Kidman reveals Cruise marriage miscarriage

Nicole Kidman has sensationally revealed the biggest secret during her nine-year marriage to Tom Cruise - she miscarried a child.

The tragedy has become the subject of much speculation in recent years, and now Kidman is revealing all in a stunning new Vanity Fair interview.

She recalls: "From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies. We lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic."

When asked to talk about her ill-fated pregnancy, the Australian actress adds: "There's a complicated background to that, given that I never speak much about many things. One day maybe that story will be told."

Kidman and Cruise separated in 2000, shortly before their 10th wedding anniversary. The divorce was finalised in 2001.

If the miscarriage revelation doesn't shock, the Patrick Demarchelier Vanity Fair cover shot will - the normally demure and shy Kidman poses in a sailor's hat and rips open her blouse to reveal a white bra.

Kidman also revealed she was secretly engaged to a mystery man in between her marriages to Tom Cruise and Keith Urban.

The actress refused to name names in her recent candid chat with Vanity Fair's Krista Smith, but told the journalist that she had planned to wed another before she and Urban exchanged vows last year.

Kidman says: "I got engaged to somebody… but it just wasn't right. I wasn't ready. We weren't ready."

Smith adds: "I couldn't get it (name) out of her." But the glossy magazine suggests ex-boyfriend Lenny Kravitz could have been the guy that got away.

In a 2004 interview, the coy rocker said of his romance with Kidman: "We're really great friends… But you know, we keep the what, how and when and all that to ourselves."

Kidman also reportedly dated Liz Hurley's ex, Steve Bing, in between her 2000 split from Cruise and her 2006 wedding to country star Urban.