Reid writes, "Australia the movie, however, has one huge problem. It stars Nicole Kidman. Big mistake. Big, big mistake. At a stroke, the world's female cinemagoers will say as one: 'I'm not going to see it if she's in it.'

"Kidman is one of those women who turns other women off. And no, not just because she's pretty and we're jealous. It is because we perceive, and men don't, that she's one of the most overrated actors in the world, a woman who has been the kiss of death in practically every movie she has starred in.

"Kidman is exquisitely accomplished at being awful. Did anyone see Cold Mountain? The sweeping American epic (note: another epic) foundered on the rocks of her gormless mirror-gaze. She can't act. Instead, she drifts around films like a lost porcelain doll, looking frozen, brittle and vapid, staring at the camera with her oh-golly-look-how-I'm-looking-interesting blue eyes. "

Now we'll admit that Kidman's excessive addiction Botox isn't exactly helping her acting career, and that yeah – she's made a stinker or two – but for Reid to be so bold as to state that "the world's female cinemagoers" will balk when they find out Kidman is in a movie – well, the sweeping generalizations are probably not good for Reid's writing career.

"In terms of my future as an actor and stuff, I don't know," Kidman said.

"I am in a place in my life where I've had some great opportunities and I may just choose to have some more children. I've no idea what is in my future but I am very at peace with where I want to be.

"There are many things I want to do besides act."

Kidman won an Oscar for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours, but since then – Kidman has starred in a plethora of stinkers such as The Invasion, Fur, Birth and Margot at the Wedding.

Kidman aknowledged she had "quirky" taste in scripts. "But that's my body of work," she said. "I am not going to apologize for it. I have kind of unusual taste and sometimes it's mainstream and a lot of times it's not," she said.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, if Kidman and Urban decide to release a photo of daughter Sunday Rose, they will do so for free.

"They don't think it's appropriate to make deals," a source told the newspaper. "They are still deciding how they feel about it – if and when they will release a photo at all. But they realize there is enormous interest from the public and they are grateful and appreciative of that.

"Nicole and Keith have been enjoying their first few days at home with their firstborn tot – Nicole is thinking about things like breastfeeding now."

This is the first child for the 41-year-old actress and her husband of two years.

"They are all perfect and they are all doing well," Kidman's publicist Wendy Day told the press.

Kidman recently told Vogue, "To feel life growing with you is something very, very special – and I'm going to embrace that completely. The whole experience is so primal. I like the unpredictable nature of it."