Tom and Nicole adopted their eldest little one, Isabella, when she was born on Dec. 22, 1992.

Admittedly “scared to death” the primary time he modified a diaper, Tom advised VF in 1994 that he and Nicole “talked about children from time to time, but there was always the work. But then we went, When is it ever going to be the right time? That’s how the conversation started. You’re lying in bed at night and you’re trying to sleep, so you roll over and you go, What would happen if we had this in our life?… One of the things that Nic and I talk about is that now suddenly we’re a family.”

Nicole stated they undoubtedly deliberate on having extra children, whether or not by delivery or adoption, ideally each.

“Isabella was meant for us,” she advised the journal. “I think when things come into your life at a certain time you have to take them. It’s destiny.”

She later revealed to VF in 2007 that they determined to undertake after she misplaced a being pregnant. “From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies,” she stated. “And we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic. And that’s when we would adopt Bella.” 

“There’s a complicated background to that,” she added, “given that I never speak much about many things. One day maybe that story will be told.”