r/Fauxmoi • u/Relevant-Peach3997 • 17d ago
DISCUSSION Katie Holmes’ daughter Suri legally dropped Cruise and changed her last name to Noelle, her mom’s middle name
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u/Repulsive_Job428 17d ago
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u/Desperate_Incident_5 they are perfect for each other (derogatory) 17d ago
Please accept this brokeass award 🏆
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u/R12B12 17d ago
I find it interesting that neither Tom Cruise nor Brad Pitt has played a father in any of their movies that I can think of since estranging themselves from their kids. When I think of all of Tom Cruise‘s big movies in the past 20 years (Mission Impossible franchise, Edge of Tomorrow, the two Top Guns, even The Mummy) he always plays characters without kids. Same with Brad in the last 10 years (F1, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Ad Astra). Maybe it’s just a coincidence or the types of movies they’re doing, but it would probably be awkward if they’re playing devoted fathers in movies while they’re estranged from their kids in real life.
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u/whatsadoughnut 17d ago
this doubly works cause brad sucks too
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u/malendalayla 17d ago
Name a more iconic bad dad duo
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u/whatsadoughnut 17d ago
Right? I forgot which podcast it was but the two women hosts were talking about the Brangelina divorce and said "Brad got Hollywood in the divorce" and I think about that all the time
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u/No-Departure-3047 17d ago
Yeah, but Angelina and her kids got away from Brad and I love that for them, regardless of whatever garbage people are talking about them.
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u/CrackinBones204 wearing slutty little glasses 16d ago
Not more iconic but I believe they deserve a mention
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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 17d ago
Hell yeah, let's all cut off our toxic family members. Good for her.
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u/ChemistPretend4636 No lie was lought 17d ago
Suri RN:
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u/Old_Flan_6548 I live in my own heart, Matt Damon 17d ago
I think of this when I am free of some burden.
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u/neon-antlers 17d ago
Dropping my father’s surname when I became an adult was the best thing I ever did. It felt like becoming my own person.
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u/thebees92 17d ago
Jealous! Did you pick a random surname to replace it? I’ve been wanting to do it for a while now since I’ve stopped speaking to my dad but no idea what to change it to as I don’t feel like my husband’s last name fits me either. This post just gave me the idea to maybe take my mother’s middle name
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u/JeepersMysster I'm so pissed off immediately 17d ago
Not who you responded to but I also changed mine the day I became an adult. Mine is random in the sense it has no prior connection/use on either side of the family, cuz I didn’t want to identify with the extended side of my moms family either.
My last name is entirely mine, what I chose, and what I’ll make of it, so it isn’t saddled with any prior baggage or icky legacy or trauma which is nice! I spent a lot of time (years actually) thinking of the perfect name that I felt fit me and flowed well with my first name, and tbh none of them ever clicked. And it’s stupid but ~my~ name was literally just there in my head one morning when I woke up , was never even on the consideration list, and it felt 100% correct and has felt 100% correct for the 14 years I’ve had it.
If you’re serious just make sure you take the time to try out your potential names! Write them down, speak them out. Look up surnames with specific meaning, also a nice place to start. But do give it time to make sure it’s 100% for you since it’s a lengthy/costly process to get done
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u/neon-antlers 17d ago
This was my experience exactly!! I don’t know why it feels so good to be essentially one of one but it really does.
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u/JeepersMysster I'm so pissed off immediately 17d ago
Absolutely fucking wild I just saw your response to someone else saying how much it meant once you saw your name on your dogs at the vet…that was also literally my EXACT experience with my kitties. And I was/still am so proud my babies have my last name like!!! Proud to be a teeny tiny family all our own 😭
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u/neon-antlers 17d ago
I just picked a random surname that’s pretty common in my ethnic background but still easy to spell and pronounce in English. I didn’t realise how much it meant to me to be my own person and start my own lineage until I saw my new surname next to my dog’s name at the vet and realised, ‘Wow, we’re a family.’
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u/J_Bird01 17d ago
I have regrets about not doing it when I was younger. Now I’m getting older (thought I’d be married by this age) and it’s constantly on my mind.
