Monday, August 3, 2009
Baby warning for Kidman on didgeri-taboo Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Australian star Nicole Kidman will have no more children after breaking a taboo against women playing the didgeridoo, an Aboriginal cultural leader has warned. Kidman, who had her first child in July at the age of 41 after long making clear her yearning for a baby, blew into the traditional instrument while promoting her latest movie. "People are going to see Nicole playing it and think it's all right," award- winning actor, screenwriter and Aboriginal language teacher Richard Green told the Sydney Morning Herald. "It bastardizes our culture. I will guarantee she has no more children. It is not meant to be played by women as it will make them barren." Kidman, who suffered an ectopic pregnancy and a miscarriage during her marriage to Tom Cruise, gave birth to daughter Sunday Rose after marrying country singer Keith Urban in 2006. She "blew feebly" into a didgeridoo on German show Wetten, Dass..? at the weekend while promoting Baz Luhrmann film Australia with fellow star Hugh Jackman. Alan Madden, a cultural officer at Sydney's Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, said Kidman ought to have known better. Kidman said last month she might put films on hold and have more children.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE