Famous people who have adopted children and you did not know it
Despite being often called wasteful and insensitive, celebrities also have hearts and know that they can make other people's lives better. As if that were not enough, from time to time they decide to do it by adopting children and creating a home for them. One of the most obvious examples is the marriage of Angelina Jolie (42) and Brad Pitt (53): between 2002 and 2007 they adopted 3 children and, despite the problems that recently arose in their relationship, they are raising them together her three biological children. The incomparable Madonna (58), in turn, in addition to being the mother of Lourdes (20) and Rocco (16), also welcomed 4 children from Malawi. Finally, the singer Lionel Richie (68) became the father of Nicole (35) when the girl was less than 3 years old and she was abandoned by her parents. Of course, they are not the only celebrities who have adopted children. Let us introduce you to a few more!
1. Meg Ryan (55)
It is well known that the romantic comedy star has a son, Jack (25), born as a result of her marriage to fellow actor Dennis Quaid (63). In 2006, despite being divorced, she decided to adopt a 14-month-old girl from China. Today the girl named Daisy True (13) is a teenager and fills her mother with happiness and pride. As Ryan admitted in one of her interviews, that she barely saw the little girl for the first time, she knew they were connected. Isn't that amazing?
2. Sandra Bullock (52)
Despite the fact that the winner of two Academy Awards was not always lucky in love, today she apparently cannot feel more complete and happy. After divorcing her husband-raider Jesse James (48) in 2010, she adopted a boy named Louis (7) and, after a few years, she was also an adoptive mother to a baby girl: Laila (5). According to some of the American sources, accompanied by her beloved partner, photographer Bryan Randall (51), the actress plans to adopt a third child. Hopefully she is lucky!
3. Nicole Kidman (50) and Tom Cruise (54)
During their marriage, Tom and Nicole adopted Isabella Jane (24) and Connor (22). Raised far from the reach of the paparazzi, the youngsters have enjoyed relatively quiet lives despite the fame of their caretakers. Although after the divorce, both preferred to stay with the father, they can boast of an excellent relationship with both ex-spouses. It should be noted that the first-born children of Kidman and Cruise have three half-sisters: Suri (11) by the father and actress Katie Holmes (38), and Faith Margaret (8) and Sunday Rose (6) born from Nicole's relationship. and Australian singer Keith Urban (49).
4. Hugh Jackman (48)
The performer of the role of Wolverine can boast one of the most beautiful and close-knit families in the industry. When it turned out that he and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness (61) were unable to have children of their own, they immediately made the decision to adopt. Today Oscar Maximilian (17) and Ava Eliot (11) grow up loved and happy, although they do not share the same attitude towards their father's fame. As Hugh acknowledged on more than one occasion, while his son repudiates the popularity of his father, her daughter seems made to work in front of the cameras despite her young age ...
5. Charlize Theron (41)
A few months before the Oscar Awards ceremony in 2012, the beautiful actress adopted her son Jackson (5), and shared the news about it a few months after the event. Although she initially defended the privacy of the child, she eventually allowed herself to photograph with him. What was even more surprising to many than her first adoption was that in 2015 the star also welcomed a girl, August (2). As if that weren't enough, she did it just a month after breaking up with "the love of her life," actor Sean Penn (56). Even though Charlize is a single mom, the kids are more than fine!
6. Sharon Stone (59)
Apparently Hollywood beauties do not always need support from their partners when they want to be adoptive mothers. Still during her marriage to journalist Phil Bronstein (6), Stone adopted her first-born: Roan Joseph (17). Curiously, although the relationship between the two came to an end in 2004, the beautiful actress returned to bet on adoption on two more occasions. In 2005 she was granted the tutelage of Laird Vonne (12) and, a year later, the duo became a trio thanks to her youngest son, Quinn Kelly (11). It is really difficult to find a child in Hollywood more smiling and cheerful than them!
7. Michelle Pfeiffer (59)
When Michelle met television producer and writer David E. Kelley (61) on a blind date arranged by her friends in early 1993, she did not know that the man would change her life forever. In March she finalized the adoption process for her daughter, Claudia Rose (24), and in November she married her boyfriend. In August of the following year, the couple's son, John Henry (22), was born. Today Pfeiffer and Kelley are one of the most compatible couples in the industry and their love is perfectly reflected in their descendants.
