Nicole Kidman: I still cry at the thought of being a mum

Nicole Kidman has said she still feels “raw and emotional” nearly four months after giving birth to daughter Sunday.

Nicole and husband Keith Urban welcomed their baby girl into the world at the start of July but Nicole told Parade magazine recently: “I cry even thinking of her, but they are tears of joy. I’m raw and emotional.

“I never thought I would get to [give birth]. To have been given it so late in life I’m so ready for it.

“And I think giving birth to a child, as a woman, is what we’re born to do. I don’t mean that to sound sexist, because many women don’t get to do it, and I thought I was one of them.

“If you are given that gift, it’s an extraordinary thing.”

But she added that she does worry about being an older mum: “It’s very bittersweet. Because, at 41, I think, ‘I want to see her 21st birthday, and I want to see her get married.’ My relationship with death used to be far more ambivalent, I think, and now it’s very much about staying in the world.

“That’s why in the past I could jump out of planes and take a lot of risks. Strangely enough, I think when you have children at 25, you still have that ‘what will be, will be’ attitude. It’s such a different way of parenting.”

Nicole also has two older children, fifteen year old daughter Isabella and thirteen year old Connor, from her previous marriage to Tom Cruise.