Nicole's fair-skinned loneliness

Nicole Kidman said that her childhood was lonely because of her fair skin and ginger hair.

The Cold Mountain actress played inside during most of her Australian childhood to avoid sunburn - which isolated her from friends.

"In Australia, you spend a lot of time indoors if you're fair-skinned because you burn. So my mother would keep me indoors and I'd read books," she told OK! magazine.

"I always felt like I wasn't the cool girl at school, so I'd stay indoors while everyone else was going to the beach and I'd sit and read books, but it resulted in a very vivid imagination that sustained me."

She added that the desire to escape her lonely life was part of the "ramifications of being a fair-haired redhead in Australia".

Nicole, who is married to country music performer Keith Urban, stars with Ralph Fiennes in a new version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

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