For years, some of the most familiar photographs of Nicole Kidman’s youngest daughter showed a tiny girl with a round face and a tumble of curls, small enough to be carried in her mother’s arms.

Faith Margaret Kidman Urban was born into an extraordinarily famous family, but Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban largely managed to give her something celebrity children rarely receive: the chance to grow up without millions of strangers watching every stage.

That privacy has made Faith’s recent appearances particularly striking.

She is 15 now, and on September 11, 2026, Faith stepped out with Nicole at the U.S. Open in New York. The teenager wore her long brunette hair down and walked hand-in-hand with her mother, looking nearly as tall as Nicole’s famously statuesque 5-foot-11 frame. (British Vogue)

The photographs quickly inspired comparisons with both of Faith’s parents. Some viewers see Nicole in her face. Others think she resembles her father, Keith Urban. Vogue simply observed that the family resemblance was difficult to miss. (Vogue)

But the viral claim that Faith looks “nothing like” either parent is ultimately just somebody’s opinion about a teenager’s appearance. The more interesting story is visible across photographs spanning her childhood: Faith has quietly grown from Nicole and Keith’s curly-haired little girl into a tall teenager who is only now beginning to appear in public more often.

Faith Was the Baby Nicole Had Longed For

Faith Margaret was born on December 28, 2010, in Nashville through a gestational carrier.

Nicole and Keith were already parents to daughter Sunday Rose, born in 2008, and Nicole was also mother to Bella and Connor, whom she had adopted during her marriage to Tom Cruise.

But Faith’s arrival was deeply emotional for Nicole after years in which motherhood had not always unfolded easily.

The couple kept the pregnancy so private that the announcement of Faith’s birth surprised much of the public. From the beginning, that privacy became a defining feature of her childhood.

Nicole might have been one of Hollywood’s most photographed women, and Keith one of country music’s biggest stars, but Faith was not raised as a miniature celebrity.

There were occasional photographs at airports and family outings, but long stretches of her childhood unfolded almost completely outside public view.

That is one reason the old photographs now feel so different.

The Curly-Haired Little Girl Looked So Different From the Teenager Seen Today

Faith’s early photographs captured a little girl with noticeably curly hair.

Sometimes it appeared light brown. In other photographs, especially in bright sunlight, it took on warmer reddish tones. That immediately reminded some fans of Nicole herself, whose natural red curls were one of her defining features when she first became famous.

Long before the sleek blonde hair associated with Nicole’s later career, the young Australian actress had a mass of thick red curls.

Faith appeared to have inherited some of that texture as a child.

Yet children’s hair can change substantially as they grow, and Faith’s current appearance is very different.

Today, she is generally photographed with long brown hair, sometimes sleek and sometimes softly wavy. The childhood curls are much less pronounced.

The result is precisely the kind of transformation that makes old and new photographs fascinating side by side.

But the biggest change isn’t her hair.

It is simply how much she has grown.

For Years, Nicole Deliberately Kept Both Younger Daughters Grounded

Nicole has spoken repeatedly about trying to create a family life that existed separately from her career.

Sunday and Faith grew up primarily in Nashville rather than being permanently immersed in Los Angeles celebrity culture.

Their childhood included school, family routines and strict boundaries around technology. Nicole has previously spoken about limiting devices and trying to maintain structure at home even when her work took her around the world.

That didn’t mean the girls had no idea what their parents did.

Quite the opposite.

They occasionally visited sets and even appeared in some of Nicole’s projects.

Faith and Sunday had small roles in Big Little Lies and The Undoing, and they lent their voices to The Angry Birds Movie 2.

But Nicole did not turn those appearances into the beginning of child-star careers.

They remained children who happened to have extraordinarily famous parents.

Then Faith Suddenly Appeared on One of Nicole’s Biggest Nights

The public received one of its clearest looks at Faith in April 2024.

