Connie Britton is opening up about her decision to pursue adoption as single mom.
If you were unaware, the 58-year-old Friday Night Lights actress adopted son Yoby, now, 14, from Ethiopia in 2011 after previously traveling to the country in the early 2000s for a documentary about Ethiopia’s orphan population.
In a new interview, Connie explained why she pursued adoption as a single mom.
Keep reading to find out more…“I always wanted to be a mom,” Connie recalled to Parade. “I thought that maybe I would have a biological child first, perhaps. I didn’t know.”
However, there came a moment when Connie, who was single at the time, asked herself, “What am I waiting for?” She has been dating boyfriend David Windsor since 2019.
“I know that I hadn’t achieved the kind of partnership that I was looking for to have a spouse and a child together,” Connie explained. “And so I thought, ‘This is the time, I’m going to start the adoption process.’”
While talking about becoming a mother, the American Horror Story alum said that she “went into [that chapter of my life] a little bit blindly, not really fully anticipating what it is to be a single mom and how difficult that is, and what you’re taking on in doing that.”
“I had a stay-at-home nanny. So I realized, ‘Oh my gosh, at least I have help,’” she added of being a single mom.
Connie is now focusing on the topic of motherhood in her new Hallmark Channel unscripted series, The Motherhood, which she created and executive produced. In the series, Connie teams up home design specialist, a parenting coach and a stylist who will help single moms improve their lives.
“I hope that it will change the narrative about single moms, and actually put single moms more in the forefront of our cultural understanding and our cultural empathy,” Connie said of her new show.
“Because we all know and have been inspired by single moms,” she continued, “and I really want to lift them up and give them the respect, dignity and understanding that they deserve.”
Back in 2023, Connie shared some rare comments about David and revealed how they met.
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