"She seems so confused - about her relationship, career, the baby, everything! She's very sweet, but very lost."

Tom's "smothering her... she feels trapped. Tom keeps her at home as if she's a doll he can take off the shelf and parade around like a prized possession."

With no movies in the works, or career boosting movies, "Katie has become a laughing stock... Many perceive her as a puppet of Tom's." Instead of helping her career- Tom is hurting it. A source tells Star "She has a newborn the world is not allowed to see, an acting career that's on ice, and she's living a life that she doesn't seem to control. If anyone is caught between a rock and a hard place, it's Katie." Only Katie's fellow scientologist friends are allowed to see the baby, and she's been forced to give up what Tom calls her 'immature friends'. As the wedding keeps getting pushed back, and the rift between Tom and her parents increases, Katie just can't seem to get a handle on things. "Katie's parents are probably worried they've lost their daughter...But what can they do?" Katie feels her needs are dropping away... "If she and Tom were to call it quits, she'd most likely lose Suri. There isn't a chance in hell that Tom would let anyone else, not even Katie, raise his first born biological child. I think he's way too controlling." Katie has every right to think this way, considering the arrangement between Tom and Nicole. Katie and Tom plan to work things out, "Katie just wants her life back."

In other news, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have finally decided when their long-awaited wedding will take place.

A spokesman confirmed that the couple, who welcomed daughter Suri into the world in April, are planning a ceremony at one of the Top Gun actor's homes before winter arrives.

The pair's spokesman Paul Blach said: "As far as I know, the plans are for late summer, early fall."

He also confirmed that the ceremony will be held at one Cruise's properties, but gave no further details.