Nicole was being honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, an extraordinary career milestone celebrating decades of work stretching from her early Australian films through Moulin Rouge!, The Hours, Eyes Wide Shut, The Others and Big Little Lies.

This time, her family came with her.

Faith was 13.

Sunday was 15.

Standing beside Nicole and Keith, the daughters immediately attracted attention because so many people still remembered them as small children.

Faith wore a strapless coral-red dress and kept her long brunette hair relatively simple.

The photographs showed how much had changed.

At only 13, she was already becoming noticeably tall.

And the little girl’s curls from the old family photographs had given way to long brunette hair.

The evening also revealed something about Nicole’s relationship with her children. This wasn’t a random premiere where she had decided to expose her daughters to publicity. It was an event honoring their mother’s life and career.

Having them there mattered to her.

By Late 2024, People Were Already Debating Which Parent Faith Resembled

Another revealing appearance came in December 2024, when Faith accompanied Nicole to The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment event.

Faith was still only 13.

Photographs showed mother and daughter together, with Faith wearing a white jacket and her long brown hair parted through the center.

The comments underneath photographs were almost comically divided.

Some people saw Nicole immediately.

Others insisted Faith looked like Keith.

That alone makes the newer viral claim that she looks “nothing like” either of them rather amusing.

There is clearly no consensus.

And there doesn’t need to be.

A child can inherit different combinations of features from both parents without appearing to be a copy of either.

More importantly, Faith’s face was still developing. She was barely a teenager.

Nicole Said Faith Was Still “Exploring”

That 2024 event offered a rare insight into Faith’s personality too.

Nicole explained that her daughter was excited to attend partly because she viewed it as an opportunity to learn. Faith was still exploring her interests rather than pursuing a predetermined Hollywood career.

That is an important distinction between Faith and her older sister.

Sunday Rose increasingly knew what she wanted.

Fashion.

Faith remained much less publicly defined.

And as the sisters moved deeper into their teenage years, their paths began separating in interesting ways.

Sunday Stepped Into Modeling — Faith Stayed More Private

Sunday Rose has increasingly become a public figure in her own right.

She made her runway debut for Miu Miu in 2024 and subsequently appeared at more fashion events, campaigns and red carpets. By 2026, at 18, she had become far more comfortable occupying the fashion world independently of her mother.

Faith has moved more slowly.

She has accompanied Nicole to selected events, but she has not launched an equivalent public modeling career.

At 15, she remains the more private of Nicole’s two younger daughters. Recent coverage of their U.S. Open appearance specifically described Faith as still defining what her public persona, if any, will eventually become. (Vogue)

That makes every appearance feel relatively unusual.

We do not see Faith every week.

Sometimes months pass between widely circulated photographs.

And during adolescence, months can produce a surprisingly noticeable change.

The Sisters Joined Nicole for Chanel’s Paris Fashion Week Show

In October 2025, another important family appearance occurred when Nicole brought both daughters to Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel debut during Paris Fashion Week.

Faith was 14.

Sunday was 17.

The three women posed together, and once again Faith’s height became impossible to overlook.

She stood beside Nicole wearing a black mini dress and denim jacket, her long brunette hair falling around her shoulders.

The photographs also captured something more significant than fashion.

They came shortly after Nicole and Keith’s separation became public.

Nicole and her daughters appeared increasingly close during that difficult period, and Sunday and Faith accompanied their mother to several important events.

A photograph from that Chanel appearance shows just how dramatically Faith had changed since childhood.

By March 2026, Faith Was Almost Eye-to-Eye With Her Mother

Another rare family appearance came on March 14, 2026.

Nicole attended Chanel and Charles Finch’s pre-Oscars dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel with Sunday and Faith.

Faith was now 15.

The teenager wore a white-and-red tweed Chanel jacket with jeans, while Nicole and Sunday chose their own Chanel looks. The photographs provided one of the clearest recent full-length views of the family together. (People.com)

The most striking detail was how grown-up both daughters suddenly appeared.

