Katie Holmes - Personal Life

Personal Life

Holmes dated her Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson early in the show's run. Holmes met actor Chris Klein in 2000. Klein and Holmes were engaged in late 2003, but in early 2005 she and Klein ended their relationship, with the breakup being "as amicable as it could be". Klein and Holmes have remained friends of varying degree since the breakup, and some unfounded rumors also had their romance being rekindled in the wake of Holmes' divorce from her husband Tom Cruise. These rumors were strenuously denied by both Holmes and Klein.

Weeks after her relationship with Klein ended, Holmes began dating actor Tom Cruise. Holmes, who was raised a Roman Catholic, began studying the Church of Scientology shortly after the couple began dating. Cruise proposed to Holmes in the early morning of June 17, 2005, on top of Paris's Eiffel Tower. On November 18, 2006, Holmes and Cruise were married at the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, Italy, in a Scientology ceremony attended by many. The actors' publicist said the couple had "officialized" their marriage in Los Angeles the day before the Italian ceremony.

In April 2006, Holmes gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Suri (Persian: سوری). The Los Angeles Times summarized the written statement Cruise released on the birth, saying the name "is a word with origins in both Persian and Hebrew. In Persian it means 'red rose' and in Hebrew 'princess', it was claimed in the release." Hebrew linguists have disputed these definitions, claiming they are incorrect. Hebrew expert Jonathan Went commented, "I think it's fair to say they have made a mistake here. There are variations of the way the Hebrew name for princess is spelled but I have never seen it this way." Linguist Avshalom Kor said it was a Yiddish pronunciation of the Hebrew name "Sarah". The first photographs of Suri appeared in the October 2006 issue of Vanity Fair, shot by Annie Leibovitz, and became the publication's second best selling issue of all time, selling more than 700,000 copies.

On June 29, 2012, it was announced that Holmes had filed for divorce in New York from Cruise after five years of marriage. Following the announcement, those close to Holmes stated that Holmes believed she had reason to fear abduction of Suri by Cruise and also feared intimidation by the Church of Scientology. On July 9, 2012, it was announced the couple signed a divorce settlement worked out by their lawyers. This was the first divorce for Holmes and the third for Cruise. Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise have mutually agreed to let daughter Suri be with her mother. Because New York law requires that all divorce documents remain sealed, the exact terms of the settlement are not publicly available.

In July 2012, following the divorce of Holmes and Cruise, it was announced that their six-year-old daughter, Suri Cruise, would begin schooling in New York City at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in September 2012. Suri was previously home-schooled while during the same time, according to some sources, Holmes registered as a parishioner at St. Francis Xavier Church in Manhattan's West Village.