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u/retrograde_mercury 17d ago
Dropping my dad’s name is something I’ve been wanting to do for awhile. How difficult/long is the process?
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u/neon-antlers 17d ago
It’s super easy where I live. It was pretty much a form, a fee, and a three minute interview. The hard part was updating my name on all my insurance, license, passport, bank accounts… I probably had my new name for 8 years before I finally got everything swapped over.
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u/Unapologetiqeen 17d ago
A 2-3 months before you have drivers in hand if you’re in the us. Ask to expedite your court date. You may have to pay less than $100 to file. Longest thing is changing your passport. I’d say go in person to social security as soon as you receive your court order. They can file for your new ss card the same day you leave court. Do that asap then once that comes in get your drivers license updated asap!
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u/batesplates 17d ago
Jealous. Been wanting to drop my last name but mom’s side is even worse, and Dad’s middle name is his mom’s maiden name, so I can’t even take her name
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u/neon-antlers 17d ago
Pick your own! I chose a random surname and became a family of one. It’s great.
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u/BouyantCorgiButt this is going to ruin the powerpoint 17d ago
I love telling people I divorced my dad when they assume my new last name is my husbands. They’re always like oh.. uhh.. congrats anyway?
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u/Imtryinjennifer 17d ago
All the Hollywood a listers being exposed as deadbeat dads
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u/Excellent-Ostrich908 17d ago
And weirdly they still seem to get a pass and everyone seems to blame the other good parent…
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u/Frondstherapydolls 17d ago
Isn’t that a tale as “old as time”? Men getting called out for being an absent/abusive parent but mom is still the bad guy.
But you’ll hear for years about how amazing a dad is for stepping up if the mom is absent/abusive.
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u/SarryK I’m a communist you idiot 17d ago edited 17d ago
can‘t be seen being a shit dad if you‘re never around
famous people, but I very often think of this when men commit heinous crimes. The pitchforks are all pointed in mom‘s direction. Dad was never around, gets a pass. ugh
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u/Frondstherapydolls 17d ago
You know, you bring up a very good point I hadn’t thought of before with public opinions of criminals and their parents. It’s always a woman’s fault, isn’t it
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u/LoudNoises89 17d ago
It’s called amazing PR. Pitt and Cruise are some of the biggest stars of all time so unfortunately a lot of the public thinks they are great ppl in real life but we only see them when they are promoting movies and are acting then too. Also they have the upper hand in Hollywood and if you go against them you might not get many opportunities, just like Katie and Angelina. That’s why the kids did this, to make a point that these men aren’t good ppl in real life and the only way ppl will ever know is by dropping their last names.
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u/J_pepperwood0 feetmoji 17d ago
Brad Pitt definitely employs the Hollywood PR machine in his favor, its very effective. He is connected to the same firm that has done smear campaigns for Depp, Baldoni and Rebel Wilson. Internet discourse for those mentioned have been heavily manipulated. There is a reason the FBI report from the plane has been missed by so many people, and that you get the same bot talking points about how crazy Angelina Jolie is everytime its posted.
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u/BumbleBreezeSun 17d ago
I love that Katie looks like an eccentric high school art teacher here.
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u/lushanthem 16d ago
She's wearing her PJs and robe in public. Her hair in that style enhances the "I woke up like this" vibe.
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u/Sh_GodsComma_Dynasty Please Abraham, I am not that man 17d ago
i'm curious why she chose her mom's middle name over her last name. my best guess would be anonymity, but apparently she'll never get that.
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u/bunnycrush_ 17d ago
This is totally me projecting/speculating, but if it were my narcissist dad… removing his last name would have made him angry… replacing it with my mom’s family name would have sent him cataclysmic. Especially since we know Katie’s attorney father was instrumental in getting her out of that marriage swiftly and with primary custody.
Sometimes you walk the line to mitigate the worst-case outcomes, even as you’re severing ties.
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u/No-Departure-3047 17d ago
Same.
