Barbara Waltershas worked hard throughout her career to earn everything she has accomplished.
But what’s the one title she may have worked the hardest to achieve?
That of “mom.”
Walters is mother to daughter Jacqueline, whom she adopted with ex-husband Lee Guber in 1968 (perPopCulture).
Walters and Guber had been trying to conceive since they married in December 1963.
During those five years, Walters experienced threemiscarriages.
“We had dinner one night with a couple werarelysaw,” she recalled.
“They had lawyers out of state who were looking for this little boy.
They wanted a boy who was going to be tall and had blue eyes and fair hair.
They didn’t want the girl.
We said, ‘We’ll take the girl!'”
Walters and then-husband Lee Guber welcomed Jacqueline home when she was just four days old.
In an interview, Jackie recalled learning about her adoption from her mom.
“Mommies can have babies either from their tummies or from their hearts …
So she had me from her heart,” she toldABCin 2006.
The one that is there for the good times and the bad."
I wish I had spent more time with my Jackie," the renowned journalist toldABCin 2014.
Around that time, Walters also admitted she wished she would have had more children.
“I regret not having more children.
I would have loved to have had a bigger family,” she told Piers Morgan (viaCNSNews).
“I have one daughter.
I don’t have brothers and sisters.
I wish I had a bigger family.”
