Hulu's new miniseries "Good American Family" is based on the real story of Natalia Grace Mans. Natalia (Imogen Faith Reid) is a Ukrainian orphan who was adopted by Kristine and Michael Barnett.

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In 2012, Kristine Barnett and Michael Barnett legally changed their adopted daughter's age from 8 to 22 Corin Cesaric is an Associate Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for more than ...

Hulu’s new gripping crime drama Good American Family is based on the unsettling true story of a Midwestern couple who adopted a girl with a rare form of dwarfism—only to later accuse her of ...

There has rarely been a child whose life has been so publicly examined as Natalia Grace's. The Ukrainian adoptee with a rare form of dwarfism generated international headlines over the past decade ...

When Natalia Grace was adopted from Ukraine into the Barnett family as a six-year-old child, no one could have foreseen that the situation would devolve into something that spurred court battles ...

In the May 2023 ID network docuseries The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, Michael Barnett shared the story of adopting daughter Natalia Grace Barnett with his then-wife, Kristine Barnett, in 2010.

The ongoing saga of Natalia Grace has inspired a new Hulu TV series, set to explore Grace’s polarizing story from multiple points of view. Grace is a Ukrainian orphan who was born with a rare ...