Tom warns Posh: No more diet tips!
Tuesday 27 May 2008
Posh and Katie Holmes’ friendship is back on track after weeks of estrangement, but it comes with a condition from Katie’s hubby, Tom Cruise – no more swapping diet tips!
According to a source close to the Beckhams in Los Angeles, Posh is delighted her friendship with Katie, 29, is back on, but is heeding the warning from Tom.
After a chance meeting between the couples at a trendy LA restaurant, Tom, 45, took Posh aside and told her why he’d encouraged Katie, who’s recently landed a role on Broadway in Arthur Miller’s play All My Sons, to keep her distance.
The source said: “Tom told Posh he was worried about how thin Katie was getting, especially as they want to start trying for another baby soon.
“Tom was firm, but polite. He said that, although he understood Posh thought she was only trying to help Katie to lose weight after Suri’s birth, he didn’t want her swapping any more diet
tips with Katie in future.”
The source said Tom felt that Katie was becoming obsessed with her diet and also exercising too much – a side of his wife he’s never seen before.
But he believes that if Posh stops talking diets, Katie will put on weight.
“Posh was gracious,” said our source. “She just wants to hang out with Katie again. When Katie stopped returning her calls and invites, Posh was genuinely upset. She wondered what she’d done wrong, and didn’t know what to do about it.
“She asked her husband David for advice and even confided in Eva Longoria. Eva just told her to ‘keep being herself,’ and that whatever was bugging Katie would blow over.
“None of them knew that it was Tom’s concerns for Katie’s health that was behind it all.”
The source added that while size 0 Posh finds it hard to stop herself talking about food and calories, she’s doing her best for Katie’s sake.
“She hasn’t mentioned food and diet once around Katie since then,” the source said. “And when they’ve been out for meals together, she’s made a real effort not to comment on what anyone’s eating, and to try to order more food for herself – even if she doesn’t touch it once it’s on her plate.”
Tom is desperate for his wife to get pregnant again now that their daughter Suri is two. While Katie’s been keen to work on her career, the source said she’s coming round to the idea of another baby, and has discussed the prospect with mum-of-three Posh.
“At least here Posh and Katie have heaps in common – babies and pregnancy are on both their minds at the moment, and it’s all they want to talk about,” added our source.
“They went on a ‘browsing’ shopping trip in LA together recently to coo over all the new baby clothes that are out. Katie says she wants a boy and Posh says she wants a girl, so this is
a new bond for them.”
Meanwhile, as 34-year-old Posh’s friendship with Katie flourishes once again, the former Spice Girl is also making an effort with the ‘LA school mums’ who had initially given her the cold shoulder over her diva-like behaviour.
A source said: “Victoria used to have bodyguards take her sons to school in a black SUV with tinted windows, which other mums found offensive.”
Starting to feel isolated, Posh decided to try to charm them. She even ditched her trademark heels and high-fashion choices in favour of jeans and trainers for parent-teacher evenings, and delivered cupcakes and cookies to the teachers.
She’s so keen to focus on family social events that she organised a picnic for pupils and parents at the Beckhams’ Beverly Hills home, the source said.
And David has also got in on the act, going to the school to give the kids
a free soccer camp.
By Sue Carter