Dishing gossip from a close ‘friend,’ Star magazine reports that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes sleep in separate bedrooms. “It’s a situation that works for both of them. Of course they spend time together alone at night like most married couples; after all, they conceived Suri! In fact, they even joke about having separate bedrooms to their friends – Katie says Tom snores, and this way she can get her beauty sleep,” says a source.
The couple apparently plan to continue with their unconventional nocturnal arrangements when they move to their swish new mansion in Beverly Hills, where their bedrooms are said to be in separate wings – leading Daily Mantra to conclude that Cruise must be one loud snorer.
But Holmes is not the only married Hollywood actress to prefer separate sleeping arrangements. Words of wisdom on sleeping solo from the much-married Zsa Zsa Gabor included, “Never confuse sex with sleep darling.” The Hungarian born actress and socialite, who is currently married to the eccentric Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, is also quoted as saying, "When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument."
Hollywood women aren’t the only ones that achieve a higher quality of beauty sleep solo however; A recent sleep study at the University of Vienna found that “sharing sleeping space with a partner had negative effects on sleep in women,” though researchers reported that, “sexual contact mitigated the negative subjective report.”
Though women fared better sleeping alone, conversely men’s sleep efficiency was reduced if they slept solo. It seems that females are more easily disturbed by their male partners than vice versa. The study concluded that women “are more reactive to the presence of another individual in their bed. This may be a logical consequence of the maternal role in infant sleep and development.”
Then again, as Katie seems to have found, it may just be a natural consequence of man’s ability to snore louder than women. As Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) famously said, “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
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