Rosario Dawson, 44, joyfully announced this week that she will become a grandmother sometime next year.
Her daughter Isabella, who was 11 when Rosario adopted her from foster care, is now 21 years old and has her own baby on the way.
In a new interview with Page sixRosario broke the news of Isabella's impending motherhood, which she called “very exciting.”
She added that she hopes the baby will eventually name her “Glamma,” which is presumably a contraction of “glamorous grandma.”
A few years ago, Rosario told the story of her daughter's adoption and rhapsodized that she was meant to be Isabella's mother.
Rosario Dawson, 44, joyfully announced this week that she will become a grandmother sometime next year; pictured in June
Her daughter Isabella, who was 11 when Rosario adopted her from foster care in 2014, is now 21 years old and has her own baby on the way; Rosario and Isabella are pictured in 2017
“With my daughter, I didn't go to an adoption center or anything like that,” the Rent actress revealed in a 2021 interview with Health.
“My family knew her birth mother, and when we found out she was in foster care, we started looking for her. It wasn't even a question; it should have been clear: she is my child.”
Rosario himself was born to a 17-year-old single mother named Isabel, who subsequently married construction worker Greg Dawson.
Greg adopted little Rosario, who was one year old at the time of the wedding, and as a result Rosario longed to continue the tradition.
Six years before she brought Isabella home, Rosario told Latina magazine, “I always wanted to adopt children because my father adopted me. That idea stuck in the back of my mind, but lately I've been thinking about it more.”
She explained that her “mother and grandmother are extraordinary women, and they are getting older,” which had given the topic a new urgency.
“It occurred to me recently that one day I might sit with my children and say, 'Your grandmother was a wonderful woman; I really wish you could have known her.'
Rosario said, “That makes me sad because it would be a shame if these people don't know each other. Whatever time I have, I want it.”
In a new interview with Page Six, Rosario broke the news of Isabella's impending motherhood, which she called “very exciting”; August in the photo
Six years later, in 2014, several sources announced We weekly that Rosario had brought Isabella home and fulfilled her dream of adoption.
“She has always been family-oriented and knew she wanted to raise a child,” one of the insiders explained to the magazine. “She wants to have a relationship with her daughter like she does with her mother.”
When Isabella was 17 years old, Rosario covered the March issue of Health and reflected on her relationship with her daughter in the magazine.
“I'm grateful for her development, our maturation and our connection…” said Rosario, who was dating Sen. Cory Booker at the time.
'Having a young person move in with you and really having to consciously process triggers and things like that is very different from being pregnant and having your baby grow up in front of you – to be able to see how we're getting closer and closer. We are a family, and it is beautiful.”
Rosario revealed, “My daughter has had therapy most of her life through foster care and everything. I have been in weekly therapy with her since I was eleven. I've had it in my life, but it wasn't specific to me and my personal needs.”