Katie Holmes has not only reclaimed her life now that
she’s filed for divorce from Tom Cruise – she’s also taking back her name. Ever
since the two first got together in 2005, the “Mission Impossible” star has
insisted on referring to his wife as “Kate,” even though neither her friends
nor her family has ever called her that. And it clearly was a name Holmes
herself did not identify with because she never went by it professionally,
despite her husband’s consistent use of it every time he mentioned her
publicly. In fact, in her statement announcing the split, Holmes’ lawyer said,
“This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family.”
Cruise’s response? “Kate has filed for divorce.”
It first began in April 2006, when Holmes, now 33, was
still pregnant with Suri, but not yet married to Cruise. During an interview
with All Headline News, he explained, "Katie is a young girl’s name. Her
name is Kate now – she’s a child-bearing woman." At the time, it was also
reported that Holmes had agreed upon the name change “after discussing it with
Tom” and as a result “all friends and family now call her Kate.”
But that wasn’t so. A few months later, at her November
2006 wedding to Cruise in Italy, Holmes’ father Martin – a lawyer who
reportedly was very instrumental in helping his youngest daughter plan her
sudden split from the Scientologist – toasted the newlyweds in a sweet speech
at their rehearsal dinner … and referred to Holmes as Katie. “I respect Tom for
the commitment he has made to provide happiness and love to Katie,” gushed
Martin. Even one of Holmes’ closest confidants, her stylist Jeanne Yang, called
her good pal “Katie” in a joint interview the two ladies did with Elle
magazine to promote their Holmes & Yang clothing line in 2010.
The only person to publicly call the former “Dawson’s
Creek” star the name that Cruise, 50, preferred was his longtime friend Brooke
Shields, who was invited to the couple’s lavish wedding in a move that seemed
like an attempt to extend an olive branch. Remember when Cruise called her out
for “drug” use after she admitted she used anti-depressants to battle
postpartum depression following the birth of her first daughter? (He said she
should have simply taken vitamins). “Kate called me herself to invite us to the
wedding,” Shields said at the time. “It would have felt like a slap to say
no."
As much as Cruise pushed “Kate,” it just didn’t stick,
not just in her personal life, but her professional one as well. On every movie
poster for the films she has made since getting together with Cruise, she has
been billed as “Katie Holmes.” The same goes for all the covers of the fashion
magazines she has graced: They, too, spell out “Katie Holmes.”
Source : yahoo
