Sandra Bullock’s new love

Sandra Bullock is moving on with the new guy in her life, says Alexis Chiu in People. After learning from the tabloids in March that her husband, TV mechanic Jesse James, had cheated on her with multiple mistresses, the 45-year-old actress went into seclusion. Last week she emerged to drop a couple of bombshells of her own: Not only has she decided to divorce James, she also revealed that a few weeks before the scandal broke, she and James had adopted a baby boy from New Orleans—named Louis, after Louis Armstrong.

The adoption came through in January; that means that for months, during which time Bullock won a Best Actress Oscar, she somehow kept the baby’s existence secret. “Anything we did had to be pre-planned like a CIA mission,” she says. “Doctor’s visits were filled with decoys and dark cars.” She now plans to raise Louis as a single parent, and will put her career on hold. In fact, she says, the baby puts her marital ordeal in an entirely different light. “To say that I have changed would be an understatement. But that might not be a bad thing. Maybe I needed this to happen so I could be the very best mother to Louis.”

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