Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman and her husband, Keith Urban, an Australian-American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, have been inseparable since the pair fell in love in the early 2000s.
How Nicole Kidman Met Keith Urban
Kidman was coming off her marriage to “Top Gun” actor Tom Cruise, with whom she shares two children when her paths crossed with Urban in 2005 at the G’Day USA gala, which honors Australians in Los Angeles.
Nicole Kidman at the 2017 Glamour Women of the Year Awards at Kings Theatre in New York City | Source: Getty Images
She kept herself busy with her acting career straight after her divorce, but five years on, Kidman felt the loneliest she had ever been, sitting in her Beverly Hills Hotel after winning an Oscar.
The actress had decided it was time to start working on her personal life when she and Urban ran into each other at the event. She initially thought Urban did not like her when they first met because he showed no interest in her.
Surprisingly, Urban called her four months later; the pair hit it off immediately, and they started dating shortly after. On Kidman’s birthday, Urban surprised her with a motorcycle trip to Woodstock, New York.
He showed up outside her New York residence with gardenias at 5 a.m. At that point, Kidman believed she had found her soulmate, also partly because she was a romantic.
It did not take long before the couple tied the knot in a wedding attended by multiple celebrities, including fellow Aussies Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Naomi Watts.
Their beautiful wedding ceremony was held at Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel on St. Patrick’s Estate at Manly in Sydney, Australia. Afterward, the couple left for their honeymoon in French Polynesia.
In October 2006, their marriage hit a couple of snags when Urban checked himself into rehab months after saying I do, due to his substance abuse struggles. At the time, he had relapsed.
The country singer had been to rehab twice before and was open to Kidman about his issues and addiction to drugs like Cocaine. The actress planned an intervention after this, and Urban has been able to stay sober since.
Kidman was eager to start a family with Urban, and she gave birth to their first child, daughter Sunday Rose, in 2008. The pair then welcomed their second daughter, Faith Margaret, through a surrogate in 2010.
Discussing her challenges with fertility, Kidman disclosed that she wished she and Urban had crossed paths earlier in life because she would have loved having more kids with the country singer.
Inside Kidman and Urban’s Bunya Hill Home
The Award-winning actress and her husband are owners of multiple residential properties, including a mansion in Los Angeles, a condo in New York, a penthouse in Sydney, and their family home in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nicole Kidman sitting on the steps of her Bunyan home, as seen in a video dated July 20, 2015 | Source: youtube.com/Vogue
Nicole Kidman inside her Bunyan Hill home, as seen in a video dated July 20, 2015 | Source: youtube.com/Vogue
However, the pair purchased a farmhouse in Australia the same year their first daughter was born for a staggering $4.5 million. For decades, the couple raised their daughters between their homes in Nashville and Australia.
On his part, Urban declared that meeting Kidman and getting married was not life-changing but life-beginning.
Nicole Kidman inside her Bunyan Hill home, as seen in a video dated July 20, 2015 | Source: youtube.com/Vogue
The pair, one of the least scandalous couples in Hollywood, live a very private life, but Kidman showed off their Australian Farmhouse seven years after they purchased the property.
Nicole Kidman outside her Bunyan Hill home, as seen in a video dated July 20, 2015 | Source: YouTube/Vogue
The Bunyan Hill Georgian-style home was built in 1978. The house still retains traditional traits, including a modest foyer and a billiard room. A library with floor-to-ceiling wooden bookcases lining the wall is right across the hall from the billiard room.
Nicole Kidman inside her Bunyan Hill home, as seen in a video dated July 20, 2015 | Source: youtube.com/Vogue
One stunning feature of the house is the formal living room with a grand piano and a fireplace. The living room is painted white and creme color, but the spaces in front of the house are darker.
Nicole Kidman inside her Bunyan Hill home, as seen in a video dated July 20, 2015 | Source: youtube.com/Vogue
The dining room has a large wooden table with space for eight people, and it also has a fireplace. There is a children’s plastic play set for their two kids in the far left corner of the dining room.
Nicole Kidman inside her Bunyan Hill home, as seen in a video dated July 20, 2015 | Source: youtube.com/Vogue
Nicole Kidman inside her Bunyan Hill home’s kitchen, as seen in a video dated July 20, 2015 | Source: youtube.com/Vogue
A hen house and a small cottage for visiting guests are located behind the house. Here, a less sophisticated kitchen is discovered. During her farmhouse tour, the “Moulin Rouge!” alum was seen excitedly collecting eggs from her chicken coop. The house also features a large orchard and is home to six alpacas and black Angus cows.
Nicole Kidman collecting eggs from the hen house, as seen in a video dated July 20, 2015 | Source: youtube.com/Vogue
Nicole Kidman inside her Bunyan Hill home, as seen in a video dated July 20, 2015 | Source: youtube.com/Vogue
After buying the house, the couple added an 18-meter swimming pool, a full-size tennis court, a new gymnasium, and 2250-meter-long grass-covered mounds to line the roadside boundary and guard against the prying lenses of paparazzi.
Nicole Kidman inside her Bunyan Hill home, as seen in a video dated July 20, 2015 | Source: youtube.com/Vogue
This Australian farmland provides the family time and space to enjoy a simpler atmosphere and stay away from the glamor of Hollywood. According to Kidman, the air, the simplicity, and the peace are what she enjoys the most about farm life.
Nicole Kidman inside her Bunyan Hill home, as seen in a video dated July 20, 2015 | Source: youtube.com/Vogue
Their Family
Kidman revealed her daughters enjoy traveling the world with her. Instead of the kids staying home when she has to work, the doting mother takes them along, which means a lot to her.
The family is very supportive of one another, and she would not have been able to continue her acting career without them. The Australian native expressed how lucky she is to have Urban by her side and praised him as a wonderful husband and father.
The actress also applauded her husband for being her rock and for the incredible love and support he has shown her over the years.
On his part, Urban declared that meeting Kidman and getting married was not life-changing but life-beginning. Marriage requires a lot of work, and the couple tries to stay connected as much as possible wherever they are in the world.
They make sure to talk on the phone several times a day and fly around the world to be there for each other at important events. The couple is still very much in love, and they try very hard to stay together as a family.
In addition to her two daughters with Urban, Kidman is also a mother to older children, 30-year-old Isabella and Connor, 28, from her first marriage to “Jerry Maguire” star, Cruise.
