Constantly photographed with Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, Suri Cruise was captured in many a candid moment, like having a taste of rainwater in New York in February 2010, as seen above. And if you’re wondering if her parents were responsible for the 4-year-old’s choice of red coat over a dress with tights, you’d be wrong. “Whatever she wants to wear, she wears it … She’s got great taste, too. She tells me what to wear,” Tom told Oprah in May 2010.
While the interest in Suri was overwhelming, they made the best of the situation. “We don’t get nervous about it. You get used to it after so long,” Tom said. He believed it was inevitable to expose Suri to the reality of her parents’ lives. “We’re raising her to — you know… protecting her, but also you don’t want her to be sheltered in any way,” he said in 2009, according to RTE.
Tom and Holmes clearly had differing views on parenting. She wanted Suri to have a childhood similar to her own. “I try to do what [my family] did for me for my little one,” she previously said on the “Today” show, per E! News. Tom, on the other hand, didn’t seem to mind the attention being paid to his daughter. “It’s both very flattering … and you kind of go, ‘It is what it is,'” he said on “The View” in 2009 (via People).