7 Celebrities Who Didn't Know They Were Adopted

More information than ever before is available about our favorite celebrities because of the widespread use of social media, magazine covers, and television interviews. That is to say: prior to Instagram, getting a glimpse of your favorite actor's ultra-private Las Vegas wedding was a bit of a challenge.
But this open-door philosophy has also allowed famous people to talk about their upbringings, relationships, and fashion choices. This includes, for some, accounts of adoption. Some of the most famous people in the world, including actresses, athletes, and tech moguls, have opened up about the significance of adoption in their life. Here are Celebrities don't know they're adopted. These Celebrities don't know they're adopted.

1. Jamie Foxx

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Foxx, whose birth name was Eric Marlon Bishop, was adopted by the biological parents of his mother. On the show Beat Shazam: he discussed his adoption "What's truly incredible? As a baby of seven months, I was adopted... That woman I call grandma [Esther Marie] isn't even related to me! She made certain that I had access to everything I required for development and expansion."

2. Jordan Fisher

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Born to a teenage woman who was declared "not fit to have a kid," Jordan Fisher, an actor, and dancer who recently joined the cast of To All The Boys, was adopted by his maternal grandparents. Fisher, who was adopted, told People, "It's because of their unrelenting, unconditional support and love I'm able to have the life that I have now and accomplish all I love to do."

3. Keegan-Michael Key

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Keegan-Michael Key is a comedian who was adopted as a baby but found his birth mother when he was 25. Telling Chicago Now, he said: "After a long search, I finally located my birth mother in 1996. A very special person chose me and adopted me. It had always been a goal of mine to track her down. My parents have always told me, "That's a possibility for you." I wasn't able to meet her till I was 25. For me, that was a life-changing event that I never saw coming."

4. Skrillex

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Skrillex (born Sonny Moore) found out he was adopted by a friend of his birth parents when he was 15 years old. There were rumors that he was astonished to learn that his biological mother had been visiting as a "friend" all this time, when in fact he had no knowledge.

5. Steve Jobs

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Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents 1,000%," as Jobs put it, because his real parents had him outside of marriage and came from different religious and cultural backgrounds.

6. Marilyn Monroe

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At an early age, Monroe, then known as Norma Jeane Mortenson, was taken into foster care because her mother could not afford to take care of her. Despite the fact that she was adopted by a mother's friend, she stayed in foster care until she was a teenager.

7. Debbie Harry

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Harry, who was abandoned when she was just a few months old, had talked publicly about experiencing a "identity crisis" upon learning she was adopted when she was four years old.