Despite being one of (if not the!) busiest people in Hollywood, Nicole Kidman is always making sure she has time to be a present and able mom to her daughters Sunday and Faith.
The actress, 58, shares her teens with ex-husband Keith Urban, also 58, and during a recent appearance at the University of San Francisco on April 11, as part of their Silk Speaker Series, she used a moment with her older daughter Sunday as a teachable moment.
Powering through challenges
While advising the student attendees to embrace resilience and strength, per the San Francisco Chronicle, she noted that prior to the seminar, she was actually on the phone with the 17-year-old, who was having a rough day.
“I literally got off the phone with my 17-year-old who was having a meltdown,” Nicole shared even quipping that her daughter will “kill me for saying that.”
“But I was parenting, mothering and coaching her into, ‘It’s OK. Step by step. Some days are going to be harder than others. You’re going to look back at this week and you’ll have a different perspective on it next week.’,” she continued, noting that the fear of the unknown is not an uncommon one, it’s just about finding the right “perspective” to take you through it..
“The fear of what your future is and what do you want to do with your life, all of the things that probably many people in this room are experiencing now, I’m working through with both my daughters,” Nicole noted.
© Getty ImagesBecoming a “death doula”
Speaking of family, though, Nicole also shared an unexpected career move she was making – becoming a “death doula,” inspired specifically by the passing of her mother Janelle Ann Kidman in 2024.
While she did acknowledge that the idea of it “sounds a little weird,” the Scarpetta star reasoned: “As my mother was passing, she was lonely, and there was only so much the family could provide.”
© Getty Images“Between my sister and I, we have so many children and our careers and our work, and wanting to take care of her because my father wasn’t in the world anymore, and that’s when I went, ‘I wish there was these people in the world that were there to sit impartially and just provide solace and care.'”
“So that’s part of my expansion and one of the things I will be learning,” Nicole shared, and later credited her “stamina” to take on so much as the thing that keeps her going, but also the hardest to maintain.
© Getty ImagesBeyond starring in the show Margo’s Got Money Troubles (which premieres on April 15), Nicole already has two movies in the pipeline for 2026 alone, Practical Magic 2 and The Young People. And she credited her seemingly endless energy to “taking care of my health and taking care of my mental health and being able to show up and give it my all and not ever coasting.”
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