Famous Celebrities You Had No Idea Were Adopted

Rachel Crow

Rachel had a tough childhood, growing up with a birth mother who raised Rachel in a crack house for a time. Barbara Crow, adopted the child a year after she was placed with them at only 6 months old. Rachel once said of her parentage in an interview, "I have two amazing parents already... It is crazy because everybody is like, 'She's not your real mom.' And I am like 'Yeah, she is!'"

Babe Ruth

Not much is known about the origins of this famous ballplayer, but one thing is for certain. When he was seven he was sent to live in an orphanage, despite having lived with his parents up until that point. He was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys. The orphanage doubled as a reform school, so it's believed that Ruth's troubled delinquency led him to some more extreme repercussions for his actions. 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.