Those who grew up seeing Katie Holmes’ baby face on “Dawson’s Creek” in the late ’90s and early ’00s may have put two and two together. By then, Tom Cruise was already a seasoned actor with a couple of Oscar nominations, a few Golden Globe wins, and two failed marriages under his belt. But Cruise still boasted his pretty-boy face in the mid-2000s when he married Holmes. Looks, however, can be deceiving. In early 2005, Cruise was 42, while Holmes was 26, according to CNN and Yahoo.
Holmes was exactly a month shy of her 28th birthday when she married Cruise in November 2006. Cruise, for his part, had turned 44 that July — Holmes’ age as of this writing. While the focus of their romance shifted with Cruise’s increasing interest in Scientology, their age difference did initially inspire some commentary.
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ABC News pointed out, for example, that Holmes had a poster of Cruise on her bedroom wall growing up. Entertainment Weekly highlighted that their age gap was similar to that of then-couple Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. Their age was no barrier for Holmes, according to the Irish Examiner. But this wasn’t the only time they were in relationships with large age gaps — with Cruise having previously dated older women and Holmes moving on to another older man.
