Nicole Kidman's baby is a magazine cover girl

Harper's Bazaar

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

Nicole Kidman's daughter Faith Margaret is just 18 months old, but she's already a cover girl. The actress appears holding her daughter on a moody and elegant cover of the June issue of Harper's Bazaar Australia. Photos inside the magazine include shots of Kidman with older daughter Sunday Rose.

The editor of the magazine defends Kidman?against those who may say the actress shouldn't be exposing her children in this way. Edwina McCann writes that Faith and Sunday Rose came to the photo shoot after waking from their naps, and the photographer took some photos of the family together, intending them solely for Kidman's own album.

"I was shown the versions of her with the children, but with their faces obscured," McCann writes in the magazine.?"I fell in love and I wanted our readers?-- in fact, everyone?-- to see the pictures because they say so much more about Kidman than I am attempting to do right now in words. They are magic, raw and full of intense love, and clearly show her devotion to her children. I went to work convincing her that they deserved to be published, so for those who would criticize, blame me."

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While it looks to us as if Kidman's hair, which matches her daughter's in color now,?is merely pulled back or hidden behind her coat, some reports say she's already cut it short for a starring role as Princess Grace in the planned movie, "Grace of Monaco."

That film will reportedly focus on the American-born princess' life between 1961 and 1962, and is expected to be released in 2014.

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