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Published 12:44 20 Jan 2022 GMT
Tiffany Haddish has shared an update with fans about her journey to parenthood.
The comedian, 42, last year revealed that she's been taking parenting classes to prepare for adopting kids out of foster care - the system she and her brother grew up in.
"I just went to Africa. I was just in Eritrea, and people were trying to give me their kids," she told E!'s Daily Pop. "I was like, 'Hold up now, I gotta get the paperwork right now. I can't just be taking kids with me.'"
When asked if she still planned on adopting, Haddish - who previously opened up about taking such steps to expand her family - said: "Not right now, but maybe at the end of the year, beginning of next year."
The comedian, who was placed in foster care as a child, has been candid about her aspiration to one day adopt a child. In May 2021, she explained to Daily Pop why surrogacy isn't the right route for her.
"I don't wanna pay nobody to carry my baby neither, 'cause then I have to go through a process of giving myself injections and all that stuff," she said at the time.
She went on: "And I already gave up — here goes something everybody don't know, I'm gonna tell you: When I was 21 I was really hard up for some money and I gave up a bunch of eggs.
"So who knows, I might got some kids out here in these streets. I doubt it, though, because I never got the bonus. Maybe somewhere though, in cryo somewhere!"
At the time, she said she was "taking parenting classes now to adopt," adding: "I'm looking at, you know, 5 and up — really like 7. I want them to be able to know how to use the restroom on their own and talk. I want them to know that I put in the work and I wanted them."
She also joked that it would be an act of God to have an unplanned pregnancy.
"Let me tell you, if I get pregnant, that is all God — tearing down all walls, all barriers — 'cause definitely I have taken the precaution to protect," she explained.
"Now, if that did happen, we gon' hire some help, then we're gonna cry a lot. ... And I'm not gonna be 'baby mama,' I'm gonna be 'wife.'"
