Famous Celebrities You Had No Idea Were Adopted

Colin Kaepernick

In another timeline, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback could have been playing for the Green Bay Packers. He was adopted in 1987 by his parents Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, who had lost two sons at birth to congenital heart failure. He was only five weeks old at the time. He was previously born to a nineteen-year-old Heidi Russo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has never met his birth mother and does not know the identity of his birth father. 

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi

She might have claimed to be a Jersey Shore girl, but Snooki was actually born in Santiago, Chile. At six months old, she was adopted by Helen and Andre Polizzi. The couple raised their little girl in Marlboro, New York. "I was always meant to be with my adoptive parents⁠," she said in her Youtube video, "which I hate saying adoptive parents because they're my parents, it's weird." She's always known about her status as an adopted child. 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.