Celebrities and their adopted children (18 photos). Not the father who gave birth: Russian stars who raise adopted children Actresses who adopted children

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There are no other people's children. And these people know this like no one else. They proved by their example that family is far more than just blood ties. website dedicates this post to celebrities who found their greatest happiness in an orphanage.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

In addition to three biological children, the actors have three adopted children - originally from Cambodia, Vietnam and Ethiopia. Jolie adopted the eldest, Maddox, even before meeting Pitt. Most recently, they welcomed another child into their family - a two-year-old boy from Syria, Moussa.

Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness

The family of Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra has two adopted children - Oscar and Ava. “What difference does it make whether they are biological or not, these are my children, and that’s all!” - says Jackman.

Charlize Theron

In 2012, the actress adopted a boy from South Africa, whom she named Jackson. She never leaves her son alone for a long time, takes him with her to all filming, business meeting and even to the gym.

Sharon Stone

The actress is the proud mother of three adopted sons. In 2000, Sharon and her husband Phil Bronstein adopted a baby they named Roan. After the divorce, the Stone family was replenished with two more sons - Laird and Quinn.

Alexey Serebryakov

In addition to two biological children, Alexey and his wife Masha have two adopted sons. First, the couple took from orphanage Danya. But then it turned out that there was still younger brother boy's donkey - Styopa. Soon the Serebryakovs adopted him too.

Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne

The Osbornes adopted a child in 2007. He became a friend of their biological children Kelly and Amy, 18-year-old Robert Marcato (pictured above), who was left without parents and means of livelihood.

Steven Spielberg

Spielberg has seven children, four of them are biological, from his first and second marriages, one daughter is from his second wife from his first marriage. And two more are adopted: son Theo and daughter Michaela.

Madonna

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Madonna adopted two children from Malawi after she had relatives - daughter Lourdes and son Rocco. In 2006, together with then husband directed by Guy Ritchie, the singer adopted a baby named David Banda, and in 2007 they also had an adopted daughter, Marcy James.

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman

The first sign was a singer popular in the 11990s Tatiana Ovsienko. In 1998, she adopted a boy from congenital defect hearts and thereby seriously influenced the consciousness of people in our country. Tatyana did not hide the truth or invent incredible stories the birth of a baby in the family, and frankly told her story.

Tatyana Ovsienko with her son. Photo: From the personal archive of Tatyana Ovsienko

Our group had a rule: during tours, give charity concerts in orphanages. In Penza, during a performance at the Palace of Culture, I received a note from the head physician of the Orphanage with a request to bring green apples to the children. We filled the car with boxes and drove to the indicated address. That's where I saw Igor. A tiny boy sat in the corner, holding in his hands... an algebra textbook turned upside down. He was two and a half years old at that time. I was amazed and started asking about him: who? What? It turned out that his 17-year-old mother, having learned that her son had a heart defect, abandoned him. When there were Americans who wanted to adopt him, his grandfather prevented him and did not sign the necessary papers. “He’s dying,” the manager told me. “We need an operation, but it can only be done in Moscow, and we have no way to get permission for this.”

A day later, I was sitting at the Bakulevsky Cardiology Center with Igor’s medical records. And I knew that if the operation was successful, I would never part with the boy.” 32-year-old Tanya, who did not have children of her own, quickly learned everything a mother should know.

After the operation, she spent a couple of months with Igor in the hospital for rehabilitation, the boy became attached to her and called her mom.

The singer confronted her husband, producer Vladimir Dubovitsky, with a fait accompli. Whether he wanted to adopt the boy or not, Tanya did not care, the decision was made and was not subject to appeal.

Six months later, the adoption process began. Dubovitsky recognized the child and Igor, by court decision, received his last name. Tatyana was happy about this; she was afraid that if Igor became Ovsienko, his biological mother would quickly find him. But it all worked out, Igor grew up, got married, but his own mother never showed up.

Although it was no secret in the family that Igor was an adopted child, this topic was never raised. Only when Dubovitsky Jr. turned 18 years old and he flew to his mother in Moscow from America, where last years lives with his father, asked: “Mom, tell me who I am.”

