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Melissa Gilbert She revealed that her biological father “knows” that she was his daughter after seeing her on television.
The A toilet on the prairie Star, 61, said on Tuesday, July 8 episode of the “Patrick Labyorsheaux”A podcast she called her birth father as an adult to try to share news of their relationship with him – but she already knew the truth.
“I didn’t tell him who I was, and then asked me, ‘Well, who are you? What are you doing?’” He told the host Patrick Labyorteux During the podcast. “And I said, ‘Well, here’s it.’ And I said, ‘Did you ever watch A toilet on the prairie? ‘And he said,’ are you Laura, aren’t you? I knew it. ‘He knew it. “
Referring to a character on the Melissa screen, Laura Ingalls, later Melissa’s father introduced her to his other children. “When I met my half siblings, we all look alike,” explained Melissa. “So you could definitely see it. So it’s pretty clear.”
The actress was raised by her adoptive parents, Barbara Cowan and the recent Paul Gilbert.
Melissa, who starred on the historical drama series about her entire run between 1974 and 1983, noted that, as the obvious, she also recognized shared physical features in her own children. “When I saw (her son, Dakota) for the first time, I went, ‘Oh my God,'” she said for her first child, born in 1989. “He had my eyebrows and had my lips, and I had never seen anyone who looked like me. And then I realized that it had to be more.”
Melissa is the mother of two children, Dakota, which she shares with her first husband, director Bo Brinkmanand another son, Michael, born in 1995, which he shares with her second husband, an actor Bruce Boxleitner. (Melissa married later Timothy Busfield in 2013.)
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The actress also revealed on the podcast that her hometown, who died before Melissa began to search for her biological parents, was a former exotic dancer while her biological father was a stock car racer and a musician.
Despite a lot of time spent on the long -lasting series and subsequent movies and TV series including Nip/tuckMelissa Revealed in January that she has dared Hollywood’s bright lights for a simpler life that includes some theater efforts.
“I didn’t feel that way (Hollywood) was a safe place for me to get older. It’s so anti-aging, which is one of my favorite phrases in the world,” he told Pages six In an interview published on January 25. “Anti-aging means dying.”
Melissa added that she felt pressure to “not get older” when appearing on screen, and also “waiting size 2 or 4” while staying in Hollywood, which led to her moving to New York City. “I went, ‘O God, I prefer not to get older!’ I ‘O God, I’m so glad I’m older!’ ”He told the outlet at the time. “I love the age I am at the moment. Sixty have been the most amazing year, just to look back at all the things I’ve done and know I’ve gained my opinion, I have a value, I’m wise.”
