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Mary Louise Parker’s latest headlines have her breaking her engagement to Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Their relationship, which lasted for two years and was very rocky with break-ups being followed by reunions just for the cycle to continue. From A Socialite’s Life,

“Mary-Louise Parker and her fiance Jeffrey Dean Morgan have broken off their engagement after a two-year relationship described as ‘on-again, off-again.’

The two ‘Weeds’ stars met on the set of the hit Showtime series. Jeffrey also plays Denny on ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’”

But I really think she missed her calling by being on the show Weeds. She really should have taken a huge starring role on a soap opera. Why? Because she lives one. Okay, so in the nineties, Mary Louise Parker dated Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz, and Timothy Hutton. Adam Duritz dated both Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston while they were both on the show Friends (which also aired mainly during the 90s.) It was in 1996 that Parker began dating Billy Crudup and that relationship actually lasted for five years and she became pregnant in 2003. Crudup broke it off with Parker when she was seven months pregnant with their son so he could date Claire Danes. This last fall Parker also adopted a baby girl, presumably while she was still with Morgan, with whom she was only engaged to for a month before calling it quits.

Phew! She’s stuck in a whole lotta bad it seems and it just sounds to me like something you would see on daytime TV. It seems that she needs to figure out what she wants, although there are conflicting reports as to whether she broke it off or whether it was mutual. Neither of their reps are saying anything at the moment and as to who said what, we’ll probably never know.

It was confirmed on Monday, that the star of the hit series “Weeds” has adopted a little girl from Africa. Mary-Louise Parker is just thrilled with her new daughter, of course. From E! Online:

“The Weeds star has adopted a baby girl from Africa, the actress’ rep confirmed to E! News. The mother-daughter duo was spotted over the weekend as the 43-year-old actress prepped for her appearance at the Emmys last night.

“Mary-Louise is such an incredible mom,” a source close to the actress told People, which first reported the adoption. “She couldn’t be happier about this.”

This is the second child for Parker, who has a three-year-old son, Will, with ex-boyfriend Billy Crudup.”

So, she decided to bring her brand new daughter to the Emmy prep with her? That’s great, but why not her son too? I think it’s kind of crap to use children as promotional devices, and that to me, is what these actors are doing. Adopting children from third-world countries is great and all, but there are thousands of children that are going to die this year, that -won’t- be adopted. Send them food, and stop showing them off so your ratings climb, people. Mary-Louise Parker is, I’m sure, going to be a great mother, but there are also kids in America that need help too.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have approved her adoption as well, and so they would, already having started their collection of children. This entire publicity stunt that is collecting kids like they’re pets is making a mockery of parenting. I have one question for those actors: What happens to the kids you aren’t adopting?