When Nicole Kidman met Keith City in 2005, she was instantly interested in him. However she says he did not get in contact together with her for ages after she gave him her cellphone quantity.

Kidman informed Ellen in 2017, “I remember thinking, I had such a crush on him, and he wasn’t interested in me. It’s true! He didn’t call me for four months.”

As soon as he picked up the cellphone, City realized what he’d been lacking all his life.

“Somebody had given me her number, and I had it in my pocket for a while,” he Stated on Australian talks present Interview in 2018. “I kept looking at it thinking, ‘If I call this number, she’s going to answer. I don’t know what [to] say.’ I wasn’t in a very healthy place in my life … I’d never have thought she’d see anything in a guy like me. But, at some point, I plucked up the courage to [dial] those numbers and she answered, and we started talking. And we talked and talked and talked and talked, and it was effortless.”

The couple have been inseparable since. It has been nearly 20 years, they usually’re simply as in love as ever. Here is Kidman and City’s full relationship timeline.

January 2005

Nicole Kidman and Keith City met on the G’Day USA Gala, an occasion honoring Australians that’s held in Los Angeles. Kidman was and made positive he acquired her quantity, however it was a number of extra months earlier than they’d chat.

June 2005

He was there when she turned 38 on June 20, 2005. Later, Kidman Stated she knew he was the “love of my life” that night time when she noticed him on the stoop of her condominium at 5 A.M. with a bouquet of gardenias.

“That is when I went, ‘This is the man I hope I get to marry,’” she stated. “I believed by that point he was the love of my life.”

Could 2006

In Could 2006, Nicole Kidman hosted the thirtieth Anniversary gala for the group UNIFEM, the United Nations Growth Fund for Ladies. City was her date and she or he introduced to reporters that she was engaged.

“He’s actually my fiancé. I wouldn’t be bringing my boyfriend,” she stated.

She added, “He’s very good to me.”

June 2006

The couple have been married in a suburb of Sydney, Australia, at St. Patrick’s Property on the seaside. They headed to French Polynesia for his or her honeymoon.

October 2006

City struggled with alcoholism and has credited his spouse for serving to him start his sobriety. It reportedly began with an intervention held round 4 months after their wedding ceremony. He later informed Rolling Stone in 2014 that he was “very, very blessed” that his spouse stepped in and helped him enter rehab.

January 2007

The musical artist left rehab after three months of therapy, they usually have been seen quickly after at a Golden Globes social gathering in Los Angeles.

November 2007

Kidman and City purchased a house collectively in Nashville in 2007, which is the place City lived when he wasn’t touring. They settled on a farm to the southwest of the town.

“We don’t want to live in a compound,” City stated. “It’s the great thing about Tennessee and especially Nashville. The people are just real people, so they just accept you being neighbors.”

January 2008

Their reps confirmed they have been anticipating their first baby in 2018, saying, “The couple are thrilled.”

Kidman stated in a later interview on Stay with Kelly and Ryan that City flew to Australia to see the ultrasound.

“[He] was there for six hours, saw the heartbeat and then had to fly back [to L.A.] to do a show,” she stated.

February 2008

City devoted a tune to his spouse on stage, telling the group, “It’s Valentine’s Day here tomorrow, but today it’s already Valentine’s Day in Australia.”

He selected the tune “Got It Right This Time.”

July 2008

Their first baby collectively, Sunday Rose, was born on July 7, 2008.

“We feel immensely blessed and grateful to be given this beautiful baby girl,” they stated in a press release. “She’s an absolute delight.”

November 2008

Kidman was co-starring within the movie Australia with Hugh Jackman when he was named the “Sexiest Man Alive.” She was requested on the premiere who she thought ought to have taken the title: Her husband, in fact.

“Keith is my sexiest man alive,” she stated. “He is the man I love, and everything is sexy about him.”

December 2010

Their second daughter, Religion Margaret, was born on December 28, 2010. The infant was born by way of surrogate.

“Our family is truly blessed, and just so thankful, to have been given the gift of baby Faith Margaret,” the mother and father of two stated in a press release. “No words can adequately convey the incredible gratitude that we feel for everyone who was so supportive throughout this process, in particular our gestational carrier.”

