L. Shepherd

Connie Britton adopts Ethiopian baby

Connie Britton, star of Friday Night Lights and the enchanting put-upon wife from American Horror Story, has adopted a baby. The little boy, named Eyob, was recently adopted from Ethiopia. The actress, 44, has nicknamed the nine-month-old...

Jack Wagner meets long-lost adopted daughter

Jack Wagner, famous to many for his soap roles and famous to legions of Gen-Xers for his role as Heather Locklear's love interest on Melrose Place, recently met his adult daughter for the first time. The woman...

Mariska Hargitay adopts two babies in six months

This year, Law and Order: SVU actress Mariska Hargitay became an adoptive mother to not one but two babies. The second baby was adopted by Hargitay and her husband Peter Hermann during the summer but was kept quite until this...

Surrogate births: a celebrity alternative to adoption

When Nicole Kidman announced that she had suddenly had a baby girl, there was plenty of surprise to go around in the gossip world. She had hired a surrogate to carry the biological child of her husband, Keith Urban, and...

Elton John becomes a father to baby born to surrogate mother

When Elton John and David Furnish were denied in their attempts to adopt an HIV-positive toddler in the Ukraine, the couple vowed to become fathers to some other child. That desire has now been fulfilled as the couple have...

Kim Kardashian getting publicity from adoption rumors

Celebrities of every type seem to be floating adoption rumors lately, and in many cases they gain these celebrities the magazine covers that most of them would sell their souls for. Life and Style is currently featuring Kim Kardashian ...

Eva Longoria may pursue adoption from Haiti

Eva Longoria Parker, soon to be just Eva Longoria, has long wanted to adopt a child, according to babble.com. The actress wanted to adopt with her husband, NBA player Tony Parker, but their recent divorce announcement has meant that...

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pit donate $150K toward adoption cause

SOS Children’s Villages-USA Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, big proponents of adoption and parents of three adopted children and three biological children, have donated a large sum toward helping children who are available for adoption...

Madonna bans daughter's "father" from seeing her

The man who claimed to be the father of Madonna's adopted daughter Mercy will not meet her after all, Madonna has decided. Over the past year, Madonna had numerous legal battles involving the adoption of the girl from...

Pamela Anderson adopts Gulf dogs affected by oil spill

Pamela Anderson, well known as an animal lover and PETA spokesperson, has adopted two dogs who were abandoned in Louisiana. The dogs were left at animal shelters on the coast of Louisiana just after the BP oil spill. As...

Currently in Los Angeles