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 Speaking to People magazine, the "Gravity" star said she
began fostering Laila about three years ago. The baby girl had
been placed in foster care in Louisiana.
"When I look at Laila, there's no doubt in my mind that she was
supposed to be here," Bullock, 51, told People.
"I can tell you absolutely, the exact right children came to me
at the exact right time," added the actress, who adopted son
Louis, now 5, from foster care in New Orleans in 2010.
"My family is blended and diverse, nutty, and loving and
understanding," she told the magazine. "That's a family."
Bullock said she had pledged to keep the long adoption process
secret to protect Laila's privacy. Earlier this year she had
publicly denied reports that she had made another addition to
her family.
Bullock, who is dating photographer Bryan Randall, first
revealed she had adopted Louis about two months after winning
the best actress Oscar in 2010 for her role as a woman who takes
in a homeless black teen in "The Blind Side."
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But the career triumph was swiftly followed by a crisis in her
personal life when her then-husband Jesse James was reported to have
had numerous affairs during their five-year marriage. Bullock filed
for divorce weeks later.
The full story of Bullock's adoption can be read in the Friday issue
of People magazine.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Matthew Lewis)
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