“The day before, he talked to Vova about the same thing. In my opinion, it was wrong to discuss such a difficult issue in the absence of the mother. Still Igoresha most lived his life with me. But be that as it may, that evening we had a heart-to-heart talk, we both cried, and I offered to find his mother. But Igor said: “You are mom. I don’t need another one,” Tanya said in an interview with TN.

One of the most prominent TV presenters of the 90s Svetlana Sorokina became a mother at the age of 46, after divorcing her second husband. I didn’t think about the fact that the offensive “single mother” would attach itself to her. Fifteen years ago, Svetlana saw a one-year-old girl in a walker in a shelter, and realized that only Tone wanted to become a mother. Although, as the journalist admitted, before that she dreamed of adopting a boy.

Svetlana Sorokina with Tonya. Photo: Global Look Press

With the advent of Tony, Svetlana began to work less, although before that she suffered from workaholism and devoted a lot of time and effort to raising her child. The girl showed good musical abilities, and her mother sent her to music school at the Gnessin School. It is interesting that Tonya Sorokina named her daughter in honor of her grandmother Antonina Ivanovna. The TV presenter rarely attends social events, and 16-year-old Antonina appears even more rarely. But when you manage to see them together, you can’t even dare to name this happy family incomplete!

Star of the famous Lenkom 56-year-old Victor Rakov- father of three children. From his first marriage, the actor has a 30-year-old son, Boris. From the second - 27-year-old daughter Anastasia and 11-year-old son Danila. Victor and his wife Lyudmila did not immediately tell the public that the youngest was an adopted child. They presented the boy to the press as own son, late and desirable, but then declassified. It turned out that the couple really wanted one more common child, but... “we propose, but God disposes.” Long-awaited pregnancy didn't come. Then the idea arose to take the child from the orphanage. Moreover, Victor and Lyuda did not agree in advance what their baby should look like. When they saw 2-year-old Danya, both their hearts sank. They looked at the other children, but only Danya reigned in their thoughts. They returned to him, played and... went back to Moscow without voicing a decision. And the very next day they returned. Thanks to Rakov's popularity, the adoption process went faster than expected. The child came into the family on the eve of the new year, 2009. His sister Nastya happily accepted her brother, they even look alike!

Victor Rakov with his family. Photo: East News

When the Rakovs were filming for TN, it could not have occurred to me that Danya was not a child of his own blood. All four of them were so filled with tenderness and love for each other.

Few people know that the popular actress Maria Mironova has a brother. Her mother, actress Ekaterina Gradova, the famous radio operator Kat from “17 Moments of Spring,” took a one-year-old boy Alyosha from an orphanage. It is noteworthy that this was the same orphanage where her movie children were found. Ekaterina Georgievna is married to former nuclear physicist Igor Timofeev. Their Foster-son Alexey did not follow in the footsteps of his parents, he served in Marine Corps and is engaged in the restaurant business.

Ekaterina Gradova. Photo: East News

U Alexey Serebryakov no native children. More precisely, there are even three, but by blood they are strangers. When he married his beloved woman, Maria, he became a stepfather to her daughter Dasha. In a recent interview with Yuri Dudu, Alexey said that he and Masha dreamed of large family, but... it didn’t work out. Then the couple thought about adoption.

Alexey Serebryakov with children. Photo: East News

First Stepan appeared at the Serebryakovs, then he brother Danila. Both boys grew up in orphanage. Surprisingly, the three children are similar to each other and to their parents!

Adoption is not always the lot of young couples. For example, Natalia Belokhvostikova and her husband Vladimir Naumov became parents to 3-year-old Kirill when Natalya Nikolaevna was 56 years old and Vladimir Naumovich was 80!

When Belokhvostikova and Naumov arrived at the orphanage, Kirill did not try to attract attention to himself. Other children were jumping around, grabbing hands and asking to be taken home. And Kiryusha waited until the fuss died down, came up and quietly asked: “Auntie, everyone has crosses, but I don’t. Give it to me, please." This modest request moved the actress to tears. They brought the boy pectoral cross and were soon adopted. 11 years have passed since then.

Their own daughter, Natalya Naumova accepted Kiryusha as a brother. The boy is growing up as a developed child, draws well, recites poetry, studies are easy for him, foreign languages. The couple admitted that they never regretted their decision.

