![]() ![]() ![]() At that age, she realized that there were kids who had no parents and at that time she knew she wanted to do something different. Her father remarried and so she grew up with a stepmother and half-siblings and so was open to having kids from different places.Īnother reason for her decision was her visit to Thailand and India when she was about 10 years old. One of them was the fact that she grew up with half-siblings after her mother died while she was still a toddler. Mariska Hargitay’s decision to adopt children stemmed from a couple of reasons. 2 years down the line, they took the romance off-set and got married on August 28, 2004, in Santa Barbara, California.Īmaya Josephine Hermann’s parents have been married for 14 years now. Law & Order: SVU actors, Hargitay and Hermann met on set of the series and played on-set couple. READ ALSO: Bronwyn Golden Vance: Angela Bassetts Daughter Is All Grown About Her Parent’s Marriage and Reason to Adopt Becoming a parent has changed her because it has made her a better parent and listener. Hargitay has severally admitted that her children are all different and she treats each differently. They even make it to industry events together as well as to fun places like Disney World. ![]() The family of 5 has made Mariska and Peter very happy as they have fulfilled their desire of raising a multi-racial family.Īmaya Josephine Hermann, her brothers, and her parents, though private about their personal activities, spend a lot of time together. The actors believed that Andrew was an angel that fell from the sky because of the way he was introduced into their lives. As soon as he was born, just 6 months after Josephine’s birth, Mariska and Peter received the call for his adoption. Her parents started looking to adopt another child as soon as they adopted Amaya.Īndrew Nicolas ( 11) was born in October 2011, prematurely. Miklos was Mariska’s late father’s name while the last name ‘Friedrich’ is the family surname.Ībout 6 months after Amaya’s birth, she welcomed a baby brother named Andrew Nicolas. ‘August’ the name has been part of his father’s family for centuries. He is the only biological child of American actors and was born when Hargitay was 42 years old. Her older brother is August Friedrich.Īugust Miklos Friedrich ( 17) was born on June 28, 2006, to Mariska and Peter. She has 2 Brothers – an Older and a YoungerĪ post shared by Mariska Hargitay was born and adopted 4 and a half years after her parent’s first child was born. Amaya fits that bill as she is of African-American descent.Īmaya Josephine is the only female child of the actors but she is not the first, neither is she the last child. She also mentioned that when she and Peter, decided on adoption, they wanted an interracial child. Hargitay gushes a lot about her only baby girl stating that she completed her family. However, she wanted her children to have uniform initials and so she added the ‘A’ to make Amaya. When it came to choosing a name for her, it wasn’t difficult as the American actress loved the name ‘Maya’. She was the one who pulled her first adopted daughter out of her mother.Īmaya’s 2 mothers, in their excitement, hugged and her biological mother stated that she knew the baby was meant to be with Mariska.Īccording to Mariska, Amaya was alert and full of love from birth, and the actress was overwhelmed with joy. The SVU actress was there when Amaya’s biological mother gave birth to her. A post shared by Mariska Hargitay week after Amaya Josephine was born, she became legally part of the Hermann family, on April 7, 2011. ![]()
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