User:Matuko/sandbox/Natalia Grace

Natalia Grace is a Ukrainian-born American woman who was adopted in 2010 by an American couple, Kristin and Michael Barnett, in a closed adoption. The Florida-based adoption agency allegedly gave the Barnetts a Ukrainian-language birth certificate that stated her birth year as 2003, leading the couple to believe that Natalia was six years old. According to the Barnetts, they began to suspect within days that Natalia was considerably older.

In 2012 the couple successfully petitioned a Marion County, Indiana court to change Natalia's birth year from 2003 to 1989, legally revising her age as 21 or 22 at the time of her adoption by the Barnetts. Natalia was born with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare medical condition that results in dwarfism.