Connie Britton has adopted a baby boy from Africa! This news simultaneously thrills and depresses me.
After a three-year long adoption process, the actress’s dream of motherhood came true about a week ago, after she returned from the African country with her son Yoby — a nickname for Eyob, his given name.
“I am thanking my lucky stars every day,” Britton, 44, tells PEOPLE.The day she first held her son in her arms was a moment the new mom will never forget.
“It was such a wonderful moment of completion,” she recalls. “I thought I was going to collapse into a puddle of tears. I was just grinning from ear to ear.”
I feel like this almost deserves a “y’all,” but I love English far too much to do that. This is very sweet, and I’m sure she will be a great mother, but I have wanted her to adopt me ever since she gave birth to the alien baby on Friday Night Lights.
I would have been such a good addition to that family.
Clear eyes, full hearts.
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