September 2014

Kidman’s father died in September 2014 unexpectedly after struggling a fall. City sang “Amazing Grace” at Antony Kidman’s funeral.

Could 2016

City shared a clip of himself with Kidman performing a bit of Caraoke collectively on Instagram, during which she’s singing the Carrie Underwood elements of their duet hit “The Fighter.”

That very same month, City informed CBS Information, “Meeting her and getting married wasn’t life-changing, it was life-beginning. It was literally, like, ‘Okay, life starts.’”

July 2017

Kidman’s main position within the HBO hit Massive Little Lies as Celeste Wright concerned loads of tough scenes portraying home violence and assault. She informed Leisure Tonight that City helped her get better when she was bodily and emotionally drained from scenes.

“Luckily I have a partner who is artistic, so he understands what it takes to support that,” she stated. “I came home to loving arms, someone that would hold me, and I was really upset at times. Really damaged, really upset, and physically and emotionally drained and in pain.”

March 2018

At South by Southwest, City talked about how Kidman helped him get sober, saying, “I’m just alcoholically wired. I was living a very small life. My life was getting smaller and smaller and that is how I kept it manageable. I was lucky I had a very loving wife. [Getting sober] has freed me up creatively.”

He added extra about his reference to Kidman, saying, “I would write these songs about love and relationships. I realized I was writing from all these places of the kind of person I wished I could be. … The only thing that’s changed in my life is I’ve more so become the person I was trying to be.”

June 2019

For the InStyle cowl interview for June 2019, Kidman shared some perception on her passions, that are artwork and her household.

“I love having my artistic path, and then my other passion is my family. That’s probably all I need in my life,” she stated.

She added some extra about her marriage, saying, “The greatest thing our family priest told us very early on in our marriage was, ‘Always kiss hello and kiss goodbye.’ It just keeps you connected.”

July 2019

On the monitor “Gemini” off the 2018 album Graffiti U, City paid tribute to his spouse’s astrological signal and in addition sang some very suggestive lyrics: “She’s a maniac in the bed, but a brainiac in the head.”

Whereas on Australian radio’s The Kyle and Jackie O Present, Kidman stated of the tune, “I don’t censor his art if I can be a muse for it. It is embarrassing, but at the same time, yes, it’s better than saying, ‘God, I’m so bored… Make an effort, Nicole.’”

January 2020

Devastating wildfires raged throughout Australia, and the couple donated to Australia’s Rural Hearth Service.

“Our family’s support, thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by the fires all over Australia,” Kidman stated on Instagram. “We are donating $500,000 to the Rural Fire Services who are all doing and giving so much right now.”

September 2020

Whereas doing an interview on Dax Shepard and Monica Padman’s Armchair Professional podcast, City stated of Kidman, “She’s just the one. She’s the one that I was searching for my whole life, and everything not only changed but had to change in me if I was gonna go that road.”

He continued, “It was like the ultimate fork in the road moment in my life, and it was literally like you either get this right now or you are never, ever gonna get it right. This is your one shot. It felt so obvious.”

June 2021

Kidman celebrated their fifteenth anniversary with a spicy pic of City licking her neck.

City’s pic was G-rated, with the caption, “Happy anniversary babygirl !!!!!!! My life started when you said ‘I do’ 5475 days ago today.”

August 2021

Speaking about her intercourse scenes and her husband, Kidman stated on E!’s Day by day Pop, “My husband is an artist, so he understands all of it, and he also does not get involved. He sees the show at the very end when it’s a show, all edited together, and he’s fresh eyes. He doesn’t read any script, he really doesn’t know what’s going on on the set, he’s got his own career that he’s completely absorbed in.”

January 2022

On CBS Mornings in an interview with Gayle King, Kidman stated of her husband, “I met him later in life and it’s been the best thing that’s ever happened to me. That man is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”

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March 2023

City shared a clip from his wedding ceremony to Kidman throughout a present at his second Las Vegas residency. He had been performing his tune “Without You.”

“I wanted to do it in a very organic way and find the right song,” he stated. “It was really more about choosing to do that song, ‘Without You,’ and how that felt like the right time for that.”

Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and extra. Her first ebook, The Lonely Hunter, might be launched by Dial Press in February 2022.