Sharon Stone wished the eldest of her three adopted children, Roan, a happy 24th birthday with a sweet Instagram post on Saturday.
The Oscar-nominated star, 66, uploaded her favorite photos of Roan over the years, as well as a rare snap of Roan with his brothers Laird, 19, and Quinn, 17.
‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROAN! I LOVE MOM,” captioned the Casino star, who has almost 4 million followers.
The first photo in Stone’s slideshow showed Roan as a young blond man smiling while wearing a San Francisco Police Department t-shirt.
Another memorable shot showed the three Stone boys, with Roan playfully putting Laird in a headlock.
Sharon Stone wished the eldest of her three adopted children, Roan, a happy 24th birthday with a sweet Instagram post on Saturday.
The Oscar-nominated star, 66, uploaded her favorite photos of Roan over the years.
Stone initially adopted Roan with her then-husband Phil Bronstein.
The couple divorced after six years of marriage in 2004, when Roan was only four years old. This resulted in a California judge granting the exes joint custody.
Stone, then newly single, made plans to make Los Angeles her primary residence, while the former couple agreed that their son would primarily live with Bronstein in San Francisco during the school year.
But then in 2008, Stone questioned the deal and tried to move Roan to Los Angeles with her, but her request was denied.
Despite the distance between them during school time, mother and son remained close throughout their childhood.
Stone shared about the emotional toll the custody battle took on her psyche during an appearance on the Table For Two With Bruce Bozzi podcast.
“I ended up at the Mayo Clinic with extra beats in the upper and lower chambers of my heart,” she shared in 2023, before adding that it “broke my heart.”
Roan ended up having two siblings following his parents’ divorce, starting with 19-year-old Laird in 2005, followed by the third child, 17-year-old Quinn, a year later.
Stone has been open and honest about the various tragedies she has endured throughout her life, before and after becoming a mother, which included multiple miscarriages due to an autoimmune disease and endometriosis.
It included a rare snapshot of Roan with his brothers Laird, 19, and Quinn, 17.
The first photo in Stone’s slideshow showed Roan as a young blond man smiling while wearing a San Francisco Police Department t-shirt.
Stone shares Roan with ex-husband Phil Bronstein
During a speech in 2017, Roan recalled the favorite piece of advice he received from his mother. “Treat others the way you would like to be treated and do your best,” the then-teenager told a crowd while speaking at the Associates for Breast and Prostate Cancer Studies Mother’s Day luncheon with her siblings. she.
After Stone’s divorce in 2004, she adopted her two other children: Laird, 19, and Quinn, 17.
Roan can be seen showering his mother with love in this family photo during a Mother’s Day party on May 12.
‘We, as women, do not have a forum to discuss the depth of this loss. “I lost nine children in a miscarriage,” Stone said in a People in 2022. “It’s no small feat, physically or emotionally, but we’re made to feel like it’s something we have to endure alone and secretly with some kind of sense of failure.”
During a speech in 2017, Roan recalled the favorite piece of advice he received from his mother.
“Treat others as you would like to be treated and do your best,” the then-teenager told a crowd while speaking at the Associates for Breast and Prostate Cancer Studies Mother’s Day luncheon with your brothers.
That same year, Laird praised his mother when he and his siblings presented Stone with the Mother of the Year award: “My mother deserves this award,” Laird said at the time. ‘I love you mom.’
Ultimately, when Roan became an adult, he decided to follow in his mother’s footsteps and pursue acting.
