"She's so quiet and demure," an observer says of Holmes (on April 6). "If she wasn't surrounded by bodyguards, you wouldn't even know she was famous." Photo by: GINSBURG-SPALY-MWD / X17 |
Sure to be offering encouragement are Cruise's sisters Lee Anne, 46, and Cass, 41, and his mom, Mary, 69, all of whom are fixtures at the Cruise compound, a heavily guarded estate monitored by surveillance cameras and a round-the-clock security detail where the family often gathers to eat dinner. "His family is so intensely close," says a Cruise source. "[Scientology] is something that binds them. It's almost like they have their own language.
[The house] is like this little town up there. It's really insulated." Scientology members stop by regularly, including Jessica Rodriguez, 30, who was Holmes's companion throughout much of last summer. As for the Holmes clan, the actress's three siblings and parents Martin, 61, and Kathy, 59, still reside three time zones away in Ohio – though Kathy has been with her daughter throughout much of the pregnancy. In an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC's April 14
Primetime, Cruise refuted reports of friction between himself and his future in-laws: "You can't believe any of that stuff."