Psychologist's opinion:

1. An adopted child is often a salvation for childless couples. The spouses have a feeling of a real full-fledged family, responsibility for each other and for the child.

2. The common argument: “It is unknown what kind of genes an adopted child has” is broken by the argument that our own children often present us with unpleasant surprises. Either the child looks like a drunkard grandfather, or like a slacker uncle.

3. If you decide to take a baby, be prepared for the fact that he will definitely go through a difficult period of denying the authority of his parents during puberty. Perhaps he will start looking for biological parents. An experienced psychologist will tell you how to act.

4. You should not hide the fact that the baby is adopted. Otherwise, you will have to live for years under the sword of Damocles, fearing accidental exposure. The world is not without “good” people. Even if you change your place of residence and pass off your baby as your own from birth, problems may arise over time. Your son or daughter will accidentally find documents, relatives will spill the beans, or you yourself will actually traumatize him.

Not every person is capable of taking someone else's child into his family and giving him his warmth and care. This requires a special generosity of soul, a desire to make not only yourself happy, and an understanding of all the possible difficulties that you will have to face. And the more respect deserves people who have managed to take responsibility for someone else’s fate and give happiness little man.

Irina Alferova

The actress never dreamed of big family, however, fate decreed that she had to become a mother of four children. At the same time, she has only one daughter – Ksenia. Sergei Martynov, the actress’s husband, has two children from a previous marriage: Serey and Anastasia. After Martynov’s first wife died in London, they took the children with them.

And a year later, another son appeared in the family - Sasha, Irina Alferova’s nephew. The actress’s sister died and Alferova, of course, took the boy into her family. Today Ksenia is a successful actress, Sasha is an aspiring lawyer, Anastasia and Sergei, having received their education in London, remained to live in England.

Margarita Sukhankina

After experiencing an abortion, the singer was never able to bear her own child; all pregnancies ended in miscarriages. Desperate to give birth, Margarita firmly decided to adopt a child from an orphanage, definitely a girl. But when she saw a story about 4-year-old Seryozha and 3-year-old Lerochka in one of the programs, she immediately understood: her children.

They were in another city, but she was not afraid of the distance. She went to the orphanage to make sure that her premonitions did not deceive her. Almost five years ago she took the kids to Moscow. According to Margarita Sukhankina, she is sometimes too strict, but she tries very hard to be a good mother.

Alexey Serebryakov

The actor never advertised his personal life, so the fact that he has adopted children for a long time nothing was known. When journalists learned about this fact and published information in one of the publications, Alexey Serebryakov filed a lawsuit.

Later he himself confirmed the fact of adoption. The actor and his wife Maria had already tried to have their own children, but after two failures the decision was made to adopt. First, 2-year-old Daniil appeared in the family, and a little later Stepan. In addition to two sons, Dasha, Maria’s daughter from her first marriage, is growing up in the family.

Natalya Belokhvostikova and Vladimir Naumov

The actress saw Kirill in an orphanage during her performance. He was very different from other children and asked her to bring him a cross. The next time Natalya Nikolaevna came to the orphanage with her husband, Vladimir Naumov. She was then 65 years old, her husband was 80, the decision was serious, but they could no longer leave this touching and completely lonely baby in the orphanage.

Now Kiryusha is already going to school and never ceases to please his parents with his successes. The actress admits that Kiryusha became a real gift for their family.

Mikhail Barshchevsky

Mikhail Barshchevsky and his wife have a daughter, but she grew up long ago and even gave her parents grandchildren. When her husband suggested adopting a child, Olga at first just waved it off, but two years later she supported her husband, but set the condition: two at once.

They looked for “their” children in different orphanages. In Maxim, the famous lawyer immediately saw his son, and Dashenka cautiously went into Olga’s arms. Since the arrival of the kids in the house, the couple have found a second youth and can no longer imagine how they lived without them before.

Sergey Zverev

The famous stylist hid the fact of adoption from the public for a long time. He made the decision to adopt almost spontaneously, after seeing his three-year-old son in an Irkutsk orphanage. The boy appeared everywhere with his father, but after Sergei Zverev Jr. learned that he was an adopted child, he is constantly in search of his biological parents.

