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Katie Holmes explains the Penis Gummis incident: “I was horrified!”

A few weeks ago, paparazzi got some photos of Suri Cruise holding up a box of Penis Gummis, gummi candies shaped like penises (see photos here). Everybody was all “ZOMG, Suri is just like her daddy!” and “Katie is a horrible mother who gives her child penis-shaped candy, for shame!” Anyway, Katie appears on Elle DeGeneres’s show today, and she talks about the dreaded gummi penis incident. Katie actually sounds like a real mom here:

It’s not always easy being Suri’s mommy. Katie Holmes knows that she’s under a microscope as an actress, wife to Tom Cruise â€" and mother to Suri, who turns 5 this month.

Already famous for her jet-set lifestyle, couture kiddie clothes and her attachment to a pacifier, Suri unwittingly caused yet another stir a few weeks ago when she was photographed â€" in the arms of her famous mom â€" clutching a box of X-rated, phallic candy.

Holmes, 32, opened up good-naturedly about the photo fracas during a Thursday appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

“Recently, I took [Suri] to get ice cream in New York at this place called Serendipity that we go to all the time. It’s for kids. The clientele is children,” explains the actress, who plays Jackie Kennedy in the new ReelzChannel miniseries The Kennedys. “We go in and we are waiting for a table and she grabs some gummies that are boy part gummies. I was horrified.”

(In pics that stormed the web, Suri checked out a colorful box of “Penis Gummies,” featuring drawings of anatomically correct chewy candies.)

Continued Holmes sheepishly: “P-e-n-i-s gummies. I said, oh wow those aren’t Swedish fish. . . They are called p-e-n-i-s gummies and they look like it.”

Holmes spotted the controversy immediately. “She was holding the box and I was like ‘OK, wow we don’t need that right now.’ Because I thought if I said ‘Put that back,’ and then she’s going to say, ‘What is this?’ And I really didn’t want to have that conversation.”

The Dawson’s Creek alum was upset that Serendipity was even selling such a raunchy treat. “I was like, why are selling these here? This is for kids. And then it was on the cover of a magazine that I’m giving her those gummies!”

“I was like, ‘Oh my god, no.’ We put them back.”

[From Us Weekly]

I get it. Kids pick up everything, and Suri probably only saw the pretty colors or that it was “candy”. That being said, I would have loved if Katie had told this story with the punch line, “So I took them from Suri and went to pay for them. Tom loved his gift!” Alas. But seriously, there’s enough stuff we can yell at Katie about, the Gummi penis incident just seemed like a cute kid story that could have happened to anyone.

Photos courtesy of Ellen’s show, WENN.

Written by Kaiser

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10 Responses to “Katie Holmes explains the Penis Gummis incident: “I was horrified!””

Um, is the ‘cock blocker’ in the background of that top pic also at the place that is for kids? Sheesh. Dodgy.

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Is that second photo of the Serendipity trip as well? What the heck is a Cock Blocker? Is Serendipity like Spencer’s Gifts with ice cream? I’m so confused.

I agree, Kaiser, that there seem to be a lot of unpopular parenting decisions happening in this family but a preschooler picking up a box of candy is not a big deal.

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I love that COCK BLOCKER is the picture. That is my new nickname for Katie.

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A store for kids? LOL In that second pic I see a pair of skimpy undies and a box of something called “cock blocker”

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I guess we all posted at the same time lol

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LMAO!!! I didn’t even notice the “cock blocker”!!! That’s hilarious. And yes, that photo is from Serendipity too!

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Exactly delta Juliet, I think Katie has confused an adult store with a cake shop!

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I guess they were in the “raunchy candy” section by mistake…

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LOL….”I’ll have a hot fudge sundae and and a cock blocker to go”.

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What kind of a store IS that?

I don’t think it’s a big deal in the first place, I think I would laugh my ass of if I suddenly realized my kid’s gummis are penis shaped, but I’m really curious what kind of a store that is.

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