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She's going into labor - cue the music!

Nicole Kidman has created a soundtrack for the birth of her first biological child, Britain's Daily Mail reports. The expectant mom plans to play her carefully selected tunes in the private room she reserved at a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., during the big day.

Of course, hubby Keith Urban's country music is on the track list, along with the lilting melodies of flautist Sir James Galway.

Kidman "has always loved James Galway, particularly his classical albums," a pal of the actress said. "Whenever you go to her house, she has Galway on."

Galway, 68, is considered the best flautist of his generation and has recorded more than 60 albums. His most famous song is the instrumental version of John Denver's 1974 hit "Annie's Song."

Kidman and Urban married in 2006. Their baby - the first biological child for both - is reportedly due in July. The "Golden Compass" star has two adopted children - Isabella, 14, and Conor, 12 - with ex-husband Tom Cruise. 

As she marks her 41st birthday on Friday, Nicole Kidman is enjoying every minute of her life in Nashville and is eagerly awaiting the birth of her first child with hubby Keith Urban, a close pal tells PEOPLE.

"She's never been happier or healthier," the friend says. "She is absolutely radiant and enjoying nesting and homemaking with Keith at their new home in Nashville."

The special day began early, with the birthday girl and Urban making one of their regular stops at the local Starbucks.

The couple also mark their second wedding anniversary on June 25. And, by all accounts, the expectant actress has been enjoying a leisurely last few weeks before the birth of their child next month. "They are so relaxed," the friend adds.

Kidman and Urban, 40, made a brief trip to New York last week, where they took in an evening performance of the Tony-winning August: Osage County at the Music Box Theatre and eschewed any special, VIP treatment for the three-and-a-half-hour show.

"Nicole is always very gracious, and she doesn't run from people," a source says. "She looked wonderful, and they seemed very happy." The pair did, however, dodge paparazzi waiting outside.

Closer to home in Tennessee, the couple lives a seemingly normal life: they're regulars at their local Starbucks, take in movies on the weekends (they just saw You Don't Mess with the Zohan), tend to their organic vegetable garden and work out together.

"She's very nurturing," says Australia cinematographer Mandy Walker. Kidman stars opposite Hugh Jackman in the Baz Luhrmann epic due for release in November. "She's really lovely."

"When I first saw the baby on the ultrasound, I started crying," she says in the new issue of Vogue. "I didn't think I'd get to experience that in my lifetime...To feel life growing with you is something very, very special, and I'm going to embrace that completely. I don't believe in flittering around the edges of things. You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur."

And that means experiencing the good and the bad.

If you remember, Nic's husband, Keith Urban, checked himself into rehab shortly after they were married. Now, Vogue writer John Powers reports, she and Urban are never apart for more than five days at a time. "I'm so committed to this relationship, and so is he," Kidman says. "I don't have addiction problems, but love is a very powerful force in my life. It's my fatal flaw and my virtue."

Also powerful in her life? Work.

You can't accuse Ms. Kidman of not going all the way for a role.

In the upcoming Baz Luhrmann epic, Australia, they shot in some pretty far-flung locales Down Under.

"It's the roughest thing I ever had to go through," Kidman says. "The heat is debilitating. I was sitting on a horse once and I remember thinking, Gosh, this is what it feels like before you faint and then I fainted."

Angelina Jolie has been replaced as the face of fashion line St. John. Now she has even more time to talk about how great sex with Brad Pitt is.

Nicole Kidman is reportedly in talks to guest star on Project Runway. No one knows the motto "one day you are in, the next you are out" better than the ex-wife of Tom Cruise.

Denise Richards is pleading with ex Charlie Sheen to "be civil."  Crap, that's the funniest thing I've heard in the last three hours.

What's the Olsen twins secret to looking happy? Prunes. (Doesn't your life feel richer for knowing that?)

Lauren Conrad and Audriana Patridge have reportedly buried the hatchet after they were spotted holding hands. We don't know if it was in a BFF way, or in a Lindsay Lohan/Sam Ronson way (but if it's the latter, next season of The Hills is going to rock!)

Even Posh and Becks look normal at DisneyLand. She's wearing baggy jeans and flip-flops. Mark your calendars!

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Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman will not be naked when she appears on the front cover of Vogue magazine next month, reports reveal.

