New TV series features adopted girl’s fantasy life
An adopted girl who fantasized that her real mother was Nancy Reagan turned those youthful dreams into a television series.
According to an AP report, the new CW network series “Life Unexpected,” about a 16-year-old girl in foster care discovering her birth parents, came directly from the life of creator Liz Tigelaar. The series debuts on Jan. 18. While the pilot was the first ordered for the network’s 2009-10 season, it was the last picked up to become a series.
As a girl growing up in Texas, Tigelaar dreamed about who her birth parents were. Since she heard her birth mother lived in Washington, D.C., she believed it was Nancy Reagan — until her mother told her it was biologically unlikely, reports AP. Tigelaar is 34; the former first lady is 88.
While Reagan didn’t make it into the CW series, Tigelaar wrote a story informed by real-life experience.
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