Famous Celebrities You Had No Idea Were Adopted

Eleanor Roosevelt

Even Eleanor Roosevelt has a history with the adoption system. The First Lady was only 10 years old when she joined her two younger brothers who were put into the care of Mary Ludlow Hall, their grandmother.  They moved to Manhattan, New York to live with her after their mother died of diphtheria and her father passed two years later. 

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