Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban met in 2005 at the G’Day USA gala honoring Australians in Los Angeles. Although the two hit it off, their relationship had a slow start. It took Urban four months to contact Kidman after their initial meeting, but once he did, the couple wasted no time making things official.
Kidman said she knew she wanted to marry Urban just a month after they started dating. They tied the knot in June 2006, but it wasn’t happily ever after from there. In October 2006, Urban checked himself into rehab for alcohol addiction. Kidman stuck by his side and was even the one who organized the intervention.
Following Urban’s recovery, the two welcomed their first daughter, Sunday Rose, in 2008. Their second daughter, Faith Margaret, was born via surrogate in 2010.
Now, after 12 years of marriage, Kidman and Urban seem more in love than ever. Scroll through our slideshow to hear about their journey in love, in their own words.
On Balancing Work & Their Personal Lives
"The thing I marvel at the most is how she does that and takes care of our family. She's an amazing wife and mother and people ask me, 'How do you do it?' I say, 'It's Nic.' She's got all of us so incredibly taken care of. She's amazing."— Keith UrbanThe Today Show, April 2014
On Being Best Friends
"Nicole is my best friend. I've never had anybody on the planet that knows me as well as she does. I would love to have been worthy of somebody like Nic, but I was a long way from it when we met, but somehow we just found there was love there, real love. I literally just feel like the luckiest guy on the planet."— Keith UrbanPeople magazine, 2016
On Recognizing Love
"I looked up at him at one point and I saw his tattoos and his foot going, and he had the guitar, and I was like, 'God, I love that man. I'm so glad I'm in this world.'"— Nicole KidmanVogue, 2015
On Being Goofy
"We're pretty goofy. I mean, there's no question that that's what we're like. Anybody that knows us on a personal level knows that's exactly what we're like most of the time."— Keith UrbanPeople magazine, 2016
On Having Children Together
"I wish I could have met [Keith] much earlier and had way more children with him, but I didn't. I mean, if I could have had two more children with him, that would have been just glorious."— Nicole KidmanVogue, 2015
On Leaving Love Letters
"For every single night [Keith is] away, he leaves me a love letter. Every single night of our relationship."— Nicole KidmanIn Style, March 2014
On Being Lucky to Have Each Other
"Keith and I always say that we are just so lucky to have each other. In this world, to be able to come back to that love and that strength is so nourishing and powerful."— Nicole KidmanNews.com.au, February 2017
On Good Men
"I'm lucky to have a rock of a husband. Keith and my dad: good men, choosing to protect his family, take care of himself, but take care of his daughters and walk the walk."— Nicole KidmanToday, October 2014
On Protecting Their Children
"There’s darkness in the world, and at some point you want to keep your kids from that because you want [them] to enjoy childhood and imagination and see the world in a beautiful way, but at some point learning how to navigate that is crucial for not letting the darkness tell you how to live. And that’s what we’re all in the midst of right now: How do we not let that kind of darkness change our living so much that it’s taken all the color out of it? How do we keep color in our life, and how do we keep it intimate and open and vulnerable? It’s love. It’s what we’re dealing with. How do you love vulnerably, but protect yourself? It’s a real balance."— Keith UrbanPeople magazine, October 2017
On Meeting His Future Wife
"[Meeting Nicole] wasn't life-changing, it was life-beginning. It was literally, like, 'OK, life starts.'"— Keith UrbanCBS News, May 2016
On Supporting One Another
"Keith always says to me, 'You stay raw and sensitive, and I'll buffer things for you.' He is always told, 'You're so tough.' And he says, 'That's not what I want for you, Nicole. You don't need to get a thick skin.'"— Nicole KidmanGlamour, October 2017
On Marrying Quickly
"We got married very quickly and we got to know each other when we were married. I wanted a partner and someone to share my life. I wanted more children. That's happened for me. It's not through just luck. I was open to it and willing to change and welcome the change I got to have a child when I was 41 and then we had a surrogate."— Nicole KidmanWomen in the World Summit, October 2015
On Surviving the Tough Times
"He has been so good to me for nine years, but for the last sort of month — which has been a really tough time for me — when you have your partner who just literally carries you through a tough time, he's been amazing to me. To have my husband to step up in that way it makes me cry. He's amazing. I will keep him. I'll do anything for that man."— Nicole KidmanThe Ellen DeGeneres Show, October 2014
On Their First Meeting
"We met at this function called G'Day LA out in Los Angeles and I thought, 'Gosh, I'd really like to meet her, I've never met her. We're both from Australia and I'm sure we both have a similar journey to get to where we are.' She walked into the green room where I was and I was standing with a couple of friends, and I was like, 'Oh, there she is. There she is.' I swear to you she glided across the room, floated. I don't know how she did it. It was out of this world and there was a split moment where she wasn't with anybody, and I thought, 'I'll just go up and say hi.' I plucked up the courage to go and do it, very nervously, trying to be all cool, and she was very pleasant. There was that moment of waiting for the next thing to be said, which I didn't know if I was bothering her or what was going on, so I just said, 'Nice to meet you,' and walked away. Then I thought, 'Was I supposed to say more?' I went back over and apologized and we just started talking. It just really clicked."— Keith UrbanThe Oprah Winfrey Show, November 2010
On Getting Support From Their Extended Family
"I have a huge artistic family who have supported me in all my ups and downs. You have been so loyal to me my whole life; thank you for that. I also am a mother and a wife. I have two little girls, Sunny and Faith, and my darling Keith, who I asked to help me pursue this artistic path and they have to sacrifice so much for it."— Nicole KidmanEmmys, September 2017
On Adoption
"I think the maternal force of our natures and the unconditional love we have for our children is probably the deepest part of how we relate. And the feeling of loving whoever gave birth to the child we’ve adopted — the thread that exists between the adoptive mother and the birth mother — we feel that thread."— Nicole KidmanThe Hollywood Reporter, February 2017
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