Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock announced on Wednesday that she
has adopted a second child — a 3-1/2-year-old girl — from foster care as
a sister for her son Louis.
Speaking to People magazine, the Gravity star said she began fostering Laila about three years ago. The baby girl had been placed in foster care in Louisiana.
“When I look at Laila, there’s no doubt in my mind that she was supposed to be here,” Bullock, 51, told People. “I
can tell you absolutely, the exact right children came to me at the
exact right time,” added the actress, who adopted son Louis, now 5, from
foster care in New Orleans in
2010. “My family is blended and
diverse, nutty, and loving and understanding,” she told the magazine.
“That’s a family.” Bullock said she had pledged to keep the long
adoption process secret to protect Laila’s privacy. Earlier this year
she had publicly denied reports that she had made another addition to
her family.
Bullock, who is dating photographer Bryan Randall,
first revealed she had adopted Louis about two months after winning the
best actress Oscar in 2010 for her role as a woman who takes in a
homeless black teen in The Blind Side. But the career triumph
was swiftly followed by a crisis in her personal life when her
then-husband Jesse James was reported to have had numerous affairs
during their five-year marriage.
Bullock filed for divorce weeks later.
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