissed myself!

 

[ILuvLarryMullen]

so she dated this other guy for 5 years and wouldn't sleep with him and then sleeps with tom after 5 months at the most?
I would be pretty pissed if i were that guy.

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

No kidding! So does Scientology believe in Birth Control Pills?

 

[deep]

yeah,
Tom was pretty upset about losing his virginity

 

[Niamh_Saoirse]

Scientology birth-look what Katie Holmes can look forward to!


In the tradition of fellow Scientologists Leah Remini and Kelly Preston, Katie Holmes is expected to attempt a Scientology laboring and birth experience when she has Tom Cruise's baby next spring. As they do with most everything, Scientologists have guidelines for the process, which includes birth without meds (a fairly normal birth choice for some women anyway). However, here's the kicker - mothers are to attempt a silent birth, because they believe that it is traumatic for the baby to hear their mother cry or groan in pain while they are being born.

According to Scientology founder Ron Hubbard, "Maintaining silence in the presence of birth saves the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguards the home to which they will go."

You may recall Leah Remini's vH1 show, in which she attempted to give birth silently to daughter Sofia, or Kelly Preston dishing to Redbook Magazine about the birth of daughter Ella at home after thirteen hours of labor. According to her, it was "hardcore." Husband John Travolta adds that Ella's birth was a "beautiful, still experience that lovingly brings a child into the world without screaming or talking." Yet, as the New York Daily News put it, he's not the one who had the baby. All I can say is ouch. If you aren't giving me meds, you better expect to hear some yelling!





Good luck, Katie...

 

[U2Girl1978]

^ That is completely messed up! wtf!

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

If those ladies can give birth without the screaming and yelling, they are hardcore and tough women.

 

[anitram]

EVEN by Hollywood's skewed standards, the birth of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' baby is set to be decidedly odd.

When the 27-year-old actress is wheeled into the delivery room, she will be under strict instructions not to cry or scream out, no matter how painful her labour.

The Dawson's Creek star has agreed to convert to her fiance's Church of Scientology, which insists on "silent births" to avoid traumatising newborn babies.

And that is only the start of the sect's unique take on how to bring up children.

Youngsters are given lie-detector tests, asked to spy on their classmates and face cutting themselves off from family members if they are non-believers.

The revelations are sure to worry Katie's close-knit family and friends who were reported to be "uncomfortable" with her whirlwind romance with the twice-married Mission Impossible hunk.

Mike Sitter, 49, a parishioner at Christ the King Catholic Church in Toledo, Ohio, where Katie's family regularly worship, said: "Katie's uncle Fritz approached me and said, 'So what do you make of this Tom and Katie business? I think Tom seems like a real jerk'. Nobody thinks it will last."

Established by American science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard in 1952, Scientology followers believe humans are riddled with the ghosts of dead aliens.

Before his death in 1986, Hubbard produced a series of controversial papers on how to raise children.

Many of the 50,000 members have adopted his rules, which will discourage Tom and Katie from comforting or nurturing their child.

If it knocks its head against a door while learning to walk, the superstar parents will not give it a cuddle and kiss it better. Instead they are supposed to gently place the baby's head against the door in the belief that the pain will flow back into the object.

Astra Woodcraft, a British-born Scientologist, was in the church from the age of three to 22.

Now 28, she said: "If I was ill my mother would give me a 'touch assist' - I would lie down and she would touch me with her finger. She would say, 'Feel my finger'. She wouldn't stop until I felt better, so to stop her prodding me I'd say I felt better."

And while the church insists its practices make for bright and happy children, some ex-members are urging Katie - who had vowed to stay a virgin until her wedding night - to think twice before embracing it.

Teresa Summers, 47, who was a member for 20 years, said: "Mothers who have raised children in the Church of Scientology and come out have a terrible sense of guilt over what our children went through.

"Teachers don't have college degrees. They are trained in Scientology method. They don't explain. They don't help." The sect runs a network of private schools around the world, including one in Britain, and members are encouraged to enrol their children.

One recent flier warned against state education, saying: "If you turn your kids over to the enemy all day for 12 to 15 years, which side do you think they will come out on?"

At the schools, children may use a "learning accelerator" device that detects small amounts of electrical resistance in the palms of their hands. The child holds two electrodes and answers questions - with a needle on the device indicating if they are lying.

Hubbard also designed a 60-question test to be used on children as young as six, including "Have you spoiled things for people?"

ASTRA, who lives in California, said when she was five or six years old, she was put through a series of bizarre tests.

"It was like a drill where I was told, 'Look at the wall, walk to the wall, touch the wall, walk away from the wall'.

"Other times I would be told to follow someone's hand movements with my eyes. It was supposed to calm you down and help you see the world clearly, it was hypnotic."

Teresa also says children are asked to spy on each other and subjected to laborious punishments. "It's called making amends," she explained. "My daughter was made to scrub poles, paint walls, report on her friends. I let her do all that."

It is believed Tom and Katie will set up home in a new £15million pad in an upmarket suburb of Montecito, California. Boasting four bedrooms - and a nursery - pool and tennis courts, their neighbours will include Kevin Costner and Oprah Winfrey.

There is certainly no doubt how much Tom wants the child.

After he split from first wife Mimi Rogers in 1990 following a childless marriage, he said: "I have cried tears of frustration. I would turn down an Oscar to see my boy at a baseball game or my girl at a song recital."

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

That is disturbing.