Actor Tom Cruise has ruled the silver screen for decades. His larger-than-life, iconic persona and dreamy looks have helped him establish himself as one of the greatest leading men to ever grace Tinsel Town. Who could forget his classic movies such as Top Gun, Jerry Maguire, Risky Business and A Few Good Men?

While Mr. Cruise is most certainly a non-contested star, he is other things as well. The guy is not only part of the Church of Scientology, he basically IS Scientology. Tom and the following have become completely synonymous with one another and it's fairly impossible to now tell where one ends and the other begins. He is also a father to three children from his second and third wives, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes. His oldest kids, Isabella and Connor, are now in their twenties and his youngest, little Suri Cruise has entered the double digits too. Time apparently flies when you're busy preaching about Xenu, jumping on Oprah's couches and shaming Brooke Shields and modern medicine.

While we don't often hear too much about the Cruise kids, all three of them have led an unconventional and slightly unsettling life. Here are fifteen unnerving things you probably never knew about Tom's Band of Babies.

13 Tom's Baby Mamas Never Stood A Chance

At fifty-five-years-old, Tom Cruise has been married three times now. His first marriage to actress Mimi Rogers didn't produce any offspring, but he adopted two kids with ex-wife Nicole Kidman and had a daughter with his other ex-wife Katie Holmes. All of Tom's wives have a few striking similarities. First of all, they are all actresses, secondly they all belonged to the Church of Scientology (Katie converted before Suri's birth) and lastly, not a single one stood a chance at forever with Tom. He split from each wife when she was thirty-three-years-old. Strange, I know. What is even stranger is that The Church of Scientology was founded in Arizona on the 33rd parallel. Sure it could be all coincidental, but it could all just be more Crazy Tom Cruise-ness.

12 Katie Holmes Had To Stay Silent During Labor

Tom reportedly made it very clear to his former wife and Scientology convert Katie that their unborn child had to be brought into the world surrounded by total silence, which is a common practice in the Scientology faith. Apparently, Scientology tolerates having a lunatic father present at the birth so long as there isn't any grunting, crying or screaming. I wonder if silent couch-jumping would have been acceptable during the labor? The Church of Scientology believes that keeping the birth of a child as quiet as possible helps to better transition the child into the physical world and lessens the baby's level of pain of separation from the mother. Founder Ron Hubband believed that breaking the silence during birth could negatively affect the child later on in their life. That doesn't sound crazy at all.

11 Is Suri His Biological Daughter?

There are some very strange rumors circulating out there regarding who is TRULY the father of little Suri Cruise. Let's investigate, shall we? Tom and Katie seemed to become an item overnight and before we knew what was happening he was on the Oprah show, jumping on her couches professing his love for the twenty-five-year-old, squeaky-clean actress. As we were all trying to process what was going on here, Katie was suddenly knocked up. She gave birth to their daughter Suri exactly one year after the pair started dating. That is one hell of a turnaround. They went from complete strangers to a family of three in three hundred and sixty-five days! Many have questioned whether Tom is even the biological dad of Suri Cruise. Katie dated actor Chris Klein for years before being linked to Tom, and plenty of folks out there can't help but notice the resemblance between little Suri and Klein. Other daddy rumors include Tom's cousin William Mapother, Church of Scientology spokesperson Tommy Davis, and even the frozen sperm of Scientology founder Ron Hubbard.

10 Homeschooling Is A Must

Isabella and Connor Cruise were primarily educated by Tom's sister in a home-schooling environment. Generally speaking, Scientologists aren't really into the whole formal education thing. What is there really to learn when your religion teaches you that your soul is millions of years old anyhow? I mean...a million years? That's a lot of knowledge in itself. While plenty of children in the faith do attend normal public schools, the Cruise children were not included in that subgroup. Little Suri was home-schooled in her earlier years, but now attends a pricey NYC private school, which is about as normal of a childhood as that kid is going to get. Scientologist parents of special-needs children are also more likely to shun public education as they do not believe in conditions such as Autism and Learning Disabilities.

9 Suri Had A Strange Upbringing

So granted, lots of Hollywood offspring are living outlandish lifestyles. They obviously march to the beat of their non-conformist drums and the raising of these kiddos can feel a bit perplexing to us common mortals. Suri Cruise is nothing if not next-generation Hollywood royalty. Even when the kid was knee-high to a grasshopper, she had more style in her pinkie toe than I have in my entire body. Her shoe collection was worth an estimated one hundred and fifty thousand dollars when she was only five years old! Go ahead and let that one sink in. Suri was notorious for parading around town in tiny high-heeled shoes, she drank from a baby bottle until she was nearly six years old and has never had a bedtime. Yeah, I'm sure all this structure is going to do her a world of wonders as she matures.

8 What About His Two Adopted Kids?

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman adopted two children together during their eleven-year marriage. Daughter Isabella was adopted right after her birth and their son Connor followed shortly after. When Nic and Tom parted ways, the children entered into a shared custody agreement, but it didn't last for long. When Nicole returned stateside after working on a film project her children were not waiting to greet her with open arms. Instead, they had been shipped off to Scientology Summer Camp where they became virtual strangers to their own mother. Immediately following this brain-washing getaway, the children stopped referring to Kidman as their mother and would only call her Nicole. Their father and the Church managed to convince the kids that their mom was an "SP" or Suppressive Person and in the Church that is basically the lowest of the low.