Nicole is exceptionally tall herself.

Yet Faith was rapidly catching up.

Only six months later, photographs from New York would make that even more obvious.

The New U.S. Open Photos Show Faith at 15

On September 11, Nicole and Faith attended the men’s semifinals at Arthur Ashe Stadium during the 2026 U.S. Open.

The appearance was unusually relaxed.

There was no movie premiere.

No formal red carpet.

No elaborate couture gown.

Nicole wore a pale blue striped Charvet shirt with straight-leg jeans, sneakers and a cream suede Chanel bag.

Faith wore a dark burgundy-brown polka-dot Dôen dress, sandals and a white sweater draped around her shoulders. She carried a suede Chanel flap bag that subtly coordinated with her mother’s accessory. (Page Six)

And then there was her hair.

Long.

Brunette.

Softly textured.

Very different from the curly-haired child many people remembered.

NOW — Faith Margaret at 15

InStyle focused on another detail: Faith is now nearly as tall as her mother. (InStyle)

E! made the same observation, noting that the 15-year-old was approaching Nicole’s 5-foot-11 height. (E! Online)

The tiny girl Nicole once carried was now walking beside her almost shoulder-to-shoulder.

One Detail in the New Photographs Was Particularly Sweet

Despite all the attention surrounding how grown-up Faith looked, one detail made the photographs feel surprisingly intimate.

Nicole and Faith were holding hands.

The teenager was nearly as tall as her mother, dressed in her own distinctly different style and old enough to attract fashion coverage herself.

Yet they walked into the tournament hand-in-hand. (International Business Times UK)

It is the kind of tiny gesture that gives the new photographs much more emotional weight when placed beside the old ones.

In one image, Nicole is carrying her toddler.

More than a decade later, she can’t carry Faith anymore.

So they hold hands instead.

Does Faith Really Look “Nothing Like” Nicole or Keith?

The viral headline makes that claim boldly.

The photographs tell a much less definitive story.

Vogue thought the resemblance between Nicole and Faith was difficult to miss. (British Vogue)

Parade similarly noted that although Faith has brown hair, she bears a resemblance to her mother. (Parade)

Meanwhile, reactions to earlier photographs have included people who thought Faith looked strongly like Keith.

In other words, resemblance is subjective.

Nicole’s blonde public image can also distort the comparison slightly. Naturally, Kidman was not always the sleek blonde woman familiar from recent red carpets. Early photographs show her with darker, fiery red hair and dramatic curls.

Faith’s brunette coloring therefore doesn’t automatically make her look unlike Nicole.

Nor does she need to resemble either parent perfectly.

She is becoming visually distinctive in her own right.

Nicole Has Said Her Teenage Daughters Have Something She Never Had

Nicole recently offered an interesting observation about raising girls who are growing up in a world very different from the one she entered as a young actress.

She believes Sunday and Faith have developed an “armor” that she herself didn’t possess at their age.

Nicole became internationally famous before social media existed. She has spoken about how difficult it was to suddenly find herself under intense scrutiny without knowing how to navigate it.

Her daughters have grown up knowing from childhood that strangers can comment on appearances, clothes and relationships instantly.

“I’m raising teenage girls right now, and it’s fascinating,” Nicole said while discussing the difference. She added that she believes they possess an “armor” her generation did not have.

Faith may need it.

At 15, photographs of her are already generating headlines analyzing whether she resembles her mother, her father or neither.

Nicole Is Also Careful Not to Decide Faith’s Future for Her

Sunday’s modeling career inevitably raises the question of whether Faith will eventually follow her sister.

Nicole isn’t answering it for her.

At the March 2026 Chanel dinner, she spoke about allowing her daughters autonomy when it comes to their futures. She clearly enjoys having them near her, but she does not want to define their careers before they have decided what they want. (People.com)

Faith has already experienced tiny pieces of the entertainment world.

She has acted.

She has done voice work.

She has attended fashion shows.

