Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: THURSDAY, August 12, 1993 TAG: 9308120046 SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 5 EDITION: METRO SOURCE: DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Adopting a baby last spring was "absolutely, positively the smartest and best thing I've ever done for myself," says actress Michelle Pfeiffer. Before she adopted daughter Claudia Rose, Pfeiffer, who is 35 and unmarried - but going with "Picket Fences" creator David Kelley - says she "started salivating" anytime she saw a baby.
"It was just time," she said in September's Vanity Fair magazine. "And then I thought, even today, with men sharing a lot of parenting, with all the women I know, the majority of the responsibility falls on their shoulders, even though they have a career as well. Men are like pinch hitters. So what's the deal?"
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