A scantily clad Nicole Kidman poses on the newest cover of V magazine…

Chalk up Nik’s shots in next-to-nothing to her risqué new role in the new flick The Paperboy. But Keith Urban’s wife bares more than her behind in the mag.

Nicole also reveals how a recent weekend getaway with her country megastar husband left the Aussie couple”¦ shedding tears?

“I rented this beautiful house on the beach,” Nicole says. “I thought, “˜We’ll go and swim in the ocean and just get lost in each other.’”

But instead, Keith and Nicole were just plain lost ““ without their two young daughters, that is.

“It was ridiculous. But time is so precious,” she says, “and I love the sound of them and the feel of them. I just don’t want to miss anything.”

Pick up more of Nicole in the September issue of V out August 30th.