Celebrities who adopt

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It's no news that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie want to adopt more children. Ange is now pregnant with another biological brother or sister (or both) for Shiloh, but apparently Brad wants enough kids for a football team, so they could well look to adopt after baby number 5 arrrives this summer. What with Shiloh still in nappies, Zahara toddling around, and Pax and Maddox at school age, you wonder how they have the energy to even think about expanding their rainbow family, but there it is...

Her adoption of David Banda from a Malawian orphanage caused worldwide controversy, but Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie are said to be considering adopting an African girl to add to their family, which comprises four-year-old Rocco and eleven-year-old Lourdes, Madonna's daughter with former personal trainer Carlos Leon. 

Brangelina and Madonna may be the most high-profile adoptive parents out there, but they're not the only ones. Ewan McGregor and wife Eve, who have two biological daughters Clara and Esther, adopted a four-year-old girl, Jamiyan, from Mongolia. And Meg Ryan brought a baby girl, Daisy, home from China.

And it's not obligatory, however fashionable, to adopt children from developing countries. Sheryl Crow and Calista Flockhart bucked the trend by opening up their homes to American babies (Liam, now 7, and Wyatt, 6 months).