The celebrity stylist tries not to show how unpleasant this situation is for him and hopes that soon everything will fall into place.

Svetlana Sorokina

The presenter made the decision to adopt a long time ago and even prepared all the documents in advance. She was also looking for “her” son. But unexpectedly I found my daughter. The 11-month-old baby, as soon as she saw her mother, immediately extended her arms to her. Svetlana admits that her life took on a completely different meaning with the advent of Antonina.

Tatiana Ovsienko

She first saw Igor at one of the charity events in the Penza Orphanage. It turned out that the baby, who was not yet three years, serious illness heart and he needs surgery. It so happened that at first the singer did everything to save the boy, and then she simply told her husband that they had a son.

She was a happy mother, and only when, in adolescence, her son had problems with his behavior, she decided to turn to her husband, from whom she was already divorced, for help. Now the 20-year-old son lives permanently in America, but visits his mother quite often.

Ekaterina Gradova

The actress met her son in an orphanage when he was only 2 years old and she was 47. She was afraid that her husband would be against adoption, but Igor Timofeev fully supported her decision and soon Alyosha found loving parents.

Andrey Kirilenko

The famous basketball player and his wife Maria already had two sons, but dreamed of another child. Pregnancy still did not occur, and family council a decision was made to adopt. As often happens, at the very first meeting with the newborn girl, it became clear that Sasha was her own daughter. And five years later the couple had a third son.

Victor Rakov

The daughter of Victor and Lyudmila Rakov was already 16 when they decided to adopt a child. When we saw Daniil in the orphanage, we immediately realized that he was ours. However, the boy also immediately realized that these were his parents, so he didn’t even look back when leaving the orphanage.

IN Soviet time It was very difficult to adopt a child, and it was not even necessary to talk about giving the baby to a lonely man. All the more amazing is the story of someone who managed to go through many trials, taking in the upbringing of a child whom he himself adopted during childbirth.

There are families different forms and sizes. For example, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, before their divorce, were the model of a mixed family - they adopted four children from different countries, and three of them were biological. There are other celebrities who have welcomed children into their home, some of whom also had biological offspring. Who are these stars?

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman

The former couple adopted Connor and Isabella in 2001, when they were babies. Even though Kidman emphasizes how important her children are to her, their relationship is complicated. They chose to live with their father and practice Scientology, like him. Kidman does not share such a religion, which is why the children do not want to maintain contact with her. The actress has two other biological daughters with Keith Urban - Sunday Rose, nine, and seven-year-old Faith Margaret.

Sandra Bullock

During her divorce from Jesse James, Sandra adopted Louis, and five years later, a daughter, Leila. The actress kept her second adoption a secret for as long as possible in order to create a calm environment for the children.

Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furnes

When the couple got married, Deborra-Lee was already forty. They were unable to conceive a child, despite IVF procedures. After several miscarriages, the couple decided to adopt children. They chose two mixed-race kids because it was obvious that these were the kids who needed a roof over their heads the most.

Jillian Michaels

The fitness star adopted her daughter Lukencia in May 2012, the same month that her partner Heidi Rhoads gave birth to her son Phoenix. The adoption process turned out to be long - it took two years.

Madonna

Madonna has four adopted children: David Banda, Mercy James and twins Stella and Esther. All four children are from Malawi. Madonna adopted her first child in 2006, her daughter Mercy in 2009, and eight years later twins appeared in her home. Once upon a time she was more lonely and then thought, why doesn’t she have children in the house? So many children need a family! And so she decided to adopt. The singer also has two biological children who are older than the adopted ones.

Connie Britton

The actress decided to adopt after the death of her father. She chose Ethiopia because she did charity work there. In this country she found her adopted son Yobi. This was already seven years ago.

Julie Andrews

The actress and her husband adopted girls Amy and Joanna from Vietnam when they were two and five months old. The couple did not have children together, but both had children from previous marriages. Andrews spoke positively about what it's like to have one big family- she was a stepmother to two children, a mother to her own daughter and a foster mother to two girls!

Viola Davis and Julius Tennon

The actress announced in 2011 that she had become an adoptive mother. She and her husband took their daughter Genesis, who was just a baby. Davis notes in an interview that her daughter was born from her heart, not from her stomach.

