At first, Falco didn’t see the appeal of having kids.

She made me realize I wanted to adopt children."

This culminated in theadoptionof her two children, Macy and Anderson, when she was 48-years-old.

Edie Falco grinning with hair down

“The second you are handed a newborn, it is yours.

It doesn’t matter what body it came out of.

I’ve never felt more strongly about anything in my life.”

Edie Falco and her two adopted children in 2016