She has appeared with Nicole in promotional work.

But none of that means she has committed to becoming an actress or model.

At 15, there is plenty of time to decide.

Their Family Has Changed Dramatically While Faith Has Been Growing Up

The photographs also span a major transition in Faith’s family life.

Nicole and Keith separated in 2025 after nearly two decades of marriage.

Their daughters were teenagers when the split occurred.

Since then, Sunday and Faith have frequently been seen traveling and attending events with Nicole, while remaining connected to both parents.

Nicole recently spoke with Sandra Bullock about the challenges of parenting teenagers while simultaneously balancing work and major changes in adult life.

Their shared philosophy was wonderfully simple: “keep calm and carry on.” (People.com)

That phrase feels particularly appropriate when looking at photographs of Nicole with Faith.

The world sees an Oscar-winning actress and her suddenly grown-up daughter.

Nicole presumably sees the same child she once carried.

The Difference Between Faith at 3 and Faith at 15 Is Striking

Side-by-side photographs make the passage of time feel almost unreal.

There is the little curly-haired girl clutching a stuffed toy against Nicole.

Then there is Faith at 13, standing beside her parents at the AFI tribute.

Faith at 14, attending Chanel with Nicole and Sunday.

Faith at 15 at the pre-Oscars dinner.

And finally Faith in September 2026, walking into the U.S. Open with her long brunette hair falling over her polka-dot dress.

It is precisely because the public did not watch every intermediate stage that the transformation seems so dramatic.

One photograph jumps to another.

A toddler becomes a teenager.

She Hasn’t Lost Every Trace of the Curly-Haired Little Girl

Hair is also wonderfully deceptive when telling a growing-up story.

Faith’s hair looked curly when she was little.

Today it often appears straighter or softly wavy.

That does not necessarily mean her natural texture somehow disappeared. Hair can be styled, blown out, straightened or simply change in texture through childhood and puberty.

There is no need for a more dramatic explanation.

What the photographs establish is simply that Faith currently prefers a very different look from the little girl people remember.

Her long brunette hair has become one of the most noticeable elements of her teenage appearance.

And because Nicole is currently known for strawberry-blonde hair, it makes the contrast between them stronger.

Yet place Faith beside younger photographs of Nicole rather than present-day Nicole and some of the family similarities become easier to understand.

At 15, Faith Is Still Mostly Just Being a Teenager

Perhaps the most important detail in all these photographs is Faith’s age.

She is 15.

She will turn 16 on December 28.

Her face, style, hair and interests will almost certainly continue changing.

Sunday’s decision to enter modeling at a young age doesn’t mean Faith has to make the same choice. Their childhood may have been shared, but their adulthood does not have to be.

For now, Faith appears to be doing something much more ordinary.

She is growing up.

Occasionally, she goes somewhere with her mother and photographers happen to be waiting.

Nicole’s Little Girl Is Almost as Tall as She Is

That is ultimately what makes the newest photographs compelling.

Not whether Faith looks 60 percent like Nicole and 40 percent like Keith.

Not whether her hair is brunette rather than blonde.

Not even the Chanel handbag.

It is the enormous amount of time captured between two ordinary gestures.

In the old photographs, Nicole Kidman carries Faith because her daughter is too small to keep up beside her.

In September 2026, Faith walks beside Nicole at almost the same height.

The curls have softened into long brunette hair. The round childhood face has matured. The little girl has become a teenager whose personal style is beginning to emerge.

But Nicole still reaches for her.

And Faith, at 15, still reaches back.

That simple image — mother and daughter holding hands as they walked into the U.S. Open — says considerably more about how much Faith Margaret has grown than any argument over which famous parent she resembles most. (Vogue)

For more on Faith’s journey, check out these rare new photos showing how much the curly-haired little girl has changed. And if you’re interested in other public figures and their transformations, you might enjoy reading about Michelle Obama’s hair transformation or how Lisa Rinna’s daughters grew up in front of cameras.