6 d. ago Chilling but true story behind Disney's Good American Family

Disney's Good American Family portrays the chilling story of orphan Natalia Grace, adopted by Kristine and Michael Barnett who later claimed she was an adult posing as a child

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6 d. ago Natalia Grace's boyfriend who helped her escape from 'terrifying' adoptive family

Natalia Grace, the Ukrainian orphan whose story inspired new Hulu drama Good American Family, has shared how she fell in love with a man over Facebook, who helped her plot to escape her adoptive parents

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8 d. ago The dark true story behind Disney+ series Good American Family: Couple adopted a Ukrainian orphan

Natalia's unique story has now inspired Disney+ series Good American Family, which airs in the UK from Monday.

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1 week ago 'I was forced to adopt my own biological twins after cancer agony

After welcoming twins via surrogacy, breast cancer survivor Tammy Myers and her husband Jordan endured a gruelling two-year battle to be recognised as the legal parents of their own biological children

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3 w. ago Good American Family review – the strange case of Natalia Grace

Ellen Pompeo plays a mother disturbed by her adopted daughter in a mostly entertaining limited series based on the tabloid sagaThere remains unending interest in the bizarre story of Natalia Grace, the Ukrainian girl adopted by an American family who then claimed she was actually an adult. The saga starts in 2010 but a similar tale had already been told in 2009’s Orphan, a horror film hinged on a similar twist, itself inspired by the real case of the Estonian impostor Barbora Skrlová. It’s the ghoulish stuff of nightmare, shocking enough to turn Orphan into an unlikely franchise (the second was released in 2022, the third now in the works) and Grace into a tabloid sensation and, easily vilified, hate figure.But the lurid People.com headlines only told half of the story or barely a third as it turns out, an unfolding series of revelations soon starting to show that things were not what they appeared to be. After a popular, and even more revelatory, docuseries, we now have the inevita...

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4 w. ago George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father

The literary giant’s only child reflects on his father’s devotion in their days together in rural Scotland, his early death, his genius as a writer – and his reputation as a womaniserRichard Blair didn’t have the easiest start in life. At three weeks old, he was adopted. Nine months later, his adoptive mother, Eileen, died at 39, after an allergic reaction to the anaesthetic she was given for a hysterectomy. Family and friends expected Blair’s father, Eric, to un-adopt him. Fortunately, Eric, better known as George Orwell, was an unusually hands-on dad for the 1940s.Orwell and Eileen had wanted children for years, but he was sterile and it is likely that she was infertile as a result of uterine cancer. Having finally agreed to adopt after their struggle, Orwell was not going to give up on his son. “The thing he wanted most in life was to have children,” says Blair. “And now I was his family.” Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Britain's 'most unwanted dog' who became the RSPCA's longest

Last month, Mia, a Dutch Shepherd who had spent nearly her entire life at the RSPCA, was finally adopted by a loving family in North Yorkshire.

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