Meg Ryan says welcoming a biological son was as much a 'lottery' as adopting a daughter

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Meg Ryan, 60, withdrew from the movie industry for an extended period to focus on raising her biological son Jack, now 30, and her Chinese-born teenage daughter named Daisy.Though she was randomly allocated the child she would go on to call her daughter by adoption agency officials, she believes that the outcome of raising a biological child is equally unpredictable."It’s just as much of a lottery with your own biological children as it is with an adopted child half the world away," she insisted in an unearthed interview."Kids come into the world who they are.

Jack is as different from me as Daisy is," she insisted."Jack is [also] different from his dad. He’s his own guy, and that’s how kids come, no matter how you get them."On reflection, Meg also revealed that she didn't consider there to be anything coincidental about finding Daisy, whom she adopted in 2006 when she was just 14 months old.In fact, the love-struck movie star insisted that their meeting was meant to be."I am convinced, completely convinced that there was nothing random about it.She is the daughter I should have," she declared earnestly to Redbook magazine in 2007."I never felt like I was on a rescue mission or anything like that.

I just really wanted a baby."She was adamant that there was "no difference" in the amount of love she felt for her adoptive child in comparison to the biological one she shares with ex-partner Dennis Quaid.Dennis, who was recently announced as one of the stars of forthcoming HBO Max series Full Circle, tied the knot with Meg way back in 1991.Their much-loved son Jack was born the following year, but by 2000, after nine years of marriage, the pair decided to call it quits.It wasn't until early 2006 that she adopted Daisy,.