Laura Ingraham and her three children Maria Caroline, Michael Dmitri and Nikolai. | Source: Getty Images
Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham is the proud mother of three beautiful children, Maria Caroline, Michael Dmitri, and Nikolai, and a passionate advocate for adoption.
For Laura Ingraham, motherhood is a passion and a vocation. The Fox News Channel host considers herself first and foremost a mother, then an author, and a TV host.
Laura Ingraham's children came into her life through adoption, which has made her aware of the challenge the process can be for the prospective parents, and the children desperate for a loving home.
Laura Ingraham in her studio after the Laura Ingraham Show in 2004. | Source: Getty Images
Laura Ingraham was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, on June 19, 1963. Her parents owned a car wash, and her mother worked as a waitress when she was growing up.
Ingraham is known to have a brother, Curtis Ingraham, who came out as gay when she was in college. She attended the prestigious Dartmouth University and went on to law school at the University of Virginia.
In the midst of all the bureaucracy and red tape are people fighting to become parents, and children condemned to grow up in institutions when they could have a nurturing family.
The TV host graduated and clerked for two judges before joining a New York law firm. Ingraham then became a commentator on CBS and MSNBC. Her TV work led to her radio show, and since 2017, Ingraham has been hosting the Fox TV s "The Ingraham Angle."
Besides her work on TV and radio, Ingraham has written several books, including the New York Times bestseller "Power to the People. Ingraham still lives in her native Connecticut and is a single mom to adopted three children.
Laura Ingraham in 2017 with her children, Nikolai, Dmitri, and Maria. | Source: Getty Images
Laura Ingraham's Adopted Children
In 2008 Ingraham announced that she had adopted a child from Guatemala. The little girl, Maria Caroline, was three years old, and Ingraham's first sight of her was of the child standing on the orphanage's doorstep.
Maria Caroline was holding a plastic bag, and in it were all her belongings. It was the beginning of Ingraham's journey as a parent. She said:
“I see purpose in the eyes of a beautiful three-year-old little girl whom I spent years attempting to adopt. Last month, I was blessed to fly to Guatemala to finally pick her up and bring her home.”
In 2009, Ingraham traveled to Russia and adopted a thirteen-month-old little boy, Michael Dmitri; in 2011, she returned for little Nikolai Peter. Ingraham's once lonely home was now a safe harbor for three children.
Ingraham admitted that she became an instantly "irritating mom," the kind of mother who thinks her children are the most beautiful and smartest in the world.
The doting mom has kept her children out of the limelight for the most part and seldom shared any information about them. All that can be inferred is that she takes them to church and kayaking and that Nikko is a swimmer.
At a difficult time of her life, Ingraham expressed joy in her children, sharing a photo of a picture one of her sons drew for her on a flight to a family Easter getaway in 2018.
Laura Ingraham On Adoption
Her experience with adopting Maria Caroline, Michael Dmitri, and Nikolai has made Ingraham a passionate
“Adoption, first and foremost, needs to be about the children. What’s best for them? (...) Preventing the adoption of a child of any age into a loving, safe home is selfish and cruel."
Ingraham was commenting on the restrictions on international adoption, which has left thousands of children without the homes they could have had. Many of those restrictions, Ingraham believes, are politically motivated.
She referred to her situation in adopting Nikolai, whom she revealed was of the last children allowed to be adopted into an American home by the Russian authorities.
Laura Ingraham photographed at a friends home in McLean,Virginia in September 2021. | Source: Getty Images
Other countries are not open to single-parent adoption, no matter how loving. Ingraham, a single parent, admits that she understands women who give up their babies wanting a traditional two-parent family for their child.
Amid all the bureaucracy and red tape, people are fighting to become parents, and children are condemned to grow up in institutions when they could have a nurturing family. Ingraham said:
“Since God blessed me, I felt a responsibility to give more of myself, married or not, to children who needed a family. And I always dreamed of being a mom.”
Ingraham is the first to admit that being a single mother, even with means, is not easy, but it has been her life's most challenging and rewarding experience.
Laura Ingraham at The Grove in 2011 in Los Angeles, California. | Source: Getty Images
Is Laura Ingraham Married?
Beautiful, bright, and successful, Ingraham has dated several high-profile men over the years, but she never married. She was romantically linked to sports and political commentator Keith Olbermann.
The two dated in the 90s, and though they were both authors, they were on opposite sides of the political divide, and the relationship fizzled out. Ingraham is also said to have dated another Democrat, former Senator Robert Torricelli.
In 2008, Ingraham was linked to Washington businessman James V. Reyes. The two were rumored to be engaged after meeting on a blind date, but if there was an engagement, it ended, and the following year, Ingraham adopted Maria Caroline.
Ingraham revealed that in 2005 she had undergone treatment for breast cancer, but fortunately, she overcame the disease and had the golden opportunity to become a loving mother.
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