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There's No Denying Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann Have a Truly Adorable Family
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Despite the fact Mariska Hargitay spends her time fighting crime on-screen as detective Olivia Benson in Law and Order: SVU, off-camera she’s raising three adorable kids with her husband, Younger star Peter Hermann. After getting married in 2004, the pair welcomed their first child together in 2006. Mariska and Peter went on to adopt a daughter and another son in 2011. Unlike some other super-private celebrities, Mariska and Peter are OK with bringing their children into the spotlight every now and again to share sweet photos of them all on social media. And who can blame them? All three are cuties!
Read through to meet the kids and get a closer look at this sweet family of five.
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Amaya Josephine Hermann
Mariska and Peter formally adopted their daughter Amaya from Africa on April 7, 2011. For the couple, adoption was always on the table. “Having lost my mom at a young age, I then grew up with my stepmom, and I have half siblings, and so I know that families can be built in all sorts of different ways, that there isn’t just one way to create a family and that it isn’t just about biology,” she said in an interview with People.
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Andrew Nicolas Hargitay Hermann
Later that year, the couple adopted their third child, Andrew. After bringing him home on October 19, 2011, they were officially a family of five. “We adopted Amaya, and Andrew, I always describe [him] as this angel that fell out of the sky, because he was a little unexpected,” she said, adding: “It’s something that happened very quickly, when adoption can take a long time. We were so beautifully and surprisingly . . . not because we’re not in sync, but surprisingly in sync about something so huge. So momentous.”
