Famous Celebrities You Had No Idea Were Adopted

Colin Kaepernick

In another timeline, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback could have been playing for the Green Bay Packers. He was adopted in 1987 by his parents Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, who had lost two sons at birth to congenital heart failure. He was only five weeks old at the time. He was previously born to a nineteen-year-old Heidi Russo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has never met his birth mother and does not know the identity of his birth father. 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.