Cruise and Shields' birth double-up

Brooke Shields says "the irony is perfect" that her daughter, Grier, and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter, Suri, were born on the same day.

Shields and Cruise had a public spat last year after Cruise criticised Shields for taking anti-depressants after the birth of daughter Rowan, who turns three this month, her first child with television producer-husband Chris Henchy.

Both children were born on April 18, reportedly in the same LA hospital.

When asked if she had any run-ins with Cruise at the hospital, she replied: "No. God, no, and it's a gift having kids, you know, so it's a beautiful thing rather than anything else."