Getty Images Sandra Bullock is a single mom to two kids, both of whom she welcomed via adoption. Louis joined the family in January 2010. Laila's adoption was finalized in December 2015. TheMiss Congenialityactress shared her children with her late partner, Bryan Randall, who passed away in 2023. Sandra Bullockis the proud single mom of her two children, Louis and Laila. The actress welcomed both kids via adoption in 2010 and 2015, respectively, and she's spoken openly about her experiences since then. "I don't know why that was the only route, but I'm so glad the universe had me wait," she said on a 2021 episode ofRed Table Talk. "Had me wait even though I was anxious and I was eager — and it went, 'Nope, you're not going to do it the way you think you're going to do it.'" Bullock also credits her late mom with playing a role in her journey to parenthood. TheTwo Weeks Noticeactress explained the connection in that sameRed Table Talkinterview. "The sweetest part of it is that I found out about both babies when I was in the exact same place," Bullock said. "I was in the place where my mother was buried: Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It makes me really emotional but ... I feel beyond a shadow of a doubt that my mother brought me these children." Getty Images Bullock gained a co-parent when she began dating her late partnerBryan Randallin 2015. The duo lovingly raised their children together until hepassed away in 2023following a battle with ALS. "I found the love of my life," Bullock oncesaid. "We share two beautiful children — three children, [with Randall's] older daughter. It's the best thing ever. He's the example that I would want my children to have." Bullockdescribesher family as "blended and diverse, nutty, and loving and understanding." Here's everything you should know about the Oscar-winning actress's two children, Louis and Laila. Bullock became a mom for the first time when she and her then-husbandJesse Jamesadopted 3.5-month-old Louis in January 2010. The mother-son duo appeared on the cover ofPeopleshortly thereafter. "He's just perfect, I can't even describe him any other way," the actress told the publication. "It's like he's always been a part of our lives." Bullock and James separated that same year. TheMiss Congenialitystar finalized the adoption as a single parent, perPeople. Louis was born in Louisiana, and Bullock later explained that she felt an intuitive connection to the state long before she met her son. "Katrina happened in New Orleans, and I knew — just something told me that my child was there," she told the hosts ofToday. "It was weird." Nowadays, Bullock describes Louis as a "crazy foodie" and a "mixologist." "There's a science of food that's happening, but everything is food-based for him," she toldPeople. Louis is also "super sensitive" according to theBullet Trainactress. "I call him my 78-year-old son," shejoked. "He's wise and kind. I saw that when they handed him to me. There was a spiritual bigness to him. I was like, 'I hope I don't eff that up.'" More recently, the single mom opened up about raising Black children as a white woman and the "existential anxiety" that comes with motherhood. "With Lou being a young Black man, at one point, sweet, funny Lou is going to be a young man, and the minute he leaves my home, I can't follow him everywhere. I will try. I'm joking, but I'm not," she said onRed Table Talk. "I let him see everything. I let him process it. He knows how the world works. He knows how cruel it is, he knows how unfair it is, and Laila knows." Bullock became a mom-of-two when she finalized the adoption of her daughter Laila in December 2015. Laila was three years old at the time and had spent the first part of her life in foster care. Louis, for his part, apparently "spearheaded the whole journey." "When I look at Laila, there's no doubt in my mind that she was supposed to be here," Bullock toldPeople. "I can tell you absolutely, the exact right children came to me at the exact right time." Bullock later opened up about dealing with Laila's "triggers" from her time in foster care. "I had my kids in my closet with their little beds because I was so afraid to not have them super close to me,"The Heatactress explained. "I would walk in and I wouldn't be able to find [Laila]. She'd be in the closet with all her clothes on, she'd be on a bookshelf, she'd be hiding, she'd always be ready to leave." Bullock continued, "My partner [Randall] said to me, 'When she's been with us longer than she hasn't been, I have a feeling we're going to see a change. You love by leaning in and hugging and holding and letting them know that they are not going anywhere." Getty Images In 2021, Bullock offered up her predictions for her daughter's future: "[Laila] is going to be President of the United States!" The proud mom jokinglyaddedthat she was "going to be at the White House" to do "some redecorating." TheBird Boxactress shared similarly high hopes for Laila back in 2018 during an interview withInStyle: "Oh my God, what she is going to accomplish," Bullock mused. "She's going to bring some real change." Read the original article onInStyle
