Recently, Hargitay was seen with her children, in a rare public appearance that they had attended to Benefit Gala, with her husband, Peter Hermann.
They had three children together, one is biological and the two children is adopted. In an interview that happened on the event, Hargitay had expressed the love she is feeling towards her family and her children.
Hargitay had stated that she had learnt a lot from his children, August, Andrew and Amaya. And thanked her husband, who she had described as the guiding life of her life.
With her husband, Peter Hermann, Hargitay and their three Children, August, Andrew and Amaya had attended the Stuttering Association for the Young Benefit Gala.
She normally doesn’t show her children much to the media, but for the special event, family of Hargitay had gathered together.
“I never thought I would have this much laughter in my life. Not just actual laughter but also the way that Mariska is just the embodiment of laughter – of joy.” Peter Hermann had said.
Hargitay has a happy family but once, when they were trying to adopt their children, they had many problems. Their adopted children and Amaya and Andrew, which she had suffered a lot on the adoption process.
With Hermann, she always had thought to have more than one children, and have a large family of their own. As she gave birth tı her son at 42, they had decided to grow their family larger.
“I remember being in Thailand and India when I was 9 or 10 and seeing kids alone in the street and thinking, ‘Where are their moms?’…And …[and] I remember thinking, ‘I want to take them all home!'”
They had decided to adopt in 2010, as Hargitay said, “There were several cases that didn’t work out…But, while it may be ironic, the hardest disappointment was also the greatest moment in terms of what it means to help build a family.”
As she stated, the couple had many problems on the process of adopting. At one point, the biological mother had changed her mind at the last second, and decided not to give her child away, which for Hargitay, as she stated, it was a painful experience.
And when they had welcomed, Amaya Josephine Hermann to their family, they were incredibly happy. And few moths later, the premature born, Andrew Nicolas had joined them too, which completed their family.
“August thinks this was all his idea! He said, ‘I want a baby sister,’ and Amaya came. Then he said, ‘I want a baby brother,’ and Andrew came. August is feeling pretty good and pretty powerful!”
She also talked about their marriage with Hermann, as she stated, “Peter thought I was crying because I was so moved by the service [but] no, it was because I was just overwhelmed realizing he was the one.”
Peter Hermann said, “I actually saw Mariska with all of the people that she loved around her [and] it was like seeing this person who was now in the soil, that she was just dying to be planted in. Which was this abundance of people and this abundance of love, and I thought, ‘I want to be part of that soil.'”
“It’s this fantastically, wonderfully ridiculous way that we can swing back and forth any number of times [on] any given day, but fundamentally we know we have the same destination.”
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