With her stylish outfits, stylish hair and stylish parents, 2-year-old Suri Cruise has topped an annual list of most influential celebrity children.
Suri, the regularly photographed daughter of actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, toppled last year’s winner Shiloh Jolie-Pitt to score top honours in Forbes.com’s second annual list of Hollywood’s 10 Hottest Tots.
Shiloh, the 2-year-old daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, slipped to second place and was joined by two others from the Jolie-Pitt household, with 3-year-old Zahara in third place and brother Pax, 4, coming in fourth.
To compile the list, Forbes.com ranked 50 celebrity children aged 5 and younger by evaluating the amount of press coverage and online attention they have received in the past year.
Suri received more blog mentions than any other Tinseltown child and secured references in more than 1,300 news articles, which helped shape public opinion about her parents while also fuelling demand for what she wears, plays with and eats.
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Rounding out the top five was 1-year-old Sam Alexis Woods, the daughter of golfing champion Tiger Woods and his model wife Elin Nordegren, who is now expecting their second child.
Other children in the top 10 were Cruz Beckham, late Australian actor Heath Ledger’s daughter Matilda Rose, Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s adopted 2-year-old son David Banda, Britney Spears’s son Sean Preston Federline and Sam Sheen.
Celebrity media editors said these children, who grace the front of magazines with or without their famous parents, could be even more in the spotlight next year as people seek more uplifting stories amid the worldwide financial crisis.
“It’s much more fun to look at cute pictures of Suri than think about how much your money has decreased,” said Dina Sansing, entertainment director for Us Weekly.
