They are one of Hollywood’s most successful couples, having recently celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary.
And Nicole Kidman has revealed the secret to a happy marriage is following one simple rule with her husband Keith Urban.
The Moulin Rouge! star, 51, told Parade magazine on Monday: ‘We’ve never texted’.
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Nicole and Keith married in 2006, just a year after meeting at the G’Day LA gala celebrating the achievements of Australians in the US.
Nicole, who is currently filming the second season of Big Little Lies, said of their strange telephone habit: ‘We’ve never texted.
‘We talk all the time and we FaceTime but we just don’t text because I feel like texting can be misrepresentative at times.
‘We’ve never texted!’ Nicole told Parade magazine this week that she and Keith choose to only call or FaceTime each other because she believes ‘texting can be misrepresentative’
‘And I’ve had the thing where I re-read texts and I’m like, “What does that mean?” and then read it to somebody and go, “Can you interpret that?”… I don’t want that between my lover and I.’
The Oscar winner claimed that she and Keith always preferred calling each other, telling Parade: ‘We just do voice to voice, or skin to skin, as we always say.’
The couple married in the Sydney suburb of Manly in 2006.
Love story: Nicole and Keith married in 2006, just a year after meeting at the G’Day LA gala celebrating the achievements of Australians in the US
They welcomed their first child, Sunday Rose, in 2008, with Faith Margaret following two years later in 2010.
For their recent wedding anniversary, country singer Keith wrote on Instagram: ’12 years of celestial synergized soul dancing. Happy anniversary! I love you SO much.’
After splitting with her first husband Tom Cruise in 2001, Nicole was romantically linked to Lenny Kravitz and Robbie Williams before meeting Keith in 2005.
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