7 Isabella Cruise Got Married Without Her Parents

Tom's eldest daughter is all grown up and is now a wife! In 2015, Isabella Cruise married her boyfriend of less than a year, Max Parker, in a small and intimate London ceremony. The pair followed the wedding traditions in accordance with the Church, whatever the hell those looks like, and kept the event low-key. The wedding was so low-key in fact that Bella's parents and brother Connor were not present when she said her "I Dos" to her IT worker hubby. While Tom, who reportedly supports the notion of a parent-free wedding, didn't attend his daughter's shindig, he still happily coughed up the cash to give his little girl the day of her dreams. Mom Nicole was just down the road working in London, but her invite must have gotten lost in the mail because she reportedly didn't even know it was taking place!

6 Katie Fired Isabella Before The Divorce

Isabella Cruise seemed to have zero issue parting ways with her adoptive mother Nicole Kidman when her parents split. With a little help, she was able to begin viewing the only mother that she ever knew with nothing but disdain. When Katie Holmes suddenly appeared in the Cruise kids' lives, Isabella, in particular, took to the soft-spoken beauty immediately. She began calling Katie 'mom' and reportedly adored her little sister Suri. Bella even worked for her step-mother on her clothing line Holmes and Yang. In a strategically planned divorce move, Holmes fired the then-nineteen-year-old Bella and began the divorce process from Tom almost immediately afterward. While Bella was initially shocked and devastated at being let go, once the separation was announced it all started to make sense. Well, at least as much sense as these two would ever be able to make.

5 Did Tom Cut All Ties With Suri?

The vast majority of couples who divorce share some sort of custody agreement where each parent spends time with their child. Arrangements take on all different shapes and forms because no two relationships are alike. That said, all three Cruise kids are notorious for their severed bonds with one parent or the other. When Tom and Nicole separated, the children sided and lived with their dad, eventually full-time. Their relationship with their mother was completely estranged for years and even now that the kids are adults it is fragile and strained. When Tom and Katie's marriage crumbled, Katie became the sole custodian of their daughter Suri and it is rumored that Tom hasn't seen his youngest daughter in four years! Tom is kind of an all-or-nothing sort of guy.

4 Tom Wanted Suri To Join The Sea Org

Tom Cruise is Scientology's poster boy and quite frankly without his die-hard support, the ridiculous religion would simply crash into the sea. Because of Tom's unwavering devotion to the Church, it is no great shock that he wanted his youngest child, Suri, to join the Sea Org., a hardcore, super strict faction of the Church of Scientology. Suri's mommy, actress Katie Holmes, was in no way having that! Holmes saw Sea Org for what it truly was - scary AF. After years of being under her hunky husband's spell, her eyes were wide open and she had a front row seat watching Suri's father groom her for a lifetime of slave labor to a Church of Cray-Cray. It might have been this push of Tom's that finally convinced Katie that she had to take her daughter and get out of this marital circus, and fast!

3 Calling Katie Holmes 'Mom'

Isabella and Connor Cruise's worlds were rocked when their parents Nicole and Tom, divorced. Suddenly they were living with their mother for part of their lives and with their father for the other. Not long after the pair parted ways, the siblings started living with Tom full-time. They also remained closer than ever to their father's beloved Church of Scientology. When Tom met and fell head over couches for twenty-five-year-old Katie Holmes, his children were rumored to be ecstatic.  When Tom told the children that he and Katie were to be married, daughter Isabella reportedly told him, "not to let this one go because she was the one."  Connor and Isabella began to call Katie mom and Isabella even worked underneath Katie, helping her run her clothing line. TomKat's split was yet another shock to the Cruise kids' systems.

2 Suri's Wedding Meltdown

One of the most disturbing accounts regarding the Cruise kids was on the evening of TomKat's wedding rehearsal. While everyone was busy celebrating the monumental event in beautiful Italy, little Suri Cruise was lying on a bathroom floor! An insider and guest to the couple's nuptials were reportedly horrified when she walked into the bathroom to see a seven-month-old Suri wailing away on the floor. The tiny infant was surrounded by three grown Scientologist women who were curtly reprimanding the baby as if she were an out-of-control grown person. The Church of Scientology believes that children should be spoken to like adults and treated as such. Seriously though? A seven-month-old baby? How could none of those Scientology fools see that this baby was nothing but tired, probably hungry and well, a baby!

1 A Second Chance

Katie Holmes might have been temporarily blinded by the icon that is Tom Cruis (she had a serious crush on him in her youth), but it's important to remember that she is a doting mother first and foremost. Once Suri came into the world, Katie started to see Tom and his beliefs for what it really was and there was no way that she was going to let her darling daughter grow up in that way. Regardless of what she might have once felt for Tom and her step-kids, she had to remove Suri from a potential future of forced confessions, separations and disconnect from parents, and security checks. After moving to NYC with her mother, Suri started attending school with other children and participating in dance classes. Katie has certainly done her best to give her daughter a far more normal childhood that she would have had with Cruise.