Mary-Louise Parker on adoption
According to Mary-Louise Parker, she has known since she was a little girl that she would adopt a child one day. The actress told PEOPLE, “I would daydream about it all the time. I thought about the fact that there were children who didn’t have anything, and I felt like I could help. It was something that weighed on me.”
That’s pretty deep for a young girl to feel! Mary-Louise made her dream come true in August 2007 when she adopted a girl from Africa, who she calls Ash. Of the adoption, she said: “It was something I did for the world and for my son and then for me. And when I say the world, I also mean my daughter. Once I knew her, she became part of that. But it’s hard raising two kids as a single person. It’s a lot of pressure.”
Mary-Louise is also mom to son William Atticus, her child with ex Billy Crudup.
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