Kidman denies Vietnam adoption

Nicole Kidman has denied she and her husband Keith Urban (right) are seeking to adopt a child from Vietnam. Photo / AP

SYDNEY - Nicole Kidman has denied she and her husband Keith Urban are seeking to adopt a child from Vietnam, labelling the claims made in an Australian magazine as "rubbish".

The front cover of New Idea magazine this week pointed to a story about Kidman's planned adoption of a baby boy, with the article stating the star couple had contacted the Vietnamese government, via the US embassy, to discuss an adoption.

However, Kidman's Australian publicist Wendy Day said the story was completely untrue.

Ms Day said she had been unable to speak to Kidman, who is in New York, until late on Monday Sydney time.

"So I had to wait until they woke up last night to ask the question to absolutely be sure because I'm in Australia and they're there," Ms Day told AAP.

"Nicole has come back and said that it's a complete fabrication, it's completely untrue. It's rubbish.

"They have never spoken to anybody in that regard - in regard of any form of adoption in Vietnam.'

Ms Day said she was contacted on Friday by a freelance journalist, asking if she knew of a proposed adoption from Vietnam by the couple.

"I said I'd never heard of anything like that but if she felt that she wanted to go down that path, she should send me an email and I'd send it on to Nicole or ask for a comment, which she never did," Ms Day said.

"I never heard from her again."

The story also states Nicole's Australian lawyer Stuart Gibson is handling the adoption.

Ms Day said she has since spoken to Mr Gibson and was told he had never heard of such a story.

"I rang Stuart and he said he'd never had a phone call from them - from anybody at New Idea - and never heard about the story either," she said.

The story does quote a spokesman for Mr Gibson as saying: "We do not want to discuss this situation", and references the quote to an adoption.

Dang Minh Dao, deputy of the Department of International Adoption at the Ministry of Justice in Hanoi, is also quoted in the story.

"Yes, Nicole Kidman wants a baby from Vietnam. We've been approached by the American Embassy," he reportedly said.

Ms Day questioned the authenticity of the quote.

"There is no foundation anywhere that would lead this magazine coming to this conclusion," she said.

Ms Day would not speculate on whether Nicole and Keith are expecting a child or if they have commenced adoption proceedings anywhere else in the world.

Comment is being sought from New Idea.

- AAP