var galleryData = [{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p><a href=\"/celeb/Elton-John\" name=\"&amp;lid=ArticleBodyLink\" class=\"assetlink\">Elton John<\/a>'s announced that he wants to adopt, after revealing that a Ukranian orphan had \"stolen my heart\".<br><br>\r\nSpeaking about 14-month-old Lev, he said: \"I would love to adopt him. I don't know how we do that but he has stolen my heart. And he has stolen David's heart and it would be wonderful if we can have a home.\"<\/p>","url":"2009/9/14/Elton-John-0909-1.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Elton John"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley are adopting a child, her rep has confirmed.<br><br>\r\nThe child, like Katherine's sister Meg, will be adopted from Korea, and is a ten-month-old girl they plan to name Nayleigh.<\/p>","url":"2009/8/24/Katherine-Heigl-and-Josh-Kelley-0809.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley 08.09"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Madonna has two adopted children, David Banda and Mercy James.<br><br>\r\nMads and Guy Ritchie caused controversy when they adopted David from Malawi in 2006, while children's charities and human rights groups claimed Madonna had side-stepped the rules. Mercy's adoption was no less controversial, especially since Madonna had split from guy and adopted her as a single parent.<\/p>","url":"2008/10/13/Madonna-1008.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Madonna 10.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have a brood of six, of which three are adopted.<br><br>Ange adopted Maddox from Cambodia in 2002, Zahara from Ethiopia in 2005 and Pax Thien from Vietnam in 2007.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/27/Brad-Pitt-and-Angelina-Jolie-0109-1.jpg","width":385,"height":420,"alt":"Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie 01.09"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise adopted two children while they were married - a daughter, Isabella Jane, born in 1993, and a son, Connor Antony born in 1995. <br><br>They have shared custody since their divorce in 2001.<\/p>","url":"2009/2/3/Nicole-Kidman-and-Tom-Cruise-0099.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise 00.99"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>In May 2007, Sheryl Crow announced that she had adopted a 2-week-old boy. \"I am so excited to share with you guys that I've adopted a little boy,\" the singer wrote on her official website.<br><br> \"His name is Wyatt Steven, and we are enjoying some very private family time.\" It's the first child for Sheryl, who has never married. <br><br>The singer's rep gave no other details about Wyatt Steven, except that he was born in the United States.<\/p>","url":"2008/10/7/Sheryl-Crow-1008.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Sheryl Crow 10.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Sharon Stone adopted a third child, a baby called Quinn, in June 2006. <br><br>She already has two adopted sons, Roan, pictured, now six and 14-month-old Laird.<\/p>","url":"2009/2/8/Sharon-Stone-0209-1.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Sharon Stone 02.09"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>American It girl Nicole Richie was adopted by crooner Lionel and his then-wife Brenda Harvey at the age of six. <br><br>Her real dad, Peter Escovedo, was in Lionel's band and she had begun living with Lionel from the age of three \"for financial reasons\". How very OC.<\/p>","url":"2008/6/9/Lionel-Richie-Nicole-Richie-0408.jpg","width":385,"height":420,"alt":"Lionel Richie Nicole Richie 04.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Halle Berry formally adopted Eric Benet's nine-year-old daughter India after their marriage. India's mum was killed in a car crash. Despite her divorce from Eric, the girls remain incredibly close.<br><br> \"I think I've been indelibly changed by becoming a mother,\" Halle said recently. \"It's changed me so much, and I look at life differently. I've found ways to laugh and play, which I had sort of lost the ability to do.\"<br><br>Halle has since had a little girl called Nahla, in 2008.<\/p>","url":"2008/10/7/Halle-Berry-1008.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Halle Berry 10.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>X-Men star Hugh Jackman and wife Deborra-Lee Furness adopted a baby girl, Ava Eliot, in 2005.<br><br>They already have a five-year-old adopted boy, Oscar Maximillian.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/18/Hugh-Jackman-and-his-wife-Deborah-Lee-Furness-1108.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborah-Lee Furness 11.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Bob Geldof adopted ex-wife Paula Yates' daughter by INXS singer Michael Hutchence when Paula died of a drugs overdose, leaving little Tiger Lily an orphan. <br><br>Tiger Lily now lives with Bob, his girlfriend and her three big sisters - Pixie, Peaches and Fifi.<\/p>","url":"2008/8/13/Trixibelle-Geldof-Bob-Geldof-Pixie-Geldof-Peaches-Geldof-and-Tiger-Lilly-Geldof-1005.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Trixibelle Geldof, Bob Geldof, Pixie Geldof, Peaches Geldof and Tiger Lilly Geldof 10.05"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart adopted her son, Liam, on New Year's Day 2001, when she was 35 and single. She was there in the delivery room when he was born. <br><br>\"I will have children naturally when the time is right, but I want to give an opportunity to a child who needs a mom right now,\" she said beforehand. <br><br>She met Harrison Ford not long after - happy families.<\/p>","url":"2008/2/27/Calista-Flockhart-Harrison-Ford-02.08.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Calista Flockhart Harrison Ford 02.