Actress Sandra Bullock talked about race and adoption during an episode of Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smith. During her appearance, the Bird Box star opened up about what it's like raising her two adopted Black children as a white mom.
Sandra admitted she wishes things were different sometimes
During the episode of Jada's Facebook Watch show, fans got an insight into some of the struggles Sandra said she's faced as a white mother to two Black children. In 2010, the actress revealed that she had adopted her first child, a boy named Louis, when he was just under 4 months old. In 2015, she adopted her daughter, Laila.
Sandra said that things would be easier if she and her children had the same skin color
It sounds like Sandra wishes that she and her children looked more alike.
"To say that I wish our skins matched, sometimes I do," she explained. "Because then it would be easier on how people approach us. And I have the same feelings as a woman with brown skin and it being her babies or a white woman with white babies."
Sandra waited until she was 45 to become a mom
The actress waited a long time for her children to enter her life, and it's clear that she loves them very much. But it does sound like she thinks things would be easier for her son and daughter when they are out in public if strangers could immediately identify them as family.
Jada's daughter and cohost, Willow Smith, was quick to chime in with her opinion
While Sandra might feel like her family's different skin colors sometimes separate them, Willow offered her take on the matter. "It's the mother-child dynamic," she explained. "There is no color."
"Maybe one day that will go away," Sandra responded. "Maybe one day we will be able to see with different eyes."
Sandra may wish some things were different, but it sounds like she doesn't have many complaints as a mom
All things considered, it seems like Sandra knows just how lucky she is that these specific two kids call her mom. "I love who they are," she said. "Every day I get to see who they are. I am one of the lucky individuals who gets to be around my children all the time and see who they get to grow up and be. And who they're growing up to be, I couldn't be more proud of."
We can't imagine anything more wonderful than getting to watch our children grow and loving the people they're turning into.
