27 celebrities who adopted kids: Hugh Jackman, Sandra Bullock, Viola Davis, Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchett and SATC’s Kristin Davis all gave children a new life
- Shiloh Jolie-Pitt is the Brangelina kid who’s most often in headlines, but the Hollywood exes have three adopted children from across the globe too
- Sex and the City star Kristin Davis adopted two African-American children while Charlize Theron decided what sort of family she’d have from a young age
We all know about Brangelina’s famous brood – three out of their six children are adopted – but what about other American A-listers who made the same choice?
Since November is National Adoption Month in the US, we take a look at 27 celebrities who adopted kids from all over the world.
Sia
In May 2020, the Chandelier singer revealed that back in 2019, she adopted two teenage boys who were about to age out of the foster care system.
Sia told SiriusXM that her boys were “both finding [quarantine] pretty difficult, one more so than the other”. She added: “But they’re both doing things that are really good for them right now, that are really helpful. They’re really doing a lot of educational stuff that’s good for them.”
She expanded on how parenting was going during an October 2020 interview. “The entire system is so underfunded and understaffed that there are not enough people to really monitor how the kids are being taken care of,” Sia told InStyle. “And now my sons very much want to be a part of that change, so I am trying to give them the resources to do that.”
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
Connor, 26, and Isabella, 28, were adopted as toddlers by Kidman and Cruise before their 2001 divorce.
Bella and Connor, practising Scientologists like their father, chose to live with Cruise after the divorce. It’s been speculated that they avoid Kidman since she’s not a member of the Church of Scientology.