Famous Adoptive Parents

Barbara and her husband Lee adopted their daughter Jackie in 1968. Walters said that having a child made her life complete.

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Bob and Delores adopted four children: Linda (adopted in 1939), Tony (adopted in 1940), Nora (adopted in 1946), and Kelly (adopted in 1946), all from the same orphanage in Evanston, Illinois.

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Burt and his ex-wife Lori Anderson adopted their son Quinton in 1988.

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Calista adopted her son Liam in San Diego in 2001. Being a single mom was not a concern to her and she told People magazine at that time that a relationship was “not a priority.”

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Connie and her husband Maury Povich adopted their son Matthew in 1995. This highlight in her life came shortly after losing her co-anchor spot on the CBS Evening News.

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Diane adopted her daughter Dexter in 1996 and then her son Duke in 2001.

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George and his ex-wife Marcia Lou Griffin adopted their daughter Amanda in 1981. After they divorced, George adopted two more children as a single parent: Katie in 1988 and Jett in 1993.

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Hugh and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness adopted two children: Oscar in 2000 and Ava in 2005. After years of infertility with his wife, Hugh Jackman stated, “adoption was our destiny.”

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Jamie and husband Christopher Guest adopted their daughter Annie (born in 1986) and son Tom (born in 1996).

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Julie and husband Blake Edward adopted two daughters from Vietnam in 1974: Amy Leigh and Joanna Lynne.

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Kirstie and ex-husband Parker Stevenson adopted their son William True in 1992 and daughter Lillie Price in 1994. Adoption came after Kirstie’s experience with a miscarriage and stillbirth.

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Kurt adopted his sister’s children—James, Steven, and Kurt—when his sister and brother-in-law passed away in 1958. He later adopted his daughter Lily as an infant in 1982.

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Magic and his wife Earleatha Kelly adopted their daughter Elisa in 1995.

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Meg adopted her daughter Daisy True from China in 2006.

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Michelle adopted her daughter Claudia Rose in 1993. She told People Magazine that not being married wasn’t going to stop her from having a family.

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When they were married, Nicole and Tom Cruise adopted their daughter Isabella Jane in 1993 and their son Connor Antony in 1995.

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Ozzy and Sharon adopted a teenage son, Robert Marcato, when Robert’s biological mother died from cancer in 2002.

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Pierce adopted his first wife Cassandra Harris’s children Chris and Charlotte Brosnan when their biological father died in 1997.

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Ronald and ex-wife Jane Wyman adopted their son Michael in 1945. Before adopting, they had a biological daughter, Maureen, in 1941 who was born four months prematurely and only lived one day.

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Rosie adopted her first son Parker in 1995. Then Rosie and her partner Kelli Carpenter adopted three children: Chelsea (adopted in 1997), Blake (adopted in 1999), and Dakota (adopted in 2013).

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Sammy and his ex-wife May Britt adopted sons Mark Sidney and Jeff in the 1960's. Sammy and his third wife Altovise adopted their son Manny in 1989.

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Stephen and his wife Kate Capshaw adopted their son Theo (who was adopted originally by Kate Capshaw before her marriage to Spielberg) and daughter Mikaela George (born in 1986).

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Tom and ex-wife Nicole Kidman adopted Isabella Jane ( in 1992) and Connor Antony (in 1995).

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Walt and his wife Lily adopted Sharon Mae Disney in 1936.

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