Hoda Kotb

The TV presenter is unable to have children after a difficult battle with cancer. In February 2017, she adopted a daughter and named her Hayley Joy. This is an incredibly valuable experience for her, for which she constantly feels grateful. Hoda didn't think she'd have this chance.

Emma Thompson

Thompson said she met the African teenager, who was sixteen, when he was homeless on the streets of London after being rescued from his country of Rwanda. Thompson invited him home for Christmas, and so he became part of her family. The actress also has a biological daughter named Gaia.

Kristin Davis

Like her character from Sex in big city", Davis adopted a daughter. She noted that she had dreamed about this for a long time and such an experience became incredibly valuable for her.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

In addition to three biological children, ex-spouses there are adopted children from Cambodia, Vietnam and Ethiopia. Jolie speaks enthusiastically about her adopted children and emphasizes that they bring her great joy. However, there were some scandals: the actress was against ex-husband communicated with children.

Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelly

Heigl noted that she always knew that she wanted to adopt children. In 2009, she and her husband adopted a daughter, Nali, from South Korea. The girl needed open heart surgery. The couple adopted their second daughter Adelaide in the USA. In addition, the couple has a biological son, Joshua.

Lionel Richie

Lionel took Nicole into his home when she was four because her biological parents were facing personal and financial difficulties. When she was nine, he officially adopted her. Richie also has two biological children, Sophia and Miles Brockman.

Charlize Theron

The actress has two adopted children, Jackson and August. She adopted Jackson in her home country- South Africa. Three years later, she adopted a daughter in America. The actress says she always intended to become a foster mother.

Sheryl Crow

In 2007, Crowe announced that she had adopted two-week-old Wyatt, whom she named after her father. She adopted her second child, Levi, in 2010 - he was five weeks old. The star reports that the birth of children turned out to be the most important event in her life.

Calista Flockhart

Flockhart adopted Liam in 2001. In 2002, she met Harrison Ford, and since then they have been inseparable. The actor has four biological children, but he also officially adopted Liam. The lovers got married in 2010 when their son Liam was nine.

Sharon Stone

Stone adopted Roan with Phil Bronstein. After the couple separated, they had to go through long trials to establish guardianship over his son. In 2005, Stone adopted a second son, and in 2006, a third. She considers herself a very happy mother.

Nia Vardalos

When the actress and her husband encountered fertility problems, they decided to adopt a daughter. This happened in 2009.

Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann

After a difficult birth, when the couple had a son, August, the couple decided to adopt children. The actress admitted that adoption is for people who are strong in spirit. She and her husband adopted two children: a daughter, Amaya, and a son, Andrew.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest

Curtis admitted in an interview that due to fertility problems, adoption was for her and her husband the only way create a family. They adopted Annie, their adopted daughter, in 1986. Nine years later they adopted another child, a son, Thomas.

Frances McDormand and Joel Coen

Frances herself was an adopted child, so it is not surprising that she decided to adopt. She and her husband adopted Pedro from Paraguay when he was only six months old.

Cate Blanchett

The actress has three biological sons. She recently adopted a baby girl, Edith. The star leads to the utmost closed image life, so there are no details. In an interview, she admitted that she had been thinking about adoption for a long time, because she had enough emotional strength to make such a bold decision.

Diane Keaton

Keaton, who has never married, became a mother at fifty - she adopted her first child in 1996. In 2001, she adopted another child, son Duke. Keaton notes that motherhood completely changed her and became an unusual experience.

Meg Ryan

Ryan got adopted daughter Daisy in 2006, five years after her divorce from her husband. She had a biological son with him. Ryan said there was nothing random about adoption and that this was the child she was meant to raise.

Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins

The couple began the long adoption process after traveling to Uganda, where they met their future daughter. They couldn't naturally to conceive a child and therefore began to look for an adoptive one. However, during the final stages of the adoption process, it turned out that Lauren was pregnant. Now the couple has two children.

For some, adoption is the last chance to become a mom and dad, for others it is an act of goodwill. In any case, this is a benefit for the child. Today, throughout the world, the adoption of children left without parental care for one reason or another is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon. well and public people- they are just in plain sight.

