Adopted Hungarian girl found dream life in America

21 years ago, a Hungarian girl was adopted from a children’s home in Eger and found a new family and a new life in New York. Recently, Isabelle started looking for a missing piece, nlcafe.hu writes.

Isabelle lives in New York City. Until she was 3, her name was Edit, and her adoptive parents took her in from a children’s home in Eger to grow up in the US. The little girl appeared in American TV shows, danced on the Broadway, and traveled the world, but her life was still missing something. She was looking for her Hungarian roots, her Hungarian parents, with the help of the TV show Keresem a családom (‘I’m looking for my family’). After a great amount of research, the traces led to a small village in Heves county.

“I found out at the children’s home that my birth mother didn’t have the means to raise me. I’m sure she was having a difficult time, and I couldn’t have grown up in such fortunate circumstances if I had stayed with her,” Isabelle said.

“I would like to know how my mother looks, what she likes, where I inherited my brown eyes and hair from. I’ve always had issues with my self-esteem because I didn’t understand why my real parents didn’t want me,” she added.

After the birth of their son, Isabelle’s adoptive parents decided to adopt a child. A Hungarian friend of the family suggested that they adopt from Hungary. “I love my mom and dad, they are my real parents, they raised me, but there is still a missing piece I want to know about,” Isabelle said on the show.