Katie Holmes finally surfaced in New York City today ... flanked by security ... and sporting the look of a woman who's unencumbered by marriage or religion.
It's the first time Katie has been seen in public since she filed for divorce from Tom Cruise last week.
According to reports, Tom is still in Iceland ... where he's been filming a movie.
TMZ broke the story, Katie is bailing from the marriage because she believes Tom wants to put 6-year-old Suri into a hardcore Scientology group known as Sea Org.
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Katie Holmes has fired her old security team because they were way too close to Tom Cruise ... TMZ has learned.
The team -- made up of a bodyguard and driver -- worked for Tom for years, before Tom even met Katie ... and when he and Katie hooked up, Tom assigned the duo to Katie full-time.
The security team worked directly for Katie for years -- but today, Katie appeared with a new security detail made up of 5-6 bodyguards.
After seven years with the same publicist, Katie fired the highly respected Slate PR earlier today and immediately signed with BWR again. In a statement they said: "Actress Katie Holmes has left her publicist at Slate PR and has signed with BWR Public Relations."
The statement continued: "Following the announcement of her divorce from Tom Cruise, she is now represented by Leslie Sloane in the New York office and Nanci Ryder in Los Angeles.
Katie is set to star alongside Chace Crawford in the upcoming film Responsible Adults which starts filming later this year."
For Katie Holmes, the show must go on.
The actress
, who on Friday filed for divorce from her husband of five years, Tom Cruise, kept her previously scheduled Monday appearance on the Lifetime reality fashion competition Project Runway: All Stars, PEOPLE has learned.
The show tapes at Parsons The New School of Design, whose fashion school is located in New York City.
Like a boss
She planned all of this for months,like
She's looking gorgeous again (smiling as well ) she's going to make movies,going to be on project runway.
Lawd I'm going to stan for this bitch
http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/02/katie-...omments-anchor
http://www.people.com/people/article...608621,00.html
http://www.fansshare.com/news/katies.../#.T_HunlYs2Sp
white van in the background tho, she better take care
we have a scientology and Tom fanatic here 
