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Seven years after adopting her daughter, Rosario Dawson revealed her child is not actually named Lola, but Isabella.
The 42-year-old actress adopted her daughter when she was just 12 years old back in 2014, but she never officially confirmed her name.
The Dopesick star opened up about the adoption in a new interview on the Parents.com podcast We Are Family, where she revealed how the Lola name first surfaced.
Real name: Seven years after adopting her daughter, Rosario Dawson revealed her child is not actually named Lola, but Isabella
‘It’s so interesting. When I adopted her, I didn’t put her name out. It wasn’t like I did a press release or anything, and I don’t know where it came from, but somebody decided that her name was Lola and then everyone just kept running with it,’ Dawson began.
When the name leaked, she simply chose not to correct it, adding, ‘I don’t need everybody to know my kid’s name.’
Her daughter is 18 years old now, with the actress revealing it started to get awkward and she finally decided to reveal her real name as Isabella.
Awkward: Her daughter is 18 years old now, with the actress revealing it started to get awkward and she finally decided to reveal her real name as Isabella
‘Then as she got older, she was like, “Mom, we go out places and people are like, Lola, Lola, and I don’t like this,”‘ Dawson explained.
‘So I had to finally tell everyone. So her name is Isabella. It’s not that far off,’ adding that she goes by Isa.
‘She’s named after my grandmother, so my grandmother was Isabel. My mom’s Isabel Celeste, I’m Rosario Isabel,” Rosario explained.
Lola: ‘Then as she got older, she was like, “Mom, we go out places and people are like, Lola, Lola, and I don’t like this,”‘ Dawson explained
Her desire to adopt came early in life, after learning at just five years of age that the man she thought of as her dad was not her biological father.
‘I could have been like all the other kids that I know around the neighborhood who are of single parent homes. And he married my mom and I was a cute little baby, but what if he hadn’t? I’m 5 now? Would someone have wanted to marry my mom with a 5-year-old?’ Dawson added.
‘And at that age, I remember literally telling my parents I was going to adopt, and I was going to adopt older because it was like, it’s so easy for people to want the cute little baby. But what about the kids my age and older, who also need parents?’ she added.
Adoption: Her desire to adopt came early in life, after learning at just five years of age that the man she thought of as her dad was not her biological father.
‘Family to me is blood or chosen. It’s your community, it is your posse, it is your ride or dies. And I feel very lucky and grateful to have a very big family that encompasses the world,’ Dawson said.
Dawson currently stars in Hulu’s Dopesick and voiced Wonder Woman in the live-action/animation hybrid Space Jam: A New Legacy.
She’s slated to return as Becky in the long-awaited comedy sequel Clerks III and reprising her Ahsoka Tano role from The Mandalorian in her own spin-off Ahsoka.
Family: ‘Family to me is blood or chosen. It’s your community, it is your posse, it is your ride or dies. And I feel very lucky and grateful to have a very big family that encompasses the world,’ Dawson said
Coming soon: She’s slated to return as Becky in the long-awaited comedy sequel Clerks III and reprising her Ahsoka Tano role from The Mandalorian in her own spin-off Ahsoka
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