How Sandra Bullock kept her baby secret
shocked the world yesterday with news that she managed to keep her baby boy, Louis, a total secret for months. Even Hollywood publicists are jarred by Bullock's coup, expressing awe that the actress was able to keep her son a secret for so long, during a period of time where the paparazzi were stalking her and she was on the cover of every American tabloid nearly every week. So how on earth did she pull it off?
In the People exclusive, which hits stands Friday, Bullock seems to take great delight in fooling everyone, saying: "I don't know how we got away with it" and describing the deception as involving "decoys and dark cars."
She even describes stylists' frustration at not being able to do awards-season fitting appointments: "I would have them meet me at random hotels down the street from the house, claiming work was being done."
And in one charming story, Sandra tells People about a "lime green baby sock" that she brought with her on the red carpet and that kept popping out of her bag, but others would just hand it back to her without asking questions.
Photo: See Sandra Bullock Hit the Red Carpet
Possibly most remarkable of all in the whole tale of secrecy is the fact that Sandra's stepchildren were in on it -- and were able to keep quiet about the baby. As for friends and family alike, Bullock had total trust: "I never thought anyone we shared the info with would tell anyone, and they didn't."
"She did it with a lot of support from a very close circle of people that she trusted," said J.D. Heyman, who contributed to the People story. "They kept the secret, and that includes her stepchildren, even the littlest one."
But it seems the actress did drop a few hints (in addition to her Oscar acceptance speech). In November, during a promotional appearance on "Ellen" for "The Blind Side," Ellen DeGeneres asked Bullock if she ever thought about adoption:
"You know, I have always felt like, just because a child didn't come from inside your body doesn't mean it's not your child, it just arrived somewhere else...There are so many children just waiting who need love and to give you love back a thousand times more and they're everywhere...You would be profoundly amazed at how many children are out there just waiting for you to love them."
While Sandra was then two months away from Louis's arrival, she and estranged husband Jesse James had been trying to adopt a baby for four years. Yesterday, details surfaced about Bullock's strategy for keeping the divorce filing, in Texas, a secret: She filed the documents under her initials, backward, to throw reporters off the scent.
One detail of the divorce -- the fact that no children, adopted or otherwise, will be involved in the divorce proceedings, might seem confusing at first, domestic adoptions often take up to six months to become finalized, meaning Bullock can adopt Louis as a single parent, something she told People she was planning to do.
Bullock tells people she plans to raise Louis, who was named after Louis Armstrong, at least partially in his birthplace of New Orleans. (She brought him to her home from New Orleans in January.) "It's his city," she says. "And he's going to know it inside and out."
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