When ‘Weeds’ star Mary-Louise Parker decided to adopt a child, she was fulfilling a dream from when she was a little girl.
"I would daydream about it all the time," the Emmy-nominated star of Weeds, now in its fifth season, told PEOPLE – speaking for the first time about the subject – earlier this summer at a benefit for Worldwide Orphans Foundation
hosted by La Perla in Beverly Hills. "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."
So when Mary-Louise went to Africa in 2007 and adopted Caroline Aberash (a.k.a. Ash), it was no spur-of-the-moment decision. Ash joined older brother William Atticus.
Yet Mary-Louise makes it clear that being a single parent isn’t easy, but she feels it was worth it.
"It was something I did for the world and for my son and then for me,"
Parker, 44, said of adding a second child to her family. "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."
What a wonderful gesture!
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So does her ex have nothing to do with his son?
I thought I read somewhere a while back that he does have a relationship with his son.
How sweet is she….I’ve always liked her.—em’s
How can a gorgeous lady like this be single? She is beautiful, inside and out
She is, and someone wonderful will walk into her life.
She is unbelievably gorgeous!
I’m never a fan of anything she wears, but she is very pretty
I just watched Fried Green Tomatoes the other day, I didn’t realize it was her that was in it, because it had been so long since I had seen it! LOL
Amen
She is absolutely beautiful person, those kids a very lucky to have her as their mom. Wish them all the happiness and harmony in the lives