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A friend from Holmes's Before Cruise era also wishes her well while lamenting that the actress has fallen out of contact with many of their old circle since leaving her New York City apartment for Cruise's L.A. home. "She found her happiness," this friend says. "She's going to be a mother at 27. She has everything she wants." As for her now on-hold career, "when you're a young mom, you're closer in age to your kids and you can have a career at the same time," says former Dawson's Creek executive producer Paul Stupin. "Her career is still blossoming."
Among Holmes's hometown crowd, there was surprise that the girl with the traditional mid-western, Catholic upbringing opted for motherhood before marriage. "I didn't expect to hear that at all," says Jessica Drouillard, 26, Holmes's old friend and high school classmate at Notre Dame Academy. "She always seemed to have her act together, and getting married first would be part of the plan."
