Background
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1970, Kidman is the younger daughter of the late Doctor Antony David Kidman, a clinical psychologist, and Janelle Ann (née Glenny), a nursing educator.
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1970, Kidman is the younger daughter of the late Doctor Antony David Kidman, a clinical psychologist, and Janelle Ann (née Glenny), a nursing educator.
She attended Monte Sant" Angelo Mercy College in North Sydney.
When Kidman was one, her family moved to Sydney. She began her career in journalism as a researcher with the Nine Network"s Today program, and later had worked as a news reporter for the Newcastle based television network, NBN Television. Kidman has had a long professional involvement with Foxtel, and in 2002 presented her own series, The Little Things, an instructional series about raising children on the West. Channel.
This was followed by the series The Bigger Things in 2006.
In 2010 Kidman became the ambassador for a Chinese travel agency, Book China Online. She has co-authored two books about parenting: Feeding Fussy Kids (2009) and The Simple Things: Creating an Organised Home, a Happy Family and A Life Worth Living (2012).
Kidman"s community involvement has included the Royal Hospital for Women Foundation’s Mother’s Day Appeal, Randwick Mothers’ Hospital, the National Breast Cancer Foundation and Taronga Zoo Foundation in Sydney.