After years of living with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Isabella Cruise, Tom’s adopted daughter from his first marriage to actress Nicole Kidman, has decided that she wants to live with her mother. Now 17-years-old, Bella is close with her mother for the first time in years and has told Tom and Katie that she’d prefer living a more low-key life in Nashville with her real mother and her step-dad.

Of course this also means that she’d no longer have to practice her father’s religion of choice, Scientology. A source close to Nicole said that if Bella were to live with her and her husband Keith Urban, she wouldn’t be forced to be a part of the church, which is a major concern to her controlling father.

For years the Kidman-Cruise kids have been painted as children who hated Nicole and immediately chose their father over her during their divorce.  I think it’s fucking fantastic that we’re finding out that not only is that not the case, but that Tom’s ties to his religion may have been the reason the kids stayed with him the whole time. Where the former couple’s other adopted child, Connor, will wind up is yet to be seen.

I raced to Google when I saw these pictures, in the vain hope that at least one of Tom Cruise’s kids was old enough to legally purchase cigarettes.  The mother in me just cannot allow myself to be critical of 16 and 12 year-old children.  Which these two are.  Can you believe it?  Don’t they look so much older than that?  What 16 year-old wears jacquard? 

You rarely hear much about Tom Cruise’s kids.  I was impressed that they are never in the papers for their DUI’s and Vegas quickies.  Yeah.  That’s because they are in the Oxy10 zone right now.  We have years to wait before a tell-all can even be a possibility. 

Isabella and Connor Cruise accompanying their dad to the Valkyrie premiere in LA.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes take little Suri for a Thanksgiving walk outside Central Park on Thursday.

She’s FINALLY keeping warm!

Perhaps most surprisingly: Bella was in some of the photos!!!!

They actually let her be in the same park as them sometimes!!!

How kind-hearted.

Image via WENN