Katie Holmes talks about protecting her daughter Suri from the public eye

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Amid movie previews and photoshoots, Katie Holmes quietly pulled Suri Cruise out of the spotlight. Since 2006, Holmes has worked hard to maintain her 16-year-old daughter's privacy, something many celebrity children often can't afford to do. In her April/May 2023 Glamor cover story, however, the proud mom shared rare comments about parenthood, collaborating with Suri on movies and keeping her daughter out of the public eye as much as possible. .

"I'm very grateful to be a parent, to be his parent."

“What was really important to me with my daughter, because she was so visible at a young age, is that I really like to protect her,” Holmes said of his daughter, who she shares with her ex Tom Cruise. "I'm so grateful to be a parent, to be his parent. He's an amazing person." As a child, Suri was often featured alongside her parents in paparazzi photos, sometimes hiding her face with her hair to dodge the cameras. Today, little is known about the 16-year-old except for a few fun facts Holmes has shared over the years.

Holmes previously spoke to Town & Country in 2017 about his top priority being his daughter's stability. "This business is so unstable, and you never really know where you're going to be... My child is the most important person to me, and his education is paramount to my job right now," she said. . "It's very important for me to be there and she has a stable and innocent childhood. I feel so blessed to do what I do, but there's nothing better in the world than seeing your child succeed."

In 2020, shortly after celebrating Suri's 14th birthday, Holmes also wrote an essay for Vogue Australia in which she detailed what it was like to experience the COVID-19 pandemic alongside her daughter. "Hobbies like sewing, painting, and writing became new marks of satisfaction and having had time at home to just be. To listen," she wrote. "Live a moment without pressure...