I Went Looking for My Birth Parents and Realized My Father Was Famous

Cosmopolitan ^ | November 21, 2015 | As Told To Stephanie Booth

[EveningStar]

This article was originally published as "I Found My Dad...Too Late" in the December 2007 issue of Cosmopolitan.

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After searching for her birth father, Mariah Mills was shocked to learn his famous identity -- and devastated to find out he'd died

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I've always known I was adopted. My mom and dad explained that although my birth parents really loved me, they hadn't been ready to take care of a baby. I had a happy, "normal" childhood with a loving family, but a huge question mark remained.In Saint Paul, Minnesota, where I grew up, adoptees don't have access to their birth parents' names until they turn 19...

In 2001, during my junior year of high school, the principal announced over the loudspeaker that two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center. Everyone was upset, but I felt a strange, overwhelming sadness deep in my gut that I couldn't explain.

When I got home, I blurted out to my mom that I thought one of my birth parents had died. I'd never had such a strong intuition before. My mom reassured me that the odds of this being true were tiny. But that scary intuition still haunted me...

[EveningStar]

Tom Burnett

[RightGeek]

Too good a story for that trashy magazine.

[EveningStar]

In what way is Cosmopolitan trashy?

[lrdg]

At the top of the page in the Cosmo article there was a link to an article which read: “Bride and Son Wear Matching Dresses to Her...” Sounds a bit trashy to me.

[bramps]

Isn’t it a requirement for every Cosmo front page to have a reference to how you can have ‘your best sex ever’? Great for kids at the cashier line.

If that doesn’t qualify as ‘trashy’. just what does?

[Aria]

I gave up that magazine years ago when they had an article - with pictures - on how to have a nooner with a married man.

[Gay State Conservative]

In what way is Cosmopolitan trashy?

Cosmopolitan & Playboy....same trash,different target audience

[Utilizer]

I’d rather not give Cosmo any free clicks to support them, and I really don’t know why they need to be excerpted, so here is what appears to be the same info from a different source:

“From the archives: Sept. 11 hero’s daughter: Premonition, then grief, gratitude”

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_28783797/sept-11-heros-daughter-premonition-then-grief-gratitude

[Graybeard58]

In what way is Cosmopolitan trashy?

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Having been told 4 times............................now you know.

[Batman11]

PFL

[Batman11]

PFL

[cradle of freedom]

New York and Hollywood—twin sewers of the world.

[Neidermeyer]

In what way is Cosmopolitan trashy?
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I picked up a Cosmo in a doctors waiting room about 1980 or so ,, The article I remember was written by or about a 40ish woman who purposely got intentionally pregnant to prove to herself that she was a “real woman” with the intention all along of aborting the child... which she did and reported the details in glowing terms.

Cosmo is pure trash ,, every issue has a “greatest sex ever” article of some kind and the overall vibe of the magazine is to make women feel worthless without random sex and expensive (clothes , jewelry , accessories) items... I couldn’t dream of a more anti-woman magazine... MAYBE an ISIS “war bride/sex slave” catalog...

[SaraJohnson]

It’s a mixed blessing when adopted children seek out their birth parents. Some birth parents may decide for abortion rather than be haunted be the wounded offspring haunting their whole lives.

I’m glad she found her daddy but feel for her adoptive parents who she’s placed second fiddle in a narcissistic burp.

[Nifster]

I am less impressed with this child’s story than I am with the grace and dignity again displayed by Deena Burnett. What a classy woman she is

[GregoTX]

Im glad she found her daddy but feel for her adoptive parents who shes placed second fiddle in a narcissistic burp.

The man that raised her is her Daddy, not her birth parent. She found a birth parent, she already knew her Daddy well.
I say that as both an adopted kid and parent of my own adopted kid.

[Rebelbase]

Looks trashy to me.

[EveningStar]

You do have a point.

[jttpwalsh]

“The man that raised her is her Daddy, not her birth parent.”

I always admired Steve Jobs, for declaring “Paul Jobs is my father....period”, when a writer asked about Steve’s biological father.

[T-Bone Texan]

Cosmo is pure trash. Utter cultural filth.

Every 2 months it simply repeats the previous 2 issues with minor variations.

An alien presented with Cosmo would conclude that the most important endeavor of female humanity is having as many orgasms as possible with as many men as possible.

Female promiscuity is presented as female empowerment.

For millioms of young women lacking a normal family structure (read: no father), Cosmo provides norms and values that are the antithesis of conservative society and culture. These norms are now filtering into the mainstream, and we are weaker and poorer for that.