Celebrities you didn't know have adopted kids

Family does not have to be someone who is related to you by blood.

• Different people adopt for different reasons them among them infertility, love for big families, humanity and wanting to give a home to orphaned kids.

Bahati's adopted son Morgan is a candidate
Bahati's adopted son Morgan is a candidate
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Most people would want to be parents, but not everyone as the privilege to be.

Some couples battle infertility among other medical problems while others intentionally decide not to be parents.

Such couples might opt to adopt kids.

There are also instances of relatives who decide to adopt kids left behind by a loved one when he/she passes away.

Below are celebrities who have adopted kids. They indeed do have hearts of gold.

1. Bahati

The celebrated artiste has adopted son known to many as Morgan.

He adopted Morgan from a children's home in Mathare.

Morgan was two years then and Bahati had visited the children's home for a thanksgiving show only for the two-year-old Morgan to say he wanted to go with him.

2. Mike Sonko

The former Nairobi governor has 3 adopted kids.

The governor recently introduced a young lady he adopted after she became an opharn.

"This young girl Janet Kaingi joined our family at the age of 5 after being orphaned from Nzeluni Village in Mwingi, Kitui County." wrote Sonko

Sonko and wife Primrose made the decision to adopt her. Jane quickly fit into the Mbuvi family and now years later has graduated.

"She's lived with us as our adopted daughter since then, we have taken her through school and today my family wishes to celebrate her with a special..."

He also adopted Satrine and Gift Osinya.

The duo lost their mum during an attack at a Likoni church in 2014.

At the time Satrine was a toddler when his mum got shot, he ended up with a bullet in the head.

3. William Ruto

The Head of State has an adopted child. The daughter is known as Nadia Cherono.

4.Hugh Jackman

The celebrated actor and his wife have two adopted kids.

The decision was reached after the actor's wife Deborra-Lee Furness had two miscarriages.

5. Angelina Jolie

This list would not be complete without Angelina Jolie.

 Jolie and her ex-husband Brad Pitt share three adoptive children: Maddox (born in 2001), Pax (born in 2003) and Zahara (born in 2005). "

6. Madonna

The Material Girl adopted David Banda in 2006 and Mercy James in 2009, followed by twins Esterre and Stella in 2017, all from Malawi.

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