Baby Shiloh versus the TomKitten; why Baby Suri is MIA

By M&C News Jun 27, 2006, 15:23 GMT

If you are at all curious why we have not seen hide nor hair of baby Suri Cruise – there are some good reasons. Apparently no one wanted to pony up the millions to pay for her baby pictures.

According to Roger Friedman of Fox News Online, “a photo shoot of Suri was offered to Wire Image, the prestigious agency, for sale to the various celebrity magazines right after the little tyke was born in silence to her unmarried parents Tom Cruise and the dazed-looking Katie Holmes.”

An auction was conducted, with People, Us Weekly, Star and the lesser names like In Touch all putting in their two cents.  According to Friedman.

Unfortunately, it must have felt like two cents to Cruise given the amount that Shiloh Jolie-Pitt fetched from People: $4 million, not to mention more from magazines around the world.  Friedman reported.

With amounts noted around the $3 million bid, the offer was rescinded. No further word was heard from the Cruise camp.

Suri is near 3 months old, and reports say the asking price for her pictures is on the wane.

"Shiloh was the whole deal," Friedman’s source said. "We won't see a baby like that again for a while."