Katie On Suri: "She's A Very Strong Woman," Plus Alba On Pregnancy

From People:

Little Suri Cruise is not even 2 yet, but already mom Katie Holmes says, "She's a very strong woman."

"I'm very proud of her," the 29-year-old actress added to PEOPLE at Thursday's Glamour magazine kickoff event for V-Day's 10th Anniversary. "She's actually teaching me a lot - probably more than I'm teaching her.

The AP:
What do Jessica Alba, Katie Holmes and Rosario Dawson have in common? All are A-list actresses, and all support V-Day, a global effort to end violence against women and girls.

Founded by Eve Ensler (of "The Vagina Monologues" fame), V-Day celebrated its 10th anniversary Thursday at a star-studded private luncheon sponsored by Glamour magazine. Joining Alba, Holmes and Dawson were Val Kilmer, Kerry Washington, Ali Larter, Gina Gershon, Judith Light and Jennifer Beals.

Since its inception, the anti-violence V-Day effort has reached 119 countries and raised $50 million to increase awareness about violence against women.

"It literally started from one woman's voice ... and it's exponentially grown," said Dawson, a V-Day board member who was inspired by her mother and grandmother's political activism. "It's about embracing being a female and reclaiming that."

Dawson performed a poem about New Orleans, calling it "the vagina of America."

Alba, who made her stage debut performing "The Vagina Monologues," also offered a poem at the luncheon. But first she warned the crowd that she was "popping out" of her dress.

"If you guys don't know, I'm pregnant," she said, as her fiance, Cash Warren, beamed. "You're all women. I think you understand your breasts are engorged and your stomach is getting bigger by the second."

Holmes said she was inspired to become a part of V-Day by her friend (and Tom Cruise's longtime business partner), Paula Wagner.

"It's important for women to support each other and communicate with each other and be each other's friends," Holmes said. "We should be working on stopping violence for people, for everyone."

Comments

[mamacat]

Oh well, no one expects women to be completely rational about their own babies. That much love is probably a good thing.

[loki]

I didnt know Jessica was in a Remake of THE EYE.
I saw the original just a few months ago. Its pretty good. Im hope they dont bastardize it in this American version.

[boycottrightwingthings]

Still, it was nice of the D list actresses to show up, I do want to thank them, as it is a good cause. BTW, Reece Witherspoon and Julia Roberts are two more A list actresses I can think of....am I missing anyone?

[thepainter57]

What does Katie know about being a woman ?

Isn't she still prepubescent herself ?

Or maybe she just acts that way for Tom.

[boycottrightwingthings]

A list actresses? Give me a break. Alba is the hottie of the moment (well, she was before she got pregnant) and most people know Katie Holmes only as Mrs. Tom Cruise, or miss Dawson's Creek from TV. Who is Rosario Dawson? My list of A list actresses are women whose movies most of us might actually want to go and see... Women like Jodie Foster, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, and Meryl Streep. Women who know how to act and who have had have hit movies! The ones you mentioned are D-list, if they even belong on the list at all, which I don't think they do.

[kkfune]

Someone saw she had a personal blog on WWW.INTERRACIALCHATTING.COM, a private site for Ddiversely ethnic singles I heard of from a friend of mine. The blog is updated very often. I think it may be ture.

[boycottrightwingthings]

Katie, Newsflash...Suri is a baby. A woman has gone through stages in life to get to be called a woman. A woman has breasts and a period, or has had periods. That poor baby, with those two idiots for parents. God help her.

[nirak]

What a stupid statement to make about a 2 year old little child.

[ceasenake]

No Now Orleans is the asshole of America because Florida is the penis.

Philidelphia and Washington, DC - the armpits.

[Princesspeach]

Katie is obviously confusing the Terrible Two's with "Strong Womanhood". After all, the Scientology philosophy is that children are really just adults in little bodies. They are to be given "self-dete­rmination"­, which, roughly translated, means no rules and no limits. Katie: Suri is not a woman, but if this is an example of how you relate to her, she's well on her way to becoming a full-fledged brat.

Liberal or conservative, I think we can all at least agree that the couple known as TomKat are the two biggest morons in show business.

[GlimmerofDope]

"Dawson performed a poem about New Orleans, calling it "the vagina of America.""

Oh my...the number of joke replies to that statement overwhelm my mind

[truthyguy]

"She's actually teaching me a lot - probably more than I'm teaching her."

Katie, you married Tom "Laughing Boy" Cruise, so no one is surprised you are learning from a 2 year old.

[HatingTheGame]

Katie calls her 2 year old a "woman" because Suri's channeling L Ron Hubbard being spawned from his frozen sperm, and all.

There's probably some weird stuff going on that we have no clue about!

You think?

[independentrepublicrat]

Regardless, suri is and adorable and pretty child. Her parents...not so much.

[djg55555]

Every woman who bears a child thinks their child is the best that there ever was when they are under two years old. Katie Holmes is naive enough to believe her own feelings are different than any other woman's feelings and that her child is different from anyone else's child. The difference is that she gets to spout off to the public about how naive she is and believe that what she has to say is wisdom.