It was an emotional interview on The Kelly Clarkson Show when Kelly had country singer Thomas Rhett and his wife Lauren Akins open up about adopting their four-year-old daughter Willa Gray. Kelly asked why the couple decided to adopt before having a biological child and Lauren mentioned how her mom was adopted. “I just thought it was really cool,” she said. “We’d talked about it off and on, but it wasn’t something that we had sat down and had, like, a full-on adoption conversation.” Lauren went to Uganda in 2016 with the organization 147 Million Orphans and she connected with a baby girl while there.
She called Thomas up on FaceTime and told him that they had to find a home for the girl. “I was telling him her story and I was like, ‘Babe,
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