Claire Donald

exactly crazy and so it's just like it's hard like you're saying to just really conceptualize when you're a child yeah yes but that totally makes sense though i've just like fuck i've always wanted to do this so that's like very beautiful so she hired an adoption attorney after 9-11 and her daughter was born nine months and two days after 9-11 a lot going on there's a lot going on at once and she named her daughter harper lee after the author so pretty i know isn't that gorgeous i

Lots of female writers in that.

So Shonda had three daughters all by adoption or surrogacy.

She became a mother intentionally on her own timeline, which we love.

And again, she was single while she was doing all this.

Yeah.

She was a single mother.

She was writing Crossroads right after she adopted her baby.

Crazy.

Yeah.

Women are so... Can do it all.

Can do it all.

And she said that she didn't want a partner.

She had built a life for herself and motherhood deeply changed her priorities, but she never stopped working.

Like she was building her empire while raising children.

Um, three children, but she's always been very vocal about not being interested in marriage.

She knew she was going to be a mom, but marriage never really called to her, even though she had these parents that were like a perfect example of marriage.

Yeah.

She said that she just really valued her independence and she was engaged once.

And she ended up calling it off.