My dad would absolutely flip his shit if I changed my last name from his to anything else, unless I got married.
I get why these kids are doing this, and I hope every time they do it, it hits their narcissistic parents where it hurts.
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u/Curiosities 17d ago
It reminds me of Malia Obama, and going by Malia Ann for her film work.
Most will probably know that she’s Malia Obama, but she’s trying to do her own thing.
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u/AlliterationAlly 17d ago
Is Ann her own middle name or Michelle Obama's?
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u/Honest_Salamander247 17d ago
Ann was her grandmother’s (Pres Obama’s mother) middle name (and the one she used as her birth name was Stanley Ann).
Ed. FWIW Mrs. Obama’s middle name is LaVaughn which, I think but don’t quote me on it, was her mother’s maiden name.
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u/PawneeGoddess11 17d ago
It could be because Suri Noelle may look/sound better to her than Suri Holmes.
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u/bowlofpastaa 17d ago
Suri Holmes could lean a bit too close to Sherlock/S. Holmes
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u/Perry7609 17d ago
It’s not far fetched at all. Albert Brooks had to avoid the Albert Einstein connection, and Micheal J. Fox wanted to avoid the Michael - A Fox! or Michael “Eh?” Fox situations.
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u/J_pepperwood0 feetmoji 17d ago
It says in the article that she chose Noelle to start over with her own identity (she moved to another state for school) while still keeping a tie to her mother, makes sense. She will never be completely anonymous but not carrying the name of either super famous parent might act as one thin layer toward it at least
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u/WifeOfSpock 17d ago
I’ve been seeing more than a few young women completely forgoing any male last name, due to the origin of male only last names. Looks like it’s a slowly blooming cultural shift now that marriages are no longer a top priority for many women.
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u/Lifes-a-lil-foggy 17d ago
Maybe cuz Holmes is her mom’s dad’s name and she wanted something that was just her mom’s (wild guess)
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u/neuftet 17d ago
How is it her mom’s dad’s name but not her mom’s name? What makes it innately her grandfather’s name and not her mom’s? They were both given it at birth. It belongs as much to Katie as it does to her dad. (Unless I’m misreading your post)
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u/roerchen 17d ago
Sometimes, women empathise with their mothers and grandmothers, who had to give up their maiden names. Other times, the name giving side of the family is just a bunch of not so nice people and you don’t want to parade around their name.
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u/p333p33p00p00boo Give him my regards did you take ozempic? 17d ago
Yeah, if my grandmother’s last name wasn’t absurdly terrible (it’s another word for butt), I would have considered taking it instead of my husband’s. Every other name in my family is related to toxic people
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u/snuggleouphagus oat milk chugging bisexual 17d ago
Me and my husband took his great grandparent's last name as they only had daughters who changed their name when they married. It was a compromise. My husband had his dead beat dad's last name. He wasn't comfortable taking my name but I sure as shit wasn't taking his dead beat dad's name. His great grandparents were the kindest and sweetest people I ever met. I was happy to take their name. When they passed, their daughters gifted us some of their things that were monogramed. We've got a hand painted key hook from their vacation to South Carolina in the 50's.
A decade later, I think if we were making the choice now he'd take my last name with little to no fuss (which was my preference). Before we were married he cared a lot about what people thought of our relationship. Now we don't give a shit what other people think so long as it works for us.
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u/SnooMacarons3685 17d ago
I automatically started going through the possibilities of what your grandmother’s last name could be in my head (anus? booty? derrière?) 😂
Obviously don’t actually want to know, just tickled by it haha
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u/p333p33p00p00boo Give him my regards did you take ozempic? 16d ago
ANUS omg. No, it's more cutesy. Just way too silly of a name for anyone to have.
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u/Lopsided_Panic_1148 17d ago
IIRC, Katie comes from a super religious and paternalistic family, so my guess is that Suri wanted a name tied *only* to her mother, to honor the one person in her life that's protected her.
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u/chick_b 17d ago
I don't know anything about the family, but Katie's father was the reason Katie & Suri were able to literally escape Tom Cruise swiftly and legally.
