Celebrities Who Adopted InternationallyCelebrities Who Adopted Internationally

While international adoptions have been criticized for removing a child out of their own culture, plenty of celebrities choose to adopt children from foreign countries, some more impoverished than others.

Find out more about the big celebrities who adopted internationally, either one child or more. From Angelina Jolie to Jim Caviezel, here are the celebs that chose to care for a child from a different region of the world.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

Even though her marriage to Billy Bob Thornton was falling apart, Angelina Jolie decided adopt to seven months old Maddox from Cambodgia on her own in 2002. She continued to adopt by herself in 2005, with six months old Zahara Marley from Ethiopia, and then 3 years old Pax Thien from Vietnam.