Famous Celebrities You Had No Idea Were Adopted

Daunte Culpepper

When his biological mom was serving time in prison, she had no idea that her pregnancy would become a future NFL legend. He was adopted by Emma Culpepper at just one day old. Culpepper was a giving woman, raising over 15 adoptees throughout her life. When she passed in 2007, Duante said in an interview, "It was the best thing that happened to me in my whole life. I never really had a man in my life. She was my mother and my father."

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