Nia Vardalos, actress that famous with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, shares her struggle to having a baby. After her last movie Connie and Carla in 2004, she was taking a break from her career, as an actress and writer. She came at time to deal with the infertility for 10 years.
Like any other women who had infertility’s problem, Vardalos tried surrogate motherhood. “It didn’t work for me. Can you believe it? Nothing worked. I tried everything.”
Including trying to adopt for four years.
“I was on every list, for every country. I was trying to adopt an infant in the States and it fell through. Over and over again. Finally I found foster adoption, and these two women, social workers, came into our lives.”
Vardalos cited their Web site, adoptuskids.org, which helps arrange foster adoptions. “These two women, social workers, came into our lives,” she recalls, and their optimism was infectious. “They just said, ‘This is going to happen. There are 129,000 kids who are legally free for adoption.’”
That’s when I went, ‘I’m going to be a parent. This is going to happen.’ ”
It was 18 months ago, during the filming of My Life in Ruins, that Vardalos and her husband, actor Ian Gomez, found their baby girl.
“We’re trying to give her a shot at anonymity,” said Vardalos, declining to reveal the name of her preschooler.
“It was just the most amazing process,” she added. “All of a sudden our daughter walked in our house, and she looked up at me like, ‘What’s for lunch?’
That is a good way to have children. I am sure, they’ll happy now. And most important, Nia Vardalos, got her mojo back.
