When I first talked to Nicole Kidman in London in late August, we met in a curtained alcove of a blandly grand hotel restaurant in Mayfair. Decanted from a transatlantic flight—she had gone home to Nashville to settle her two teenage daughters,

"There's something to knowing that no matter how painful, or how difficult, or how devastating something is, there is a way through," Nicole Kidman said.

Vogue journalist Wendell Steavenson said she sensed there was trouble in paradise for Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban as she reported on the actress for the magazine’s November cover. In the Vogue cover story published Wednesday,

Nicole Kidman opened up about how she used to be insecure about her height and fair skin, but has since learned to appreciate the two traits as she's grown older.