When Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman returned home to begin filming Baz Luhrmann film romantic outback of Australia last year, she knew she was starting the next chapter of his life.With his country crooning husband Keith Urban at his side, Australia's leading lady embarked on a journey of self-discovery, the search for the roots of his native country after years of living abroad, while remaining committed to a family .
Now, after keeping a lid of one of the most anticipated pregnancy in the world, the fairy chapter Nicole Kidman played with a perfect trifecta - marry, design and the fulfillment of his dream of starring in a blockbuster on Australian shores.
"I think you get to certain stages and some chapters of your life and I think that's just a part of my life," said Nicole Kidman last month.
Eighteen months after tying the knot in a lavish sunset ceremony on the church the northern beaches of Sydney, Nicole Kidman and Urban are ready to put their careers on hold to raise their first child in Australia.
Although they are expected to keep their mansion Nashville, the couple who met at a gala dinner at the annual G'Day LA Weekend festivities in January 2005 believe it is important keep their child, a national identity ", according to his friends.
It is also believed that the baby, whose due date was not revealed, will be born in a private hospital in Sydney.
"Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are very proud of their heritage and Australia are determined to raise their first child in Australia", said to friends London's Daily Mail.
"They are based in Australia, probably Sydney, for the first six months, with Nicole hope to be close to his immediate family at their home in Sydney. After that, they go to their heads Queensland property for six months."
For 40 years, Nicole Kidman, wearing a child marks a personal triumph after suffering an ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage during her first marriage to megastar Tom Cruise, with whom she has two adopted children, Isabella, 15, and Connor , 12.
Lézarder in the glory of her pregnancy, a vibrant positively Nicole Kidman seemed worlds away from the traumas of the past, showing off her baby bump while enjoying several intimate lunch and dinner dates with Urban in Sydney last week.
"After a miscarriage during her first marriage, she was devastated and almost abandoned the idea. It is a absolute happiness," says a family friend. "After eight months of fertility treatment, it is well and truly beside herself. One of the things that really appealed about Keith was from the beginning of his interest in children.
"Now that she is pregnant, it is 100 percent behind her and just as excited as it is to have a child. Then they will wait for sex, Keith hopes a boy."
While Nicole Kidman had kept mum about her baby news, saying that the immediate family during the holiday season, speculation was high.
The new caps a year when she visited the nation as Lady Sarah Ashley in Luhrmann's blockbuster.
From its humble beginnings as a freckle-faced, the flame-haired teenager Lane Cove, in the public school, she was initiated into the world of celebrity on the arm of one of the most desirable players Cruise.
And the star of Moulin Rouge, The Others and Bewitched still commands attention, whether for his films or personal life, after more than 25 years in showbiz.
Headlines of her split with Cruise, baby blues, urban regeneration and the recent claims of a sex tape Scientology were splashed worldwide, as reported romantic liaisons with Robbie Williams, Lenny Kravitz, fellow Australian star Russell Crowe and multi-millionaire producer Steve Bing.
Nicole Kidman, the desire to "reduce" its film-making activities to raise a family and live a "gypsy" lifestyle on the road with Urban is finally a reality. "We are both very closely," said Kidman last year.
"It's just lovely that from the same country, you have so much to learn from you and obligations in a way that people just do not understand.
"When you come from different countries, you really do not bond in the same way."
Nicole Kidman and Urban Even before the onset of dating, the actor made his desire for children willowy clearer, telling reporters in April 2005 that her biological clock is ticking.
"I had hormones running through my system," she said. "That's why I sit wriggling, saying I want to have a baby."
