Katherine Heigl With Her New Asian Baby
Katherine Heigl went out and got herself a Korean baby, probably because she’s just too lazy to have her own. I hope babies like cigarettes because Katherine smokes a lot.
The girl was named Nancy Leigh, after Heigl’s mother Nancy and sister Margaret Leigh, but call her by her nickname Naleigh.
I have a question that keeps popping into my head. Why do celebrities keep buying babies from foreign countries? What’s wrong with American babies? Oh, I think I know the answer. You can’t buy American babies as easily as foreign babies.
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To: HG
im assuming you were adopted and it didnt go well for you,or you were fostered and it didnt go well for you.
i just cant understand how you can be so cold. you dont seem to have a good heart at all. the most logical way to prevent adoption all over the world is preventing people to having anymore babies right. no more people who can not handle having babies should not be able to get pregnant ever again..well honey thats not going to happen..these babies may have lousy birth parents who only care about them selves. or to damn stupid to relize there is a baby in the other room and go out and leave it by its self.most of the time these are the people who have there children adopted out.in legal adoption people do not buy children. believe it or not people all over the world including united states of america people do sale there babies. but you know what….adoption means adoption. you pay for legal rights to take the child home just like you would when you birthed a child. your helping out a child with a new start…adoption is a long process anyone and everyone goes through no favortism. i cant have kids so does this mean i should not adopt and help a child out that has no parents?????????????????????????????????
maybe they want Asian babies rather than some kid from an American drunkard
Well I can’t speak for all… but I wouldn’t say that HG’s point is around Kath adopting a foreign born baby – but that it seems to be a increasing trend for celebs to be adopting foreign born.
But I haven’t read this post in a couple days.
Did any of you think that maybe she wanted to adopt a baby from Korea is because of the fact that her adopted sister is Korean.
You get him HG. They’re violating your right to free speech by putting words in your mouth! Adopters suck! Birthers Rule!
Well, then I guess I suck and rule at the same time.
Praying for you.
HG: First off… I applaud your comments about celebs adopting from elsewhere when there are plenty of children needing homes right here in the united states. But perhaps it is “not cool” to adopt the kids in your backyard… Of course I have no objection to adopting children from any country – as all children deserve the right to a good and healthy home.
All of that being said. I love how you handle everyones negative comments! Its great!
firstly, i like to correct those opinions that children from orhanage in other countries out of the so call united states will DIE if we are not adopted. I personally have close friends who grew up being orphans, requiring special needs and turn out fine and happy. Just because they are so call ”given” up by their birth parents does not necessary equate they will not be happy if otherwise.
I think HG point is not about the baby whether special needs or not, its probably a outloud thought that many celebrities esp those in hollywood are so call adopting baby thinking they are doing the world many good.
well, how about providing money, direct it to a fund and help A LOCAL family adopt these while maintaing our own heritage and culture.
for the uninitated, some of the babies that are adopted by celebrities are not without parents, and frankly some of these parents just have too many kids because they refuse to use contraceptives.
and another, just because being adopted by celebrities isnt definitely something worthy of elebrating because all the limelight and attention can do more stress than good to a child growing up, plus who knows if these hollywood stars ever stay married for long. LOOK at madonna, splitting up, remarrying and all that sh!t, u think this is good balance env that can instill the right values, yeah right, prob in united states but necessary in other countries.
i have grown friends, korean, who were adopted as it seemed to be a fad then in the 70s. he was adopted by sweden family and knew nothing of korean hertiage. he married a korean wife and while he love his adoptive parents, he wished he knew more about his own heritage and native language while he was growing up.
so my point is, dont take it out on HG just becoz he has an opinion. if u are adopting, good on u. but make sure u know what the child want, and not what you want.
I feel that this author HAS to be writing things like this for “shock” value and cannot possibly BELIEVE that adoption is handled this way.
Yes, it is probably “easiER” that she has money – as MOST things are, but adoption in no WAY is an easy process. Both her and her husband would have to obtain the appropriate paperwork and documents and do what the country requires. Yes, it would be an easiER process with money as if WE had that cash, we would have paid someone to do the paperwork FOR us, but certainly still would be a process that all would have to follow.
Many people ask us why we selected the country from which we selected to adopt (not the US), and my response to them is: WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO GET PREGNANT and NOT ADOPT FROM THE US?
Decisions like this are not taken lightly, but no matter what her reasoning, she is giving a child an opportunity at a life that her birth mother was unable to provide. The birth mother CHOSE to give the child up for adoption, and the couple CHOSE to adopt. Not because it was EASY, but because it was their desire to have a child. This would have been the same situation in the US, so what is the difference. On top of which, this couple CHOSE to adopt a special needs child. WIth any career, time with your children is difficult sometimes, but wouldn’t having MORE money make it easier to take time OFF to spend with her? I bet they will spend MORE time with this child due to the fact that they are financially ABLE to do so.
