KATIE ADOPTS!
The actress has fallen totally in love with a special bundle of joy – and Suri is playing mum, too!
Katie Holmes has given up on finding the perfect baby daddy, but if rumours – and these pictures – are to be believed, she has secretly adopted a child.
According to friends, the 41-year-old is said to be finalising the adoption of a six-month-old boy – and she and daughter Suri, 14, are said to be “ecstatically in love” with their new addition.
The Batman Begins star was spotted out in New York’s Central Park walking a baby in a pram last week.
A source tells Woman’s Day, “The Manhattan celeb set, which Katie usually is polite with but avoids, went into meltdown wondering if it was her new baby or just a friend’s.”
While she’s keeping mum for now, there’s no doubt a new baby would be a dream come true for Katie and Suri, who’s wanted a sibling for years.
“Adopting a child has been on the table for her and Suri ever since things fell apart with Jamie [Foxx],” adds the insider.
“Katie’s always wanted another child. She wanted to have four kids originally and one of the reasons she left Tom [Cruise, Suri’s father] was because he refused to have another child.
SUPER CLUCKY
“Now it looks like they’ve gone and done it during lockdown. She’s definitely been super clucky for a long time, and she’s being very secretive.
“You also don’t see Suri and Katie in the same room on Facetime much lately and everyone is starting to think it’s because the other is looking after a baby!”
While Katie has close ties to charity Raising Malawi, she’s also a huge supporter of the Love Our Children USA charity. Friends say it would be no surprise if she’s adopted an American orphan.
“If that baby in the pram is Katie’s, then it doesn’t look like she went outside of the States,” says the insider. “Katie was worried that adopting a child would be more a burden than a companion for Suri now she’s in her teens, but Suri told her she couldn’t wait to be the baby’s ‘other parent’. It was a very mature reply – and encouraged
Katie to start the paperwork, knowing these things can take up to two years.”
For Katie, nothing tops the joy of being a mum.
“Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience,” she once said. “You have to be a little bit wiser – it’s the most important job in the world.”
‘Adopting a child has been on the table for Katie and Suri’