Sandra Bullock has opened up about her experience of motherhood, stating that she "sometimes" wishes that she shared the same skin color as her adopted children.
The Miss Congeniality star adopted her son Louis, 11, in 2010 when he was three years old, and her daughter Laila, nine, in 2015. Both children are Black and were adopted from Louisiana, US.
Speaking on Wednesday's episode of Red Table Talk with Willow Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bullock said: "To say that I wish our skins matched, sometimes I do. Because then it would be easier on how people approach us."
Reflecting on her motherhood journey, she then said that she has the "same feelings" as "a woman with brown skin and her babies" or a "white woman with white babies."
"It's the mother-child dynamic. There is no color," Willow Smith, 21, commented, to which the actor responded that her hope is that "maybe one day that will go away. Maybe one day we will be able to see with different eyes."
Bullock has previously opened up about her adoption journey to People. Speaking in 2015, she told the publication that both of her children came to her "at the exact right time."
"My family is blended and diverse, nutty, and loving and understanding," she continued. "That’s a family."
The 57-year-old also told Today that she had all but believed that her chance to be a mother had passed "and then [hurricane Katrina] happened."
"Katrina happened in New Orleans, and I knew. Like, just something told me that my child was there. It was weird. It was very, very weird," she told the outlet, revealing that several years later, Louis entered her life.
As such, she has been outspoken in her belief that people should not use the term "adopted child."
Speaking to InStyle back in 2018, she opened up about being an adoptive parent and spoke about how many foster children are in need of homes in the US - something that makes her emotional.
"Let's all just refer to these kids as 'our kids.' Don't say 'my adopted child.' … Let's just say: 'Our children,'" she implored.
