Heartbreaking Decisions: Stars Who Gave their Children Up for Adoption

Mercedes Ruehl

Mercedes Ruehl’s fans know that she won an Oscar, but it’s less commonly known that she put her son up for adoption in 1976. She was 28-years-old at the time, and she claimed that she was neither emotionally developed or economically capable enough to raise a child. She was reunited with her son Christopher when he turned 21, and she actually adopted a child of her own in 1995.