Broadway Star Celebrates Adoption Anniversary: ‘Forever Grateful’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Kristin Chenoweth recently celebrated an important anniversary with her parents.
“Y’all might already know… but in my family we celebrated two birthdays,” she posted on Instagram. “My true birthday (the 24th) and then my GOTCHA DAY! Which is today… the 29th. It’s the day my parents adopted me. The day I became a Chenoweth. Gotcha days aren’t only for dogs, people!!!”
Chenoweth continued, “I’m forever grateful to my parents for bringing me into their home 56 years ago today. This life they’ve blessed me with is one I do not take for granted. I love you, mom and dad!!”
The Broadway actress has previously shared details about her adoption, saying, “I have two families and both of them, the biological family and the family that raised me made me who I am.”
Chenoweth reconnected with her birth mother in 2012. Movieguide® previously reported:
Chenoweth has often talked about her adoption story and said during a TODAY show interview that her adoptive parents never kept her adoption a secret.
“They always said, ‘The lady that had you in her belly could not take care of you the way she wanted to, and she loved you so much,’” she explained.
She also spoke about what it was like to meet Lynn for the first time.
“I met her and I walked in the room and she went, ‘It’s you?!’ And I said hi and it was just like looking in the mirror,” Chenoweth shared. “Also she said, ‘I hope you can forgive me’ and I said, ‘You gave me life and Junie Chenoweth, my mom, gave me a life. I have nothing but gratitude and love to you.’”
“I can honestly say being adopted was one of the best things to ever happen to me,” Chenoweth wrote in a 2017 op-ed. “It was never something that was hidden from me and it is not something I have ever been ashamed of. I recognize how fortunate I am to have parents who love and support me unconditionally. The fact that they are not my biological parents does not change the fact that they are simply, my parents.”
She continued, “Not everyone can say that, but I count myself lucky to have a birth mother who loved me enough to know she wasn’t ready to be a mom. I’m lucky that I have wonderful parents who chose me. I often say adoption is a full-circle blessing and I truly believe it,” she added. “Adopted children were not abandoned, we were chosen.”
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