Personally, I have given birth to a child, an unplanned pregancy, AND have selected to adopt with our second child. EASILY we could have selected to get pregnant…that would have been much easier and cheaper – but my husband and I are both adopted, so we CHOSE to adopt. It certainly seems like that was a similar situation in this couples’ case.
I just have to think that the author is only egging this on to get more traffic to the site. If not, I will just pray for you that you can see that no matter how the child arrived in their life, the parents certainly want this child and seem very happy.
This is one of the most uneducated views I have ever read. What do you think would happen to all of these children if they weren’t adopted?
FYI, HG, 80% of the children in the US foster care system are unadoptable because the main goal is reuniting the children with their birth families. Most of the other 20% are older children with severe issues.
I have to go now…time to go to Walmart and pick out my next kid, I hope they still have them stocked next to the cabbage patch kids. Oh yeah, since it is coming from Walmart is will probably be an “Asian baby”…sounds good to me.
You are a racist, uneducated pig! You have taken a beautiful thing and turned it into filth so that you can get a couple of new readers but will end up losing alot instead. This is not even about Katherine anymore, it’s about some peoples’ ignorance and lack of education on the subject.
Go get educated on adoption.
Buying babies happens all over the world, especially in countries outside the United States, which is why rich people, like celebrities don’t even try to find a baby in the United States. You can talk about “getting educated on adoption,” and “celebrating adoption,” all you want, but trying to deny the very real crime of buying and selling babies, and children, isn’t going to help those babies or children. Why aren’t you adoption fanatics more interested in protecting the children, rather than trying to cover up the baby buying? Maybe it’s because you have all done it yourself, so shame on me for talking about how bad it is to buy another human being.
Yes, you are correct that babies are illegally sold in other countries, but you CANNOT be that ignorant to think that it doesn’t happen here in the United States. This is one of the MAIN reasons that we chose NOT to adopt in the US. Corroption HERE is more so than in the country where we adopted. People OPENLY pay birth mothers medical and living expenses here in the US only to be left at the end with NO child and NO money when the birth mother changes her mind.
Our son’s birth mother contacted a “contact person” in the country (not Korea). She selected to seek out adoption as her option. Once she did so, she had to appear in court, be counseled, meet and be represented by HER OWN lawyer and social worker and appear in court again. All of these appearances UNDER OATH she had to state if she was being coersed to give up her child.. was her child being give willingly, etc. She was represented by her own counsel. Throughout the process, TWO DNA tests were preformed where an AMERICAN EMBASSY offical met with her to make sure she was comfortable and not being threatened in ANY WAY. There is NO WAY the US would want to be involved with a baby trafficking scandal. Feel free to educate yourself of the Hauge Treaty and compliance. She had to hold my son twice for the photos for the dna. At ANY TIME the adoption would have been halted if she seemed at all uneasy… it happened in MANY cases of my friends initial referrals.
If you are faulting this actress (whom I am not even a fan) and her husband for baby stealing, that is a bold accusation. I can only speak for myself that I personally DID educate myself on human traffiking/baby stealing and corruption and if there was a sliver of doubt in my mind, I would NOT have followed through. I am sure that my son was giving willingly by a mother who just could not raise him.
It is funny how I see that comments are deleted for those who really “slam” your opinion or your blog. Back up your opinion with facts, and I will respect you more.
I didn’t say “steal” I said “buy.” When there is money involved, as I’m sure there was for the mother of your son, there is no way to be sure she was “willing” or “had” to give up her child to survive.
Like I said: What would happen to these kids if they weren’t adopted?
You seem to be talking out of your $$. Definitely this is all for shock value.
Yes, I have adopted and my two kids are in the background, as I type, singing along to Sesame Street and building airplanes out of legos for Mommy. If I didn’t adopt them and/or they weren’t adoptable, they would more than likely be dead right now…how do you like that?
If you’re kids are in the background maybe you should refrain from profanity in your comments. It’s a bad habit to break when they get old enough to read.
Comparing a child’s future to either death or adoption sounds like a potential parent’s qualifications don’t have to be much to take the kids home, and by home I mean not a death camp.
You are probably a great mom, and are probably providing a great home for the kids, so we’ll just assume the kids are better off with you than dead.
Maybe you should refrain from typing…period.
HG – Are you assuming that ALL adoptions are corrupt and wrong due to money exchanging hands…this is what I am reading…or is it just the International adoptions?
