Rosario Dawson is gearing up for her grandma days after revealing that her daughter, Isabella, is expecting her first baby.
“It’s very exciting,” Dawson, 44, said Page six on Wednesday, December 13, and shares that Isabella, 21, is due next year. The Ahsoka actress added that she plans to be called ‘Glamma’ by her grandchild.
We weekly confirmed in December 2014 that Dawson adopted Isabella, who was 12 years old, after making plans for motherhood years earlier.
“She has always been family-oriented and knew she wanted to raise a child,” the insider said Us at the time. “She wants to have a relationship with her daughter like she has with her mother.”
Dawson — who discovered at the age of five that her father, Gary, is not her biological father — revealed in December 2018 that adoption was always part of her plan.
“Growing up in the neighborhood I grew up in, I thought, ‘Oh, so I could be like some of my friends who have single-parent homes. That could be me,” she said exclusively Us of her journey to parenthood. “So I remember when I was five, I told my mom that when I got older I was going to adopt and I was going to adopt older.”
Once Isabella joined her family, Dawson remembers wanting to be as present as possible. “I’m selfish with so much time on my hands. … I work a lot and I travel, and I want her to be able to come with me and do as many things with me as possible,” she explained.
Even though Isabella was constantly by her side, Dawson decided to keep her daughter’s life out of the spotlight as much as possible. The Haunted house However, actress has shared sweet snaps with Isabella via social media from time to time.
“Thank you for being the best GranDaddy-O! 🤍🤍🤍🤍,” Dawson wrote a series of photos via Instagram in June 2021 in honor of Father’s Day. The photos include a selfie of the actress with her father and her daughter in front of a helicopter and several snaps of Isabella with her grandfather over the years.
Earlier this year, Dawson gave a rare update on Isabella, calling her child “a mermaid like me,” and explained People in August that her daughter is completely buried in the sand during holidays.
“I love her so much and she is such a good person. And I love that she’s very girly,” Dawson said. ‘She always has been [way]. Very romantic and, you know, she loves her jewelry and dressing up. But she’s always been the girl who likes to get dirty and in the mud, and that’s my kind of girl.”