In a recent storytime video on her YouTube channel, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi opened up about her experience of being adopted.
The Jersey Shore star revealed details about her childhood and the curiosities she had growing up in Marlboro, New York. âI donât really talk about it, just because I just feel like my family is my family,” she said. âI never really thought, âWhatâs my birth mother like? Whatâs my birth family like?â” explained Snooki, “because Iâm so content with my adoptive parents and my adopted life and family. But you know I thought about it once I started getting older, like, âWhat does my mom look like? What does my dad look like?ââ
She further explained how she was adopted at six months from Santiago, Chile by Andrew and Helen Polizzi. âI was always meant to be with my adoptive parents, which I donât even, ew, I hate saying adoptive parents because they are my parents, itâs weird,â she shared. âEven though my nationality is Chilean, I grew up Italian. So when people say to me whatâs your nationality I say, âIâm Chilean but I grew up Italian.â I feel like Iâm both.â
She continued, âBecause I always knew, they didnât have to tell me. They didnât have to sit me down at 10 and be like, âNicole, youâre adopted.â I knew, we donât look alike. Iâm brown, youâre white. This doesnât make sense but I always knew in my heart that I was adopted and I was totally fine with it.”
“Every time I ask my parents they would get upset. I could just tell they would get upset because they didnât want to tell me the truth or they didnât want me to think that theyâre not my parents which was never the case. Eventually, when I was 21, 22, I got my dad drunk and was like, âDad, can you just tell me what went on? Why was I up for adoption?ââ
âBasically, my birth parents had other siblings and they couldnât afford me. I canât even imagine because I have two kids, putting up a child for adoption, to give them a better life,â the mother of two said. âThatâs so amazing for them, that shows how much they loved me. But also I could never do that. I canât even imagine how they felt giving me up but thank you for that.â
Snooki even went on to admit that she would choose to meet her biological parents in the future, if she could. âIn the back of my head Iâm always curious to meet my birth family,â she said. âI always wonder if I never was adopted and I stayed with my birth parents would I still be a hot mess like this? Just in Spanish, probably. I feel like I was always meant to be this hot mess.â
Watch her tell the full story below.