Sandra Bullock couldn’t help but be overcome with emotion as she discussed adopting her two children in a new Today show interview.
The actress sat down with Hoda Kotb for an interview that will air on Monday, June 4, and a teaser clip shows the two adoptive mothers, who are both 53, emotionally discussing their kids.
Sandra, speaking about loving her eight-year-old son Louis and six-year-old daughter Laila, seemed unprepared for how quickly the moment overwhelmed her as she worked hard to fight back tears.
Emotional: Sandra Bullock got choked up as she talked about loving her kids in a new Today show interview
And ever: Her voice caught in her throat as she discussed being a ‘forever parent’
The short clip is juts a teaser for the full interview to come, which will include discussion of her kids and her latest film, Ocean’s 8.
In the video, she sits across from Hoda Kotb, who has adopted a daughter of her own named Haley Joy. Hoda has also spoken out frequently about adoption and even wrote a book about it.
‘There are hundreds of thousands of children that are ready to be your child. You’re a forever parent the minute you accept the love of that child,’ Sandra says, tearing up and pausing to speak as her voice catches.
‘And it’s amazing to me how we can take away people’s happiness by telling them this is the box you have to stay in. There is no box,’ she goes on.
Sandra adopted Louis in 2010, finalizing the move as she divorced her cheating ex-husband, Jesse James. In late 2015, she adopted a daughter named Laila, who was three-and-a-half at the time.
See it later… The full segment will air on Monday, June 4
Next up: The duo talk about kids and Sandra’s upcoming film Ocean’s 8
Mom bond: Hoda also adopted her little girl, Haley Joy
‘There are hundreds of thousands of children that are ready to be your child. You’re a forever parent the minute you accept the love of that child,’ she said
‘And it’s amazing to me how we can take away people’s happiness by telling them this is the box you have to stay in. There is no box,’ she added
The doting mom mostly keeps Louis, now eight, and Laila, six, out of the public eye, which hasn’t been easy. She told InStyle recently, ‘I had to figure out how to hide the kids’ faces because there was a bounty on our heads.
‘When you adopt a child, there’s a placement period, and if something goes sideways, they have the right to take the child away. It’s a tenuous, strenuous six months.
‘We had an allergy scare that sent us to the ER, and we were followed by the paparazzi, so the word was out that I had another child. And everyone wanted photos. It was heartbreaking,’ she went on.
‘Louis would hear a helicopter or drone, and he’d run to get his sister and drag her across the lawn and hide her under the trampoline. So poor Laila had PTSD. But it took the bounty off once we did those official photos.’
Protective: Sandra typically hides the faces of her two kids
She has also been speaking lately about characterizing adopted children as such. When speaking about how many children are in foster care and looking for homes, she got emotional once again.
‘Look: I’m all for Republican, Democrat, whatever, but don’t talk to me about what I can or can’t do with my body until you’ve taken care of every child who doesn’t have a home or is neglected or abused,’ she said.
‘It makes me teary-eyed. Let’s all just refer to these kids as “our kids.” Don’t say “my adopted child.” No one calls their kid their “IVF child” or their “oh, s***, I went to a bar and got knocked-up child.” Let just say, “our children.”