Katie Holmes Glamour Magazine April Special 70th Anniversary Issue

Katie Holmes, 30, is the cover girl for the April’s 70th anniversary special issue of Glamour Magazine.  In the issue she chats all about her family and motherhood.

She says motherhood:

“has been the most amazing experience – in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it’s the most important job in the world.”

“During the first couple of days [with Suri], we would just sleep right next to her to make sure she was breathing. And I was constantly learning on the job, but Tom was very helpful and supportive.”

On bad rumors that used to surround her marriage to Tom Cruise, 46, including one that Suri didn’t exist at all:

“Some of the stuff [people said] was such absolutely horrible things to say about a child. It was so uncalled for and so disgusting. Enough is enough.”

“I definitely felt like – as a woman, as the mother of Suri – I want to handle this! My mom is very strong, and if anyone ever said anything about any of us, she would be, ‘Excuse’ me? That’s my family!”

She says Cruise was extremely helpful during those times:

“We were changing diapers. He said, ‘I don’t want you to get upset.’ And I said, ‘Well, I am upset.’ So we approached it together.”

She also adds that she sees glimpses of Tom and her in Suri:

“She’s really such a special girl — strong and funny.

“She’s her own person. She has a great sense of humor.”

She say’s her family life is normal and that she’s “not pregnant right now.”

On her being in the business and family life with Tom Cruise:

“From an early age I knew that I wanted to be in this business. So I did everything I could to get here, and when I met Tom, I knew in an instant that we were going to be together, that we were going to get married. He does have a very big life. And you know, we just do it. And, as a woman, you make that transition from being single to [being] a partner. I have a teammate, and it’s like, we’re going to make this work.”

On wanting to marry Cruise at an early age:

“When Top Gun came out, my sisters were like, ‘Oh, my God, Top Gun! Tom Cruise!’”

“And I very confidently said, ‘I’m going to marry him one day.’ It wasn’t like, How do I get to Tom Cruise? It was just: I think I’m going to marry him. Why not? He’ll like me. I’m fun.”

An average day in their household:

“We’re all together. We like to be together, so we use the house for our [business] meetings,” Holmes says. “[We] play Yahtzee, board games, Scrabble. We grill; have pool parties. We play ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and Suri is the Big Bad Wolf. [Tom] reads storybooks to Suri, and we all laugh. When a good song comes on, he’ll break out in a dance. We’ll watch movies in bed — recently Madagascar and Cinderella, for Suri. We really have a good time.”

Cruise does most of the cooking and his specialty is his pasta carbonara:

“He knows exactly how to do it: a pinch of this, a pinch of that. He has a recipe, but he also kind of [improvises] by himself. You have to do the egg at a certain time. He did it once when we were camping.”

“I don’t really cook that much — eventually I will.”

“I do make cupcakes.”

To the people who start the rumors Katie says:

“Why don’t you come over and have dinner? See what there is to see.”