Yes, you are correct, money exchanged hands. That does not mean babies are being “bought” in the sense you are inferring. Money does exchange hands in the United States AND the country which we adopted. It does when ANYONE adopts. It does when people do foster care, so we definetly should stop that, because in your logic, that is “renting” kids. We REALLY should stop infertility treatments, since money certainly exchanges hands there (again, your logic). While we are at it, when mothers get pregnant, money certainly should not be given to doctors, so they should just go back to having the kids at home with no prenatal medical care.
What I paid for were SERVICES from my attorney and services for paperwork… for medical care for the birth mother…for transportation of MY child – and for child care in the foster system for my son until we were “allowed” to care for him…just like people who get pregnant and pay for services for THEIR doctor, they pay the government for servives (social security, birth certificate – ie paperwork fees), etc.
Yes, I agree, there IS corruption. There is corruption in ALL things. There is baby “buying.” However, to take the LEAP – and I feel it is a LEAP and a MAJOR overgeneralization – to say that ALL adoptions – or more specifically all INTERNATIONAL adoptions are babies being “bought” without the mothers’ desire to “give their child up” is an ignorant opinion. In legal international adoptions there are MORE safegaurds to insure that babies are being given willingly and WITHOUT payment to the birth mother. In the United States, adoptive parents OPENLY pay the birth mothers for their services…as do surrogates. Our birth mother got her medical bills and transportation paid for. period.
I love my son. I am a good mother. In the United States, he will have more opportunities finacially than he would have where he was born, especially if she would have selected to raise him. That doesn’t mean for a second he would have been without love. My son’s birth mother loved him enough to know that she would not be able to care for him financially; to the point she would not be able to FEED or DRESS him. This may have eventually led to his death… or a life in utter and extreme poverty and lack of education. I will honor his birth mother’s wishes to raise him with everything he could possibly need, and remind him of her love for him. She stated all of this in sworn testimony…
in front of a judge.
twice.
then in front of a US Embassy offical.
while holding her son.
twice.
I can’t imagine why she would have said those things and done those things without TRULY wanting to – especially since no one paid her.
First of all, I am not a Heigl fanatic. I am an adoption advocate. I’d love to educate you on the process it takes to adopt a child, internationally or domestic. But the fact is, your small minds will not allow you to see the positive side of this. I’d love to see you both adopt a special needs child, and see how lazy you feel. Adoption is not like going car shopping-picking out make, model, and year. There is NO buying of a child. Please, please stop using that kind of negative language.
Andrea, only people with small narrow minds that can’t see other people’s point-of-view talk about other people having small minds. You might think you are smarter than everyone else because you think you know all there is about adoption, but you only really know what you want to know, and fight anyone who tries to expand your view on the subject. There is something called reality, its all around you, and no matter how much you try to shout down other people’s views, the reality of their view remains. People buy children all the time and call it adoption. Perhaps you should do a little light reading on the subject, because ignoring these facts only keeps this crime from being stopped.
So apparently as an adoptive parent myself, I am not educated on the topic of international adoption. Riiiiight. And because I am trying to open your eyes on how adoption should be celebrated, and not called “baby buying” I am the small minded one. Gotcha. Thanks for setting me straight on that one.
You’re just feeling guilty because we all know you bought your baby from Korea like other people have.
You’re an @ss.
Its a selfless thing to do to adopt a child. Its not an easy way out. A lot of people can’t get over the fact that the child is not their flesh and blood.
Yes it is an expensive process but i’m almost certain that the children who are adopted would not have had as good a life otherwise.
For example the places that Madonna have adopted from are relatively poor 3rd world countries and the kids might not have even survived if not for adoption.
As for Katherine to have adopted a child with a disability shows a big act of selflessness because not many people would have done that. Children with special needs require much more attention and yes maybe she will have a nanny but the fact is the child will be getting the help she needs.
Wrong “Jillian.” Heigl said they started the process 6 months ago. Do your research like “Mandy” does.
I agree with HG. You have money, they sell you a kid faster. Plus the chick is on a TV show and doing made for cheese movies, when will she have time to raise a kid? I’ll bet her doesn’t get played on the radio husband will.
View the Ellen interview on Youtube before you attempt to “correct” me, Emma. Heigl clearly states they began the process a year ago. They were notified about, Naleigh, specifically six months ago.
Heigl Superfan!
