Actress Sandra Bullock on Being an Adoptive Mom: It’s ‘My Purpose’

By Kelli
Live Action News

Actress, adoptive parent, and single mom Sandra Bullock opened up recently to TODAY’s Hoda Kotb, a fellow adoptive mother, explaining how becoming a mother made her realize that it was not her career as an actress that gave her purpose in life, but her children.

“It’s just like being a mom, I finally realize, ‘Oh, this is what I was supposed to do when I grew up,” she said. “Not be an actress; to be a mom. … This is my purpose.”

Bullock, 51, adopted her children when she was in her 40s. Son Louis (8) was adopted as an infant in 2010, and daughter, Laila (5) was adopted in 2015 at age 3 1/2 after being in foster care. Bullock told Hoda Hotb that her priorities in life are “my kids, my kids, my kids. My family. My family. That’s it,” adding that she doesn’t work as much anymore because her family is what’s most important, and she wants to be there for her children’s big moments.

Bullock says that for a while, she felt as if her time for children had passed.

“Then [Hurricane] Katrina happened,” she said emotionally. “Katrina happened in New Orleans, and I knew. Something told me that my child was there. It was weird.”

“It was… I mean, three, four years later,” after filling out adoption paperwork, that Louis came into Bullock’s life. “… I looked at (Louis), and I just said, ‘Oh, there you are.’ It’s like he had always been there. It’s like he fit in the crook of my arm. He looked me in the eyes, and he was just — he was wise. My child was wise. The beautiful thing that I was constantly told was, ‘The perfect child will find you. You will find your child.'”

Hoda Kotb told Bullock that it was her story that gave her hope to become an adoptive mother herself.

“I was trying to figure out, like, did I miss my window? Am I too late? Should I have … a bunch of woulda-coulda’s. And all the sudden, I Googled you,” Kotb said. “… [Y]ou don’t even know who you inspired. You know because I told you, but how many other people looked up and saw you?”

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