Rosie O’Donnell’s Children: Meet Her 5 Kids From Oldest To Youngest

Rosie O’Donnell, 59, is simply a drama and speech amusement icon. From her roles in Will & Grace to her ain series The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Rosie has been a staple of the amusement manufacture for decades. Other than her drama and acting, Rosie has been a beardown advocator for the LGBTQ+ community, and she’s been unfastened astir her relationships and family. She was with her archetypal woman Kelli Carpenter for years, and the brace were concisely joined successful 2004, earlier they broke up successful 2007. The 2 adopted 4 kids together. She joined the precocious Michelle Rounds in 2012, and they adopted 1 girl together, earlier they divided up successful 2015.

Rosie has been an a beardown advocator for adoption for same-sex couples. After she wasn’t capable to follow a kid she fostered, due to the fact that of her intersexual orientation, she wanted to enactment to alteration laws to let same-sex couples to adopt. ” I ne'er successful my beingness had been persecuted against for being a cheery person, though I bash recognize that cheery radical spell done that connected a changeless and regular basis. It was not astatine each my reality,” she told Larry King in a 2002 interrogation on CNN. “When I was not allowed to follow a foster kid I had raised successful my location for 16 months, a kid who had been successful the strategy since she was a baby, who had been successful 20 different homes and had ne'er been capable to stay, erstwhile the authorities of Florida said to me, ‘You are unworthy due to the fact that you’re gay,’ I said it is clip for maine to basal up and accidental this instrumentality is wrong. And that’s wherefore I did it.”

Through her advocacy and predominant societal media posts of her children, it’s wide that Rosie has a beardown enslaved with each of her kids. Find retired much astir each 5 her children here!

Parker Jaren O’Donnell

Rosie’s oldest kid is her lad Parker, 26. (Chris Pizzello/AP/Shutterstock)

Rosie adopted her eldest lad with Kelli successful 1995, erstwhile helium was a baby. Parker, 26, has grown into rather the young man, and helium grew up to articulation the marines. He attended Valley Forge Military Academy and College. During an quality on The View, Rosie raved astir however arrogant she was of her son, and joked astir however unexpected his determination to articulation the equipped forces was. “How bash you annoy your left-wing, liberal, pacifist mother? You go a large subject man,” she said.

Since joining the marines, Parker has shared plentifulness of photos of his beingness successful the marines, including photos with his chap soldiers and memes related to being successful the army. He besides occasionally takes to his Instagram to station cute photos with his girlfriend Hannah. 

Chelsea Belle O’Donnell

Rosie and her girl Chelsea, 24, successful 2006. (Marion Curtis/Starpix/Shutterstock)

Rosie adopted her oldest daughter Chelsea, 24, successful 1997. Chelsea and her ma person had a spot of tumultuous past together, and they haven’t ever seen eye-to-eye. Rosie’s girl went missing backmost successful August 2015, erstwhile she was conscionable 17-years-old. She was recovered to beryllium staying with a 25-year-old heroin addict, who had claimed that they had started dating aft gathering connected Tinder, wherever Chelsea had lied astir her age, via People. A period aboriginal she moved retired to enactment with her biologic mother.

After moving out, Chelsea spoke astir her narration with Rosie successful an October 2015 interrogation with DailyMail. Chelsea claimed she was “raised by nannies,” and spoke astir immoderate of the issues that she took with her mom. “I find her not genuine a batch of the time. When we’d spell out, she was a wholly antithetic idiosyncratic successful nationalist than astatine location and I had a hard clip with that. It’s similar 2 antithetic people,” she said astatine the time. As quality broke astir Chelsea’s estrangement, Rosie spoke astir their troubled narration successful her comedy, per Entertainment Tonight. She spoke astir her emotion for daughter, but besides mentioned that she suffered from a intelligence unwellness that besides strained their relationship. “Chelsea conscionable turned 18. For adopted children 18 is simply a magic number,” she said successful a acceptable astatine the time. “At 18 they’re gonna rebel immoderate mode they can, immoderate mode they tin get your attention.”

Despite their hard backmost and forth, Chelsea and Rosie look to person made up and go adjacent again. Chelsea gave commencement to her archetypal child, and Rosie’s archetypal grandchild Skylar Rose, 3, successful December 2018. Rosie besides wished Chelsea a blessed day with a photo of her daughter and granddaughter successful August 2020.

Blake Christopher O’Donnell

Rosie adopted her 3rd child Blake, 22, successful December 1999. While not overmuch is known astir Blake, his ma does stock plentifulness of photos of her lad connected her Instagram, on with pictures of him and his woman Teresa. Rosie shared tons of photos of the young mates successful awesome Halloween costumes successful October 2021, wherever the brace dressed arsenic Steve and Blue from Blue’s Clues and characters from Phantom of the Opera in different photo. Other than the photos, the former View host did stock that she had dropped him disconnected astatine Marist College backmost successful August 2018 successful an emotional tweet. 

In Dec. 2022, Rosie announced the blessed quality that Blake and Teresa got engaged during a show of Phantom of the Opera connected Broadway. She shared a photograph of the infinitesimal helium was down connected 1 genu and presenting the excited bride-to-be with her gorgeous diamond ring, which tin beryllium seen above, and added a saccharine caption to spell on with it. “last nighttime – my lad blake asked his gf teresa to wed him – and she said yes !!! the assemblage clapped – and hillary clinton was determination too- one cried each done phantom of the opera – wishing my ma was present to spot it each #love #family ❤️❤️❤️,” the caption read.

Vivienne Rose O’Donnell

Kelli and Rosie adopted their youngest girl together Vivienne, 19, successful November 2002. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems similar Rosie and Vivienne bonded a batch by doing dances together, and the comedian shared a fewer of them to her Instagram for the saccharine ma and girl bonding moments. Other than dances, she’s kept Vivienne retired of the spotlight, but she did denote that she had graduated from precocious schoolhouse successful June 2021 connected Instagram.

Dakota O’Donnell

Rosie adopted Dakota, 9, with her ex-wife Michelle successful January 2013. Sadly, Michelle took her ain beingness successful 2017, 2 years aft she and Rosie divorced. Rosie and Dakota decidedly person a beardown mommy-daughter bond! While the comic has shared plentifulness of pictures of each of her kids, Dakota has made the astir appearances connected her Instagram successful saccharine photos and silly videos together. Rosie has shared tons of comic and cute videos of her youngest daughter, including her leaving nuts retired for squirrels oregon the 2 of them speaking with a comic dependable filter on. 

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