Katie Holmes Gave Elle Magazine An Interview Shortly Before Filing For Divorce
July 5, 2012 by Hollywoodite
Katie Holmes covers Elle Magazine August 2012 who probably landed their cover of the year in incredible dumb luck.
Holmes filed for divorce on Friday, and the preview appears to have been rushed out early before interest wanes or the scandal becomes evermore convoluted and saturated.
Oddly, this isn’t the first time this has happened. Kim Kardashian gave an interview with Marie Claire right before filing for divorce. And Heidi Klum was interviewed by InStyle UK right before her separation from Seal. In the latter two instances, the interviews cashed in by overplaying their hand. There’s a little more of the same here, since Page Six got the cover preview and excerpts and is calling this whole thing “foreshadowing.”
Katie Holmes hinted at her state of mind in an interview conducted weeks before dropping her divorce bombshell, saying she was entering “a new phase” and “I know where I want to go.”
“I definitely feel much more comfortable in my own skin,” Holmes told Elle magazine when asked about being in her 30s, for an upcoming cover story. “I feel sexier. I think in my 20s, it’s like you’re trying too hard to figure everything out . . . I’m starting to come into my own. It’s like a new phase.”
Six weeks after Elle’s mid-May interview, the actress revealed her “new phase” would not include her husband and the father of daughter Suri, Tom Cruise.
Holmes further indicates an independent state of mind in the interview, which hits newsstands July 17, in response to a question about her identity as Mrs. Tom Cruise. “He has been Tom Cruise for 30 years,” she says. “I know who I am and where I am and where I want to go, so I want to focus on that.”
A source close to the magazine told us that during the interview, and the accompanying shoot with fashion photographer Carter Smith, “Katie didn’t speak about Tom in a lovey-dovey way at all. She deflected the Tom questions and brought them around to herself.”
Holmes also says in the piece that being married to Cruise didn’t help her career, and that she had to work harder because of the role.
“Things are not handed to anyone,” Holmes says in excerpts exclusive to Page Six. “If anything, you work a little bit harder when you’re in such visible circumstances.”
Holmes subsequently filed for divorce June 29, reportedly catching the Rock of Ages star by surprise while he was filming in Iceland. Holmes also fled to her own apartment in Chelsea. – via Page Six, Elle Magazine.
IMAGE CREDIT – ELLE MAGAZINE
