Orange Is The New Black actress Kate Mulgrew has revealed she gave a child up for adoption in her early 20s.
Mulgrew, who plays Red on the Netflix hit comedy-drama, has detailed the heartbreak of discovering she was with child at 22 in her first memoir, titled Born With Teeth.
In the memoir she reveals she fell pregnant by a man she met while performing at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut.
While he urged her to consider an abortion, Mulgrew was adamant on keeping their unborn child, even offering her own mother money to hire a nanny while she took on acting gigs.