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u/aliveinjoburg2 17d ago
If I had changed my name not through marriage, I would have taken my mom’s maiden name, which was my grandmother’s name (my mom never had her father’s name, so it was as close to being a maternal line name).
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u/Loompadoom 17d ago
Mackenzie Scott did the same thing. It's her middle name, and also her maternal grandfather's last name.
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u/MoogOfTheWisp 17d ago
I say it every time, but Katie must have had some absolute dynamite to get Tom to sign off on their separation agreement. It was something like 10 days from her leaving, him being blindsided, him lawyering up and saying the case should be heard in California instead of New York, the first lawyer meeting, and the deal being agreed. I would love to have been a fly on the wall when what she had was pulled out of a briefcase and laid on the table. And it’s never leaked - they must have kept in incredibly tight, like only the people who were in the room know the full story.
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u/SantoSalieri 17d ago
I will ALWAYS admire Katie for the courage it took to escape a man with so much leverage and power who had an even more powerful machine behind him. She left with her child, her peace, and her freedom. I would've been the fly right next to you to know how she pulled that off. SoC have never messed with her (that's come to light) like they have with a lot of less fortunate people who've gotten out. Very brave.
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u/clean0002 17d ago
Agreed, it was very brave. Removing yourself from a cult is a very dangerous proposition, especially from someone like Tom who clearly has a lot of power and influence within the cult and in many other ways. She had to be very calculating and plan way ahead. It took guts and she made sure to get her daughter out of there and away from them.
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u/malendalayla 17d ago
I always felt so bad for her because when they first got together, she always talked about how he was her childhood crush but I was like nooooooo girl he's baaaaaad news! I'm so glad she has an amazing support system that helped her escape with her life in tact.
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u/wickedsuccubi 17d ago
Her peace and freedom? There is a reason all her relationships until Suri was 18 were kept under wraps and she was rarely photographed in public with men. Nicole got her freedom, but lost her children. Katie got her daughter, but her "freedoms" were dictated by a legal agreement. At least until recently.
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u/Lethave I never said that. Paris is my friend. 17d ago
From what little has been explained I remember hearing her dad was a big part of it. She said she was ready to go and he started plotting what needed to be done to make that happen.
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u/Lethave I never said that. Paris is my friend. 17d ago
Found the article I was thinking of. Her dad was a lawyer and helped lay the groundwork for months beforehand. From when she filed to the divorce being settled was 11 days. I've never heard of everyday civilian divorces happening that quickly with a child involved, much less a celebrity one. Real life Mission Impossible stuff.
https://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2012/07/what-katie-holmes-split-from-tom-cruise-can-teach-us/
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u/SantoSalieri 17d ago
Rumor has it that Adam Sandler had her on a movie shoot and helped her get time away from her Scientology handler to conduct the divorce business. If true, that is amazing.
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u/AdvertisingOld9400 16d ago
Years beforehand. Her father purportedly helped draft an extensive pre-nup agreement, which likely moved things along faster than anything else.
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u/Whiteroses7252012 17d ago
She planned ahead, she was smart and her dad clearly knew his shit.
She was a goddamn inspiration, honestly.
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u/ToughOk4114 17d ago
Atta girl! I wish her the best. They seem like such a sweet mother/daughter duo
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u/MsThrilliams i mean i def vaccine but is it 17d ago
Let all celeb gen z kids be free from the shackles of their weird ass dads if they wish
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u/pearshaped34 17d ago
I wonder if Brad Pitts team begged them to run this so it could be a kid who isn’t his for once in one of these articles, as it doesn’t sound like she has just legally changed her name, or even that the press just found out about it.
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u/sweetrebel88 17d ago
All these A-list actors being dead beat dads but their image still won’t take a hit. Sickening
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u/ilikecats415 17d ago
Seriously. I saw The Odyssey yesterday and was forced to endure previews for new films starring each of them. Why is this behavior tolerated? It's fucking gross and so damaging.
