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As seen in pics taken over the weekend, the Oscar-winning actress enjoyed a family outing with her son Louis and daughter Laila in Los Angeles, per Page Six. In the photos, 15-year-old Louis is seen towering over his mum, who was dressed in a casual zip-up jacket with matching track pants, white socks and Birkenstock clogs. Louis kept it cool too with dark-washed denim shorts, a white T-shirt and New Balance trainers, while 11-year-old Laila matched with her mum in head-to-toe athleisure wear.
Bullock has managed to keep her kids out of the spotlight for years – and it seems likely that she hopes to continue to do so. Here’s what we know about her elder child so far.
Bullock, 60, adopted her son Louis in 2010 when he was three months old, per People. “He’s just perfect, I can’t even describe him any other way,” she said, revealing that he was born in New Orleans. “It’s like he’s always been a part of our lives.” She and then-husband Jesse James had begun the adoption process together but ended up separating, leading Bullock to finalise the adoption as a single parent.
She met her late boyfriend, Bryan Randall (who passed away in 2023, after battling ALS) when she hired him to photograph Louis’ birthday party in 2015. She referred to Randall as her children’s father, explaining in a Red Table Talk interview that “we share two beautiful children – three children, his older daughter. It’s the best thing ever”.
The Miss Congeniality actress grew her family when she adopted her second child, Laila, in 2015, per People magazine. Laila was two and a half years old when she joined the Bullock household.
The actress’ son is an old soul, it seems. “Lou is super sensitive. I call him my 78-year-old son,” she told InStyle in 2018. “He’s like Shecky Greene, a Jewish Catskills comic. He’s wise and kind. I saw that when they handed him to me. There was a spiritual bigness to him. I was like, ‘I hope I don’t eff that up.’”
Louis has played the role of Sandra’s “unofficial manager”, per her interview in People, supporting and advising her through her career. “I was approached by something … but my [six-year-old] son said not to do it,” she told Jimmy Kimmel in 2021. “I was kind of not in the place that Louis felt I should be … and he was actually right!”
In 2021, Bullock opened up about what it’s like watching her kids grow up. “With Lou being a young Black man, at some point, sweet, funny Lou is going to be a young man, and the minute he leaves my home, I can’t follow him everywhere,” she said on Red Table Talk.
“I will try. I’m joking, but I’m not,” she added. “I don’t know what I will do but I pray and I pray and I pray that I’ve done a good enough job, scared them sufficiently. I’ve been schooling Lou since he was six years old. He popped that hoodie on his head and I went, ‘Ahhh.’ I said, let me just explain. And I let him see everything. I let him process it. He knows how the world works. He knows how cruel it is, he knows how unfair it is, and now Laila’s knowing it.”