Alexey Serebryakov does not like to talk about his personal life, much less share the details of his good deeds. The fact that Alexei has adopted children became known thanks to journalists who, without the actor’s consent, published this information in one publication. The case even went to court.

Alexey and his wife, former choreographer At the Vakhtangov Theater, Maria first took one boy from the orphanage - Daniil. Then the couple found out that Dani had a younger brother, Stepan, left in the orphanage. Without hesitation, Alexey and Maria adopted a second boy, despite the cramped life circumstances at that time. To the rest of the deprived parental love Alexey also could not remain indifferent to children: together with Irina Apeksimova and Andrei Smolyakov, he founded the “Time to Live” foundation, whose work is focused on helping orphans.

Now Alexey and his family live in Toronto, Canada, but the actor continues to build his career in Russia. Behind Lately Two popular series with his participation were released - “Farza” and “Method”. Two more will be released soon - "Doctor Richter" and "Quartet", as well as the film "Our Happy Tomorrow".

Plenipotentiary representative of the government of the Russian Federation, a famous lawyer and an expert in the club "What? Where? When?" Mikhail Barshchevsky and his wife Olga Barkalova adopted two children, already being mature people and having grandchildren. Mikhail was the first to voice the idea of ​​adoption, but Olga did not take it seriously. Two years later, Mikhail, already as a joke, raised this topic again - to his great surprise, his wife agreed, but only for two kids at once.

Olga and I have a biological daughter, at that time we already had two grandchildren who spent a lot of time at our dacha. One day the grandchildren didn’t come, and I told my wife: let’s adopt a child, we’re still young! But Olga said: “What are you talking about, we have grandchildren!” Two years have passed. We are driving in the car, we are in a bad mood - the grandchildren haven’t come for a long time, they live in Moscow, we are outside the city, lonely... And I, in order to get my wife off this topic, say casually: “Well, let’s adopt a child,” just to switch her from worries and such a mood. But Olga suddenly replied: “Then two at once.” I almost drove into a pole. Slowed down. He looked at her and asked: “Are you serious?” And she said: “Yes, I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. A boy and a girl,” the portal “Mercy.ru” quotes Mikhail.
Olga and Mikhail visited several orphanages, interacted with different children; for them, like many parents who decided to adopt, the first contact was important. And it happened to little Maxim.

Maxim immediately chose Misha. He walked up to him, happily hit him on the hand with all his might and laughed. Misha said: “This is mine!” Dasha was more careful. But she still smiled at me and went into my arms,” Olga said.

The Barshchevskys helped twins Maxim and Daria find loving parents and a home, and they, in turn, gave Mikhail and Olga a second youth.

Olga has definitely lost 20 years. For example, she was always athletic, but she never roller skated. And when the children grew up, they were about 6 years old and they wanted to roller skate, she got on the roller skates and went with them. Now the children have gone to school, and I find out what kind of interesting science arithmetic. And so on. I now say to my peers - do you want a second youth? Have children, take a child from an orphanage.

Famous TV presenter and journalist Svetlana Sorokina became a mother for the first time at the age of 46, having adopted a three-year-old girl. Svetlana had plans for a child for a long time before she decided to take a responsible step, and at first she wanted a boy. But in the end everything turned out a little differently.

“The last straw was my program “Basic Instinct,” in which we made the main topic of the problem of adopted children. At the end of this program, making a final speech, I told the audience that I also want to foster a child. And, as you can see, I kept my promise. By the way, among my friends and relatives there were those who dissuaded me, saying that in Russia there are many other options. But I immediately rejected the test tube option. There are many abandoned children in Russia who need parents. Frankly, at first I wanted a boy of three years old -four. I was looking in Moscow, looking in the provinces. I filled out “parental” documents in advance. And for a long time I didn’t know that Tonka was waiting for me. Brown-eyed. Smiling. Abandoned,” Svetlana said in an interview with Pavel Lobkov.
And again, as in most such stories, everything was decided by a personal meeting with the child. As soon as Svetlana saw 11-month-old Tonya in the crowd of children, she realized who she had been looking for for so long. The girl also instantly reciprocated her feelings.

