Why did the Barnetts suspect that Natalia Grace wasn’t actually 6 years outdated?
The day after they adopted Natalia, Michael says within the collection, Kristine went to offer the lady a shower and screamed when she noticed that Natalia had pubic hair. Michael says he searched on-line whether or not that was doable, and skim that pubic hair may begin to seem on a woman as younger as 8. However, he continues, he and his spouse figured that this was a baby who clearly wanted love and compassion and it did not matter if she was a bit older than they had been informed.
(Natalia mentioned on Dr. Phil in 2019 that she was 8 years outdated, “possibly virtually 9,” when the Barnetts adopted her.)
A couple of months later, Natalia informed them that she’d been having intervals and hiding the proof, Michael says. A household pal heard in an audio recording says Kristine had discovered stained socks that Natalia had used as sanitary pads after which thrown out the window. “She mentioned, ‘This is not regular, what have I gotten myself into?'” the pal remembers. “And so I mentioned, ‘It is advisable begin discovering out how outdated she is.'”
Kimberly Franklin, Michael’s youthful sister, remembers within the collection listening to that the Barnetts had discovered “interval underwear” hidden in Natalia’s room.
Additionally throughout the first few months of adopting Natalia, the Barnetts organized for a play date with Elva Reyes‘ daughter, Therese, who had the identical type of uncommon dwarfism and was additionally 6 years outdated.
As Elva and Therese, now 14, recall on the present, it was fairly obvious to them—pointing to footage of the women taken in 2010— that Therese and Natalia had been not the identical age.