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Like Calista, Michelle Pfeiffer adopted daughter Claudia Rose as a single woman - then met husband-to-be David Kelly weeks later.<BR><BR>In November 1993 the little girl was formally christened Claudia Rose, on the very same day Michelle and Peter tied the knot.<\/p>","url":"2008/12/30/Michelle-Pfeiffer-1107.jpg","width":325,"height":540,"alt":"Michelle Pfeiffer"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Meg Ryan adopted daughter Daisy True from China, at 12 months old. She already has son Jack, who she gave birth to in 1992.<br><br>\r\nShe said: \"I've got this little love bomb toddling around my house. She's so Jack's sister and so my daughter. She's just heaven.\"<\/p>","url":"2008/6/18/Meg-Ryan-0608-1.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Meg Ryan 06.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Ewan McGregor and his wife, Eve Mavrakis, adopted a four-year-old girl from Mongolia. <br><br>They already have two little girls - Esther and Clara.<\/p>","url":"2008/3/13/Ewan-McGregor-worst-dressed-0308.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Ewan McGregor worst dressed 03.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>In 2003 Emma Thompson and her husband, Greg Wise, adopted a 16-year-old Rwandan refugee named Tindyebwa Agaba.<br><br>They also have a biological daughter Gaia Romilly, who was born in 1999.<\/p>","url":"2008/6/26/Emma-Thompson-Tindyebwa-Agaba-0608.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Emma Thompson Tindyebwa Agaba 06.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Woody Allen ran off with his wife Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, Soon-Yi, but he was never her legal father.<br><br>Woody and Soon-Yi married and went on to adopt two girls of their own. <br><br>He also took on an historic court battle after his divorce from Mia to formally - and separately - adopt two of her children, Moses and Dylan Farrow.<\/p>","url":"2008/10/28/Dylan-Lauren-Woody-Allen-and-Soon-Yi-Previn-1008.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Dylan Lauren, Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn 10.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Diane Keaton adopted for the first time at the grand old age of 50 and now has a daughter and a son. <br><br>She later said: \"Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had.\"<\/p>","url":"2008/11/11/Diane-Keaton-1108.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Diane Keaton 11.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Ozzy Osbourne adopted first wife Thelma Mayfair's son, Elliot Kingsley. <br><br>With his second wife, Sharon Osbourne, the couple took in a friends' son, Robert Marcato as a teenager in 2002 after his mum died of colon cancer. He's a good friend of her kids', but they never legally adopted him.<\/p>","url":"2008/5/16/Ozzy-Osbourne-Sharon-Osbourne-0208.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Ozzy Osbourne Sharon Osbourne 02.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Comedian Lenny Henry, along with wife Dawn French, adopted a baby girl, Billie, in 1992.<\/p>","url":"2008/7/23/Lenny-Henry-0708.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Lenny Henry 07.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Mary-Louise Parker adopted an African-born tot, who is now sister to the Weed star's five-year-old son, Will, by ex-partner and actor, Billy Crudup. <br><br>A source told People at the time of the adoption, in September 2007: \"Mary-Louise is such an incredible mom. She couldn't be happier about this.\"<\/p>","url":"2009/1/26/Mary-Louise-Parker-0109.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Mary-Louise Parker 01.09"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Kirstie Alley and actor Parker Stevenson adopted a son and daughter during their marriage.<br><br> They now have shared custody of the children since their divorce in 1997.<\/p>","url":"2008/3/19/Kirstie-Alley-0207.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Kirstie Alley 02.07"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Steven Spielberg has five children with wife Kate Capshaw - of the five, two of the kids, a boy and a girl, are adopted.<\/p>","url":"2009/2/11/Kate-Capshaw-and-Steven-Spielberg-0209.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg 02.09"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Julie Andrews has a daughter by her first husband and adopted two Vietnamese orphan girls with second husband Blake Edward in 1974.<\/p>","url":"2008/3/18/Julie-Andrews-0308.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Julie Andrews 03.08"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Freaky Friday star Jamie Lee Curtis and hubby Christopher Guest have two adopted children, Annie and Thomas.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/21/Jamie-Lee-Curtis-oscars-04.jpg","width":320,"height":540,"alt":"Jamie Lee Curtis oscars 04"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Rosie O' Donnell and her partner, Kelli Carpenter, are parents to three adopted children - two sons and a daughter.<br><br>Their fourth child, a daughter, was conceived through artificial insemination and was born in 2002.<br><br>Before that in 2000, though, Rosie announced her intentions to adopt a foster child she'd been caring for, but in 2001 her bid was denied.<\/p>","url":"2009/2/25/Rosie-ODonnell-0209.jpg","width":325,"height":540,"alt":"Rosie O'Donnell 02.09"},{"captionHeading":"The Stars Who Adopt","caption":"<p>Actress Isabella Rossellini has a daughter and an adopted son.<\/p>","url":"2008/8/5/Isabella-Rossellinni-0105.jpg","width":385,"height":540,"alt":"Isabella Rossellinni 01.05"}];