Colin Kaepernick’s Biological Mother Reveals How She Met Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, His Adoptive Parents: “I Start Crying Because They Were the Ones”

Rick and Teresa Kaepernick adopted Colin Kaepernick when he was just five weeks old. Since then, the Kaepernick family has taken good care of him. Kaepernick’s biological mother is Heidi Russo. The Kaepernick family did not disappoint her, as they treated her child as their own.

Last year, Heidi Russo spoke up in a video and revealed why she gave little Colin for adoption. She was just 19 years old at the time of the pregnancy and hadn’t even gone to college till then. As she was incapable of raising him on her own, Russo had put Colin up for adoption.

In a video, she opened up about how she met Rick and Teresa Kaepernick. Heidi was introduced to the Kaepernick family by the wife of her father’s friend, named Susie. Susie knew what Heidi Russo wanted for her child, and she provided her with the best family.

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While talking about it, Heidi Russo said, ” Susie’s amazing, I have to say Susie knew my family, she knew what kind of family I came from, she knew what I would want for my baby, and I met with her in her office…she said I have these couples they have you know this isn’t this but I think this couple here if you look at their file I think this is most this couple is most suited for what you’d be looking for in a family.”

Heidi Russo added, “So I read the file and I start crying because they were the ones they were what I’ve been looking for and so Susie set up a meeting with Rick and Teresa Kaepernick and I met them and I’m very pregnant at this point and um they were they’re kind very kind people…”

Colin Kaepernick never forgot his true roots

Despite being raised in a white family, Colin Kaepernick never forgot his roots. He supports the black community and even highlighted the issues that they are been facing.

During his time in the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers, he protested to shed light on those social injustices. Those protests didn’t receive a positive reaction from everyone, but Kap sparked a huge debate. Since then, what he did has been seen as inspiring by many.

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