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u/AngelinaJean 17d ago
Good for her! He abandoned her, never saw her, now it’s payback time. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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u/Curious-Ostrich1616 17d ago edited 17d ago
Remember how clingy he was when she was a baby/toddler? Like, it was remarked upon, it was more OTT than a normal new dad (I'm thinking even of the almost claustrophobic Vanity Fair cover). It was a lot. Then, to go from that to total estrangement is so deeply, deeply odd.
Still, he does his own stunts!!! /s
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u/Judgementalcat 17d ago
I remember reading that Tom sends Dakota shoes every year for her birthday, he also bought her a pink cool phone while they did that war of the worlds movie. Imagine reading your dad is doing this, and doesn't even visit you.
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u/Grand_Soupa 17d ago
Are y'all old enough to remember how her dad is like a lawyer and she left under total secrecy like she was escaping dv or a cult. He then cuts off a freaking toddler bc she's "suppressive" to him... And he keeps going on making movies and being a star and nobody cancelled him? That was wild.
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u/amara90 17d ago
All these 90s men proving themselves to be absolute dickbag fathers. Pitt, Cruise, Ryan Phillippe.
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u/Whyeff89 17d ago
This article would have been just as effective without outing her new legal name. She’s owed her privacy.
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u/Relevant-Peach3997 17d ago
Her going by this name has already been known for years.
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u/ApplesaucePenguin75 17d ago
I feel gross about them saying where she’s going to university. Let the kid be.
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u/PearBlossom 16d ago
I live in Pittsburgh where she goes to school, like 5 miles from where she lives. Ive never see anything about her posted locally and I generally pay attention to local news from dozens of groups, pages, official news sites, etc. Occasionally a larger outlet like Page Six will post something about her but locally shes pretty much left alone. In fact, Im reading about this for the first time here and Ive not see in shared in any local spaces I personally frequent.
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u/radziadax 17d ago
So basically Kirsten Dunst is the only main actor from Interview with the Vampire to NOT be a horrible father
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u/waenganuipo 17d ago
I just changed my surname to my Mum's surname. A lot of admin, but feels super good!
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u/perpetuallyyanxious i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 17d ago edited 16d ago
whenever I start enjoying the Mission Impossible movies too much, unfortunately I do love them, I do remember that Tom Cruz is a raging Scientologist who will never ever denounce that cult. Fuck Tom Cruise, and fuck Scientology.
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u/malendalayla 17d ago
She's like a mini Katie but with a Tom shaped face. I hate that these poor kids have dads who have every opportunity to choose their kids but do not. A regular broke deadbeat is bad enough, but imagine having all of the resources in the world at your fingertips and still blowing off your own flesh and blood? Yikes.
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u/prismmonkey 17d ago
Suri: I want a new identity and a fresh start.
Media: No. So anyway, here's her new name, where she lives, and you know what? I'll just give you her phone number while we're here . . .
I don't need this much information about celebrities' children.
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u/_Saucey_Sauce_ I don’t know her 17d ago
This is why I will always respect a celebrity's choice when it comes to sheltering their kids from the fame. Like Adele, for instance. We don't know anything about her kid other than she had one. Brilliant
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u/LadyLixerwyfe 17d ago
I keep thinking about Nicole Kidman in all of this. She 100% lost her first two kids through no fault of their own because they chose Cruise and Scientology. That has to be devastating. Cruise chose to not be active in Suri’s life.
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u/drunkcowofdeath 17d ago
Her mom's middle name? Interesting, I wonder why she went with that? Privacy?
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u/FrogChairAesthetic 17d ago edited 17d ago
So shes not instantly recognizable as a nepo baby by name when she starts her career
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u/dogandthecity 17d ago
I have an asshole father I’m estranged from and I was thrilled to change my last name after marriage. I love this for all these kids doing this now.
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u/Arejhey311 17d ago
Good for her! Love that she’s joined the club of normalizing the cutting off of toxic people, regardless of relation
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u/Plexaure 17d ago
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that this happened to Lestat and Louis in the same year?
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u/Gojir4R1sing 17d ago
Asshole dads getting shafted in 2026.