I didn't ever really think much about celebrities adopting until reading this article about a pair of comedians. While I do think that some celebrities (and, ahem, politicians) have skip-hopped their way around certain protocol and that others could be more educated when it comes to how they discuss adoption with the media, I'm not particularly one to call out celebrities who adopt.

And then I read this line:

She also had to take out an injunction to stop her biographer revealing the identity of Billie's birth mother. That, she says firmly, is Billie's business when she is 18.

Yikes! As of yet, I'm not uber-famous and I, therefore, don't have a biographer following me around and writing my life story. (After all, I'm a writer. I'll write my own story!) I wonder, then, if other celebrities have had to face this kind of issue with their biographers. Or the paparazzi. Or sleazy tabloids. Or journalists in general. I mean, what a story to break! Imagine the headlines if this little blogger found out the identities of the birth parents to Angelina and Brad's kids! They're lucky I don't have such time! (Or desire.)

Of course, at the same time, my initial thoughts jump to, "Really? 18? Why?" I understand that open adoptions aren't for every family. Perhaps this adoption scenario is one in which ongoing contact throughout childhood wasn't a wise choice. And the article doesn't answer my question. And now I want to research! And tell the world. Well, maybe not the world. Maybe just Billie. Because despite an open relationship or not, I just don't believe in a sudden revelation of adoption knowledge or names. Maybe they do. Maybe Billie doesn't. Who knows.

All in all, I can't help but wonder how many other celebrities have had their privacy breached in that manner. Certainly this celebrity adoptive mom can't be the only one who has had to fight for how they handled their child's adoption story and information. I wonder, too, for the (few) celebrity birth parents, how issues on the flip side were handled. Interesting topic indeed!

What about you? If you were a famous adoptive parent or a famous birth parent, how would you handle this issue with regard to how your current adoption is going? I think this would be especially touchy for families with open adoptions (which we've yet to see in celebrity-land).