White Woman Takes “Baby Photos” Of 13-Year Old Black Son, Photos Go Viral
By Darron Smith
Kelli Higgins is a white woman, a photographer, who adopted 13-year old Latrell as a teenager. Latrell is a young African American boy transracially adopted by Kelli and her husband. When Kelli decided to take pictures of her son, she had no idea the reactions that they would evoke.
“I put them up and woke up to find out that my Facebook page had gone crazy,” Higgins told a news reporter in a telephone interview from Florida. “Honestly, I was shocked to see how many people had commented. But I am so happy to get the word out there for adopting older kids.” Through the pictures that Higgins took of Latrell, she recreated the baby photos he never had. And to her surprise, the pictures went viral. They received 5,000 likes and nearly 1,000 comments.
Higgins and her husband are the proud parents of five biological children and knew at some point in their lives they would adopt children before Latrell and his sister Chanya join the family, last year. “We were waiting for our kids to grow up” before deciding to adopt, she said. The couple attended foster classes, as required by the State of Florida, and a year later received emails with pictures of Latrell and Chanya. “The next day my husband told me ‘go ahead, we are not getting any younger’Higgins said, which prompted her to file the paperwork.
It took ninety days before the children had a brand-new family, but something seemed incomplete for Latrell. “We started laughing because it was not going to be like my normal photo shoots,” Higgins noted. She ended up taking photos of Latrell in eight different newborn poses the next day. Higgins stated that the photo shoot had encouraged some parents to adopt older children. “At first they would come to me and talk about adopting babies, but these photos have helped them change their mind.” You might wonder if Latrell was okay with posing as a 13-year old baby? According to Higgins, her adoptive son is a “goofball and can be very funny if he has the chance.”
Latrell described the photos as “fun” and “funny,” and when asked whether his friends had teased him about the photo shoot, he said that they had all found it pretty cool. So would he do it again? “Sure,” he said.
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I don’t see a problem at all.
Perhaps I missed something, what makes this a worthy story?
A doting mommy presents the beauty of the son.
Whose legs are in the leggins? Looks like the edge is a little frilly to me. Not appropriate for a boy
You OBSERVED that, too? I think the pictures are disgusting, especially having a grown young pose like a baby!
I keep telling negroids, that when these yankees adopt our children, they make slaves out of them. They have them do ALL the dirty work around the house, they make them take out the garbage, and they treat them worse than their dogs!
How do negroids expect these yankees to LOVE our children, while they HATE us? IT CAN’T BE DONE!!! And, you are aware that they NEVER teach them their True OURstory, which makes them HATE themselves!!!
He looks too feminine, and this cracker female knew what she was doing to degrade and demean this young man. Just another gesture to effeminize the Black man!
GOOD EYE!!!
By the way…a real baby boy NEVER wears leggings!!!
I’m sorry, but I thought the entire set was a bit creepy and the leggings were just awful! You can’t change the past, but the future is whatever you want it to be. Being that those were “baby” pictures, what pictures will she take for the crawling, walking and potty training phases? Many children grow up without baby pictures all over the world and they are just fine.
Interesting
Lmao! I seen the leggings too, alright I’m going to say all the appropriate stuff, all that was sooo wonderful for her to do and all thank you for having such a kind and big heart. Now I’m going say this….would it have gotten all the recognition if it would have been just a black family doing the same? It’s just like that picture everyone thought should be in the African-american museum because a white man was combing his black adopted daughters hair, why do we act like we can’t do these things and give the credit to ourselves? How are we ever going to be truly free?
@Tawny- as long as non whites- so called minorities continue to pray to a caucasian man as god nothing will ever change.
I know whites that have treated me better than blacks have and I strongly believe and appreciate what she and her husband did. Why don’t blacks adopt teenage children/ Why don’t we become more involved with throw away children of our race? HUH!
I think you are wonderful people. It feels good to know color doesn’t exist to you all. Im actually living through the same situation. God bless!!
The leggings are digusting and feminine. They are also black and white striped(prison wear). Black people let’s start getting these kids ourselves. You know what the truth is? And let me you its ugly… black people get these kids as foster kids for the checks and mistreat them and use their money for themselves and their biological children. They will not adopt them if it means losing the money or a drop in the amount. White people will just outright adopt them. Now we have these issues. Our own dam fault! When you see someone mistreating their foster kids, SAY SOMETHING DAMMIT
Clearly…..some of ya’ll don’t read much, and if you do you seem to have some issues with comprehension. The story clearly indicates that Latrell AND HIS SISTER have been adopted. The leggings at issue with some of you could easily be those of his sister. I am not saying that they are 100%, and, I am saying that there is a possibility that they are his sister’s.