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Nicole Kidman and Keith anniversary: a look back

Australia's favourite couple celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary.
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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban celebrated 13 years of marriage this week.

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For their wedding anniversary, the Aussie country singer shared a photo of himself with his wife on social media.

Urban added the caption, “Thirteen years of magic, music, romance, wild adventures, and the ongoing discovery of pure love. Happy Anniversary Babygirl. xxxx – KU‬.” 

The Australian couple have been married since 2006 and are parents to Sunday Rose, 10 and Faith Margaret, 8.

Kidman is also an adoptive mother to Isabella, 26 and Connor, 24 from her previous marriage to Tom Cruise.

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WHO takes a look back at their first 13 years of marriage.

WATCH: Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have a lot of fun at the Australian Open

The couple first met at the 2005 G’Day USA gala, and Kidman says it was love at first sight for her.

“I remember thinking, I had such a crush on him, and he wasn’t interested in me,” she told Ellen DeGeneres in 2017. “It’s true! He didn’t call me for four months.”

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Keith has a different version of the story, telling the Australian talk show Interview that he never thought she would be interested in him.

“I wasn’t in a very healthy place in my life…I’d never have thought she’d see anything in a guy like me. But at some point I plucked up the courage to call those numbers and she answered, and we started talking and we talked and talked and talked and talked and it was effortless.”

Kidman told People that she had known husband Keith Urban for less than six months when she realised she wanted to marry him.

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The Big Little Lies actress said it was after Urban took her on a trip to Woodstock, N.Y..

“It was my [38th] birthday, and he stood outside with gardenias at 5 a.m. on my stoop in New York,” Kidman said. “That is when I went, ‘This is the man I hope I get to marry.’”

WATCH: Nicole Kidman gushes about marriage to Keith Urban

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The Australian couple were married at a church in the northern Sydney suburb of Manly, in June 2006. 

The wedding was a Hollywood affair, with stars like Russell Crowe, Baz Luhrmann and Naomi Watts attending.

Hugh Jackman and Neil Finn from Crowded House performed. 

The country singer serenaded his wife as well.

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The couple have also faced challenges, with Urban spending time in rehab at the very beginning of their marriage.

The Grammy award winner had already been in rehab twice for past cocaine, MDMA, and alcohol abuse before Kidman staged an intervention in 2006.

“I caused the implosion of my fresh marriage,” Urban told Rolling Stone in 2016. “It survived, but it’s a miracle it did…And for the first time in my life, I could shake off the shackles of addiction.”

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Kidman told Vanity Fair in 2007, that their relationship blossomed because “two very lonely people managed to meet at a time when they could open themselves to each other. We were a mixture of frightened and brave.”

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Kidman and Urban welcomed their first child, Sunday Rose on July 7, 2008. 

Their second daughter, Faith Margaret was born via surrogate in 2011. 

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The Hollywood actress opened up about her fertility issues to Vogue in 2015, stating that she wished she could’ve had a bigger family with Keith.

“I wish I could have met [Keith] much earlier and had way more children with him, but I didn’t,” the actress said of meeting in their late 30s. “I mean, if I could have had two more children with him, that would have been just glorious.”

Nicole and Keith keep their children hidden from the public, but that hasn’t stopped the couple from their own public displays of affection.

They are often seen together on red carpets and sharing kisses at events.

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WATCH: Keith and Nicole make out in public

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Nicole told People that their romance was “pretty intense.”

When asked about what makes their happy marriage work, Kidman told PEOPLE in 2016, “Just love. Just love each other, lavish each other with love.”

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