Cruise baby Suri is a cover girl

The waiting game is over. The first public photographs of Suri Cruise will hit the newsstands today, when she appears with her parents, a couple of actors, on the cover of Vanity Fair.

In addition to a 22-page photo portfolio, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes talk about the strange experience of being the subjects of so much speculation and so many rumors and jokes, including much speculation about Holmes’ pregnancy and why the baby was kept under wraps.

The couple told Vanity Fair that after Suri was born, they’d been taking pictures and had always planned to release them “at the right time.” “Then all the craziness began,” Holmes said. “This ‘Where is Suri’ controversy. Tom and I looked at each other and said, ‘What’s going on?’ We weren’t trying to hide anything.”

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Robin Abcarian