Nicole Kidman cries as she discusses fears of being an older mother

The actress has two elder adopted children with her ex-husband Tom Cruise and two daughters aged eight and six with husband Keith Urban

Nicole Kidman became visibly emotional as she discussed her hopes to see her children grow up as an "older mother" in an interview.

The actress has two daughters, Sunday Rose, 8, and Faith Margaret, 6, with her husband the country singer Keith Urban. She is also mother to Isabella, 23, and Connor, 21, who she adopted with her ex-husband Tom Cruise.

Asked what her impression she wants to leave on the world, the 49-year-old said she would just like to live for long enough to see her children grow up before she teared up and started crying.

“It makes me sad but I would just like to be here long enough to see my children grow up and for me to see them thriving,” she told CBS. “Just wanting to be here, I’m an older mother… but what will be will be.”

In the revealing interview, Kidman credited Urban, whom she has been married to for ten years, with “carrying her” after her father Tony’s sudden death from a heart attack in 2014.

She also spoke of the sadness she felt after the demise of her decade-long marriage to Cruise in 2001, saying she channeled the heartbreak into her Academy Award winning performance in The Hours where she portrayed the tragic British author Viriginia Woolf.

The actress recently conveyed her shock at how young she was when she married Cruise aged just 23.

“I was so young when I got married. I look back now and I’m like, ‘What?’,” she told Red magazine in September. “You look at Taylor Swift, I mean how old is she? She’s 26. I had two kids by the time I was 27 and I’d been married for four years. But that’s what I wanted.”