“In general, I’m a tough, unsentimental person. But when I saw her in one of the groups, something clicked: my girl. By the way, not long before, Tonya rejected several potential parents, she simply did not communicate with them. And she extended her arms to me , met halfway. So it’s unclear who chose whom.”

By the way, the name Antonina was not chosen by chance by Svetlana. She decided to name her daughter after her grandmother.

“I’ll tell you straight: my life began anew, with the letter A - the initial letter of the name Antonin.”

Tatyana Ovsienko's life was divided into before and after in 1999, when, while on tour in Penza, she took part in a charity event at a local orphanage. That evening, among the cheerful and noisy crowd of children, Tatyana noticed a quiet, sad 2.5-year-old boy on the side. To the singer’s question “What’s wrong with him?” The orphanage worker replied that the baby had a severe heart pathology. His mother abandoned him at birth, the case is already advanced and complex, and there is very little time left, a few weeks.

“And from that very moment I had no peace... Upon returning home, I flew like a bullet to Bakulevka. But even there, no one wanted to take on such a neglected case. And only Professor Mikhail Anatolyevich Zelenikin, my and Igor’s guardian angel, said the cherished "yes". 15 days after the operation, they told me that Igor could be taken home. I fell into a panic. Firstly, I thought that after a complex operation the child would have to stay in the hospital for quite a long time, he needed constant medical supervision. Secondly , take where? By that time, I had already firmly decided that Igorek would not return to any Penza, but in order to do this in two weeks, the main decision had to be made..." - Tatyana said in an interview with the magazine "Caravan of Stories".
Tatyana confronted her husband, producer Vladimir Dubovitsky with a fait accompli - she simply called from the tour and said, “We have a son.”

"I became the most happy woman in the world, a mother, and was not going to part with this fantastic joy! I fell headlong into motherhood. And there was no greater pleasure than preparing lunches for the baby - all my unspent love splashed out into the children's plates like a sea! And when Igorek called me mom, I was flying: “This is the real thing! Finally, I’m living!”
It became more difficult when Igor began adolescence. Then Tatyana called Vladimir, with whom she had been divorced for a long time and who lived in the USA, and asked for a little help - to send her son to a language camp. Since then, Igor has lived in America, but tries to regularly visit his mother in Russia. He is 20 years old and recently married a Brazilian. The couple had a son, Alexander.

By the time the famous basketball player Andrei Kirilenko and his wife Maria Lopatova decided to take a child from an orphanage, they had two children. The couple wanted to expand their family, but Maria was unable to get pregnant for a long time. However, Lopatova herself admits that she always wanted to adopt a child, and Andrei supported her.

“We were ready to have an adopted child and we wanted a girl. This decision was completely ordinary for us. It was clear that sooner or later we would come to it.”

Preparing the documents took 9 months - exactly as long as it takes to bear a child. Initially, Andrei and Maria wanted to adopt two - a brother and sister aged two to five. Such people were found, but unexpectedly the girl ended up in the hospital for a long time. Maria "realized that it was not fate." But the fateful call happened almost immediately: Maria was invited to see the newborn girl, she agreed and... realized that she had found her child.

“I took her in my arms and thought: “How pretty she is!” And for some reason we were cooing with her so much, I forgot about everything in the world and even walked with her to the exit, followed by me chief physician: "Stop! Where are you going?!" I say: “What needs to be done, what needs to be signed so that I can take her?” She says: “Wait, you don’t know anything about her, I have to tell you her medical history, you need to think about it.” In the end, we agreed that I’m listening to it now, but tomorrow I’m coming to pick up my daughter. I say: “I’m only interested in whether she has AIDS or cancer.” She says: "No!" I say: “Okay, the issue is resolved.” Difficult labor, hypoxia, otitis media of the second degree - all this is unimportant,” said Maria.
The day after the first meeting, Maria took Sasha home. The feeling of understanding what had happened came only at home.

“When I brought her, I laid her on the big bed, looked at her and sobbed. I was calm like a boa constrictor when my children were born. There was joy, but it was kind of internal, quiet. And here there were such emotions, everything was mixed up. I thought: can I love her? This is not mine native child? What should we do now?"

Sasha quickly became a member of the family; the brothers, according to Maria, love her even more than each other. Five years later, in 2014, Andrei and Maria found out that they were expecting another child. In February 2015, their third boy was born.