Ms Kidman, 40, will be around seven months pregnant when she takes part in the photo shoot but will not join fellow celebrity Demi Moore in being photographed in the nude with child.

A representative of the Moulin Rouge star said the actress and singer will wear a custom-made dress by Oscar-winning costume designer Catherine Martin instead, it has been reported.

Controversial photographer Annie Leibovitz will be behind the camera just months after her racy photos of teenage singing sensation Miley Cyrus hit the headlines.

A source told E! Online: "There is no nude cover. They're just gorgeous Annie pics."

Ms Kidman is expected to give birth to her first child with country singer Keith Urban in July.

Academy Award-winner Nicole is set to play British pop legend Dusty Springfield in a new movie about the troubled singer's life.

'Mr & Mrs Smith' director Doug Liman is attempting to do what other moviemakers have failed to do - bring Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman together on the big screen.

The filmmaker who brought Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie together is determined to net pregnant Kidman and her fellow Antipodean Oscar winner for his new movie 'Fair Game'.

He wants the pair to play man and wife.

Liman wants Crowe to play politician Joe Wilson and Kidman his CIA agent wife Valerie Plame in the political thriller.

The director says: "If you've met Joe, he's a really strong guy and I've never met an actor stronger than Russell Crowe."

The couple almost came together on the big screen in Australia, but delays and script problems prompted Crowe to quit the project. He was replaced by Hugh Jackman.

Reports claiming that Nicole Kidman was set to follow in the footsteps of Demi Moore and Britney Spears by posing naked while pregnant for a magazine shoot with legendary photographer Patrick Demarchelier.

Kidman laughs at the rumors, and admits that although she did take part in a shoot with Demarchelier, there was no nudity involved and that she finds the idea of posing naked while pregnant “hilarious.”

She says,

It’s total nonsense. It was not that kind of a shoot. It’s madness to think I did that or was even asked to do that. I’m just looking forward to having and caring for our baby.

NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS TOM CRUISE IS TURNING THEIR KIDS AGAINST HER

Back through the mists of time when Tom Cruise was a big film star and Nicole Kidman could pick a decent script, the two stars adopted some children. Since the divorce the children, called Bella and Connor, have lived with Tom and not seen that much of Nicole as she's travelled the world making cack films and getting knocked up by a country singer called Urban. Worse, the kids call Katie Holmes 'Mum', which must be confusing as Holmes can only be about a year older than they are.

Of course the fact Nicole doesn't see much of Bella and, um, the other one, is actually Tom's fault! Yes!

She's been telling anyone who'll listen in interviews that the sprogs have been "manipulated by their father" to distance them from her.

Now is it just us, or is her logic slightly flawed: if she had time to see her kids at all then Cruise wouldn't be able to manipulate them would he?

When asked what she wore to bed, Marilyn Monroe famously responded, "Chanel No 5".

The perfume has been a best-seller ever since and the fashion house has perfected the art of celebrity endorsement.

In keeping with its tradition of choosing emerging stars with a distinct sense of style, Chanel has announced its latest celebrity ambassador - Audrey Tautou.

The doe-eyed star of Amelie and Da Vinci Code fame, has been chosen to replace Nicole Kidman as the face of Chanel's ever popular perfume, No 5.

Following on the success of Baz Luhrmann's cinematic ad featuring Nicole Kidman, No 5's new ad campaign will kick off with a short film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet starring Audrey Tautou in the leading role.

This is the third collaboration between Audrey Tautou and the award-winning filmmaker. He also directed her in the films Amelie and A Very Long Engagement.

Katie Holmes has Victoria Beckham, J. Lo, and Leah Remini, and Nicole Kidman has Naomi Watts as her best Hollywood mama pal. And as designated best friend, Naomi, who had her son Alexander last July, has been on hand to help Nicole during her pregnancy.

“Whenever you’re pregnant, you always call on your pregnant friends and compare notes,” Naomi told People magazine. “It’s what happens in friendship.” Though Naomi notes that even without her, Nicole would be just fine. When asked if she thought her fellow Aussie will be a good mother, Naomi exclaimed, “Of course!”, adding that, “She’s already a great mum.”

Naomi also gushed about her own son to People. “He’s turning pages in the book,” she said proudly. “He’s crawling and standing up. He can wave. I read Goodnight Moon to him every night.”