Wrong again, HG. Katherine Heigl did ONE interview, on Ellen, before her daughter arrived. During that interview she explained she and her husband began the adoption process over a year ago. In fact, they expected the process to take even longer–several years–but the child they were matched with has special needs, so the process was fast-tracked. Adopting a child isn’t like ordering a pizza; it’s a lengthy and detailed process, no matter how much money you have. As for the photoshoot(s)? Again, there has been ONE. And if you take a look at the photograph’s credits, you’ll note they were taken by Cheyenne Ellis, a close friend of Katherine’s (and bridesmaid at her wedding). Also notice where Katherine released the photos: on her non-profit foundation’s website. She didn’t sell them for hundreds of thousands of dollars to a celebrity rag like many celebrities do.
Spin this anyway you like, HG, but the facts speak for themselves. It’s a shame your cynicism prevents you from accepting them.
Its nice seeing the Heigl fanatics out in full force. What’s up Mel aka Mandy? You always do your Heigl research, in fact you could write a book about her.
The kid is 10 months old, not six. And Heigl did say she wasn’t too keen on getting pregnant, with gaining weight and all. She probably can’t get preggers, with all that dieting and pill popping.
Adoption has always been important to Katherine. Her sister is Korean and was adopted by her parents in the 70’s and she wanted to adopt for this reason. The couple began the process well over a year ago and were not expecting to get the child as quickly as they did because it normally takes longer. However, the process went more quickly because they chose to adopt a special needs child – which is incredibly selfless thing to do. You should also know that Katherine no longer smokes – she said in an interview she quit in July and this has been reported widely. She fully intends to also have children of her own but it is a wonderful thing that she and her husband have done. Your comments show complete ignorance. For example, Heigl gave an interview on Ellen to announce she had adopted. They released photographs on her charity web site. That was it. The reason for this was to avoid the paparazzi who follow her everywhere trying to get the world exclusive pic of the baby. When she went shopping recently and purchased a stroller there were 50 cameras following her. She said on Ellen she did not want to expose the baby to that kind of thing. She said whilst she had signed up to it her child had not. If you also take time to look at some of the paparazzi pics on the set of her movie you will see Katherine tending for her child not a nanny. I am sure like every working parents the couple will have carers during the times that they are working. Your comments show ignorance and a complete lack of research into what has happened.
Calling adoption “lazy” is ignorant, plain and simple.
No one is saying “adoption” is lazy. Katherine is lazy for using her money and celebrity to obtain a child from another country like so many other celebrities do. She probably just told her lawyer to arrange it, and a few months later UPS delivered her baby into the waiting arms of Katherine’s nanny, who called Katherine on her smoke break on the set to let her know the baby arrived. Katherine’s publicist then setup a lot of photo shoots, and Katherine is doing a lot of interviews about her new baby, all to get herself publicity. We’ll see how much time Katherine spends with the baby as she gets older, or if the nanny spends more time being mommy, like with so many other lazy celebrities who think they are great parents because they have a nanny doing all their parenting.
First of all, who says she won’t have a biological child at some point? I know it’s hard for your small mind to grasp, but there are families who choose adoption first, not as the “back up plan” that many portray it to be.
And BTW, the little girl is 6 months old, so I seriously doubt she’s on solid foods. And she’s special needs, which can expedite the process, no matter who the parent is. Often times these children are not considered for in-country adoption because of their special needs. The transition of an adopted child, even at 6 months is difficult-it’s like having a newborn. So please, before you make small minded comments, make sure you understand what you’re talking about.
As an adoptive parent, your comments are EXTREMELY insulting and small minded. TOO LAZY? Seriously-the adoption process is difficult and tumultuous AT BEST. Lazy is NOT a word I’d use to describe international adoption or ANY adoption for that matter.
I realize that you’re just trying to be witty, but you come off as small minded and just pathetic. The fact that she and her husband chose to adopt should be CELEBRATED. Period-end of story.
Why couldn’t Katherine do both, have her own child and adopt? FYI, international adoption isn’t so hard if you have enough money, and representatives handling all the details. Giving birth naturally, and trying to get your body back in shape, plus breast feeding, and all that is a lot of work. This baby probably already eats solid food, and has a nanny caring for her while Katherine spends her day working.
You are making all the assumptions, and putting words in my mouth.
You have made my point in detail about your own adoption. In your case, if I am understanding what your wrote, the mother was too poor to care for her son, so rather than financially support the mother so she can care for her son, you took the son from his biological mother to raise as your own, and as a result, the mother, and child, should be grateful to you for saving the day.
As I have said about celebrities, the family should be given the money to raise their own child in their own home. After the child grows up some nice American like yourself can try to help them get into the United States so they can have more opportunities, if they want to come to America, but it should be the child’s difficult choice, since they would be leaving their family behind. Through adoption, the child has no choice, and because of poverty, the parents don’t feel they have a choice either.
What I would suggest to you is to make sure your adopted child knows his biological parents, and his culture, as he grows into adulthood.