Although the daughter of the President of Azerbaijan, Leyla Aliyeva, cannot be called a Russian celebrity in full, we still decided to include her in our selection: Leyla was married to popular singer Emin Agalarov, in Russia they know and love her.

In her country, Leyla is known for her caring nature: she is the vice-president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, often holds charity events, is involved in youth programs and contributes to the protection of environment. Visiting orphanages and boarding schools is also on her list of obligatory activities, and one day such a trip became fateful for Leila herself.
According to the executive director of the Foundation, Anar Alekperov, thanks to frequent visits to such institutions and communication, Leila developed good relations with many children, but she became especially attached to one girl - little Amina - and adopted her last July.
Emin Agalarov, to whom Leila gave birth to two sons, also adopted the girl:

“Not long ago another child appeared in my family. Perhaps I was not ready for this, but my life has changed a lot, and I am very happy that this happened,” he wrote.

The ex-soloist of the Mirage group Margarita Sukhankina became a mother for the first time, with two children at once, at the age of 48. But this important event was preceded by a difficult personal story. For the first time, Margarita managed to get pregnant many years ago, but then, at the insistence of her husband, she had an abortion at an already impressive period. Repentance and awareness of the horror of what happened came immediately, so when Margarita became pregnant again, the question of whether to give birth or not was not in principle. Unfortunately, in the eighth month, the baby died in the womb due to medical error. In subsequent years, Margarita managed to get pregnant, but did not carry the baby. Miscarriages followed one after another.

“The only thing that was clear was the consequences of that terrible abortion, my endless stupidity. Therefore, now I tell everyone: if you got pregnant when you were young and there is no husband, no money, no housing, no profession - still give birth. Abortion is the worst thing. ", what could happen. And with the child, God will help, people will help," Margarita shared in an interview.

For the first time, the idea of ​​adoption was expressed by Sukhankina’s mother, but the singer herself believed in her own strength and refused to give up so easily. Seven years passed, and due to health problems, doctors forbade Margarita to even think about having her own children. Then she remembered her mother’s words.

Margarita wanted to adopt a girl, but in one of the programs “While Everyone is Home,” she saw 4-year-old Seryozha and 3-year-old Lera and realized that she would only take them. The children lived in another distant city, but this did not stop Margarita - she flew after them, once again made sure that her first impression had not deceived her, and took the children to Moscow. Since then, according to Margarita, she has found fullness of life and true happiness.

The news is that The only son Sergei Zverev - not his own, became a kind of sensation, because the stylist himself always told only one version in interviews. His wife died tragically, and he was left with a small child in his arms. They began to doubt the veracity of these words after Stanislav Sadalsky published a post on his LiveJournal in 2009, where he said that Sergei took a 3-year-old boy from an Irkutsk orphanage. In his blog, Stanislav also cited the words of Sergei himself:

“When I entered the room of children who could not walk at all, I almost died of fear. The wooden cribs were chewed up! I thought: “Rats!” And these are children... I was shocked! They were hardly fed there. They stole food and took it to their home. I grabbed this boy and ran out!"

When a three-year-old boy, Seryozha, appeared in the family of director Vladimir Naumov and actress Natalya Belokhvostikova, they were 80 and 65 years old, respectively. They didn’t think about adoption, didn’t plan anything like that, everything was decided by chance. In 2007, Natalya performed at a creative evening in an orphanage. Many different kids reached out to her, treated themselves to candy, and told her something, but a quiet, modest boy attracted her attention. He approached her and said: “Auntie, everyone has crosses, but I don’t. Give me, please...”

Natalya told Vladimir about him, and the next time they came together. And they also left together, only not just the two of them, but the three of them.

Kiryusha used to be reserved and shy. He only communicated with us. Now he has grown up and become more sociable. Our daughter Natasha is already an adult, she has long been happy without us, and Kiryusha has filled our lives with new meaning. “He saved Vladimir Naumovich and me from loneliness,” Natalya said in an interview with Sobesednik.

“I would give all children a mother and father, because I am sure: the worst thing in life is loneliness. Therefore, if you have the desire and opportunity to adopt a child, do not hesitate - hurry to do good,” says Natalya.