![]() “There were several cases that didn’t work out. Though Hermann and Hargitay welcomed two adopted children soon after the other, the actress told Good Housekeeping that the process wasn’t easy. She and Hermann named their son Andrew after a good friend who had recently passed away at the time. The whole thing happened in a total of two days,” Hargitay told Good Housekeeping. I’ve never made a bigger decision so quickly. ![]() Peter and I both thought, Let’s do it! I’m in! It was like…a miracle. “I don’t really know what to say about it, other than it was a no-brainer. Soon after Hargitay and Hermann brought home Amaya, they received a call from their adoption lawyer, telling them a baby boy, who was born two months premature, was available for adoption. And somewhere inside of me, even so young I had that maternal instinct, I remember thinking, I want to take them all home!” Andrew Nicolas “They were so amazingly resourceful and soulful and smart. “I remember being in Thailand and India when I was 9 or 10 and seeing kids alone in the street and thinking, Where are their moms?” she recalled. Hargitay also told Good Housekeeping of a time she went to Thailand and India as a kid and saw other children without parents, which is when she first thought about adoption. You are this baby’s mother,'” the first time the Law & Order actress met her daughter. In the interview, Hargitay also recalled Amaya’s birth mother telling her, “‘I know this is right. I don’t know…if somebody’s going to leave a baby on my doorstep.’ But I really did think that down the line, Peter and I would adopt a child. I don’t know if I’m going to get pregnant and have twins. I always said, ‘I don’t know how this is going to end up. She continued, “I was really letting the chips fall as they might, because I do think so much is up to God. Plus, we just had so much love to give,” she said. “August wanted siblings, and Peter and I both envisioned this big family because we both come from that. Hargitay told Good Housekeeping in 2012 that she chose to adopt because she and Herman always “envisioned” a “big family” but didn’t know if she could become pregnant again. I’ve never known anything that was more right.” Amaya JosephineĪfter starting the adoption process in 2010, which included meeting with an adoption lawyer and completing home inspections, Hargitay and Hermann adopted their daughter, Amaya Josephine, in 2011. Together we’re just this whole, happy, joyful, chaotic, crazy unit. ![]() She continued, “Our family is so perfect, or at least perfect for me. “Friedrich” came from the name of Hermann’s grandfather. According to People, “August” has been a name in Hermann’s family for more than 200 years, while “Miklos” was the name of Hargitay’s late father. August Miklos FriedrichĪugust, who is Hargitay and Hermann’s first son and their only biological child, was born on June 28, 2006, when the Law & Order actress was 42. Ahead is what we know about Mariska Hargitay’s kids and her family with Peter Hermann. Two years after their wedding, Hargitay and Hermann welcomed their first child and adopted two more kids soon after. Hargitay wore a pale pink Carolina Herrera gown with her husband’s initials and their wedding date embroidered into the lining. “I thought, that’s my husband.” Two years after their first date, the couple married at the Unitarian Historical Chapel in Santa Barbara on August 28, 2004. In a 2015 interview with InStyle, Hargitay revealed that she and Hermann bonded on the set of Law & Orderover religion, and their first date was at a church. “I just about passed out when I saw him there,” Hargitay told InStyle at the time. ![]()
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