Katie Holmes‘ daughter is leaving the nest!
The 45-year-old actress opens up about how she’s feeling about her 18-year-old daughter, Suri Cruise, whom she shares with ex-husband Tom Cruise, going off to college in an interview with Town & Country published on Tuesday.
“I’m proud of my daughter,” Holmes tells the outlet. “Of course, I will miss the close proximity, but I’m really proud of her and I’m happy.”
Back in the day, Holmes attended Columbia University. She reflects on her own college years when imagining her daughter’s future.
“I remember being this age, this time of beginnings. It’s exciting to learn about yourself, and I loved that time, so it makes me happy to think about it like that,” the Dawson’s Creek alum adds.
In May, Suri gave an unintentional hint at where she’s attending college when she was spotted wearing a Carnegie Mellon University sweatshirt in a now-unavailable “decision day” TikTok posted by a classmate.
Holmes has kept her family life relatively private over the years and is seemingly continuing to keep Suri’s life out of the spotlight, as the outlet noted that’s all Holmes will say on the subject.
“What has been really important for me with my daughter, because she was so visible at a young age, is I really like to protect her,” Holmes explained to Glamour magazine in April 2023. “I’m very grateful to be a parent, to be her parent. She’s an incredible person.”
But when Holmes has made rare comments about Suri, they’ve been sweet.
“She’s the greatest; my heart is her. … She’s definitely my favorite thing about life,” Holmes gushed of her daughter in April 2023 to Haute Living New York.
In her new interview, Holmes would not confirm the speculation that Suri is interested in music, fashion and acting. But Suri did sing and do background vocals on Holmes’ recent projects, 2022’s Alone Together and 2023’s Rare Objects.
Tom, 62, who also shares daughter Isabella, 31, and son Connor, 29, with ex Nicole Kidman, has not publicly commented on Suri’s college plans. At her high school graduation in June, Suri reportedly ditched her surname, opting to go by “Suri Noelle” instead of “Suri Cruise,” with Noelle being the middle name of her mother. Tom was not at the graduation. Instead, he was spotted at Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour stop in London, England.
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