Lets be frank here. I hate Katie Holmes. I’ve hated her for a long time now. It’s nothing personal, since I don’t know her, but I do hate the way she talks and smiles. Just hate her.
I only saw one episode of Dawson’s Creek, and in that episode, someone vandalized Joey’s painting. That made me happy. I hated Katie Holmes even more after seeing her on Batman Begins .
But what I’ve come to realize lately, is that we see Katie Holmes so much in the tabloids, news and whatevers, but she’s always just a shadow. See, it’s all about Tom Cruise, since he is an ego-driven maniac. So I figured, shouldn’t Katie get some alone time? Well, here it is:
Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes was born on December 18, 1978, in Toledo, Ohio. Holmes grew up in a Roman-Catholic family, together with 4 more brothers. She attended the all-girls Notre Dame Academy, from which she graduated with a 4.0 average. As a teenager, she participated in school productions such as Hello, Dolly and Damn Yankees.
Someone once wrote in an article about Holmes: "The way she approached her unusual education was as American as apple pie: she went to cheerleading practice, got straight A grades, and made a pledge that she would remain a virgin until marriage." Well, now we know her word is worth crap.

When she was 14 she started attending modeling school in her hometown. The kid obviously made a good impression, as she found herself an agent pretty soon and landed her first role in a film by the age of 19, when she played the role of Libbets Casey in Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm.
Holmes was offered the lead on Buffy, the Vampire Slayer but turned it down. For many people, that would be a fatal mistake, but Katie is a very lucky girl. When she was invited to audition for a new Kevin Williamson series, she couldn’t make it because she had "prior commitments" to her school. The producers allowed her to audition on tape, and watched her on video do a dialogue with her mother, when they decided they found what they were looking for. Lucky girl, right?
Lucky cause that show, Dawson’s Creek, was to dominate teen’s lives between 1998-2003, and Katie had one of the most important roles, arguably the most important one, in it.
Mind-babbling Joey Potter and her friends became a huge hit, and so did Holmes and the rest of the crew. Katie dated her co-star, Joshua Jackson, who played Pacey, for a few months. She describes him as her first love, and they remained good friends after their break-up.
Holmes’ success brought her more roles on the big screen, including Go, Teaching Mrs. Tingle and Phone Booth. She describes the films she’s done as "bombs", so at least she’s being honest.
After Dawson’s Creek ended in 2003, she couldn’t quite maintain the fame with her work in films, although she did act in some successful movies such as Batman Begins and Thank You For Smoking, but that’s because she sucked.
But in 2005, after these last two films came out, her life was about to change forever. Holmes has been seeing actor Chris Klein for 5 years. They were even engaged to be married in 2003. But in the beginning of 2005 they broke up. Sounds like nothing special.

But it was just weeks after this break up that Katie had started dating her current man of the hour, Tom Cruise. It seemed just like one of those romances between an older actor who can get any woman he wants, and a younger actress who can keep him satisfied for a short time. But then, things got weird.
On May 23rd 2005, Cruise gave his famous sofa performance on Oprah, making sure the entire world knew he is in love with Katie Holmes and that he is completely out of his right mind. Shortly after that, on June 17th, came the marriage proposal on top of the Eiffel tower, and the quirky news conference concerning the engagement.

All through this period of time, Katie stopped working. She also converted from a Roman Catholic to a scientologist, like Cruise himself. The rumors talked about her being hypnotized or spelled by Cruise, to adjust to his lifestyle. Pictures of her looking "out of this world" were becoming more and more popular.
On October 2005 Cruise and Holmes dropped another big one, and announced they are expecting a baby. Even before the birth, speculations regarding the fate of the "alien baby" were raised everywhere, but they only increased after the birth.
Suri Cruise was born on April 18th 2006 in Santa Monica. She was kept hidden from the public for 5 months, which made a lot of people wonder: is the damn thing even real? Now we all know that there really is Suri, but back then, things weren’t that certain.
After exposing Suri, TomKat revealed their plans for an upcoming wedding. The long awaited ceremony was held this weekend, on November 18th, in a 15th century castle in Bracciano, Italy, in front of 150 guests. Katie, Tom Suri and Tom’s kids from his marriage to Nicole Kidman, all wore Armani.
So this is the story of a the town’s princess who wanted to be a good Christian and ended up as the scientologist’s other half, or fifth. Only time will tell if she gets her career back or ends up as a numb plant on Tom’s mental piece.