Natalia Grace is a Ukrainian-born American with dwarfism who was adopted by an American couple Michael and Kristine Barnett but abandoned by them two years later. Her adoptive parents successfully petitioned for a court order in 2012 to change Barnett’s birth year from 2003 to 1989 on the grounds that she was a legal adult.
But a DNA test conducted in August 2023 by TruDiagnostic revealed that Grace was roughly 20 years old, which means that her adoptive parents abandoned her when she was about 9 years old.
Two television shows are based on Barnett: the upcoming Untitled Orphan Project on Hulu and the 2023–2024 series The Curious Case of Natalia Grace (which will air as The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks during season 2).
The Curious Case of Natalia Grace Documentary Series
It’s the tale that stunned the entire world. This ID documentary series centres on Michael and Kristine Barnett, a white picket fence-dwelling couple who adopt Natalia, a little Ukrainian girl with dwarfism, and charge her with being an adult pretending to be six years old. The second season of the show, which debuted on January 1, unveils fresh facets to the story as Natalia talks about her terrifying experiences with her adoptive parents and confronts Michael in person.
Who are Natalia Grace’s biological parents?
Natalia Grace age is 20 years old, as of 2024. She was born on September 4, 2003 in Ukraine to Anna Volodymyrivna Gava of Mykolaiv. Gava’s biological mother status was verified by DNA testing. She was sent to a Ukrainian orphanage after birth. She was diagnosed with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare form of dwarfism.
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Lesser known facts about Natalia Grace
- The Barnett family relocated Natalia to an apartment in Westfield, Indiana, in July 2013, and then to Lafayette, Indiana.
- The Barnetts were charged with neglect of a dependent but Michael was later found not guilty.
- Grace was thought to be a young child who was first adopted by the Barnett family in 2010 before becoming embroiled in a media issue.
- She was finally abandoned by her adoptive parents after being falsely suspected of being an adult due to spondyloepiphyseal dwarfism.
- Since then, Grace has faced her previous adoptive father—two times, to be exact—in dramatic Natalia Speaks episodes.
