2023, Natalia Blessing I made it Headlines when her story was featured in Research Discovery Cusary Natalia Grace’s Strange Incident. The series highlighted how her adopted parents do. Michael and Christine Burnettaccused him of trying to hurt them after adoption. They also argued that despite her appearance, she is not a child, but an adult sociopath with hidden motivations, all dealing with the congenital nature of her rare genetic disorder, sponge-type fur dysplastic dysplasia.
However, in her own perspective, she is shared in the follow-up series Natalia Grace’s Strange Incident: Natalia talksGrace reveals that when she was adopted she was in fact a child. She argues that it was her own, not her adopted parents who were in the nightmare situation.
Now her story is being brought home in a Hulu miniseries Good American FamilyReleased in March 2025. starring Eren Pompeo and Mark Duplusthe series presents multiple perspectives and is divided into two parts. The first half explores Christine’s ambitions to perfect her family by adopting grace, and her growing doubt that grace may not be a child at all. The second half turns the story over and tells it from Grace’s perspective.
Learn more about her story and where she is now.
Who is Natalia Grace?
Grace was born to a 24-year-old mother in Ukraine and gave up on adoption for her dwarf. After spending time in an orphanage and an unstable home, she was brought to the US through international recruitment by a New Hampshire couple Diane and Gary Sicon According to 2008 court documents people. However, they later gave up on her and in 2010 she was adopted by the Burnetts, an Indiana couple with three sons.
How old was Natalia Grace when she was adopted?
Grace was hired by Christine and Michael Burnett in 2010 at the age of six. However, Burnetts doubted her age when he discovered that she had pubic hair and claimed that she had menstruation and developed many adult teeth. In 2012, they petitioned Marion County Probate Court to legally change Grace’s birth year from 2003 to 1989. Known as “reorganization,” the process transformed an 8-year-old daughter into a 22-year-old adult overnight.
In 2013, the Burnetts moved Grace to their apartments in Westfield and Lafayette, Indiana, where the rest of the family moved to Canada and lived alone.
Grace eventually moved in with another family. Cynthia Mance and her husband, Christian pastor Antwonmanwith 10 children. However, life remained difficult due to grace as she dealt with the trauma of her past while she was trying to become more independent. In 2023, the Mans family legally adopted bounty and restored its birth year in 2003. Despite this, after spending ten years with his family, Grace decided to leave in December 2023 and escape Mans’ home.
How old is Natalia Grace now?
Born in 2003, Grace is currently 22 years old.
Where is Natalia Grace today?
After Grace escaped Mans’ family, she went to live together Nicole and Vince DePaula couple who previously tried to adopt her at their upstate New York home.
In January 2025, Grace shared people She is now preparing for an independent life by learning to drive and study for her GED. Looking back on her journey, she said, “It was a huge learning curve for me. For the most part, I created peace. Living today is definitely a blessing. There’s nothing I can do to change the past.”