17 celebrities who have adopted children

And no, the process is not easier for them than for someone else.


Conventional wisdom indicates that celebrities have easy. All they want, they get. But parenthood-or rather, wanting to be a parent - is the great equalizer. For many people - including the 17 celebrities here, the trip to parenthood was the one who needed to make a conscious choice oftake a child In order to create what adoptive parents and children call "Forever Families".

As a mother of a girl, my husband and I adopted China in 2005, I know I know that adoption is an emotional road and often difficult that often involves a lot of waiting for a call or A letter that can take years of announcing that a child has, in fact, you have been adapted to you (usually a completely random process). This comes after passing endless background checks and the mountains completed with paperwork. But as parents on this list would undoubtedly tell you, it's more than worth.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

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In 2002, pretty adopted his first child, Maddox, Cambodia with his ex-husbandBilly Bob Thornton. Pretty adopted Zahara d'Ethopia in 2005. Later in that year, it was said that Pitt had planned to adopt both children and, in 2006, the family name of the children was changed in pretty Pitt. A year later, pretty adopted his son Pax as a single parent (Vietnam prohibits unmarried couples to adopt children). At the time of their marriage of August 2014, Pitt had legally adopted the three children. Now that the couple has been divided, the custody of their six children (the couple also has three biological children) would also have one of the great reasons for divorce negotiations that have dragged for so long.

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Sandra Bullock

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Oscar's winner went toPeople magazine with her surprise ad she and she soon be married,Jesse James, had been adopting a child. His son,Louis, had begun to live with the couple in January 2010. Four months later, she landed on the weekly coverage to announce that she divorced James and adopting Louis. She then adopted a girl who named Laila.

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Ty Burrell

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TheModern family Star and his wifeholly Married in 2000. They adopted their daughter,France, ten years after. In March 2012, they adopted their second daughter.

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Viola Davis

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The Oscar's winner adopted his daughter,Genesiswhen she was just a baby in 2011. She saidIn the style, "There are so many ways of mother rather than wearing a child in your body. So many children need parents, and many of us want from the mother. Know that you will experience maternity. as far as possible. "

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Jim Caviezel

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Jim Caviezel, the best known his role featured inOne of interest and for his representation of Jesus inThe passion of Christ, and his wife,Kerri, adopted three China's children who had cancer. The actor told an interview of his childrenBo, Now 18 years old,Lyn, 16 years old andDavid, 7: "Two of them had brain tumors and we had a cancer sarcoma. Their chance of survival was not great, but I wanted to help ... They make me want to be a better man. The Love is a decision. " He became a passionate advocate for adoption. "I always thought that if I had adopted that I would not have the same feeling [that I would like to] if they were genetically my own children. Nothing could be further from the truth."

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Katherine Heigl

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TheSuit Star and her husband, musicianJosh Kelley, adopted their daughterNANCY LEIGH MI-EUN KELLEYfrom South Korea (the birthplace of Heigl's adoptive sister) in 2009. She saidSchool Magazine, "I wanted my own family to look like the one I came, so I always knew I wanted to adopt Korea. We also talked about having biological children too, but we decided to adopt first . I just wanted to be a mother. " Three years later, they adopted their daughter,Adalaide Marie hopes, in the country. After adopting two girls, the actress gave birth to a son,Joshua JR., Last year.

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Madonna

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Madonna has two organic children,Heavy andRocco Ritchie, With his exètes, but then adopted two children after their births.David Banda andPityBoth were adopted from Malawi. Last year, the singer announced on Instagram, she had adopted binoculars in the country. "I can officially confirm that I finished the process of adopting Malawi twin sisters and I am delighted that they are now part of our family," she subtitled a picture of herself standing with his daughters. "I am deeply grateful to everyone in Malawi who helped make this possible."

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Kristen Davis

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TheSex and city The actress adopted his daughter,Pink gemmaAs a single mother in 2011. She said the adoption of a baby was "something I wanted for a very long time." She adopted a son earlier this year.

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Charlize Theron

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The winning actress of the Oscars adopted his son,JacksonIn 2012. The former Arkansas judge who posted online details on the private adoption of Theron voluntarily delivered his law degree to avoid a disciplinary hearing as a result of his corruption conviction in a case. unrelated. She adopted her daughter, August, in 2015. She saidElapse Her mother, Gerda reminded her during the process of adoption that when the actress grew in South Africa, she had written a letter to an orphanage because she wanted a brother or sister.

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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman

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After meeting on the wholeTime of thunderThe couple married in 1990, adopted two children together. After their split the head line,Isabella Jane (born in December 1992) andConnor Anthony (Born in January 1995) lived with cruises. Since then, they have moved away from Kidman, who is now married toKEITH URBAN and has two biological girls with him. The source of the RIFT appears because the two children practice Scientologists and Kidman left the church after divorce. In 2010, she said, "They live with Tom, which was their choice. I would like [to] to live with us, but what can you do?" In 2015, Bella marriedParker MaxBut did not invite Kidman, who worked in London - not far from where the bridals took place.

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Connie Britton

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In 2011, theNashville Star adopted his son,Murderer, as a single parent. She said she had lost her parents in the three years of each other, then decided that she was not going to let the single being prevents her from becoming a mother.

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Meg Ryan

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Ryan had an adult son, actorJack Henry Quaid, with ex-husbandDennis Quaid, When she chose to adopt a 14-month-old girl in 2o07, she namedDaisy True. When I met Ryan in 2010 and told him that I was also the mother of an adopted girl from China, we discussed the way we both felt we were intended to be the mother of our daughters . She said, "I'm completely convinced that there was nothing at random about it. She is the girl I should have had. We are perfect for each other. I have A biological son and is now an adoptive parent and there is no difference in love I feel. "

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Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann

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TheLaw and order svu Star delivered his first son,August, with her husband,Younger.Peter Hermannin 2006 in an emergency cesarean section. In April 2011, they adopted a girl,Amaya Josephine. Six months later, they received a call saying that they had been twinned with a baby boy and adopted their son,ANDREW. She saidPeople, "Our family is so perfect, or at least perfect for me," she says. "Together, we are just all this world, happy, happy, chaotic, a mad unit. I have never known everything that was more right."

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Sharon Stone

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After married the newspaper publisherPhil Bronstein In 1998, the couple adopted a little boy, Roan Joseph, in 2000. After divorcing, Bronstein received the main guard and the actress received access rights. In 2005, the stone adopted his second son, Laird Vonne, then his third son,Quinn Kelly, in 2006.

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Mary Louise Parker

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In September 2007, the consumer writer andWeeds The actress adopted a little girl in Africa. She then said she "always knew" that she would adopt a child one day.

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Denise Richards

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New brides and the most recentTrue housewives from the Beverly Hills The member had two girls with his ex-husbandCharlie Sheen. After divorce, she adopted a third-party child as a single parent in 2011. Her daughter,ELOISE JONI, bears the name of the mother of Richards, deceased by cancer in December 2007.

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Hugh Jackman

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The biggest show tellPeople thisHe and his wife, actressDeborra-Lee Furness, Had a conscious decision to adopt mixed children because it was the largest group of children who needed parents. "Our motivation behind adopt was:" Where is the need? "" A lot of people [adopt] thinking it's really important for them for the kid to look like them, honestly, for Deb and I, which was never a question, "said the actor who is father ofOscar, now 18, andAva, now 12.

Diane Clehane is a journalist and author of New YorkImagine Diana andDiana: the secrets of his style.

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