Catch this new celebrity adoption story. Jodi Applegate, 44, an anchor on the New York City Fox News affiliate believed that she was an adoptee for a good portion of her adult life. After her mother passed away her aunt told her the truth. She was not adopted. It seems that Applegate's mother became pregnant in 1963 and moved away from family and friends. After giving birth to her baby girl, she placed the child in a Pittsburgh foster home for 8 months. She later returned, retrieved her daughter and moved back home to West Virginia announcing that she had adopted the little girl.

Wow. I thought that was a new one, but then I found this next similar story.

Academy Award-winning actress Loretta Young gave birth to the love child of Clark Gable in 1935. She placed the infant in an orphange and later returned and adopted the baby girl, according to The Associated Press.

You know, didn't Moses' mom do kind of the same thing? I guess it is true. There is nothing new under the sun.

I "get" why these ladies lied. They wanted to avoid the stigma of being pregnant outside of marriage. But why not tell their children the truth? And along that same line, what makes telling one's child that he or she is adopted so difficult?

This is an interesting article and seems to be backwards and upside down to me as we usually hear of parents not telling their children that they are adopted. But, the serious side of all of this is how traumatizing lying to one's child can be. The aftermath of such news can be the very end of the parent/child relationship.

We hear how many adoptees just "know" that they are adopted or feel out of place in their family. I wonder if Applegate just "knew" that she was not adopted?

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SOURCE:
When Parents Lie About Adoption - ABCNews.com

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