Melissa Gilbert’s Birth Father “knew” that she was his daughter from Little House

Melissa Gilbert was a presence in her father’s life longer than she knew.

The actress, 61, opened his journey to find his birth parents in the section 8 Patrick Labyorteauxs podcast, Patrick Labyorscheux. Both assumed, Little House on the Prairie Alums are bound by their similar experiences and the role that their time at the beloved series played in contact with their biological families.

“When I saw (His Dakota) For the first time, I went, ‘oh my good’, ‘Gilbert recalled his first child, who was born in 1989. “He had my eyebrows and he had my lips, and I had never seen anyone who looked like me. And then I realized it must be more.”

When she “began to search” for her birth parents, Gilbert began to learn more about their story.

“They were each married to other people and had three children each and ran together and got pregnant me on a motorcycle trip in the desert,” she revealed. “Explains a lot. And then they left their spouses to each other and got married (to be) pregnant with me and moved all the children in, so I was number seven. So the decision was made to set me up for adoption.”

Like her adoptive parents, Barbara Cowan (Née Crane) and Paul Gilbert, who was an actor, Gilbert revealed that her biological parents also came from a background in entertainment – her birthmother was an exotic dancer and her birth father was an actual car competition and musicians.

“So it was pretty clear that it was in me,” she noted.

When Gilbert called his birth father to introduce himself, she said he realized he knew who she was.

While her birth mom died before she could meet her, Gilbert came into contact with her birth father.

“I didn’t tell him who I was, and then he asked me,“ Well, who are you? What are you doing? “, She shared.” And I said, “Well, here’s the thing.” And I said, ‘Did you ever see Little House on the Prairie? “And he said,” You’re Laura, right? I knew it. “He knew it.”

“He could see,” she added by her character on the show, Laura Ingalls. “And when I met my half -siblings we all look equal. So you can definitely see it. So that’s pretty clear.”

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Labyorteaux claimed that he heard the same anecdote about his birth mom, who also died before he could find her.

“I never met her, but I met her family, who was a step family,” explained the actor 59. “She had three children she had inherited with the man she got married. So she had three children, but they were not her biological child. She had only one biological child. The father had many of them.”

“But they would look at Small house And when I would show up on Little house, Because of my eyes they would go, “Oh, it’s probably your child,” “he noted.” And they would make fun of her like that. Yes, they were right. “