Throughout her acting career, has known what her true priority is. Although her roles in , and earned her fame and status as an actress, being a mom to her three boys was always her most important role. “I’m grateful that I chose motherhood as a healthy approach to my life and that I didn’t prioritize Hollywood,” Stone once told in October 2023, “because they certainly didn’t prioritize me.
” While she has faced tragedies in her life including multiple miscarriages, Stone is grateful for the life she gets to live today. “I’ve survived everything — sexual harassment, miscarriages, a brain bleed, divorce, a lightning strike,” Stone said in a 2021 interview with . “I don’t have time to fool around.
I’m here to be a healthy and present parent, a good daughter and an engaged citizen. Everything else is just a distraction.” Learn more about Stone’s family unit, including the three children she adopted, below.
Stone became a mom for the first time when the actress and her first husband, , adopted Roan in 2000. Stone and Bronstein divorced four years later. While the couple first agreed that their son would live primarily with his father in San Francisco during the school year, Stone challenged the agreement and sought to move Roan to Los Angeles in 2008.
A Los Angeles judge denied her request. “I ended up in the Mayo Clinic with extra heartbeats in the upper and lower chambers of my heart,” she revealed on a March 2023 episode of the “ ” podcas.
