News January 20, 2022
Tiffany Haddish Shares an Update on Her Adoption Plans!
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Tiffany Haddish is hopeful she will one day become an adoptive parent!
In an interview with an entertainment news show on Wednesday, the “Girls Trip” star — who was placed in foster care as a child — gave an update on her plans to adopt.
“I just went to Africa. I was just in Eritrea, and people were trying to give me their kids,” the actress said. “I was like, ‘Hold up now, I gotta get the paperwork right now. I can’t just be taking kids with me.’”
Though the funny lady says she is unable to adopt at the moment, she will hopefully take those steps “maybe at the end of the year, beginning of next year.”
In a May interview, Haddish explained why she will unlikely use a surrogate to carry a baby.
“I don’t wanna pay nobody to carry my baby neither, ’cause then I have to go through a process of giving myself injections and all that stuff,” she said. “And I already gave up — here goes something everybody don’t know, I’m gonna tell you: When I was 21 I was really hard up for some money and I gave up a bunch of eggs.”
“So who knows,” she continued, “I might got some kids out here in these streets. I doubt it, though, because I never got the bonus. Maybe somewhere though, in cryo somewhere!”
During the same interview, Haddish said she was enrolled in parenting classes at the time and hopes to adopt kids ages “5 and up — really like 7.”
“I want them to be able to know how to use the restroom on their own and talk. I want them to know that I put in the work and [that] I wanted them.”
While appearing on Carmelo Anthony’s “What’s in Your Glass” YouTube series in July 2020, Haddish revealed how racism has prevented her from having her own biological children.
“There’s a part of me that would like to [become a mother], and I always make up these excuses like, ‘Oh, I need a million dollars in the bank before I do that, I need this, I need that.’ But really, it’s like, I would hate to give birth to someone that looks like me knowing that they’re gonna be hunted or killed,” she said through tears. “Like, why would I put someone through that?
“And white people don’t have to think about that, that’s something they don’t have to think about,” Haddish continued.
“It’s time to talk about that, and how we have to come together as a community and work as a unit. And maybe we don’t all agree on the same things, but we need to just find some common ground and move forward as human beings.”
