Actress Kate Mulgrew has revealed she gave a child up for adoption in her early 20s because she felt she was too young to become a mum.
The Orange Is The New Black star has detailed the heartbreak of discovering she was with child at 22 in her first memoir, titled Born With Teeth.
After finding out she was pregnant the father, who was an actor in the Royal Shakespeare company her to consider an abortion. However, Mulgrew was adamant on keeping their unborn child, even offering her own mother money to hire a nanny while she took on acting gigs..
Mulgrew was appearing on U.S. soap opera Ryan’s Hope at the time of her pregnancy and returned to work just three days after giving birth.
Two decades later, Mulgrew received a call from her daughter, and the two connected for the first time since she gave her up for adoption.
Mulgrew’s Born With Teeth hits bookshelves on Tuesday.
