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Sandra Bullock taking break from acting to focus on raising kids
Sandra Bullock wants to focus on her family (Picture: Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)
Sandra Bullock has revealed that she’s taking a break from acting in order to focus on raising her kids and just being a mum.
We’ll miss you, Sandra!
The Proposal actress, 57, has two kids – Louis, 12 and Laila, 10, both of whom are adopted.
After the screening of her newest movie, The Lost City, during a Q&A with the audience, she explained her future plans when it comes to work and family.
She said: ‘I am just going to take some time to be a mum.’
The Oscar-winner also shed light on the type of movie that might bring her back and we’ve got our fingers crossed.
She said: ‘I love stories that show the imperfection of love within families and communities.’
Sandra Bullock adopted son Louis in (Picture: Marcel Thomas/FilmMagic)
Sandra added: ‘I would love to [continue doing that] when I’m done being a mum.
‘I’ll get back to it. I don’t know when. Probably when they’re teenagers, solidly 16 or 17-year-olds.’
She also shared the news while speaking to Entertainment Tonight. In an interview with the outlet, she said: ‘I take my job very seriously when I’m at work.’
Sandra was spotted out and about this week (Picture: Jason Howard/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
‘And I just want to be 24/7 with my babies and my family. That’s where I’m gonna be for a while.’
The actress began the adoption process for for her son when she was married to the TV star Jesse James.
However, when they split and got divorced in 2010, Sandra opted to continue the adoption process for Louis as a single mother, before adopting Laila in 2015.
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Speaking to People Magazine in 2015 the star said: ‘My family is blended and diverse, nutty, and loving and understanding.’
She added to Today that Hurricane Katrina was actually the catalyst for her adoptions.
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‘Katrina happened in New Orleans, and I knew,’ she recalled. ‘Like, just something told me that my child was there. It was weird. It was very, very weird.’
Sandra is now dating 55-year-old photographer Bryan Randall, who she has described as ‘the love of my life’.
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